Paint Question for Rear IO Cover

[AngelOfBodom]

hey everyone.

 

i do have experience painting models (gunpla). I have quite a bit of blue tamiya acrylic blue left. Would this paint be okay to use? I'm also somewhat unfamiliar of the procedure for this type of painting. I would usually submerge whatever plastic I'd be working with in water for 24-48 hours (release any top coatings it may have), let it dry, then start painting. i saw elsewhere that you should still sand the surface. Just want to make sure I do this right. for reference, would like to paint both the rear IO cover, chipsets heatsink, and (MAYBE) top vrm heatsink on the asus z170ar

[emosun]

you don't paint heat sinks , they're heat sinks. they can't disapate heat with paint on them , well they can but they do a crappy job of it.

as for the I/O you can scuff it with a brillo pad if you want but it's so flexible and the port get beat on so much that the paint will eventually chip off anyway so i'd just prime/paint it as is.

[AskTJ]

Linus did a video on this and it turned out to perform like shit.

 

[DrJones]

Paint the plastic covers all you want, but never paint the metal