Scratch Build – In Progress 2001 - A Case Modyssey - New plans = New Render Video!

Thanks! Its a perfect machine, except the straightness of the cut depends on how much pressure you use to push the alu forward. The blade bends, but the alu is filed down fast enough!

Yeah this is my first ALU build so I am learning quickly how important it is to make precision drillholes !

 

Just had a random thought (which is, admittedly a fair way off yet) but, when completed you need to do some HD blue/green screen video loping around the build slowly and randomly and then have some clever edity person (NOT me before you ask, Windows Movie Maker is about my limit) edit it into the Docking Sequence

I'll just leave this here.........Docking Sequence HD

 

OFF-TOPIC ...
Think Nix can manage that, look at what he and friends from the dutch Tweakers forum have made ..
PS. Nick is the tall dude with the umbrella that gets blown up, lol



Sorry back to modding now !!!

 

So here we are with another update!

We wanted to keep a little surprise, instead of give all away in the first post.
The monolith will be standing on a baseplate. On that plate, in the place where we put the “censored” in the picture we will put an ape.

First of all, I see you think….. an ape?!? Remember the sequence in which the ape gets evolved by touching the monolith? The idea behind the monkey and the tear in the monolith comes from the human nature to break the things we don’t understand. Kubrick and Clark pictured Dave Bowman as our ambassador in the alien world, but what if we actually managed to break the thing…..??

Asphiax found this awesome picture online, and we just had to use it in some way.

In one hand he will be holding a stone tool (which will function as the power button of the pc) and in the other he holds a broken bone.
To start building the model, which I made in clay. We bought a wireframe and shaped it.

Then I put lumps of clay on it to get the basic shape. This was the first time I worked with clay, and at this point I really thought “what have I got myself into?”

But after a few hours of work it started to take shape like I wanted.

Then I made the hands and the upper body.

And put on the head.

This is where the wire to the mainbord goes.

So here is the final model, it only needs painting to be done, before we can place it on the baseplate.


And today I went to the store to buy some tools to get started on the engravings! Don’t really know what to use yet, so I bought some engraving tools for the Dremel multitool, but I also bought a special engravings machine. So this weekend we will start working on that!

Until the next update!

 

Uhm, since no one else has been decent enough to point this out, I'll go ahead and say it:
YOU CANNOT ENGRAVE A GIANT COCK AND BALLS ON YOUR CASE MOD.
I know it is the ship. I also know a bad idea when I see one. It's your baby, decorate it how you wish (I personally think all your proposed exterior art is garish, particularly the inclusion of the ape, but I'm not building the thing so who cares, right?) but it is likely you may come to regret the inclusion of this particular image.

Good luck with the build!

p.s. the video was pretty damn good

 

Sorry guys, Nixjuh's posts are delayed a bit as he is a very new member.

 

Fixed ! Thanks Moderation Team !

 

first thing i thought for wireframe - champagne ForTehWin great addition!!!

hmm... abbreviation _for the win_ were replaced with cheescake... am I missing smth?

 

Thanks!

Haha, I noticed that too..

 

Loving the clay model!! thats amazing

 

awesome idea with that ape you got some sick clay modeling skills!

~Bladesingerz

 

Can't go wrong with one of those mate & love the theme for the project Subbed.
+5stars +rep

2001 - A Case Modyssey

 

Thanks man !
The fret saw (as it is called in english i think) is very usefull when cutting mdf and plexi, but its stellar when cutting ALU! Near perfect straight cuts with a minimum of filing left to finish it off!
Recommended to everyone !

 

What you have there is called a scroll saw, it's basically a powered fret saw.

 

Hi All,

Here's another build update!

But First I can announce a couple of sponsors !

Asus is going to help us with a Corsshair IV Formula motherboard



EKWB is gonna help us with the Full watercooling setup including motherboard, CPU, Ram and GTX580's



My favorite webshop for watercooling supplies Highflow is gonnan pitch in also ! Thanks Freddy !



Lamptron is going to help us by supplying the powerfull touch fan controller needed to control the fans!


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Ok Now to the build !!!

The Enermax fans have arrived ! 140mm of Red eyecandy !



Fitted the whole rad and fans in the tight space designed for it. It fits upto the mm!



I need to extend the Fan cables to the fan controller, but I was expecting that !



I am looking for a company that can laser me a sweet red plexi 560 fangrill with a design I made.



Another major obstacle, I need to get the exact position of the fans drawn out correctly. This proved to be a time consuming exersize.



Here are the chambers for the PSU (right) and the intake Fans (left)



With the fan holes very roughly cut out, I decided to do a quick testfitting to see how they would look within the whole design.

The 2 x GTX 580's have not been fitted with the EKWB blocks , hoping they will arrive soon !!!



I used a temp motherboard for the fitting and a stack of books to resemble the reservoir !

The real motherboard will be sent ASAP by ASUS



Get set, ready .... GO !!! Here's to a couple of hours filing !



Nom, Nom .... Enermax !!!



A quick test if they all worked before I close up the Rad compartment !



And here is the final status of today ! I need to put in more M4 screws to tighten it up but that's for next time, now to grab a couple of beers !






Oh yeah, I made this picture to show you how the plexiglas window will be placed. With the hood off, it will deliver a perfect look into the case !



Until next time !

 

Wow that is some nice rad placement!
Btw thosw Enermax fans, are they quiet? I'm looking for some red quiet fans, and those look amazing!

~Bladesingerz

 

I gotta say I'm subscribed!

 

Thanks man, I am just happy it fits!
These enermax are 140mm 1500rpm fans and they are supposed to make only 15Dba, which isnt the quietest but very good in my book.

Thanks man ! Cool that you dropped in a line !

 

You have some serious modeling skills. I particularly like the apes right hand for some reason.

 

Hey Hannes, Thanks man!

I am most proud of that hand too.. it came out just as I imagined.. I am thinking to make a bust as my next projet (nothing to do with the mod though, just to work on my skillset)