HPRES III MEGA is going to be mega, a real BONDO extravaganza, im going to try and take my skills and this case to the next level. I have for a once a deffinate theme i want to stick with (unlike all the previouse mods) The mods will revolve around on major mod to each of the panels, Anyways lets start with the front panel Some of you may have seen this panel already in my mega bondo guide it was the original plan for HPres2 but never eventuated in favour of the single flat hole. First off is to mark the centre , ill be using 120mm storm water pipe to mark with and eventually use as my blow hole ends. mask and cut. Next is to cut the blow hole into 2 halves, these will become the ends. A rumage thru the plex scrap bin to find some fillers, hold the mok up together with hot glue and a qick test to see if all fits. With the front panel i want the main feature to be the blow hole and some special shaped plex light diffuses i will add later. A scrap peice of plex is clamped and heated to shape then marked and cut to size and used as the filler plate. the front it taped and some bondo is applied the the rear of the top plate and mega blow hole, allowed to dry and bondo is applied to the front This will be the first of 3 applications Once dry , its time to get dusty, using course grit a hand sander its time to knock some ruff shape into the panel. Using the shape of your block and using some bent paper work the shape as needed. Back to the bench for another layer of bondo Allow to dry and a ruff and final sand using finer paper. Starting to show some shape now. blade putty fills in all the minor left over pinholes and a final sand and a good few coats of spray putty to seal it all down. Allow to cure or go-off for a few days to sink back then its time to wetrub. A dusty coat of black paint is applied as your guide, this will show up your highs and lows and help with wetsanding. The end result .... a clean front panel with a Mega! blowhole. More soon
Very nice start man. How in the world do you find time for all of this? Between your sons and this I am amazed at your fast progress.
I look forward to this one... I've been amazed by your work in the past, hope to continue that trend...
Does this man ever stop? I love it. Yet another reason to be dissapointed that our spat of long weekends has ended.
subscribed, very clean so far, I have plans to use some pvc pipe as a fan duct in the near future. As a side note for anyone doing something similair, pvc when when heated with a heat gun becomes very pliable (just keep the gun moving or it will burn), with a few blocks of wood or metal to sandwich when heated, flat peices can be made from excess round pipe, that would allow the fillers to be glued in with plumbers pvc cement (i don't have a glue gun, but do have pvc glue)
Really weird front bezel.. I love it. I agree with everyone else, that's definatly some good bondo work ya got going on there. As always I can't wait to see how this one is going to turn out, all your cases rock.
I'm just curious, I may have missed it, but why did you fill in the 5-1/4" bays?! lol Doesn't it make it hard for you to have a cd in that?
