6. Fan Painting Mod
Now that the fan had been prepared for mounting and the case frame had been painted, I could go ahead and mod the fan even more. I saw a few pics here and there of fan blades being painted, and always wondered how people did that since the possibilities with something like this are endless. After finding out more info, like what to paint with, potential downfalls such as uneven weight, I decided to go ahead with it.
First, I was gonna try some bright yellow model paint and apply it with a model brush. Doing this however, especially on black plastic, required many coats and it became evident that this was the wrong way. Say goodbye to that fan. Check out the pic and you'll know what I mean.
Not wanting to be defeated, I went back to basics, spray paint. I found the best way to do this was to use 1 coat of primer, and 1 or 2 coats of yellow spray paint, depending on how much yellow you applied with the 1st coat. However, since I only wanted the blades to be painted, not the entire frame, some masking tape was in order. Very carefully, I masked everything off except for the blades, even the small opening where the spinning part meets the non-spinning part, as best I could.
Once done, I primed it and let it dry for a day. I didn't really have to sand it down, which was hard to do, unless I had some huge bug trapped in there. Plus, I didn't want dust going into the innards of the fan, and I certainly did not want to wet sand either.
Then I sprayed on the yellow. Let it sit for another 24 hours until fully dry. Carefully removed the masking tape, making sure I didn't fuck up the paint job.
Ala kazam! Painted fan! Now I had to be sure that the fan still worked, but that is for another page ahead. It did, if you are wondering. Time to mount this sucker. I also created another Fan Modding article here on this site, which you can find here.
