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Super Mario Bros Inspired Wii with USB base

Step 5Primed and Painted

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Finishing up, I painted my 3d Mario and planed to recreate some scenes from Super Nintendo's Super Mario All-Stars. I originally wanted to do NES Super Mario Bros, but it would have looked to pixelated and only have a few colors. I first painted the base then the Wii case. Many, many hours of mixing colors and hand painting was put into this Wii and I'm happy with the results. The way it works, is that when the Wii is on or is in standby the charger is activated. When the Wii is off, so is the charger.

It breaks my heart but, do to a lack of funds my poor Wii will most likely be up for auction on ebay in the upcoming week :(

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11 comments

Dec 10, 2011. 11:15 PMdarklord_avalon says:

I would really love some advice on how you used your bondo.
I'm currently working on doing two-part molding and am curious as to how well bondo would work for the project, I haven't worked with bondo before, so I do not know the consistency or anything else to expect and am curious, is it exceptionally thick and therefore would be difficult to use in two-part molding?
Lots of questions that boil down to simply, what bondo did you use, or does 'any' bondo work. and will it work in two-part molding?

Nov 2, 2011. 1:32 PMLMCx says:

You are so talented - this is unreal. Jealous :(

Mar 17, 2008. 1:48 PMWood Mime says:

How did you paint that, and what did you use ? (For the clay also) And how did you make the decoration around the base ? Oh, and how did you connect the clay to the wii ? Thanks if you reply !

Mar 17, 2008. 8:01 PMBeerBellyJoe (author) says:

That Mario is all bondo (car body filler) I took a mold of the clay one and then filled the mold with bondo. It is all hand painted and mixed, it is model enamel paint. The grass around the base was clay rolled in long skinny cylinders then laid over, following a pattern. Then a mold was taken of that and reproduced to get symmetrical pieces in bondo. The bondo pieces were then epoxied to the base. So what you think is clay is actually bondo an hard plastic body filler.

Aug 7, 2010. 5:56 AMking kolton9 says:

id easily give my wii for one of these

Mar 18, 2008. 2:50 PMWood Mime says:

Thank you very much ! I'm modding my own Wii in a similar fashion. What do you think about airbrushing it ? And how did you prep the Wii for painting ? Thanks again !

Mar 19, 2008. 11:00 PMBeerBellyJoe (author) says:

When I tried to airbrush it, it got ripples on it, I only airbrushed the blue because of the large area. I sanded the whole thing and primed it then repeated that a couple of times.

Feb 3, 2010. 9:02 PMwillrandship says:

I think the sky looks better rough, feels more like a background.

Aug 25, 2008. 9:21 PMacornstu says:

i tell you, krylon fusion is 5 bucks a can at walmart and would be worth every cent if it was $100. the only downfall is the limited color selection. what few things i have painted i did without primer and it came out perfect! just a thought. you gave me a pretty sweet idea. figure maybe i'd return the favor

Mar 20, 2008. 9:59 AMWood Mime says:

Thank you for telling me ! I'll have to dig out my old Warhammer paints...

Feb 14, 2009. 7:10 PMdemonbabi13 says:

lol, warhammer paints if they're that old is reccomend new ones