Remember the Ugliest DS ever? Sure you do: it looked like the runner-up at 'Finger Paint Your DS' day at the local head trauma ward. Just look at that DS cover: it appears to be a severed buttock with two arm-conjoined siamese twins dancing on the hump. More curious is the motto: 'Lost in Blue'. Yet they are dancing on a flesh-tone. Perhaps a more accurate illustration of the entire 'what the fuck does that even mean' concept of being lost in blue would have simply been blue siamese twins painted on a blue cover. But I digress.

Well, as follow-up to this monstrosity, reader Scott D. was kind enough to point us in the direction of the GBATemp forums, where its creator — 'OrR' waxes eloquent on its creation, and the high quality materials he used:

I used email (not e-mail rolleyes.gif ) paint from Revell, quite commonly used for model building in Germany. It seems to be quite wear resistant if you only touch your DS with your fingers but comes of quite easily if scratched. So be carefull when putting your DS in your pocket/backpack/whatever.

And.

I made sure no paint got onto the microphone (by removing the whole mainboard with the microphone on it before painting) and I opened all the speaker holes that got closed by the paint with a needle (again, with the speakers removed so I did not damage them). The only problem I had was with the buttons, I had to remove some of the paint that got into the button holes, but that was quite easy to do with some sand paper.

We assume he also used sandpaper to get that paint off the screen. Florian Eckhardt

Lost in Blue Special Limited Edition DS [GBATemp]