Sunday FD brought her car over to have me do an oil change. I had her do all the dirty work, such as unscrewing the drain plug and getting oil under her fingernails and after everything was done we started to clean up the engine bay a little bit. I went for the black plastic trim pieces first - spiffing them up with a little back to black.
Next thing I know we've got the valve cover cover off and I'm prepping it for paint. I remember saying, "We'll have to get some spray paint if you want to paint this thing." To which FD replied, "You've got paint, in your room - I'll go get it."
This wasn’t the first time FD has proven to know where the stuff in my house is put anyway better than me. One time I called her to ask where Jenga was. She knew.
Here's a picture of the trim piece baking in the oven. I put it in the oven between coats to get it to dry faster. Good stuff, and the gold on black matches really well on the dark blue car.
It was so much fun painting, I started looking around the house for other things that looked like they could use a nice coat of paint. I know what you're thinking, and you're right. Normally this is a horrible idea and what ends up happening is you've a got a bunch of stuff covered in paint that’s not supposed to be covered in paint and the house smells like a poorly ventilated paint booth (like the time in Las Cruces when my brother and I got carried away and stenciled a giraffe on our TV).
This time FD was around to act as the voice of painting reason. I started small – the DVD remote. It came out really cool and encouraged me to continue on to the xbox and what better than a good old fashioned wood grain.
If I had to pick one word to discribe my work it would be, AWESOME!
It looks pretty sweet reattached to the xbox case, I havent taken pictures of the finished product yet though because I'm having a little trouble gluing the hinged pieces back onto the face plate. If I cant get it to work after one more try I'll use some extra small wood screws - which I think'll contrast really well and go along great with the wood grain theam.
