Scratch Build – In Progress Monster2

Hi Cobalt matey, yeah you should see em all now, i got me ud9 fitted in now and panels are at artwork stage

I rang artist and he said be patient its in preliminary stages

I googled preliminary stages and it said Preliminary Stage = Not started yet.... he he.

 

This is really nice, lovely and clean looking.Nice work

 

heres a pic of Monster1 for you to get idea of artywork etc

 

Thanks bulldog, yes the idea was to get clean looking but have all the switches and buttons aswell.

I really didnt wanna get too arty farty and spoil things.

No doubt i will try a few things at later date, maybe a fancier top grill?

 

Better do some final (ish) pics for ya.

Im not known for good photos by the way, and my room is badly lit...

Ooops firstly better show you why i milled out that part in the front panel

Voila TFT option

 

Sorry for out of order photos, just grabbing em from photobucket as i find em.


This is an 80mm front rad option (Not using)

 

Starting on trying to get only White/blue theme

Spent some cash on them twister vegas fans in blue



P.S, i love this pic

Oh, even usb and other camera usb lead in blue/white


and a quick peek at Monster1s artworked mouse

 

Case looks like this at moment without panels.






heres a pic of vertical bays resevoir options

 

after all that fitting, i took apart, so i could add UD9 board instead

 

A final based pic for you



ooops sorry for other forum on monitor.

yep i know that the display is a touch out, grrrr, wasnt happy about this, but can sort.


Corner brackets are still to be chromed by the way.




air bubbles now sorted by the way

and ignore temps shown on display thats a nb reading, was just playing around creating a nice screen for Monster2

 

Heres a pic of the bottom area, its a little messy, but can tidy up, but this was idea of the midshelf to be honest

 

Also i designed some res plates, but its been tricky deciding if i wanna use em or not..

 

Top fill ports, wont go into how much hasstle it was to get 2 blue fillports, was only 1 available, but mate found some for me.



they are a touch out of align, as i guessed where to put em, not knowing a split res would come out.

silly powdercoater coated top with grill in, although i told him to remove it first... grrrrr

 

oh to be sure i had cut lots of option plates, forgot that

 

i did have orange xigs in roof, but now changed to colorific clkear ones.

This case dont need any lighting i can assure you, its like daytime with all them fans.

6 in top
6 in bottom
2 at rear
1 in front

 

This is what i had at first, but was told to change em both to blue

 

This frustrated me a little, i had no psu to work out how deep to mill down for the psu, so i guessed (eeek) at 6mm, should of done it 5mm, however allows me to sit the psu on a neoprene mat now.





Top front left i milled down 1.5mm this allows me to fit my usual engraved badge.

 

Right, Sorry pics a bit out of sequence.

But am posting in an hour what has taken me prob on/off a year to do.

Was made redundant a whiles back (working now though).

Now i really want my artworked panels back, but gotta wait.

Your now as upto date as what i am.

I hope you enjoyed viewing this log as much as i did making the project.

quick teaser of part of the artwork.

Note this is a ref pic only




Ok thats it, but to keep you keen heres a pic of Monster3 Work in Progress.

Its minor 0.1mm changes etc etc, to monster2 and a few extra options, like the modular panels at rear etc.

Ive not got that far, but no hurry on this project.









"In Progress"

Thank you guys and gals

 

Looks amazing dude, keep up, i'll be watching

 

Looking through the pics, the more of this I see, the more I like it. The front looks wicked. I think the res looks better with out the cover on, but I'd like to see it lite up before saying that for definite. Either way it still looks good.