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Edvuld · 1st Sep 2005, 21:19

[Note: This build started last winter, but didn't get completed until now, I hope it's ok to post it since it's written as a log. Also, the original log can be found at www.nordichardware.se forums (Swedish) ]

Well, it’s time for a new serious build for me

I’m building this case as a ATX case. It would have been better and smaller, to use mATX, but it’s a bit to expensive for me…

You might think that I’ve been influenced by all the other great game-cases, but that’s not the case, I’ve had plans for about 3 years or so to build this. This is my project work for last year in high school (the Swedish equivalence that is).

The design will be based around Temple Of NOD from the excellent RTS game C&C Tiberian Dawn

The colours are a bit bleached due to *.jpg not fully supporting the overlay or something…

I started by doing a lot of sketches and a pair of models. I had to decide how the Temple would look like, since Westwood had a problem to decide that themselves… (There are about three different designs in just the original C&C game.)

This is the second model produced, to get a hang of the size. The first one got way to big, so I had to optimize to get it a bit smaller. It’s still large though

I had to make it so wide because I didn’t want to screw up the dimensions.

MK2:

It’ll be a bit larger than a desktop.

I’ll mainly use aluminium-plates and transparent and red acrylic glass for the case.
I will also do some engraving on all the acrylic glass, since that delivers a cool effect. I’ve bought 1000 bright red LEDs to use as well.

Next I started with the sawing phase. It didn’t work out well at all. The blade got to hot, and melted the acrylic back together again…

I worked a few hours to separate the two plates:

Then I tried to saw the plates one at a time, which worked much better.

The front of the original Temple:

The front as I’m sawing it out:

I continued with the acrylic glass, and sawed out the parts that are going to be between the two plates at the bottom.

The front with the opening for the DVD:

A sketch of the front:

I decided that the engraving will be like this: Inner side of the acrylic spraypainted black, cuts made with dremel-wannabie on the inner side in a kind of triangular pattern, and on the outside, I’ll engrave the wisdom of Kane:
HE WHO CONTROLS THE PAST, COMMANDS THE FUTURE. HE WHO COMMANDS THE FUTURE CONQUERS THE PAST.

Something like this on the sides:

And then the Dremel-wannabie broke

Edvuld · 1st Sep 2005, 21:20

The back of the case, first of all it’s time for some drilling:

And then some sawing:

A few holes for the expansion cards:

Some welding to be able to fit the cards...

USB+FireWire

Rear side pretty much done:

And then I started with the front:

Something like this, with some modifications of course…

Templets for the text were made at a commercial company. The font is from Tiberian Sun, but that’s the only one I know of that has anything to do with C&C, so it’ll have to do.

A nice templet, about 32$ though :/
It’s a lot more precise than using a felt tip marker on 2cm acrylic.

Where I’ll work with the engraving. (In my dark cellar

)

I’m pretty satisfied with the results, ok for almost fist time engraving.

Spraypainting of the inner sides, so you won’t be able to se into the case, I hate it when you can see all the dust inside acrylic cases…

Unfortunately, the text doesn’t light up as much as I wanted, but it’s better then nothing.

Edvuld · 1st Sep 2005, 21:22

The final results of the engraving:

In the dark... Still looks better live though.

Engraving of the front:

This is how the engraving of the bottom plates will look like:

Some parts fitted together:

Finalization of the back to reduce weight and size:

Brushing the aluminium with a drilling-machine

I made arcs to hold up the roof, and a few other small things for the front:

Assembly of the arcs and the bottom

For some strange reason the acrylic glass crackled a little during the night, I find it strange and unfortunate. I can’t change it now when it’s put together with the other parts

Edvuld · 1st Sep 2005, 21:24

It was time to make the large thorns for the roof... Sawing through 5mm aluminium is not that funny no. About three hours and a lot of hot metal later this is the results:

Some smoothing and brushing later:

The roof and holders for it took its time to fix.

The thorns and the roof when I got them back from the welding company. Pretty neat huh?

After some brushing for a better finish:

The progress so far:

The tower back from rolling. I fixed the small thorns for the tower:

Prospective HD-cages:

The tower back from welding:

Now, it was time for some serious bending… of acrylic glass. The recipy is 150* C in about 5 minutes in the middle of the oven.

The front turned out good (it’s a new front since I broke the other one):

The roof was easy to bend, but it wasn’t easy to get it in the right shape, so I had to get a pair of plates to put the acrylic in between. That worked

It’s starting to take form:

Sawing the hole for the tower is a bit tricky, since the glass is bent and in different angles.

Edvuld · 1st Sep 2005, 21:25

Holder for 5,25” unit completed:

HD-cages with vibrationreducers:

A holder for the fan in the front.

The internal parts that are going to be painted:

The acrylic bottom with all protecting tape removed:

Engraving of the new front:

Internal parts:

Now, its time for a pretty boring part, drilling of holes for LEDs and installation of LEDs:

1000 bright red LEDs =D

A 10 hour assembly of LEDs uuuuurk...

DVD with external eject and LED:

Some LEDs in action... (they’re red not pink, I assure you)

Last work on the front:

A HDD installed in a HD-cage:

Aluminium-stripes for the roof (forgot to take pictures during the assembly, sorry) :

[EDIT: Pictures of completed mod are a little bit down at page 4 to ease up load of 1st page... EDIT]

Pitbull · 1st Sep 2005, 21:43

Its looks nice wanna see the results!! looking forward to see that!

Edvuld · 1st Sep 2005, 21:49

I'm sorry about this army of pictures just popping up, If I get enogh replies, I could put the last pics on next page, so it won't be so hard on those witohout a fast connection.

Solidus_Snake · 1st Sep 2005, 21:50

looking good! Great mod idea, very original.

Edvuld · 1st Sep 2005, 22:04

This log is translated from Swedish, so if there's anything that doesn't add up or something thats wrong, notify me and I'll try to change it.

The pictures of the final result will be posted on next page.

Thanks to:

[NH]Noddan
dfhaii
star882
DarkInferno
cpemma
Dgephri
davew

who all helped me with some multiple HD-LEDS

Firefox90 · 1st Sep 2005, 23:23

That's absolutely wicked! The design is complex and you made it perfect. Very sweet work man.

PS. I love that game!

sum41 · 2nd Sep 2005, 00:03

Whoa....Insane..How long did that take to do all of that

Edvuld · 2nd Sep 2005, 00:09

The models and scetches were done last autumn, since I had it as a project work, I din't really stress that much at the time, but I guess it could have been done in a week or so. The building part is hard to count, but I started in January, working most weekends and holidays. It was 95% completed when I got my grade in June, and the last 5% wich is the final touch had to wait until last week when I finally finished it.

It's hard to say, but I guess it took about 200hrs or something... including the work on the last things I haven't posted yet that is.

Edvuld · 4th Sep 2005, 20:12

[EDIT: Moved pictures a little bit down at page 4 to ease up load of 1st page... EDIT]

Edvuld · 4th Sep 2005, 20:13

[EDIT: Moved pictures a little bit down at page 4 to ease up load of 1st page... EDIT]

RadeX · 4th Sep 2005, 20:52

RESPECT !
great mod

antiHero · 4th Sep 2005, 21:08

damn nice job man. respect!

one of the best mods i have seen in a long time. do you have plans for watercooling. seems you have a lot of spece left with the tower and stuff. keep it up!

Edvuld · 4th Sep 2005, 21:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by antiHero

damn nice job man. respect!

one of the best mods i have seen in a long time. do you have plans for watercooling. seems you have a lot of spece left with the tower and stuff. keep it up!

It's pretty crowded as it is actually, it's not easy to fit everything since it's shaped the way it is. Thanks for the feedback everyone

Goth · 4th Sep 2005, 21:22

Very impressive... Good idea, and very well built ... (Y)

No.1 ND Student · 4th Sep 2005, 21:32

i just have to say wow that is a wonderful case that you have done good job

invalid · 4th Sep 2005, 21:37

Great job. Period.

1st Sep 2005, 21:19	#1
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	Temple Of NOD [FINISHED] - C&C The First Decade [Note: This build started last winter, but didn't get completed until now, I hope it's ok to post it since it's written as a log. Also, the original log can be found at www.nordichardware.se forums (Swedish) ] Well, it’s time for a new serious build for me I’m building this case as a ATX case. It would have been better and smaller, to use mATX, but it’s a bit to expensive for me… You might think that I’ve been influenced by all the other great game-cases, but that’s not the case, I’ve had plans for about 3 years or so to build this. This is my project work for last year in high school (the Swedish equivalence that is). The design will be based around Temple Of NOD from the excellent RTS game C&C Tiberian Dawn The colours are a bit bleached due to .jpg not fully supporting the overlay or something… I started by doing a lot of sketches and a pair of models. I had to decide how the Temple would look like, since Westwood had a problem to decide that themselves… (There are about three different designs in just the original C&C game.) This is the second model produced, to get a hang of the size. The first one got way to big, so I had to optimize to get it a bit smaller. It’s still large though I had to make it so wide because I didn’t want to screw up the dimensions. MK2: It’ll be a bit larger than a desktop. I’ll mainly use aluminium-plates and transparent and red acrylic glass for the case. I will also do some engraving on all the acrylic glass, since that delivers a cool effect. I’ve bought 1000 bright red LEDs to use as well. Next I started with the sawing phase. It didn’t work out well at all. The blade got to hot, and melted the acrylic back together again… I worked a few hours to separate the two plates: Then I tried to saw the plates one at a time, which worked much better. The front of the original Temple: The front as I’m sawing it out: I continued with the acrylic glass, and sawed out the parts that are going to be between the two plates at the bottom. The front with the opening for the DVD: A sketch of the front: I decided that the engraving will be like this: Inner side of the acrylic spraypainted black, cuts made with dremel-wannabie on the inner side in a kind of triangular pattern, and on the outside, I’ll engrave the wisdom of Kane: HE WHO CONTROLS THE PAST, COMMANDS THE FUTURE. HE WHO COMMANDS THE FUTURE CONQUERS THE PAST. Something like this on the sides: And then the Dremel-wannabie broke Last edited by Edvuld; 19th Nov 2006 at 16:17.*

1st Sep 2005, 21:20	#2
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	Project: Temple Of NOD [Part 2/5] The back of the case, first of all it’s time for some drilling: And then some sawing: A few holes for the expansion cards: Some welding to be able to fit the cards... USB+FireWire Rear side pretty much done: And then I started with the front: Something like this, with some modifications of course… Templets for the text were made at a commercial company. The font is from Tiberian Sun, but that’s the only one I know of that has anything to do with C&C, so it’ll have to do. A nice templet, about 32$ though :/ It’s a lot more precise than using a felt tip marker on 2cm acrylic. Where I’ll work with the engraving. (In my dark cellar ) I’m pretty satisfied with the results, ok for almost fist time engraving. Spraypainting of the inner sides, so you won’t be able to se into the case, I hate it when you can see all the dust inside acrylic cases… Unfortunately, the text doesn’t light up as much as I wanted, but it’s better then nothing. Last edited by Edvuld; 19th Nov 2006 at 16:18.

1st Sep 2005, 21:22	#3
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	Project: Temple Of NOD [Part3/5] The final results of the engraving: In the dark... Still looks better live though. Engraving of the front: This is how the engraving of the bottom plates will look like: Some parts fitted together: Finalization of the back to reduce weight and size: Brushing the aluminium with a drilling-machine I made arcs to hold up the roof, and a few other small things for the front: Assembly of the arcs and the bottom For some strange reason the acrylic glass crackled a little during the night, I find it strange and unfortunate. I can’t change it now when it’s put together with the other parts Last edited by Edvuld; 19th Nov 2006 at 16:19.

1st Sep 2005, 21:24	#4
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	Project: Temple Of NOD [Part 4/5] It was time to make the large thorns for the roof... Sawing through 5mm aluminium is not that funny no. About three hours and a lot of hot metal later this is the results: Some smoothing and brushing later: The roof and holders for it took its time to fix. The thorns and the roof when I got them back from the welding company. Pretty neat huh? After some brushing for a better finish: The progress so far: The tower back from rolling. I fixed the small thorns for the tower: Prospective HD-cages: The tower back from welding: Now, it was time for some serious bending… of acrylic glass. The recipy is 150* C in about 5 minutes in the middle of the oven. The front turned out good (it’s a new front since I broke the other one): The roof was easy to bend, but it wasn’t easy to get it in the right shape, so I had to get a pair of plates to put the acrylic in between. That worked It’s starting to take form: Sawing the hole for the tower is a bit tricky, since the glass is bent and in different angles. Last edited by Edvuld; 19th Nov 2006 at 16:22.

1st Sep 2005, 21:25	#5
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	Project: Temple Of NOD [Part 5/5] Holder for 5,25” unit completed: HD-cages with vibrationreducers: A holder for the fan in the front. The internal parts that are going to be painted: The acrylic bottom with all protecting tape removed: Engraving of the new front: Internal parts: Now, its time for a pretty boring part, drilling of holes for LEDs and installation of LEDs: 1000 bright red LEDs =D A 10 hour assembly of LEDs uuuuurk... DVD with external eject and LED: Some LEDs in action... (they’re red not pink, I assure you) Last work on the front: A HDD installed in a HD-cage: Aluminium-stripes for the roof (forgot to take pictures during the assembly, sorry) : [EDIT: Pictures of completed mod are a little bit down at page 4 to ease up load of 1st page... EDIT] Last edited by Edvuld; 19th Nov 2006 at 16:21.

1st Sep 2005, 21:43	#6
Pitbull Multimodder Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Landgraaf Posts: 225	Its looks nice wanna see the results!! looking forward to see that! __________________ this sig was too long. and too annoying.

1st Sep 2005, 21:49	#7
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	I'm sorry about this army of pictures just popping up, If I get enogh replies, I could put the last pics on next page, so it won't be so hard on those witohout a fast connection.

1st Sep 2005, 21:50	#8
Solidus_Snake What's a Dremel? Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 11	looking good! Great mod idea, very original.

1st Sep 2005, 22:04	#9
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	This log is translated from Swedish, so if there's anything that doesn't add up or something thats wrong, notify me and I'll try to change it. The pictures of the final result will be posted on next page. Thanks to: [NH]Noddan dfhaii star882 DarkInferno cpemma Dgephri davew who all helped me with some multiple HD-LEDS Last edited by Edvuld; 11th Sep 2005 at 17:23.

1st Sep 2005, 23:23	#10
Firefox90 Modder Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 56	That's absolutely wicked! The design is complex and you made it perfect. Very sweet work man. PS. I love that game!

2nd Sep 2005, 00:03	#11
sum41 Modder Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: US Posts: 57	Whoa....Insane..How long did that take to do all of that

2nd Sep 2005, 00:09	#12
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	The models and scetches were done last autumn, since I had it as a project work, I din't really stress that much at the time, but I guess it could have been done in a week or so. The building part is hard to count, but I started in January, working most weekends and holidays. It was 95% completed when I got my grade in June, and the last 5% wich is the final touch had to wait until last week when I finally finished it. It's hard to say, but I guess it took about 200hrs or something... including the work on the last things I haven't posted yet that is.

4th Sep 2005, 20:12	#13
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	Final Pictures Part 1/2 MOVED [EDIT: Moved pictures a little bit down at page 4 to ease up load of 1st page... EDIT] Last edited by Edvuld; 9th Sep 2005 at 21:39.

4th Sep 2005, 20:13	#14
Edvuld Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 222	Final Pictures Part 2/2 MOVED [EDIT: Moved pictures a little bit down at page 4 to ease up load of 1st page... EDIT] Last edited by Edvuld; 9th Sep 2005 at 21:38.

4th Sep 2005, 20:52	#15
RadeX Multimodder Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: POLAND Posts: 71	RESPECT ! great mod

4th Sep 2005, 21:08	#16
antiHero An Ugly Pineapple! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hellsinki Posts: 1,811	damn nice job man. respect! one of the best mods i have seen in a long time. do you have plans for watercooling. seems you have a lot of spece left with the tower and stuff. keep it up! __________________ Laptop: Acer Aspire One, 1.6GHz Atom, 1.5GB Ram, 30GB 1.8" HDD, Windows 7 Gaming Rig: Athlon 64 3000+ s754 @ 2.15GHz, 1,5 GB Ram, 800 GB Hdd, Radeon HD 2900 Pro 512 MB Linux Box: VIA Epia 550mHz, 512mb Ram, 200GB Hdd, Ubuntu Server 7.10 Project ~Sinus~ - Update 27.02.2007 Front Bay done! Mini Project "SuperUser" - Update 10.06.2008

4th Sep 2005, 21:22	#18
Goth Multimodder Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Estonia Posts: 75	Very impressive... Good idea, and very well built ... (Y)

4th Sep 2005, 21:32	#19
No.1 ND Student Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Underwood,nottigham Posts: 174	i just have to say wow that is a wonderful case that you have done good job

4th Sep 2005, 21:37	#20
invalid Supermodder Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 276	Great job. Period. __________________ current project: aeon.x2 previous project: invalid li

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