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Subject: Custom painted Xbox 360 featuring Halo 3 Emblem

got a five minute flick you want to showcase? Do it here, http://www.rochavenfilms.com Just kidding, I'm never gonna finish this stupid site.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53073461@N03/4898042403/

I painted my Xbox! I did it as a result of a marathon with customer service...

So, long story short (Think 8 hours of microsoft customer service long...:( ) I sent my Rrod Xbox in under warranty to Microsoft and they denied it, citing tampering. I'm not the guy who does any of those -blam!- Jtag or DVD drive firmware hacks.

Anyway, I fought it as far as I could, I even got some customer service that wasn't based in India! I got flamed by all sorts of forum trolls when I tried to plead my case. But none of my efforts led to a solution. Finally, I decided to take matters into my own hands and fix the damn thing myself. Which after researching different methods I finally found a satisfactory repair method. It's been working great for months and hasn't been banned, in spite of microsoft's diagnosis. Hooray!

Here's another link to the picture:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53073461@N03/4898039069/in/photo stream/

When I had it opened up, I figured, this thing would be hella easy to paint with the shell off. So I did! Initially I was just going to paint it red, but as I got going my imagination kinda took over. I replaced the ring of lights, installed a blue talismoon fan added my emblem to the side and even stenciled on part of my gamertag in a Halo font. It turned out so good, I did two more, one in brown and another in blue. Figure maybe I'll sell them on ebay or something.

  • 08.16.2010 1:33 PM PDT
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And it looks great! I love the colors, A++

[Edited on 08.16.2010 3:13 PM PDT]

  • 08.16.2010 3:12 PM PDT

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Very nice. For a first time it looks great, nice clean lines and all. I like the shiny gamertag of yours there. Was that just plain gold spraypaint? Did you sand it or not? I can't really tell.

  • 08.16.2010 6:27 PM PDT

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Wow that looks so good dude! Great job with it, I would like custom painted xbox...

  • 08.16.2010 8:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: camo m0nkey
Wow that looks so good dude! Great job with it, I would like custom painted xbox...

  • 08.16.2010 9:04 PM PDT

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  • 08.16.2010 10:24 PM PDT


Posted by: DARK K1LL3R 157
ummmm, you spelled reach wrong..........


embarrassing for you. Thats his GT

[Edited on 08.16.2010 10:47 PM PDT]

  • 08.16.2010 10:29 PM PDT

got a five minute flick you want to showcase? Do it here, http://www.rochavenfilms.com Just kidding, I'm never gonna finish this stupid site.

Posted by: Zwolf_wolf
Very nice. For a first time it looks great, nice clean lines and all. I like the shiny gamertag of yours there. Was that just plain gold spraypaint? Did you sand it or not? I can't really tell.


I sanded the crap out of this thing! I didn't want to take any chances with the paint not adhearing evenly. The spray paint I used was a canary yellow made specifically for plastic. After the paint was dried I applied a clear coat to make sure it would be a little tougher.

A word of warning, I did some controllers in the same colors, but the paint eventually rubbed off after being handled by sweaty gamer hands for hours at a time. I'm going to retry the controllers with automotive paint, I think that will work better.

  • 08.17.2010 10:07 AM PDT

got a five minute flick you want to showcase? Do it here, http://www.rochavenfilms.com Just kidding, I'm never gonna finish this stupid site.


Posted by: camo m0nkey
Wow that looks so good dude! Great job with it, I would like custom painted xbox...


You know, I was thinking about how easy it would be to paint a community members emblem onto a shell. All they'd have to do is link their gamertag with their bungie.net profile. You'd have their emblem configuration and colors right there!

  • 08.17.2010 10:24 AM PDT

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Not the best custom paint job I've seen, but it is petty good. Right now I am putting L.E.D's in my home button on my xbox 360 console. (I'm going to change the color form green to blue)

  • 08.17.2010 2:35 PM PDT

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That's nice.
It has your GT and everything.

  • 08.17.2010 3:11 PM PDT

got a five minute flick you want to showcase? Do it here, http://www.rochavenfilms.com Just kidding, I'm never gonna finish this stupid site.

That'll be a sweet mod! It took me a couple of tries before I got the orientation on my l.e.d.'s right, the tutorial I looked up for it was totally backwards. I used blue onmine too, it definately has an instant "wow" factor when people see it boot up!

  • 08.18.2010 9:03 AM PDT