Project: Gundam Seed: Update: 5th Jan 2005

Project: Gundam SEED


Hello again.
The old thread was a bit dead, all the pictures posted was gone since the servers harddrive I had them on crashed. Well i haven't posted much progress work in a while. And now finally I have the time to continue the project. Here is some pictures of the case.




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PROGRESS




11. N3kkid.. With Spire anti-Noise.. er.. things.


12. The front and front panels remade.


14. TOP.


16. BEFORE.


17. AFTER.





CONCEPT




18. The PSU will be painted black and covered in black mesh and with a radioactive logo made in plexi.


19. Black plastic mesh (for rabbits ).


20. Will be printed on transparent paper and glued onto the plexiwindow.





INSIDE

21. Inside the old case, with the old hardware.


22. Another inside pic of the old case.


23. Inside the old case with the NEW hardware!.


24. Another one, inside the old case...


25. And another one, inside the old case...


The hardware i replaced is:
Gforce ti4600 >> Radeon x800xt /with ati-silencer
Microstar K7T266 PRO2 >> Abit NF7 v2
Q-Tec 350W >> Antec Neopower 480w

Note: The CPU fan on the new pictures is a papst 12db fan /with a thermaltake fangrill, but its just temporary since im fixing some stuff with the old thermaltake volcano 12 fan.



The END..
More pictures tomorrow, im currently painting the top and also the front, but i need more fine sandpaper and other things.. Also my dad is going to print the "Justice Gundam" on transparent paper in the weekend.

 

I like the theme. Nice job!

 

Small Update.

I actually ruined the thing wich was going to be the "holder" for the power button. I accidently messed up the paint and thought that I could fix it with a "hot air pistol" "thingy" . But it melted and became deformed.. so i threw it away, but then I picked it up again and took a picture and threw it away again.. so here it is.

26. Ruined!


27. Though I came up with an new idea for a powerbutton since I found a plastic fangrill wich looked like this:


28. And so I made it into this:
A Zaft Logo



29. Also here is what the color looks like.

 

Mmm.. the "V" piece remember so much to the Gundam Unit helmet... Maybe you can reconstruc it with epoxy or bondo.

 

like the guy before me, i'd like to see that V continued, and maybe if u can, get the "electric" style ccfl so it looks like the nice laser swords they use ^^ cheers nad good luck

 

I can try to do this* with plexi glas and then paint it red the new one will be sharper instead of the the round soft shape the old one had. And with a separeted power button.

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For the piece u ruined man, sand it..... you will be able to recover it !

 

It's not just that, when i used the hot air pistol, the whole thing became soft as butter and deformed into an U instead of an V. And the left "wing" bended upwards because of the heat, so it's totally deformed..

 

awtch. anyway gl with your casemod and keep us updated

 

That would be awsome if yuo could cover them with a piece that made it look like the swords then cross them on the window. Not sure how to explain that any better but i think you might get ethe idea behind it.

 

The idea sounds good but I don't know how it will look IRL. You mean that i should use yellow Cold Cathodes as laser swords? IE put 2 of them behind the Picture of the Justice Gundam?
It's a neat idea.. and i will consider it . Though I don't want the inside of the case to be yellow.. Still.. I could put something on their backsides so that it will only shine outwards.

 

What was the manufacturer of your case. I've never seen that model before and it has sort of a familiar look to it, but I can't put a name to it.

 

It's a Sweex CL4-P4 Miditower.

 

Where did you get that mesh? Looks like it might be better than the mesh currently on the top of my PC-70

 

My dad bought it at a store in sweden . It's used to keep rabbits from chewing at trees and bushes and such.. Maybe you'll find something like it at store that sells gardening supplies or something like that.

 

Search for "thermoplastic mesh" on mcmaster.com. Comes in black and clear. I have way too much of the clear stuff. If you need any let me know.

 

looking good! I'm off to Woody, Byggvaruhuset and Söderslätts Bygghandel to find some of that mesh.. looks really good

 

Gah, im trying to continue painting but the color gets messed up and is all lumpy all of a sudden. Anyone know what may be the cause of that?

Also about the powerbutton, I have 3 different alternatives, and I will post a picture of each of them soon.

EDIT: I was checking out some buttons and found these ones. Wich I'm going to use in the front to switch on/off the light inside the case.

Really cool one with green or red led.
-> http://www.elfa.se/images/lowres/l18409.jpg

Also cool one, with slightly different design.
-> http://www.elfa.se/images/lowres/l1354.jpg

This one is nice too
-> http://www.elfa.se/images/lowres/l1344.jpg

And this too
-> http://www.elfa.se/images/lowres/l1357.jpg


Though for the Powerbutton i need a Momentary Switch. And these are the ones I found.


-> http://www.elfa.se/images/lowres/l1623.jpg

-> http://www.elfa.se/images/lowres/l18411.jpg

-> http://www.elfa.se/images/lowres/l1517.jpg

-> http://www.elfa.se/images/lowres/l1519.jpg

 

I like the first ones in both choices.

 

Yeah the first or the third..

Also I'm thinking about what I shall have on the top, instead of the ruined V. Though the V is still one of the alternatives, just a slightly different version.


Fangrill, BEFORE (ZAFT, Z- Logo)


AFTER (ZAFT, Z- Logo)


N64 Rumblepack.. Cut in half, looks kind of gundam-isch .


The V, concept picture.