Polishing a turd

've done it! Crack out the cigars and pop the champagne. I'm in a bloody good mood. The reason being I've performed a feat that even I, the Zarathustra of Sceptics, King of Doubters hitherto thought was impossible. I have managed to polish a turd. Wait! That's not all. I haven't just polished it, I have managed to clad it in shiny, spanking translucent cracked porcelain goodness.

You see, I have finally managed to make an MFX sonic look amazing. Actually, that's a bit of an exaggeration but I have managed to make it look better than it did. I achieved this frankly biblical feat of cosmetic chicanery by doing two things:

1). Polishing the metal using a Cape Cod cloth  to even up the finish and remove the tarnish

2). Applying my cracked porcelain crackle finish I revealed in my last blog.

I also milled a new lens cap as the previous one was frankly, shit. I knocked the corners off the slider plate using a hand files and I re-profiled the ridges to remove the sharp edge (you can actually do this through hand sanding). I removed the hex grub screws and replaced them with two 3mm cross head machine screws to make it more screen accurate.

So here's the results:

As you can see, it has totally transformed this piece into something that though still flawed, is actually a pretty decent sonic in its own right. If you can forget the way it looked originally with that stupid bright yellow paint job, you could be forgiven for thinking it's actually a QMx. For MFX owners this is a cheap and easy upgrade to making the piece a very attractive and sturdy replica and not a single bit of 'heritage gold' in sight. I'm actually thinking of calling this new color 'boot polish grey'.