Create a Star Trek Communicator edition RAZR

Step 2 Painting the parts

You'll want to rough up the plastic parts slightly with either some steel wool or fine grit sand paper, so that the paint will stick a little better.

If you really want to go all out, you can drill the flip cover piece with a series of holes (to give it a more authentic "grill" look). I drill a few holes in mine using the flip cover of my replica communicator as a template to get the pattern of the holes correct.

To just get the basic Communicator look, the base cover piece, for the the phones keypad section, will be painted black. The piece that attachs to the flip cover/screen will be painted gold.

Follow the instructions on the brand of paint that you buy for painting and drying time.

Comments

[Welsh is best]

very cool, is it in a contest, id vote for it?!

[scottredd]

How's the paint holding up? Spray paint doesn't typically stick to plastic. However, I've seen some paint at the hardware store specifically designed for bonding to plastic. Nice job... love the communicator. I've used TNG communicator alert tones, as well as TOS communicator chirping on my Chocolate for incoming text messages, and the intercom ship's whistle for my ringtone.

[fireballxl5]

It has had some wear, I'd much rather have the part that cover the body of the phone made of molded black plastic and have an actual brass "grill" to cover the "lid". Maybe a future instructable.