Down with the gloss

So the moment came when I finally got tired of the gloss on the lid of my MSI U100 netbook.
Eternally stained look and the spirit of experimentation, did not leave him any chance. But at the same time I remembered the advice given to me right there, on the habre - “clean the sandpaper with a nude and it will be good”.
So I cleaned ...


So, he began to wash the gloss and something I did not immediately like. I do not know the reason, but it seems that the plastic on the lid is laminated.


As I did not try to align the “divorces” - it did not work out, especially they are visible under the logo.

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He took the skin larger, but it did not help. I even tried to polish it back - it was no better. Well, there was no other way, I decided to go all the way.
Since there was no desire to paint professionally, the artist’s spouse is busy. And I found a good Old Slavic picture that I liked and ideally suited my conditions. I decided to act myself.

I took the usual marker with paint:


And by virtue of the possibilities I transferred the image to the cover.


The first experience seemed to me not very successful, since white on gold is badly seen.


A little white spirit and again a clean netbook cover. Now I decided not to fill the contours of the griffin with gold. And, in my opinion, it turned out better.


As a result, there is no gloss, a unique picture on the netbook that I like. And her amateur look will not greatly attract thieves - also a plus. There are thoughts, then to cover the lid with matt varnish from a balonchik. But I like it so much.

Lord Do not be afraid to experiment! This is a netbook, because it was created to cheer up!

04/13/2010 17-00 Update for particularly scared. At this stage, the netbook looks like this:


But so he will not long. While I am carrying out plans how to transfer a drawing to it and age it.