Can you paint your hopper?

[TheDuelist]

I tried the dye process on my Evo2 and it came out like this

[TheDuelist]

And again.

It looks better in person obviously but it definitely worked as described and I am very happy with the way it looks.

[bmexline]

im going to do this with my smoke evo2. its not very "smokey" lol. barely darker than clear. i was hoping it would be so dark that you can just barely see the paint in it. ill post back with before/after pix on thursday night after im done w/ it.

[bmexline]

well, i dyed my "smoke" (looked clear to me) egg2. i used 1/2 bottle of black rit dye in a large enough pan to completely submerge the egg. i took all the electronics out of it and put it back together, leaving the lid and battery door attached but open. got the water to JUST below the boiling point. (little bubbles on the bottom of the pan but not rising to the surface) and put in the dye. i let it sit for another few minutes to get the temperature back up to almost boiling. i submerged the loader and using a set of tongs i turned the loader almost constantly. (i didnt want it to get so hot that it melted the part touching the bottom of the pan) i took it out after 10 min and was very disappointed. it didnt look any darker at all. so i went another 15 minutes and took it out and i was pissed because it looked completely black. (my goal was VERY dark smoke) i had a sink full of hot water, drained all the dyed water out then put the loader in the sink and took the 3 screws holding it together out and let it soak in the sink for a couple of minutes. then i drained the water and filled it back up and with some dish soap washed the pieces then drained and filled the sink again to rinse the soap off. by this time it was quite cool so i rinsed it under running water the rest of the way and let it dry. it turned out perfect. unless its in direct sunlight it looks ALMOST black but you can see the paint in there. in the sunlight it looks very very dark smoke and i couldnt be happier.

ill post some sunlight pix if there is any interest. inside pix will just look like a black hopper.