Why bother with Konami's ridiculously overpriced Metal Gear-themed Gunmetal PS3 when you can simply make one? That's the mentality PlayStation forum user dieselstation had when he did a very careful paint job on his PS3. If he has the 80GB model, he already has a system far superior to Konami's offering. Heck, it would be able to play the Metal Gear Solid games from the PS2 era. Good job, dieselstation!
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Fan makes his own Gunmetal PS3
Posted May 21st 2008 12:15PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Community, Hardware
Tags: gunmetal, gunmetal-grey, ps3
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-21-2008 @ 12:31PM
True_Darknight said...
*emails this guys about hooking his up too!!!*
Mine is a 120GB now :)
and I already got the DS3.. allz i need is June 12th!!!
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5-21-2008 @ 12:31PM
eugene said...
what type of paint did you use....
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5-21-2008 @ 12:34PM
russell said...
what a stupid thing to post a blog about. must be a slow day.
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5-21-2008 @ 12:40PM
Lilinka said...
Shh! Don't say that, you might get banned! Oh, wait, this isn't Kotaku.
5-21-2008 @ 12:57PM
Jack (SFC: 4983 4617 3409) said...
Oh wait, this isn't a website that encourages intelligent, thought out, contributing comments.
5-21-2008 @ 12:41PM
Gaucho said...
that's pretty damn nice. I would do this if I knew what kind of paint he used . . . and if i had time to kill.
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5-21-2008 @ 12:54PM
Brodie-san said...
Never got the whole buying another version because of a new colour / modding the appearance of the one you got in the first place.
I took a photo of the Gunmetal in Tokyo. I'll stick it up on flickr later and post a link. Why? Why not. I also have a photo of a WALL of coloured PSPs.
Amazingly no one looks at you strangely in Japan for taking pictures of electronics. Perfectly normal.
I also have a pic of a Softmap girl dressed in full-on manga gear, sticking her tongue out and giving me the "peace" sign. I'm keeping that one for myself though.
;)
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5-21-2008 @ 3:28PM
StevenRafael said...
Buying another console you have for appearance I don't understand... Modding however isn't such a bad idea. Hell, stores still sell faceplates for the 360 and skins for the PSP.
I was never really into that, but I did paint my Dreamcast controllers separate colors though... And they look damn nice.
5-21-2008 @ 1:05PM
Mikezula said...
I think I'd rather get a normal 80gig or 60gig and stick a Metal Gear Solid sticker on it than the gunmetal PS3. I likes me my backwards-compatibility.
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5-21-2008 @ 1:15PM
Ghaleon said...
It's black to gray -- people REALLY care about this, huh? Not discounting THIS guy's work -- but I don't understand the furvor over the MGS4 system. I mean if it was painted with Metal Gear art/themes or something, sure ...
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5-21-2008 @ 1:30PM
marauder800 said...
Well done, although if I were to put in all that effort, I would have gone with some color.
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5-21-2008 @ 1:58PM
rich said...
i would do it but i can't even stay within the lines properly in a coloring book.
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5-21-2008 @ 2:17PM
Brodie-san said...
Gunmetal PS3 in the wild.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24948283@N08/2511197455/
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5-21-2008 @ 3:12PM
Popfrogs said...
*cooks up shady Ebay scheme*
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5-21-2008 @ 3:31PM
never$$hort said...
This is a good way to diminish value your PS3... To each their own I guess.
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5-21-2008 @ 6:05PM
TheEnd187 said...
well you can just get your PS3 painted any color you want from colorware.
http://www.colorwarepc.com/c-19-consoles.aspx
I already gave my gf a purple one for Christmas.
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