Painting a Rubik's Cube

[fustercluck]

Rubik's cubes come with crappy stickers on them that peel off and damage pretty easily. Been wanting to just do without the stickers and paint the cube instead. Probably won't end up doing it if it's too expensive, do need 6 different colors after all (will most likely stick with original colors, but I suppose it might be cool to do something different). I looked at Vinyl dye but it was expensive. The rubik's cube is just plastic. So basically I'm just looking for a cheap durable paint that works well on plastic. I'm not savvy when it comes to arts/crafts/hobbies. Anyone here actually painted a rubik's cube?

Danke.

 

[peller]

Make sure you clean the surface of all sticky residue. Head to your local hardware store and pick up some spray cans of Krylon Fusion (it's designed to adhere to plastic without any primers). In all honesty it's probably cheaper and easier to just find a quality cube instead of DIYing.

 

[montypythizzle]

Just spray paint it all the same color so you can win every time.

 

[fustercluck]

Originally posted by: peller
Make sure you clean the surface of all sticky residue. Head to your local hardware store and pick up some spray cans of Krylon Fusion (it's designed to adhere to plastic without any primers). In all honesty it's probably cheaper and easier to just find a quality cube instead of DIYing.

Can buy a better quality rubik's cube online?

 

[IronWing]

What did Picaso use?

 

[Penth]

My friend was a cuber. He used his sisters nailpolish and I don't think it ever came off.

 

[jlee]

http://ask.metafilter.com/7952...ind-a-good-rubiks-cube

may be of some help. 🙂

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Penth
My friend was a cuber. He used his sisters nailpolish and I don't think it ever came off.

You took my suggestion 🙁

 

[SSSnail]

More specific, use acrylic nail polishes. Glitters optional.

 

[Throckmorton]

Crappy stickers.. Yeah right, you just can't solve it.

 

[cherrytwist]

Paint all the sides black.

 

[fustercluck]

Anyone else think nail polish would work well? Would I be able to find nail polish in all the colors I need? I don't know if nail polish comes in all those colors...though I guess I wouldn't know.

I can solve it, under 5 minutes (not too impressive 😛). If I wanted to cheat I'd just use an online rubik's cube solving program.