This is madness! Just amazing buddy! I would prefer those cylinders around the fan though to be black or more like silver - chrome
Geez those fans are crazy great looking. What was it you used, RC plane motor nose cones? Machined plates put the look way over the top! I'm drooling over the thoughts of what you're going to do with the shrouds!
I second that! Black would look so good! This is pure casemod pron. I can't believe how good this looks!
I dunno, I think the simplicity of the components goes well with the simplicity (and elegance) of the designs. Water cooling might take away from the beauty of the case design itself. But then again, with the genius designer we have here, I'm sure he would find someway to make it look amazing and awe-inspiring.
The fans are just floating now... need to add some colours now although not sure if you are going to use silver or any other colour
commented before, I'm sure, but I'll say it again, that's amazing work. The case has real animated personality with its feet....love it!
There you are, fixed it for you Looking great Oldnewby, every time there is an update, i am wondering what came out of your sleeve this time. Robert
Thanks guys, I'm glad you like the project. Water cooling? Never say never. Anything's possible. An update shouldn't be too far away. I've just had one of those WTF moments in relation to the mobo and heatsink. Will show you soon.
"ONO WTF" is my middle name! Least you've got the skills for instant course corrections when the gyros and compass go awol
Things have been going pretty slow because of varied and prolonged illness. Making a shell has come down to showing as much as possible of the internal structure at all times. A detachable side/half front/half back/third lower/complete upper section is being made from various thickness clear plex. Here are some pics showing the start, here is the side/front and top. This assembly will be held in place with four screws. The parts were cut out with a jigsaw and filed straight and square using the straight edge method I used to use with alu. Gluing up was not very difficult and the bond looks good and appears to be strong. Still two more pieces to cut and glue but I can get a good idea of what it will look like from just these parts. Yes it's a box but, hopefully the eye doesn't linger too long on the outside. A while ago when the hardware was trial fitted, I noticed that the heatsink was not sitting square. At the time this was just brushed off and attention was focussed elsewhere. The hardware was removed and set up on my desk, running for a couple of months. Every now and then my eye would drift to the right and wonder if that heatsink was not placed correctly, but I'd checked the temps and all was OK. Anyway, a few weeks ago it was time to get to the bottom of this............. I trawled through some photo's and could only find this one. But it does show clearly that the heatsink is 'drooping'. Taking the heatsink off and measuring, showed that there was no problem here. Removing the support plate and having a look at the CPU retention bracket didn't reveal anything obvious. But when checking with an engineers square............ WTFF!... It's only a small discrepancy but is magnified by the size of the heatsink. I'm going to make the adjustment on the heatsink. Wish me luck. I just have to work out a way to hold the heatsink in the vice without damaging the fins, and then file a whisker of an angle and keeping it flat.
