We've seen some lovely console mods over the years here at Nintendo Life, but this one from our Texas-based reader Marshall Clark was too good not to share. While the classic N64 design had some nice curves and came in a range of colours during its lifespan, Marshall has given it a woodgrain makeover which places it more in the Atari 2600 era.
Marshall tells us that he's been painting gaming consoles and controllers for about a year now, he uses automotive based paints, learning how to paint from his twin brother who is a professional paint and bodyman at a restoration auto body shop. He's recently done some work for director Rob McCallum who has an upcoming documentary called Nintendo Quest, which is out soon.
Having a soft spot in his heart for the classic "woody" Atari 2600 which he got some time ago, he was inspired to give his N64 a wooden retro look. He used a combination of paintbrush and airbrush all with automotive paint to achieve this effect. We're sure you will agree that the result looks lovely. As always let us know what you think about this retro restoration with a comment below.
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Just WOW! I love it. Chuckled at the Boosh reference, thanks Darren!
Awesome!
@Kayvoo haha I'm glad that someone got it!
It's wonderful, I'd like to have one of those.
Wow, that's the best electronics/wood combo I've ever seen!!
I wish he could do that to my Wii U
Marshall, if you're reading this, that is AMAZING. A true work of art. Beautiful!!!
It doesn't look like wood grain so much as paint streaked across the surface, but it does look cool.
The Nintendo 64 may be one of the better looking consoles in video game history. As far as Nintendo consoles, it's probably the best. I'd place the Wii as second. That silver off-kilter stand, the straight lines and edges, and the blue slot light were really cool. The Wii U was a really lame console design, which may be part of the problem with sales. It doesn't look nearly as stately as the Wii did.
Best looking handheld I think is still the DS Lite, followed closely by the DSi, then probably the Game Boy Micro and Game Boy Pocket, in that order. I'm also quite fond of the New 3DS and New 3DS XL designs, but they're too new to assess right now.
The shape of the N64 really begs this mod when you see it. Superb.
Very nice.
@earthboundlink agreed 👍
Add some fine Corinthian leather and I'm sold.
Cool..I wood do that to mine, but I'm knot going to..
The Lexx...I mean N64 seems to impress me, even if I curse out it name in the regret of having this over an PSX when Rival Schools was popular.
I mean wow, that is most likely Automotive Body paint, as that stuff is made to be like fiber glass, and water resistant, along with that turtle wax shine. I could imagine the same effect with Arcylics as well. The "Brush strokes" are evident in the "Woodish gleam coating". I would do the same thing to my consoles if I had the space and the money. Amazing, just amazing wow. Too bad about the film bit though.
Maybe it's time for wolly Nintendo 64?
Wow that looks great.much better than mine with the perfect dark fan art from n64 mag plastered over it haha.really makes me appreciate the consoles design.
Very nice, although I can tell that the natural wood grain appearance is missing The only way to do that is carve an N64 model case and power / reset buttons out of wood, then transplant the PCB assembly and ports into the (nonflammably) finished wood case.
No words... that's just simply incredible.
No words... that's just simply incredible.
This is pretty cool and quite beautiful, but you can tell it's just paint. Call me when someone has carved an N64 shell out of wood.
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