Yep, Another iBook casemod

[Rikintosh]

I was wondering what to do with this ibook g3, I got it with a bad lcd, I took it apart but I wasn't careful, and the lcd cover ended up scratching from the inside, damaging the white paint. Then I tried to paint with white spray but it didn't look good, so I tried to remove the spray with paint remover and thinner, and that ended up giving me a frozen effect, with "rays" that can be seen in some light angles. I know it's possible to make it transparent like glass using ethanol or isopropyl alcohol, but that wasn't my intention initially. So, I liked the frozen effect, and I decided to go ahead, and give the inside a blue color using blue stained glass varnish, I used a sponge to create a smoky effect like clouds in the sky, then I assembled everything, and I realized that the interior of the apparent lcd with all that metal and cables, it was ugly. So I cut out a regular A4 sheet, and put it inside. I also removed the white apple logo diffuser, as the A4 sheet does the same job.

 

[B S Magnet]

There was (and still is) a company which provided this service for iBook users who sent in their laptops — both during the ice era and the opaque era. I mostly remember long-gone posts on LiveJournal of someone who had one inner-coated with a kind of grass-green hue and who posted pictures of them, coupled with a reply from LJ person who had theirs done up in a tangerine-orange hue (no, not like the tangerine iMac/iBook, but like the actual rind hue of a deep-orange tangerine).

The methods the above company used for each iBook series differed (the dye/pain for ice models was coated on the inside; the opaque models on the outside with some kind of enamel hardening for durability).

This topic also came up a long time ago on the MR forums.