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I've done this myself. A few years back my old computer case looking like shit with scratches and a bad looking silver color in the center of the front. I did some studying and you have to do this outside. I got some plastic spray paint. I then gave a couple coats of gloss black to that case. It was actually pretty rugged to surprisingly not scratching by laying the pieces on the floor. I believe it was an old compact tower and my family were telling my how much better it looked. Recommendation, I am a smoker so I washed it with dawn and water before painting. I've found dawn is the only cleaner to get smoke and bong residue off stuff easily. I then rinsed carefully, dried, then used alcohol "isopropyl" right before the painting time. You can recoat if I remember right in like 20 minutes but put it on really lightly as in barely so you don't get drips. I think I went to an auto parts store to buy it or a hardware store. You can likely get a can for like 5 or 10 bucks on amazon, and to refinish an old case instead of buying a new one for that money is awesome. Also if you can a flourescent green and black combo could make a case look super cool. I was broke as fuck back then so one can was my budget but some light painters tape or a great eye and you could make a sweet looking case. Also can be used on other stuff so just use your imagination.

I've done this myself. A few years back my old computer case looking like shit with scratches and a bad looking silver color in the center of the front. I did some studying and you have to do this outside. I got some plastic spray paint. I then gave a couple coats of gloss black to that case. It was actually pretty rugged to surprisingly not scratching by laying the pieces on the floor. I believe it was an old compact tower and my family were telling my how much better it looked. Recommendation, I am a smoker so I washed it with dawn and water before painting. I've found dawn is the only cleaner to get smoke and bong residue off stuff easily. I then rinsed carefully, dried, then used alcohol "isopropyl" right before the painting time. You can recoat if I remember right in like 20 minutes but put it on really lightly as in barely so you don't get drips. I think I went to an auto parts store to buy it or a hardware store. You can likely get a can for like 5 or 10 bucks on amazon, and to refinish an old case instead of buying a new one for that money is awesome. Also if you can a flourescent green and black combo could make a case look super cool. I was broke as fuck back then so one can was my budget but some light painters tape or a great eye and you could make a sweet looking case. Also can be used on other stuff so just use your imagination.

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Thing is with the plastic paint it shines like it's been we sanded. I just painted over the original paint and gave it 3 very light coats and it shined like the plastic bumper part on a new car. It looked so good and my family is my biggest critic, they always critisize and they were all damn that came out good. I did the same thing with a crappy dresser and the family was like I didn't know you could afford a new one. The old finish was terrible and that is why it cost me $10 but I could have sold it for $100 when I finished though that did take me about 20 hrs to do and $20 in supplies like sandpaper and paint and new wooden pulls. I still have it now and still looks great. It doesn't have a high gloss cheap finish like todays furniture does. I look like it's wax finished like the old furniture looked when they made it good.