GardenBoat’s blackout slab 2DS

[Garden Boat]

Hello! Bit of a smaller project that I just did, but I haven’t seen a lost of customization to the slab 2DS, probably because nobody makes custom plastic parts for them (to my knowledge anyways)

The blackout slab:

I started with my old black and red edition, and dyed the red plastic parts black using synthetic dye. Took 2 rounds to get it black enough as I didn’t want to effect the texture by sanding anything. Also got a aluminum circlepad stick as the OEM one was not black and falling apart. Of course I put a black wii strap on it, too. I’m very happy with it! It feels like a real colorway that nintendo never released

 

[cy]

This is such a cool mod! With all the 3d prints and painting I see, there's really not much in terms of dyes that goes on around here, so this is a really cool and fresh take and the results are super clean!

Nice work dude!

 

[JamesPi]

This turned out very well! Now you can be Batman on your 2DS I love how you chose the route of using OEM parts rather than recreating them, and it turned out really nice overall! Its very hard to tell what parts were originally black and which were red, you definitely did it right. Just curious, how do you go about dying these parts? I might try this out for a junk Wii that I have, but I'd like to know how your setup was for this!

 

[Garden Boat]

This turned out very well! Now you can be Batman on your 2DS I love how you chose the route of using OEM parts rather than recreating them, and it turned out really nice overall! Its very hard to tell what parts were originally black and which were red, you definitely did it right. Just curious, how do you go about dying these parts? I might try this out for a junk Wii that I have, but I'd like to know how your setup was for this!

I definitely recommend it! And the white wii would dye amazingly, I think it would be a great way to revive it especially if it is starting to yellow. For this one I used RIT DyeMore Synthetic Graphite, although for colors I don’t know if I would recommend it. My next time I’m going to try regular RIT powder dye and adding a small amount of acetone to the mix which is supposed to help it set into plastics. I borrowed a lot from the model painting/customizing community on this. What I ended up doing was:

Water boiling in a stainless steel pot that leaves a good bit of room for your parts. Never cook in this again!

Half a bottle of DyeMore per 4ish cups of water

A teaspoon of dish soap (don’t add until boiling!)

After you have your mixture turn the heat to simmer and try to keep it just below boiling. The thinner the part the riskier the business! The cover for my stylus is not quite as dyed because I had to pull it early, the heat was starting to bend it some!!
It took me 4-6 minutes to get a dark enough black enough and I did two rounds of the solution, (3-4 minutes 1 batch, 2-3 for the sencond batch) but my research tells me that might have been a waste and I could have reused. Also stir the whole time to keep everything dyeing evenly!

It is important to leave everything in the same amount of time to get equal color. It wasn’t a problem for the 2DS as the parts are small, but it might be an issue I could see with dyeing a whole wii. What I would do is use a large tubberware and buy a little more dye than I think I need in case it cools off too much and the dye stops working so you can do multiple go arounds. For buttons and small parts I recommend a metal strainer you can put them in inside the bath so you have less trouble fishing them out, and so they are further from the heat source.

I think thats everything important. Just be careful about what you wear or where you do it of course!!

I will be doing a NDSL soon (look in worklogs soon for that and my future ashida) which I plan on trying out iDye Poly or the powder RIT with acetone and I will let you know if that works better! It by all means should