Painted MPC 1000 - 2nd attempt - need opinions

bein i do have experince in the paint feild....just a diffrent canvas as I use nike air forces 1s as my fav and wel as sidekicks.....

what u can do is put masking tape around what u wanted painted.....then go around the edges of the tape with an xacto knife and peel away th excess....but seeing that u alwready went over it with the blk that be 2 late...

but what u can do is gather you a airbrush and some white paint

find you a font small enough and print exaclty how u would wont the lables to be.....next put them in place covering using masking tape to hold them in place..but not to thick because your going to want to see the label under it....

next get ya xacto knife and cut away the inside of the letters...so at the end you have a stencil...simply use ya airbrush and feel in the letters....let it dry and peel away the tape...

http://www.letraset.com/uk/template1.asp?catid=3456

These guys make transfer lettering. This is the best alternative to screen prints, you just need patience, a ruler and a pencil.

The MPCs use helvetica as their labelling font.

That Old English lettering is cool. What size of the font would anyone recommend for use on the MPC1000?

Cheers
Boaber

^^ If your eyesight is good and the font's not too intricate I'd go for small. Like about 8 or 9 point.

Not sure about Old English font in a small size, too hard to read...

cool man. your mpc reminds me of a blackbboard with chalk on it. I gotta get up enough nerve to do mine.

i really like the typo, but i dont feel the blue buttons and the blue part of the lcd screen...but the typo is hot

I have to say the black paint looks nice. But, you should have used a high gloss paint. That way you don't have to clear coat it. If you use a lighter color you could have put the letters on like this.

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the black paint looks good... the labels do look a little messy. It would look slick if u just painted over the letters so the surface was all black with no labels. I did that to mine and you'd be surprised how fast u memorize the buttons.

Air brush would be sick. Can anybody airbrush?

hah

I redid it again

I will post some new pics here very shortly

that looks ill besides the blue on the screen but thats kinda hard to get rid of. good job. how you painted all the words look sick too. maybe cuz i have super bad handwriting but anyways i think it looks tight hand written like that.

any possibility someone could take a few mintutes and explain the whole process they went through to paint theirs? i want to paint mine but i have to get up the nerve, and i want to know exactly what im doing first..

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=317542#317542

I did another attempt

take a look at this one

also I explained how I did it

thanks for the comments everyone

my shit is neat

not as neat as a robot, no

but custom in my own style, yes

i did sit down and take my time with it

every button label is readable - and centered

i am completely aware that its not proffessional looking

but it looks slick to me

only 3 people have ragged on my shit so far so....

im gonna keep it the way it is

yoursecond attempt looks a bit better

wheres the pics of your third attempt??