Scratch Build – In Progress Project: Blue Horizon - "MOTY" Nominee

Insignificant yet highly effective

Thanks voigts

Thanks BrokenJaw, yeah I spent a long long time looking for the perfect combo

Thanks Stark.Jr, I have to admit there were the odd one or two parts that I wasn't sure how I was gonna make them lol

Yeah its slowly getting there



I've finally managed to get the hinge on and the door matching with the top panel, it was a bit more fiddly than I expect and I had to repaint the inside of the door twice as a caught the the paint while fitting the door however its finally done. Heres the pics with the top panel just resting on top as I can't properly fix it on just yet:













I've yet to glue on a thin strip of rubber where the hinge hits the case:



And here you can see the aluminium hinge with the plastic around its core:



I'll give it all a final clean up and remove excess paint e.t.c later on.



Now its time for the light strip which sits at the top of the inside of the case:

I first marked up a piece of 2mm alu:





I then began the long process of milling out all the parts while continually swapping the clamps around due to the rather thin areas:





This will be continued tomorrow.

 

oooooo looks sweet as. great craftsmanship

 

Dear, oh dear, that's frikkin' beatiful. I can't believe how well those cast pieces sit together. Amazing job - keep it up!

 

Thanks Stem83

Yeah me too lol, I was amazed that the separate castings both shrunk so evenly as they cooled.

 

Great work. Look awesome!

 

Yeah that's what I meant wow this is looking sooooooooo damn hot when it all comes together incredible stuff mate .

Crammed with awesomeness +rep .

 

Fantastic work.

 

^^ what they said.

the alignment is great. The overal look as well... can't wait to see more!

 

mod of the Millennium!

 

I love the grill passing through the middle with the blue lines on either side. The grill reminds me a bit of the core 1000.
Really good!!

 

It was well worth the wait to finally see the panels in place.

 

Looking awesome

 

100% with Cheaps.

A lot of planning and effort has gone into this design. Looks damn amazing

 

Holy moly mate, it looks like a bought one.

Nah, it looks better.

 

Thanks everyone , glad to hear you all like it



I had to re-cut some alu for the inside light strip again as I made one of the slots 1mm to big .

So here's the new piece at the same stage as the old piece, I also used a knife to calve a groove into the alu instead of using a marker as the WD40 oil kept washing the marker off:









I then milled out the shapes:





Here's the result after a little filing of the edges:











I then put some double sided tape onto the alu:



And stuck on some foil:





I then poured clear resin into the shapes:

 

That's interesting. How will it work?

 

I ask the same!

 

interesting.....

 

This is how


Here it is after the resin set and with the foil off:



I then sanded it down with wet & dry:



I then sprayed on fluorescent blue paint onto the back of the piece:


And heres how it looks on the side that will be visible, after I gave it a polish:







All that's left now is to fix it into the case and light it from behind with LED's.