[Jaymie1989]

Hey,

What P sand paper can i use to sand over the original Xbox case?

[Albert Lionheart]

Your best choice for finish - depending on what you are going to do with it when you have it ready - is wet and dry sandpaper. Use it wet and you will get a brilliant smooth finish. You will have to strip everything out of the case anyway so it does not matter if it gets wet.

[Jaymie1989]

Lol.

Thanks,

So just wet the case and use dry and paper?

[Rik]

Nope, you need wet and dry sandpaper as normal sandpaper will disintergrate when wet.

[Daveskater]

Wet and dry paper is special sort of sand paper - it's black and very fine.

You need to wet it under a tap and then it will smooth out plastic very nicely.

[Dano2k0]

You can get all different grits of wet sand paper, it depends specifically what your trying to do as to what grit you should use.

If your looking to paint it, start out with a medium grit, then move onto something fine. If you buy a mixed pack, it will tell you on the pack what number grit is what. EG 800 = medium grit.

[Jaymie1989]

Iv sanded it now, I just need to give it a base coat then spray it what i want it to be like

[Dano2k0]

I assume you mean primer?

In which case, be sure to use a plastic primer and wet sand with fine grit between coats, before applying your colour.

[Jaymie1989]

Thats what i mean lol.

So spray it then wet sand it down a bit so the paint doesnt peal

[Dano2k0]

Its not so the paint doesn't peal, it helps give a smooth mirror like finish, if you don't do it quite right you'll know when you look at it at some angles in particular, it'll have an 'orange skin look' people who paint tend to refer to it as orange peal.

The paint itself won't come away from the case providing you take the necessary steps and use the correct primer.

If you make a nice job of the colour, you shouldn't really need to wet sand the colour, if you do decide to, be careful with it and only do it lightly, moving one direction. Use the highest grit paper you have of course.

I'd recommend you use some clear coat once your colour is finished, this will give a nicer effect, and of course protect the colour youve applied.

The best tip to painting, take your time, and when doing something like this, you can spend litteraly days painting stuff as you have to allow for things to dry.

I'd be guessing this is one of your first painting experiences, so don't expect amazing results, but you should be able to achieve something that your happy with.

Also, i could recommend you get and use a tack rag when spraying, use this before you apply paint, it removes all tiny dust particles, if these remain, you will deffinatly see them in the paint / clear coat once its dry.

[tomrca]

why not post a pic, before and after?

[Jaymie1989]

I will.

Iv done some spraying before but not on plastic.

I am looking for a tutorial on it

[Daveskater]

If you feel like it, you could even do a few pics e.g. between layers etc