californiadoug said:when you all paint your drones do you completely take them all apart or can you simply mask off vents, motors, camera, etc? also would paint weigh more or less than a total vinyl wrap? any help is appreciated! also any type of paint one recommends?
Depends on how neat you want it.
I just masked off everything on the bottom shell (motors and leds) and spray painted it. Super simple. Only very up close (and only if you're looking for it) you can see that it was masked. No big deal. 30 feet out and small details are gone anyhow.
It doesn't add any weight, only with a very accurate laboratory scale you could measure the weight of the few microns of paint. Couldn't be more than milligrams.
I'm thinking about using Oracover (does that exist still) I still have lying around for years. Once you take off the protective paper the actual remaining vinyl is so thin and light, it can't make a difference.