Customizing My Mpc 3000

Been at it for a week or so, tore it down to fix some broken buttons and decided to redo the whole thing. Here's a few pictures to show where I'm at so far, still waiting on the tac switches to get done.

At kinkos working on the text/layout



Painted the buttons



Powdercoat



Fitting the shell

Front row seat.

That's coming along nice. What kind of knobs are they?

Did you have it sandblasted prior to powder coating? How much did that set you back if don't mind me asking?

distortedtekno wrote:That's coming along nice. What kind of knobs are they?

Some aluminum knobs from eBay.

Dustyfinga1.0 wrote:Did you have it sandblasted prior to powder coating? How much did that set you back if don't mind me asking?

Yes, everything that gets powdercoated always gets sandblasted first. The powdercoat was only $40.

Looks awesome.

Side panels & Screen painted, arm rest wrapped in vinyl... Dropping the top case off for screen print soon.

Do you have a 'before' photo of the old girl prior to this makeover?

Maybe a bit offtopic..
But is there somewhere on the internet where I can find the writings and numbers only? As stickers ore something.... I was looking for the mpc60

Clint wrote:Do you have a 'before' photo of the old girl prior to this makeover?

Here is a link below to an old picture, just a skin from mpc stuff and the rest is vinyl wrapped in black.

http://i816.photobucket.com/albums/zz86 ... 36F43C.jpg

A pair of Glasses wrote:Maybe a bit offtopic..
But is there somewhere on the internet where I can find the writings and numbers only? As stickers ore something.... I was looking for the mpc60

Unfortunately no, you just have to be creative. I used a photo from the manual as a template to make my own layout in Photoshop. Here is a shot of the film positive below, this is used to make the screen print.

This is looking really professional. If you would have wrapped the armrest in black leather you would have a MPC fit for Tony Soprano.

Lol, It would be nice to have real leather but I bet that's expensive. The leather replica vinyl will have to do, only ran me $20 at the upholstery shop.

Good idea indeed.. Thanks

Wow. Great job. Never thought to screen print text on the front panel. Is that how the original text is put on? Seems like a professional method. And must plastisol ink only be used?