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mnpctech · 11th Oct 2011, 14:07

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The "Tribute to SERENITY firefly" PC will be at Corsair's Suite at 2012 CES

Here are some misc graphics/labels designed for Serenity, these were displayed on cargo, equip or interior features of the ship. Some of these should look really cool distressed on the case.

This case mod will be a tribute to the "firefly" Sci-fi series and SERENITY movie. I will draw my inspiration from interior shots of the "firefly" ship. Imagining if the PC was field equipment used by the characters. The case I'll be using is Corsair's 400R mid tower. Here is their product page, http://www.corsair.com/pc-cases/carb...ower-case.html

Made switch box for mounting a pair of fighter pilot toggle switches, this will be mounted on the top handle of the corsair 400R

Bending toggle switch box

Switch plates for Red Fighter Pilot Switches, http://www.mnpctech.com/spdprtToggle.html

Update: 10/14/11

Sorry! to anyone anticipating this to look like the ship, or see a model of the serenity glued on top. My tribute is inspired by visual elements from both the movie and series that appeal to me, in particular "Our Mrs reynolds" episode, which has great scenes of Serenity's bridge. (and christina hendricks) To me, the charm of the Serenity is the mixture of Old West and industrial tech, and sometimes these elements look hobbled together. You can tell the Set builders delved into Ebay for salvaged Electronic and Ham Radio parts. I also love how everything is distressed from use and weathered. The ship's control panel is a mess...lol

It will be colored to match the panels from firefly's deck, then distressed and weathered with Copper accents, graphics from interior of firefly will be airbrushed.. side panel was created from interior of an old Dremel carry case, with wire loom, 5" conduit, 3.5" fan controllers, misc wires, misc LEDs bulgin panel LED...

Round Modders Mesh for the grills in the side.

http://www.mnpctech.com/moddersmesh.html

Bare with me on this part, it will make more sense when I've taken more pictures of the panel. I'm making a junction box for the panel, from an old bezel top.. imagining the box suffered damage from some type of accident and caught on fire.. Gumdrop LED is cracked, one of the black wire looms will be disconnected with have melted wires exposed.. I'm still deciding on what looks right, as I go along.. I plan to head over to Home Depot's Plumbing aisle tomorrow for some copper pipe, hopefully I can get .25" diameter, maybe buy a pipe bender, (probably don't need one) and emulate whats I'm only guessing is coolant or misc fluid lines? (it's all pretend..lol) from lower right panel in this photo. I keep telling myself "need more copper implemented)

after heating and bending the plastic into box... I reflected to myself "Make due with what you have on hand, and improve your skills"

Dremel had a snack... The effect of having caught on fire at one time will be added with paint later

One of the black wire looms will be disconnected with have melted wires exposed..

@GA, moddin on the cheap

Copper tubing and fans installed...

link
http://www.mnpctech.com/xbox_360_win...m_molding.html

Updated 11/4

Access panel progress

with mangled vent ..heh

...Did you ever see the episode "Our Mrs Reynolds?" ....Christina Hendricks sabotaged the control panel on the Bridge, the wiring was pretty bad...lol

progress work on top panel on 11/11/11... the tape over the switch will be cherry on top, when everything is assembled

The 240 "Serenity" in Kanji grill for the top panel, will be cnc milled from 1/4" Copper.. I may try "Flame Coloring" it like this photo...with Oxygen acetylene torch

I'll be using Sophisticated Finishes surface effect products to add some rust to areas of the exterior. I used this on the District-9 PC.

Next step is fine tuning the weathered and distressed effects with an Airbrush

I went over my initial weathered and distressed paint effects with an Airbrush. Anything that contrasted a lot, I muted with Matte Black, like the fan blades, copper tubing, decals, shiny toggle switches on the fan controller and screw heads. I also airbrushed the edges of Silver Aluminum paint, which I used to created the chipped and scratched paint beneath.

Going over areas of the right side panel with airbrush, using Flat Black, over saturated with Thinner.. to weather or "mute" some of coloring in the decals, wiring, and smaller copper tubing

and check out Mnpctech's new fan grill for 200mm / 230mm cooling fans, http://www.mnpctech.com/200mm_230mm_fan_grill.html

The "Serenity" Kanji 2x 120mm fan grill is cnc milled from 1/4" thick Copper. It was Flame colored with Acetylene Torch.

RedManc · 11th Oct 2011, 14:11

Already love it! i'm not familiar with the sereinty but ill be watching

Xtrafresh · 11th Oct 2011, 14:12

Ooooooo another one! *grabs popcorn*

these switches are excellent, love 'em

flame696 · 11th Oct 2011, 14:56

God bill how many projects have you got on the go?? Not that I mind as it gves me ideas

stonedsurd · 11th Oct 2011, 15:02

FIREFLY!

Definitely following this one.

Blarte · 11th Oct 2011, 15:04

I do like toggle switches its like being back in the driver seat of the tank ..

Spreadie · 11th Oct 2011, 15:14

Looking forward to this one!

Subbed.

IanW · 11th Oct 2011, 16:49

Hmmm, I wonder if you could get this onto "Castle" as Nathan Fillion's home PC?

He's already used his Mal Reynolds outfit as a Hallowe'en costume on the show.

improprietary · 11th Oct 2011, 17:06

You do know that by using the firefly theme for your pc you are going to be under extreme scrutiny by your peers right? You don't mess with this fandom :P

by the way, it needs more warning stripes and rust.

Hannes · 11th Oct 2011, 18:01

Finally! :-D

monkeyfun · 11th Oct 2011, 19:32

Swwweeeetttt... please tell me there will be an interjected Chinese cuss word. +Sub'd

Cheapskate · 11th Oct 2011, 22:37

Yay! Something left limbo.

Are you sure you don't want to do the rig based on exterior designs? I'm bummed you won't be strapping charred action figures to the front.

KoSoVaR^ · 12th Oct 2011, 11:06

i dont like the switches at all, why dont you implement them under instead?

Roboduck · 12th Oct 2011, 12:23

Subbed!

Can't wait to see where this one goes!

Knighthammer · 12th Oct 2011, 19:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by stonedsurd

FIREFLY!

Definitely following this one.

Dito!!

Karrek · 12th Oct 2011, 21:06

I'm a fan of firefly and Serenity - look forward to see your progress. I also agree with Cheapskate that some charred action figures would be awesome... oh well.

xMathiasD · 12th Oct 2011, 21:26

Awesome dude!

Cheapskate · 13th Oct 2011, 15:49

@Kosovar -His theme is essentially rusty Russian military surplus with Asian warning signs. I expect exposed wires and maybe even some plumbing will be involved.

Speaking of... Any chance some nixie tubes could get in the setup?

mnpctech · 14th Oct 2011, 16:04

Thanks for tuning and commenting everybody! Yes, I'm juggling between projects again...lol ...in preparation for CES, January 10 -14 , and I'll be there as well, showing some of my products and previous work. So please let me know if you're attending, so I can finally meet you in person.

Ok, back to this project. Sorry! to anyone anticipating this to look like the ship, or see a model of the serenity glued on top. My tribute is inspired by visual elements from both the movie and series that appeal to me, in particular "Our Mrs reynolds" episode, which has great scenes of Serenity's bridge. (and christina hendricks) To me, the charm of the Serenity is the mixture of Old West and industrial tech, and sometimes these elements look hobbled together. You can tell the Set builders delved into Ebay for salvaged Electronic and Ham Radio parts. I also love how everything is distressed from use and weathered. The ship's control panel is a mess...lol

Yes, the circa 60s Muscle car hood scoop style panel hump is being removed.. btw: Great for cable management behind MB tray.

LooseNeutral · 17th Oct 2011, 07:07

Man, you gotta put a bro on a mailing list or something when you start these things! Last I heard of this was on the FB page how long ago...

Glad to see you went with it and a nice curve ball choosing this case imo. Just don't go cutt'n your ear off for your art... or other pieces for that matter..

Switches are bitc.....N! Can't wait to see the guts and gore of this one

Are you gonna give a nod to the bad little hottie too?

11th Oct 2011, 14:07	#1
mnpctech bit-tech sponsor Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mpls, MN Posts: 3,440	Corsair 400 Case Mod Project: "Tribute to SERENITY firefly" ... This Case Mod was done by bit-tech's MOTM Sponser, Mnpctech! Customize your PC or window with custom Stickers from Mnpctech HERE The "Tribute to SERENITY firefly" PC will be at Corsair's Suite at 2012 CES Here are some misc graphics/labels designed for Serenity, these were displayed on cargo, equip or interior features of the ship. Some of these should look really cool distressed on the case. This case mod will be a tribute to the "firefly" Sci-fi series and SERENITY movie. I will draw my inspiration from interior shots of the "firefly" ship. Imagining if the PC was field equipment used by the characters. The case I'll be using is Corsair's 400R mid tower. Here is their product page, http://www.corsair.com/pc-cases/carb...ower-case.html Made switch box for mounting a pair of fighter pilot toggle switches, this will be mounted on the top handle of the corsair 400R Bending toggle switch box Switch plates for Red Fighter Pilot Switches, http://www.mnpctech.com/spdprtToggle.html Update: 10/14/11 Sorry! to anyone anticipating this to look like the ship, or see a model of the serenity glued on top. My tribute is inspired by visual elements from both the movie and series that appeal to me, in particular "Our Mrs reynolds" episode, which has great scenes of Serenity's bridge. (and christina hendricks) To me, the charm of the Serenity is the mixture of Old West and industrial tech, and sometimes these elements look hobbled together. You can tell the Set builders delved into Ebay for salvaged Electronic and Ham Radio parts. I also love how everything is distressed from use and weathered. The ship's control panel is a mess...lol It will be colored to match the panels from firefly's deck, then distressed and weathered with Copper accents, graphics from interior of firefly will be airbrushed.. side panel was created from interior of an old Dremel carry case, with wire loom, 5" conduit, 3.5" fan controllers, misc wires, misc LEDs bulgin panel LED... Round Modders Mesh for the grills in the side. http://www.mnpctech.com/moddersmesh.html Bare with me on this part, it will make more sense when I've taken more pictures of the panel. I'm making a junction box for the panel, from an old bezel top.. imagining the box suffered damage from some type of accident and caught on fire.. Gumdrop LED is cracked, one of the black wire looms will be disconnected with have melted wires exposed.. I'm still deciding on what looks right, as I go along.. I plan to head over to Home Depot's Plumbing aisle tomorrow for some copper pipe, hopefully I can get .25" diameter, maybe buy a pipe bender, (probably don't need one) and emulate whats I'm only guessing is coolant or misc fluid lines? (it's all pretend..lol) from lower right panel in this photo. I keep telling myself "need more copper implemented) after heating and bending the plastic into box... I reflected to myself "Make due with what you have on hand, and improve your skills" Dremel had a snack... The effect of having caught on fire at one time will be added with paint later One of the black wire looms will be disconnected with have melted wires exposed.. @GA, moddin on the cheap Copper tubing and fans installed... link http://www.mnpctech.com/xbox_360_win...m_molding.html Updated 11/4 Access panel progress with mangled vent ..heh ...Did you ever see the episode "Our Mrs Reynolds?" ....Christina Hendricks sabotaged the control panel on the Bridge, the wiring was pretty bad...lol progress work on top panel on 11/11/11... the tape over the switch will be cherry on top, when everything is assembled The 240 "Serenity" in Kanji grill for the top panel, will be cnc milled from 1/4" Copper.. I may try "Flame Coloring" it like this photo...with Oxygen acetylene torch I'll be using Sophisticated Finishes surface effect products to add some rust to areas of the exterior. I used this on the District-9 PC. Next step is fine tuning the weathered and distressed effects with an Airbrush I went over my initial weathered and distressed paint effects with an Airbrush. Anything that contrasted a lot, I muted with Matte Black, like the fan blades, copper tubing, decals, shiny toggle switches on the fan controller and screw heads. I also airbrushed the edges of Silver Aluminum paint, which I used to created the chipped and scratched paint beneath. Going over areas of the right side panel with airbrush, using Flat Black, over saturated with Thinner.. to weather or "mute" some of coloring in the decals, wiring, and smaller copper tubing and check out Mnpctech's new fan grill for 200mm / 230mm cooling fans, http://www.mnpctech.com/200mm_230mm_fan_grill.html The "Serenity" Kanji 2x 120mm fan grill is cnc milled from 1/4" thick Copper. It was Flame colored with Acetylene Torch. __________________ Shop Our Case Mod Store We Ship International Orders! Client Builds / FIREFLY PC / DISTRICT-9 PC / Official STAR TREK PC / WOLFENSTEIN PC / LANBOY APOCALYPSE PC / CodeMasters DiRT Showdown PC Last edited by mnpctech; 9th Feb 2012 at 11:42.

11th Oct 2011, 14:11	#2
RedManc Supermodder Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 338	Already love it! i'm not familiar with the sereinty but ill be watching __________________ FOX

11th Oct 2011, 14:12	#3
Xtrafresh It never hurts to help Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: St. Martin, Dutch Antilles Posts: 2,988	Ooooooo another one! grabs popcorn these switches are excellent, love 'em __________________ Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin

11th Oct 2011, 14:56	#4
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11th Oct 2011, 15:02	#5
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11th Oct 2011, 15:04	#6
Blarte Moderate Modder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: North West England Posts: 1,566	I do like toggle switches its like being back in the driver seat of the tank .. __________________ Watering down PC's since 2009....

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11th Oct 2011, 16:49	#8
IanW Grumpy Old Git Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: N.Wales Posts: 2,996	Hmmm, I wonder if you could get this onto "Castle" as Nathan Fillion's home PC? He's already used his Mal Reynolds outfit as a Hallowe'en costume on the show. __________________ i5 2500K@3.3GHz / Corsair H50-1 / Asus P8P67-M PRO / 16GB Corsair Vengeance / MSI GTX670 / 240GB Samsung 840 / 1TB HDD / Silverstone 600W / Silverstone SG-09 / Dell U2713HM / CM Storm Quickfire TK / Logitech G9 / Win7-64 Ultimate / Ubuntu 13.04-64

11th Oct 2011, 17:06	#9
improprietary FT03 is a bitch to watercool Join Date: May 2011 Location: esbjerg, denmark Posts: 305	You do know that by using the firefly theme for your pc you are going to be under extreme scrutiny by your peers right? You don't mess with this fandom :P by the way, it needs more warning stripes and rust.

11th Oct 2011, 18:01	#10
Hannes Design \| Art \| Performance Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Sweden Posts: 419	Finally! :-D

11th Oct 2011, 19:32	#11
monkeyfun Supermodder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 438	Swwweeeetttt... please tell me there will be an interjected Chinese cuss word. +Sub'd __________________ Mods: Battle Dragon Bag Case (In Progress) Cygnar Storm Strider - On Hold until I can build my own furnace. Dr Calgori's Modulated Clockwork Signal Transponder - mini-ITX DRV (In Planning) TubeTester Last edited by monkeyfun; 12th Oct 2011 at 13:54.

11th Oct 2011, 22:37	#12
Cheapskate ↓ Don't trust that face! Join Date: May 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 7,012	Yay! Something left limbo. Are you sure you don't want to do the rig based on exterior designs? I'm bummed you won't be strapping charred action figures to the front. __________________ BlooBalls·Hypnotoad·Plank·Reservoir-Things·AluBox Chopping·C7Waterblocks·GlassGreen Powered by: Danger Den·Hardware Labs·Noctua

12th Oct 2011, 11:06	#13
KoSoVaR^ Professional Sleever & Modder Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sweden Posts: 925	i dont like the switches at all, why dont you implement them under instead? __________________ Project Chocolate Temptation Project MonoBits KosovarMods - Facebookpage

12th Oct 2011, 12:23	#14
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12th Oct 2011, 21:06	#16
Karrek Multimodder Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: California Posts: 167	I'm a fan of firefly and Serenity - look forward to see your progress. I also agree with Cheapskate that some charred action figures would be awesome... oh well.

12th Oct 2011, 21:26	#17
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13th Oct 2011, 15:49	#18
Cheapskate ↓ Don't trust that face! Join Date: May 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 7,012	@Kosovar -His theme is essentially rusty Russian military surplus with Asian warning signs. I expect exposed wires and maybe even some plumbing will be involved. Speaking of... Any chance some nixie tubes could get in the setup? __________________ BlooBalls·Hypnotoad·Plank·Reservoir-Things·AluBox Chopping·C7Waterblocks·GlassGreen Powered by: Danger Den·Hardware Labs·Noctua

14th Oct 2011, 16:04	#19
mnpctech bit-tech sponsor Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mpls, MN Posts: 3,440	Thanks for tuning and commenting everybody! Yes, I'm juggling between projects again...lol ...in preparation for CES, January 10 -14 , and I'll be there as well, showing some of my products and previous work. So please let me know if you're attending, so I can finally meet you in person. Ok, back to this project. Sorry! to anyone anticipating this to look like the ship, or see a model of the serenity glued on top. My tribute is inspired by visual elements from both the movie and series that appeal to me, in particular "Our Mrs reynolds" episode, which has great scenes of Serenity's bridge. (and christina hendricks) To me, the charm of the Serenity is the mixture of Old West and industrial tech, and sometimes these elements look hobbled together. You can tell the Set builders delved into Ebay for salvaged Electronic and Ham Radio parts. I also love how everything is distressed from use and weathered. The ship's control panel is a mess...lol Yes, the circa 60s Muscle car hood scoop style panel hump is being removed.. btw: Great for cable management behind MB tray. __________________ Shop Our Case Mod Store We Ship International Orders! Client Builds / FIREFLY PC / DISTRICT-9 PC / Official STAR TREK PC / WOLFENSTEIN PC / LANBOY APOCALYPSE PC / CodeMasters DiRT Showdown PC

17th Oct 2011, 07:07	#20
LooseNeutral this Avatar stays till I get bored Join Date: May 2010 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 744	Man, you gotta put a bro on a mailing list or something when you start these things! Last I heard of this was on the FB page how long ago... Glad to see you went with it and a nice curve ball choosing this case imo. Just don't go cutt'n your ear off for your art... or other pieces for that matter.. Switches are bitc.....N! Can't wait to see the guts and gore of this one Are you gonna give a nod to the bad little hottie too?

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