very sweet Idea, but I'm not too keen on eht black front or the many colours of light: looks too busy!
Small update. Had a busy night, taking a friend to the airport etc etc fiance fell asleep on the couch.. so.. no powertools. bummer. but. doesnt mean i cant do electronics! //Lights On// //Lights Off// (they are UV LED's although hard to tell in the picture, and they are Yellow fans, not green)
v.nice me likea da test-tubes, very original, but i think you should get rid of the black cap on the top of them and find some other way to seal them, with clear sealent for instance. Also an industrial looking front panel with lots of switches and flashing lights would look uber pimp; i dont know wether you were planning this already, i was just skimming the pages.
Today did a little shopping. more sand paper and spray paint (my god i go through it. but its worth it... ) and some mesh that I *hope* will work... Also got a free b0xen, so messing around with that tonight (Just an old emachines p3 1ghz.. ) but it f0lds. and will be the next mod I do for the fiance (hmm. she says purple or green... and will be doing hummingbirdish designs..) so not much work today, but tomorow will be cutting sanding painting fan voltage changing adding led's and some other stuffs. As far as the test tubes go, those are not final yet as I am still letting the ink seep into the tonic water, and im not going to use too many switches, I dont want it to be toooo busy..
Well I have the same case and I like what you have done to it. But I kept my case aluminum but I have moded it some as well.
Ok. Stripes stay. Today I cut out the bay covers where I will put the mesh into, and sanded them down along with the front bez, have the first coat of white primer on all of them.. cammo paint to come in stages throughout the day (I wont take too many pics to bore you with the process since it will be the same as all the other parts of the computer)
Its that time again.. Front Plate Taped and marked... Cut, Sanded, Primed, Painted, Mesh cut to size, added, painted... Re-sanded the front Bez... prime, prime, paint paint paint, mask, paint by numbers... add some stuff to show how it looks.. (dont know why these are so blurry) but a tease.. CDRW/DVD player 48x CDROM CoolDrive2 CoolDrive2 USB | Power 2x UV Reactive Yellow fans + 8x UV LED's (custom installed) Fans are running off 5v to quiet them down even more (stock they are ~21db) //Notice the ghetto rigged HDD hanging in there? IBM circa 1995..) Will be adding the "Chemical Warfare" Stencil on the two stealthed bays later on, painting the cooldrive front with white (silver now.. just so it blends in better) Adding the grey to the front bez. and clear coating everything. then it is time for more work inside..) This is an old Serial Switch box (for printers and the likes) Scrap from work (along with scrap speaker from work) Was a quick and dirty project I did a few months back, will be reborn into the ChemWar look.. has 2x primer, 2x white on it. so next is the black/grey then fixing up the electronics etc
Hey that new paint job of the front panel ties it all together very well. i just ordered that case, its good to see someone else make it look even better
WOW looking real sweet! just an idea for ya: does the chart specify dangerous chemicals by name? you could label the bottles with various names from the list. and have 1 slightly cracked and leaked and make it look like a dangerous spill. [idea] crack, then reseal a vile. take some clear (epoxy?) put same uv die in it, place other viles in epoxy to be held in place, light up with black light and it will look like one of the dangerous chemicals have leaked out.... and it will hold your viles in place for you also, I know you did alot of work for that plexi fan grill, but I think it would look better if you used the same look as you are on your drive bay fan grills. -EVRE-
heh, just as I as going to bed I came up with another idea for you. arnt bio/chemical labs, or atleast the containers cold. you could light up the inside with uv and blue light, for your window showing the viles you could make it look like there was frost on the outer edges of the window?
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