Case Mod - In Progress Bored w/a Rocketfish...

Unfortunately boredom struck today and I found myself diving into my #2 of 3 Rocketfish case. #1 was a lightly modded OVERKILL mATX case built for my GUnit. http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1032479564&postcount=47With #2...just a biiiiiiiit more will go on here. Pics speak so first let the destruction begin for paint prep.





AHH I ran into some pop rivets...time to drill



This is super easy to do and shouldn't scare off anyone from attempting something beyond a standard turn of a driver. Just drill and POP out it comes. A simple $20 rivet gun and a bag of cheap rivets and its back together again...I will be doing that in some places...but no place that can be visible once this project is put back together and complete.



Harley steps in to see what kind of carnage he can add...



Five minutes later..



Now some teasers for tomorrows work while listening to the 500 on the radio. Mid 70s and sunny!! GO INDY KAARRRR!! haha



Yeah this is getting painted...but not a chance taping it off tonight...need sleep.



So much fun sleeving to do ahead...which I know will be a bunch of time vested. OC On tuRBO!!



So I did 2 strands before bed. The PowerLED and HD LED are going to be spliced as I'm changing the colors of them so they will be replaced....



Until tomorrow...

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What r your plans beyond painting? BTW nice of the dog to keep u company (in last pic)

 

LOL that is overkill for ur mAtx !! lol!!

 

Beyond painting...a long list, and to be honest I'm just going with it. My initial plans are the following -

Clear acrylic bottom with LED lighting and some custom case feet for that nice underside illuminated look.

Stealth on the inside with plenty of mesh and acrylic to hide any ugly panels and to make a tray to hide the psu/HD rack.

the front bezel - i'm thinking about wrapping with a white carbon fiber film, replacing the LEDS with white....also the front bezel will have a window mod taking up 2 or 3 of the 5.25 bay drives.

I bought a bunch of 6-32 Hex heads already in stainless and black, i will use them to contrast the color.

I will stealth a bunch of LEDS in the case, white of course, the windows on the case will be tinted acrylic and the top panel will have a window and prolly a new fan cut out on it as well (I'm going with air on this rig) I'm also thinking about putting acrylic under the MB and so it has a nice base glow around it as well....EL Wire might be easier and cheaper...but who cares about that?

A big order is coming in on tuesday so I'm going to try to have it painted/cut/and put back together by then. w00t for 3 day w/e

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She is the one that wanted it and she'll beat me up if I try to put it back in the uber loud CM Elite330RC.

I've already tried that once...



I didn't get very far

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Painting took a bunch of time today and with the race I didn't get as much finished as I would of liked.

I did get down the first couple coats of primer and sanding inbetween all these pieces ate the clock up.

Tomorrow I am going to shoot 3 coats of flat black and step up the grit to 300 between coats.

Finished pieces primed!



Got some more acrylic today as well...



Here I sit at midnight with my finished painted and sleeved Front IO module. Looks so much better now! I will be mounting this somewhere other than the original mounting point most likely...





Tomorrow comes the black and then some major cutting! Might even get the main frame put back together if I can find more Hex bolts

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$47 for a re-branded Lian-Li? Wtf? Damn I'd like to have one of those cases for the price...

Gonna keep an eye on this.

 

I like that white and black scheme - different.

 

So the paint process is almost complete.



As you can see, the main structure is freshly sanded and is needing one more coat, as well as the stuff sitting ontop of it. So tomorrow, a bit more sanding and just coating those last couple pieces.

UPS states tomorrow is the delivery date, should be a good day!

At the end of day #2 of non stop painting and sanding I'm worn out...time to crash like the BearPig


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Very cool project, I'd like to do some similar things to my Lian Li, but I'm worried Ill break it. Any drawings or plans of the final product? The title of the thread had me a bit worried, as fish and rockets are a virtually unlimited source of fun...

 

Looks good so far, glad to see someone else from Indianapolis as well

 

Weather didn't quite co-operate today with the final coat of paint, so I made due and tapped a bunch of holes out to fit my hexheads and assembled it for fitment.

I still have a bunch of holes to fill and then my gf's case got me distracted...



Back plane installed and more holes tapped for hex bolts...

My friend for the evening...



Bad lighting = terrible pic



Then I got distracted by helping her remove pins so she could resleeve her PSU in "UV-Hot Pink" She's freakin awesome



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nice black paint job! cool gf in to computers

 

My wife needs to be more like your gf. I WISH my wife was that interested. You're a lucky guy.

The case looks great, btw