Vaporshark rDNA40 Makeover

[alicewonderland]

The battered and beaten warrior. After a few months of my vaporshark, I've dropped it multiple times, dinged it up good, and the pain started chipping in areas. It looked sad, real sad. A masterpiece that was flawed by scars of age. What to do? I decided to rough it up even more and give it a good ol beating.

I was inspired by the oakley holbrook skate deck edition sunglasses

 

[nevillebartos]

I like it, the VS coating sucks, I have considered gutting mine and rawing the chassis, is that just aluminium underneath?

 

[alicewonderland]

I like it, the VS coating sucks, I have considered gutting mine and rawing the chassis, is that just aluminium underneath?

yeah, the indented part though that u can see in the last two pictures im not sure, I think it may be some kind of plastic, because I tried to rough up that part to get aluminum showing, but as u can see by the picture it just created indents and scratches, it either has a real thick layer of some kind of primer or clearcoat, or is plastic. It would be difficult to get rid of all the paint unless u use some kind of stripper though I think, i was peeling off scraps of aluminum when i was roughing it up, its real soft. and the little dot grips on the sliding door, trying to get rid of the paint between those raised bumps will be a pain in the behind, i think you will end up chopping off part of the raised bumps.

 

[IanDVaypes]

It's definitely not metal. Inductive charging won't go through metal.

 

[Pushbutton]

It's definitely not metal. Inductive charging won't go through metal.

The casing is aluminium. They work around the charging problem with a cutout in the side of the box, which is covered by the plastic plate on the side.

My rDNA40 looked horrible after only 2 months of use, so i had it Cerakoted by a local Gunsmith. Looks pretty good, except the color came out darker than i had envisioned. Not a scratch on the coating after about 6 weeks of heavy use. By the looks of it, it's going to last rather well.

 

[Hammy75]

This is a regular DNA30 mod not the RDNA but looks pretty sharp. The OP said he fitted a new board and 510 so it would have been empty.

Project Shinyshark30 complete!