{"id":4478,"date":"2011-04-23T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T04:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2011-05-03T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:39:00","slug":"you-cant-see-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=4478","title":{"rendered":"Glitter Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my recent trip to visit my folks in Malaysia, I packed along my Sprocket Rocket thinking I could fire some rolls there but as I was lurking around the paint section in a hardware shop … I suddenly had an idea to create something a little different as a present for my friend Jimmy (from ThirtySix<\/a>). I saw some gold paint and thought maybe I could give my Sprocket Rocket a new look and give it to him (and soon go buy a brand new one from him again). \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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I picked up 2 cans of the paint and on a (darn) hot afternoon, I quickly ripped the camera apart and used masking tape to cover up the parts that I didn’t wanna paint. It wasn’t too hard to get the parts out and it was ready for a new coat of paint in few minutes.<\/p>\n

After giving the camera many thin coats of the paint, I was about to faint from the hot sun and inhaling the paint. Well … at least inhaling it might give me a heart of gold. Oh wait … it doesn’t go to the heart eh? Lungs of gold perhaps? \ud83d\ude00 I had to stay close to the camera as it was drying because there were occasional flies, mosquitoes and other flying insects at the back of my parent’s place. I didn’t want any of them landing on the wet paint. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Luckily I had a bit of paint left when I decided to also paint the ‘focusing ring’ part. It just didn’t look too complete if it was still black. After letting the paint settle overnight … I quickly put back all the parts hoping I won’t screw up and everything works normally. I got a little worried when the flash didn’t fire but luckily it was just one of the cable connected to the hotshot not being attached properly. Phew!<\/p>\n

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I was too busy to take any photos of the entire process but below is one quick snapshot of the camera ‘shell’ in the drying process. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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The next thing I wanted to do was find a way to pack the camera since I’ve thrown away the box it originally came in. I was lucky to spot a red box in my parents’ place and my mom happily gave it to me. \ud83d\ude00 That still wasn’t the end of the ‘process’ as I wanted to get some red fabric to give it a nice presentation. Hahaha! So a trip to the mall was necessary to complete the whole ‘cycle’ …<\/p>\n

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I messaged Jimmy yesterday asking him if he consumes ginseng and he was darn puzzled by my question. Hahahaha! I told him that someone gave me a box of ginseng and I’m gonna give it to him. Dropped by ThirtySix just now and dropped this box of ‘ginseng’ there. Hope he likes it. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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So now that I need to get a replacement for the Sprocket Rocket … should I go for the white one? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During my recent trip to visit my folks in Malaysia, I packed along my Sprocket Rocket thinking I could fire some rolls there but as I was lurking around the paint section in a hardware shop … I suddenly had an idea to create something a little different as a … <\/p>\n

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