Hi from Russia! To introduce myself I want to show you my last case. I started up in October '08 and finished it about two weeks ago. I apologize about my English, got no experience for the long time. My comments to the pictures will be short. If someone got questions I try to give more detailed answer. Made alu-box 250*450*250mm Some plastic panels for backsides Macroflex foam Transparent 5mm acrylic for front sides. Got 2 "front sides" because the case will be turned with corner to me. Now first unusual material for modding - granulated plastic. It melts with t 180 Celsius. As you can see thin acrylic melts too Now we cut some lines in protect film with knife To fix this granulated thing before "cooking" I used this spray glue As result Protect film moved off Time for dinner 15min and... first side... second one... Basecoating for the right inner lighting. Foil instead of scotch tape Self-cutted plastic puzzle Oh! I forgot about the configuration: M2N MX Athlon 64 4400+ 2*1024 DDR2 OCZ Asus 8800 GTS 320Mb Seagate 250Gb SATA Hyper 650W As you can see, all these plastic parts were mounted on double sided 3M tape More foam Cutted and filled Let's give some attention to PS and hard drive. Mount for PS For hard drive For backside The most interesting part of that case is the top DVD-Rom mounted vertically Some work with plastic Alabaster (gypsum) Second stage You see, white part is already dry and yellow - wet Here is process of making 3d symbols for PowerOn button The hardest thing was to take them out from form. You can see small parts of wood before the polish work Glue, acrylic I will update this log soon.
Likewise - weird materials! I'm expecting black rock with green veins in it, if I know anything about lost/mysterious/powerful (delete as inappropriate) artifacts...
Update Part2 More dremel work Lighting pads for symbols Now a small test. Charming, isn't it? Making of power buttons. Thin plastic, textile, glue. "Stealth" buttons ready Base painting with black waterbased acryl Backside. Looks ugly. Electric part is the weakest in my modding. Additional button for DVD-Rom opening Power for LEDs in symbols on top When I painted the top I noticed that the top and sides have different texture look. I needed to remake side panels Base painting for second time Backside panel with "grille" And then finish paint. Special 2-colour granite texture paint. Electric parts for coolers Making of fan-control button Some patience and sandpaper Non-painted stealth panel for DVD-Rom Now putting all together (I know about the mess ) What can you say about painting? Fan control at the left side I changed the button for dvd to a smaller one from mouse. It works!
Tnx for comments Now final pics and video how all this works. Btw, is you push all 4 buttons PC doesn't start. Combination is 2-3-5 I mean fingers. Usb on front panel More details Case w/wo lighting Video
nice mod really like the glowing lights i also like the sort of volcanic theme you got going there looks ace
Nemesis, this is pretty damn cool, man. It reminds me of Stephen King's "The Tommyknockers." Very creative and original. I also like your idea about having to press certain combinations to turn the PC on. I have to admit, toward the beginning of the log I was thinking to myself that it looked like a kindergartner's first day in art class and laughed several times, but step by step you turned it into something that looks somewhat professional and very original. The granite paint that you used topped it off I think. Nice job!
Looks really cool, when I saw the first post I was wondering what the heck you were doing but now that I see the end it is amazing. One question though. The power switch is the four fingers on the top, do you have to press them in a certain order or certain ones at the same time to power it on? Like a secret combination? If so, that makes this mod even sweeter...
You must press 3 buttons at the same time but if you press with ring-finger combination doesn't work. Unfortunately I haven't enough soldering skill to make electric combination lock with a certain order Tnx to all for comments
