Case Mod - In Progress Project: Reverse² [completed]

The window:
Ok, so it’s time for another update.
What to do? The window? Yeah!
This is where I left off:

The hole in the sidepanel.

The plexiglass I ordered finally arrived, I ordered it to size. 2cm on each side of the hole.


In my first mod I attached the Plexiglass with epoxy glue, this held good. But was a pain to have it bond properly.
Bill Owen always uses his “tape of the gods”, so I went searching for something similar.
At my local autostore I found something good.

Same color tape, and very strong!

So, apply the tape to all the bonding-spots.

Taking the tape-masking off:


AAAAAAAAAAND, done!

 

The window in my rig is held in by automotive trim foam tape - uber strong (designed to hold on car door trims and the like) and stealthy black! cost me $8nz for a couple metres. Enough for the window, the mesh over the 80mm fans and also holding all three fans on!

 

wtf is on the window is that the backing or is that alu?

 

backing i think

 

Yep, i got the same stuff.
It's designed to attach bumpers and spoilers to cars. So it will hold my panel with ease.

Yep, it's backing.

 

Ok i was gunna say what is the point to have a window with a none see threw panel on it

 

oooo.... Take the backing off?

 

Later, I dont want it scratched at this stage.

 

tease!!

 

Ive been following this mod for a while, I just registered but I have been lurking for a while. I love the color scheme, and the overall idea. Minimalist designs can have so much visual power, and that glowing streak will look sick against the black. Keep up the good work!

Also, that sleeving looks crazy good; I'm definitely using that stuff in my next build.

 

Thanks, i had been a lurker for quite some aswell. Then i got modding myself =)

 

nice sleeving


wolfie

 

Painting the fans:
Yep, the fans had to be altered aswell. I started with the Fractal Design fans, simply because I had them near me and the Xilence parts hadn’t been delivered
I took the blades out:




then I took the orange spraycan out, and gave it a shot:

Looking good! Need to add some clearcoat to finish it up. But good quality!


Oh, and when painting a fan, please mask the back like so!


Then my Xilence package arrived, and I started on those.
But then…. Oops!

I did my research wrong, and ordered fans from Xilence from which the blades could not be removed..
So, I had to come up with a solution…
I decided to make a circle out of thick paper, and mask the blades like so:


Ok, first coat: a white primer to make the orange pop!

And with 2 layers of orange:


Looking good.
More in the next update.

 

Painting the fans, take 2:
Another update, still about the fans, and their paint..

My method worked like a charm, but required a bit more work to get a nice finish.
It caused a lot of overspray, like you can see here:



Sou, out came the Qtips and acetone.
A bit of elbowgrease and this was the result:


Yes, it’s gone! It’s all gone!

And the fan, clearcoated and in all it’s glory:


That’s a bit boring, it’s just not working for me…
So, glad I saved the Xilence stickers:


Damn, looking good!



What’s that? What did you say? You want to see it spin?
H’Okay! Here we go!


Eyecandy to close this update.

 

the cross looks surprisingly great spinning.

mod on...

 

Now that looks cool. I am really liking the orange.

 

Dutch powah! Nice job!

 

very nice. sub'd.

 

O.O at the cross. Most awesome fan I've seen in a while.

 

Love it.... What's next?