Case Mod - In Progress Tie P5 Advanced

Mundi a good friend from ICEMODZ.COM Has provided the build with some custom sized cables made from quality MDPC-X, these cables are longer than standard lengths to create some loose cable for the sliding PSU tray. The colours also suit the star wars theme a lot better!







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I love how you've done everything in about the hardest method possible. Your dedication is exemplary.

Good work.

 

thank you very much =)

 

Lots of progress here guys! Some custom reservoirs, starting the details of the build, priming the build and working on the wings.

To kick things off, i measured up the mesh and used some painters tape to mark my cuts out for the wings





This is only one layer of mesh, there will be one layer on the inside and on the outside





Welded some legs to the steel rods inside the ball. The core P5 feet are made from steel so then have been welded to the legs and the plastic core p5 feet slide right over them



Starting to put a couple layers of prime on





Had an old reservoir so i decided to create two of my own custom reservoirs out of it. Removed the threaded part, sanded it down, and cut the tube in half.









I then cut out a bottom section for the two halves.



Time to Tap a G1/4 threading through the acrylic panels.







And now for the end caps, I also put a threaded hole in the end caps for an easy fill port.





Time to mend it all together and clean it up







Now what would a TIE Advanced be without Darth Vader himself? So I decided to vinyl our reservoirs









The vinyl will be getting peeled off later on. Time to prime the reservoirs!





A really old dead motherboard comes in handy for some detail parts, I have sourced all kinds of junk from the shed to use for details.



As you can see, by sanding the motherboard a tad, it reviles the copper circuit inside, i think its a nice touch to that inside area, also got some small pipes to add in.





Printed out an image of a TIE Advanced to i can circle the detail bits i have complete as i progress through.





Working on some of the ball detail so i need to get that curved shape into the detail so it sits flush with the ball.





Lots of hours later and we have some details all glued and ready to go. I used a few old capacitors/caps for some of the details.



Time to work on the top section of the ball. Measured out where i want my cuts to go.







Some more details heated up and formed into the dome shape, that mould i kept really comes in handy.



A bit of acrylic cement and this becomes a permanent fixture =)





The glue marks will not matter as this will all be painted =)





Added a couple more details so fill in the empty gaps.



And taped some mesh down to show you guys what i want to do tomorrow.





This mesh will be glued in place with a strong adhesive.

I hope you all enjoyed the progress.​

 

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates the past few days, been so busy working every day until midnight to get this PC complete so i hope you all understand. I have the footage recorded so i will eventually get it done. But for now here is a sneak picture of where i am at. I used a pencil to draw up the panel lines then etched the whole thing top and bottom with the dremel and it took a **** tonne of time but well worth it.

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Here I am drawing up the panel details on the tie-fighter. This will be the guide lines when etching into the surface.



To create the panel detailing I used the dremel tool to etch into the tie-fighter following along the drawn up lines. Both top and bottom of the tie-fighter has the panel details.







This is the result from etching into the surface. This took alot of time, patience and most importantly steady hands.







Further details of the tie-fighter panels where made by filling the etched surface with thinned down black enamel, aka black wash. Once again, both top and bottom of the tie-fighter had this black wash.





More progress on the wings.



I painted the inside of the tie-fighter black.

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Grills being glued for the top of the tie-fighter.



My customer reservoirs have now joined the dark side.





Starting to come together now! More details being added to the tie-fighter.



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The time has come to install the components ! ! !











Testing out the lid for the Tie-Fighter. Making sure it's the perfect fit.



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Details being added to the wings.



Using the Core P5 Vesa Mount to attach the wings to the tie-fighter body.



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Working out the positioning of the wings, getting them ready to be attached !



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Tie-Fighter Advanced wings are getting test fitted before i finish them off.









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If you like the build please please take a minute to go and vote for it in the following link, prizes to be won for voting. (Corey Gregory)
http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/

Thank you for all the support, we have finally completed the build, apart from filling it up, which will be done tomorrow.
Feel free to vote for us, if you like what we have done.
Special mention, this build was all completed by hand, no CNC or 3D printing machines were used.













Working on 2 hours sleep, still going strong.

























More Photos soon. If you like the build please please take a minute to go and vote for it in the following link, prizes to be won for voting.(Corey Gregory)
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Got some pictures today of the build all filled up and LED lights turned on. Unfortunately it is now midnight and i still need to add the watermarks to most of the photos so i will post these photos without LEDs turned on for now.

If you enjoy my build please vote for it using this link: http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/ my name is Corey Gregory You have a chance to win prizes just be voting.











































If you enjoy my build please vote for it using this link: http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/ my name is Corey Gregory You have a chance to win prizes just be voting.​

 

You know. I think you outdid yourself and made an incredible mod with this thing.
It is absolutely amazing. Top job!

I have no idea how the Core P5 is in this xD

But the endresult as a whole is amazing.

 

thank you soo much man =) i really appreciate the feed back =)

 

I generally don't like big builds - especially models - but you have hit the right amount of details, curvature and mold pieces to make it interesting!

The build looks really cool, well done

 

He cut it up to use the rad mounts and so on. There's also a mobo tray made from one of them too.

I'll admit, he hasn't used a whole one but he's used parts of them

Fantastic mod Faceroll. The amount of work you have put into this is crazy. Sometimes I forget how things were when I was your age

 

thank you so much man =)

 

Here are the Pictures with LED's turned on and liquid flowing! I tried to take a picture with each RGB colour cycle to there are a few but i hope you all enjoy =)

If you enjoy my build please vote for it using this link: http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/ my name is Corey Gregory You have a chance to win prizes just be voting.

































































If you enjoy my build please vote for it using this link: http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/ my name is Corey Gregory You have a chance to win prizes just be voting.​

 

Great photos.