i have no clue what made me do it but i decided to rip apart my G15 and paint the silver part flat black.
here is it half disassembled, or half assembled for you optimists.
anyone loose some keys!?!?
i covered up the key spots with tape by taking some heat shrink and putting it over the empty key spot and heating it to form the same shape. then i made little tape squares and pressed the heat shrink over the tape. it worked out pretty good accept i melted 3 of the spots a bit. i carved out the plastic and it fixed it good, the key can pop out easier than the others but still takes a bit of force.
^first full coat. i had problems with starting to paint this thing. i started by just cleaning it and doing a light sanding with 1500grit sand paper. it was like a water and oil situation, the paint just gathered in areas and didn't apply good at all. i figured it was because i was using engine enamel so i went out to Canadian tire and picked up some of this.
i then sanded the messed up paint and the original silver paint off and did a light coat and got this. you can see how the paint gathered on the bottom lip.
here is the final product, its not the best paint job but its overall good. i ended up wet sanding it and leaving it like that since it looked better than the so called satin flat black finished it claimed.
here is a close up of the paint.
my current lcd monitor setup i made with lcdStudio.
and a HL2 Episode 1 layout for the apps i programed into the keys so i wouldn't have to remember
hope ya like it, i do!
here is the place i used to take apart the keyboard safety should anyone else venture to do the same.