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Posted on: Apr 01, 2008
Controllers: The Wild Side
WORDS BY: Zack Stern
The perfect color for your Xbox controller color exists — it just might not be sold by Microsoft. If the standard-issue hues don’t match your personal tastes, consider finding your next controller color from an auto shop. We’ll explain how to easily spray the perfect hue to match your eyes, couch, or favorite zoo animal.
A Word of Warranty Warning
There is no way to disassemble and paint your controller without voiding its warranty. Anything you do to alter your gamepad will be entirely at your own risk. If you have any doubts about your hacking skills, don’t do this project. If things go poorly — if you lose a part, or break something, or simply don’t like the mess you’ve made when it’s all painted up — you’re not getting a new controller from Microsoft or OXM. That said, if you follow the instructions as stated and you’re willing to take the risks, well, we wouldn’t offer these instructions if we hadn’t tried them ourselves.
Stuff You’ll Need
TOOLS:
Philips 0 screwdriver
Torx 8 security screwdriver (only for wireless controller)
X-Acto/hobby knife
Computer with Photoshop or other image editor*
Printer*
SUPPLIES:
Masking tape
Medium- to heavy-weight matte printer paper*
Vinyl dye spray
Glue sticks (the school supply kind)
Step 1: Plan a Design
Plan the new look for the controller. If you’re doing only a simple, solid color or limited matting with tape, sketch out a rough plan on paper and then move ahead to step 4. If you want to stencil a face, iconic image, or repeating pattern, track down reference images online, or snap a photo with a digital camera.
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Step 2: Size Up the Image
Fire up Photoshop (or your favorite image editor, but we’re using Photoshop for this tutorial) and open the images. Create a new document that’s the right size for your printer paper (ideally 8.5” x 11” or 8” x 10”), and move the best reference picture into that document. Select all. Use Edit > Transform > Scale to re-size the picture to fill the whole page. (Hold Shift to maintain the original aspect ratio.)
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Mon, 03/23/2009 - 17:25
Posted by FireRisinWith1n
Definitely a good way to express ur individuality and get something cool and different. Looks hard to paint though
Fri, 02/06/2009 - 22:10
Posted by brutalpankakes
where can i find this paint? I would prefer if it was at a store so that way i wouldnt have to wait forever to get it from amazon.
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Thu, 04/17/2008 - 10:25
Posted by DaStuph
I'm thinking of doing this to my keypad attachment so that its black to match my controller.
Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:24
Posted by ATLien4evr
Looks cool but complicated to make.
Sun, 04/06/2008 - 09:32
Posted by mrdirt
You could put your favorite band or their symbol as a pattern, thats what I'm thinking about doing with maybe the slipknot pentacle or just the logos of all the bands I like
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Thu, 04/03/2008 - 01:13
Posted by cart00nstrip
Um, ATLien4evr? ick. Posts like yours give boards a bad name...
That aside, I might just do this. I can't remember what issue it was, but a couple months back you guys did an article about controller modding (you should reprint it here for newcomers), and there was this one mod that involved car battery bushings and the d-pad. Both of my controllers were bought in Dec. '06, so they're WELL out of warranty, and I HATE those D-PADS!
On a related note, we've been considering picking up a couple of the new colored pads - wifey wants pink, I'm eyeing blue - I read somewhere that the d-pad on those is better than the white ones, but I'm looking for a second opinion. Any chance you guys could review them? Mebbe the black ones, too?
gt: cart00nstrip