Filling a hole in some plastic - need a perfect colour match, etc

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I recently drilled a hole in a games console but I got the first hole slightly out of place. I now want to fill in that hole but also make a perfect colour match (a medium, almost dark grey in this case).

How is this best achieved?

The console is a Nintendo 64, here's a random online photo which shows the colour well:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61PqbzwmW5L._SL1280_.jpg

Firstly, what filler could I use that will set hard?

Secondly, how do I perfectly match the colour of the rest of the plastic? Perhaps I could drill a little of the spare plastic inside the shell and use the shavings, etc in some way to mix them with whatever I use as a filler? In that case I would need some kind of transparent filler. Just a guess off the top of my head.
 
I think you're almost asking the impossible, to use the original plastic, somehow dissolved and them used as a filler. These casings are injection moulded from pellets which are colour blended and then heated before injecting them into a mould.
How about filling the hole with car body filler, and then touching up with colour from a model shop, or can you cover the damage somehow with a transfer or label?
John :)
 
Thanks, car body filler might just work. The problem is matching the original colour (due to the location of the hole it would actually look worse with any kind of sticker over it).
 
The only similar thing I have done - years ago - was to take a bunch of plastic shavings and extrude them through a hot glue gun.
Very wasteful but an excellent colour match, obviously enough. Even then, the filling had to be smoothed flat afterwards. Not worth the faff!
John :)
 
There's something called Q-Bond. Basically superglue and a filler powder I think. I haven't used it, but noted it for future use after seeing it somewhere on the net.
Possibly worth a look.
 
You could get your shavings and melt them in something like ambroid pro-weld, EMA Plastic Weld (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/2216...ICEP3.0.0-L&ff14=122&viphx=1&ops=true&ff13=80) or MEK and fill the hole like that...
Rollerball said:
I recently drilled a hole in a games console but I got the first hole slightly out of place. I now want to fill in that hole but also make a perfect colour match (a medium, almost dark grey in this case).

How is this best achieved?

The console is a Nintendo 64, here's a random online photo which shows the colour well:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61PqbzwmW5L._SL1280_.jpg

Firstly, what filler could I use that will set hard?

Secondly, how do I perfectly match the colour of the rest of the plastic? Perhaps I could drill a little of the spare plastic inside the shell and use the shavings, etc in some way to mix them with whatever I use as a filler? In that case I would need some kind of transparent filler. Just a guess off the top of my head.
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You could use milliput, it's an epoxy that's a bit like plastacine and sets solid. Available in a few colours and black and white. A little bit if white in some black should give a dark grey. Mix up some samples first to experiment.
 
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