Case Mod - In Progress Half Life 2: Gordon Freeman edition

Thank you dear Crapman!
I remember that i had to do the same process 12 times for every acrylic part and once they were all together, one final process, so finally i don't even remember how many times i sanded those parts honestly!

 

Hello again guys!

Next things i wanted to do, was to add a 5" touch screen display on the door's face panel in order to see realtime information about the computer or whatever you might like!

So, i ordered a relevant lcd screen and once it came, i measured the precise outline of the screen and drew it to the face panel's door.

Because the face panel's material was a thick enough aluminum, i wasted quite enough dremel discs.

So after a long cutting seesion, here it is with screen in place and alligned.



Next thing i wanted to do, was to also create a scorched look effect around it so i started puttin fiberglass paste around the lcd screen.

Here it is with a mixture of liquid fiberglass and polyester putty....(so i thought that would do the job!)





NOTE....the fiberglass paste or the polyester putty, doesn't stick on aluminum so i had cracks in its base, so i re-enforce the whole door with fiberglass cloth along with liquid fiberglass.









Next thing in line once it all dried was to paint it and do a test fit.

So, here it is painted.

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Here is a test fit which i didn't like the colours and i had to repaint it



....and repainted!



Next thing in line was to play a bit with rusting kit it arrived, so i will show you more in the next update.



Until then, mod it till it bleeds, the mod it again!

 

Hello guys! Here i am again!



So, next thing in line was to play a bit with the rusting kit which came from the US and it is the Metal Masters rusting kit.

First things first....

I took the rear cover of I/O's as it was painted, and put some rusting across it as you can see below.



My intention for the 5.25" drive bays was to paint them orange/black and put an hl2 logo on it, but it failed and then painted it orange/black with the plastic bag effect.





I re-infroced the 5.25" drive bays with liquid fiberglass and fiberglass cloth in order for the paint to stick better.



So, next in line was to paint the rest of the parts orange/black as the whole theme was orange/black.

Here they are painted and ready to be assembled.







Dr. Freeman supervises the whole process!



As all the parts are drying, i am going to add to the bottom panel 4 chair wheels.

This you're going to see in the next update!



So, until next time, mod it till it bleeds, then mod it again!

 

Ah fond memories one of the first games I played half life.
Kept it up great job

 

More to come soon!

Stay tuned!

 

I did a test assembly and saw that the pattern of the face panel weren't diffused properly with the rest chassis so i decided to do a "trick"!
Picked a plastic bag and tapped orange and black a few centimeters to the back of the top panel and a little to both of the side panels.

The top panel looked like this



After that, i painted the main chassis with the same pattern and a little paint splash




Later, i clear coated the upper panel and looked like this






It is time now to add the bottom wheels!


Here is the chassis with the wheels attached using rivets





Then, it was time to glue the λ and the 2, that was made out of acrylic, in this panel they will be mirrored. They were glued with liquid fiberglass.





Here is a test fit with the right side panel attached


Next time, i will do a test fit with all panels preped and without attaching the acrylic to the left side panel.
Until next time, mod it till it bleeds. then mod it again!

 

Looks awesome. Great work!

 

Thank you Warren!

Still, i had more work to do!

 

Good morning people!
At that time, i decided to go with a Crosshair IV formula i had bought in combination with AMD Phenom 2 x6 1100t
I bought the cpu off ebay and it posted since 1st application!




Then, it was time to put the parts together and rivet them down!



Afterwards, i did a test assembly to see how it will going to look




Here is the power switch i was going to use to power on the computer


Once the whole build would be watercooled, i decided to use an EK pastel orange with soft tubing.


....and here are some photos before i complete the whole case mod and put it in use!




Gordon Freeman action figure glued with 2 element epoxy


Next part, is to apply the 5" lcd screen display and shoot the final photos for the CMWS 2017!

Until then, mod it till it bleeds, then mod it again!