Part 7: Pimp my Multimaus!

Entry posted by M Graff December 6, 2010

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Hi all DCC fans!

I use the Roco Multimaus digital system, and of course I do appreciate that they have done a very ergonomic handset.

But the designer that chose the color ought to have been sent on retraining

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Sure, the red may well be neat, but not on a controller .... Looks almost a bit "so" ....

I did this to mine today:

Dismantling it took about 5 minutes, of which three minutes were spent finding a suitable screwdriver ...

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I cleaned the cover with soap and water, and mixed in a little spirit to accelerate the evaporation.

Then I primed it with a black primer:

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Then came the real fun .

I wanted a personal touch, so I thought that I would have stars on the upper part of it, clouds in the middle and fire at the bottom.

I used white in my Iwata CM-B airbrush to sketch it up freehand:

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The back got a little more clouds and a locomotive at the bottom (it IS a Train accessory after all...).

Then I added the colors from light to dark and I finished with some white for highlights.

This is how it looks before Varnishing:

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I finished it with a satin-finish spray varnish which I let dry for about five hours before I assembled it:

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I'm pretty happy with the result, now there is no doubt about whose hand control it is .

The San Miguel Central RR