HPRES III MEGA Complete, ty all.

I almost forgot the amazing blow hole you got there.
Those blades really work. And a nice idea to not light them up but let them be lit up by the inner lighting of the case. Doesn't make it look to exaggerated.

 

HP3-MEGA is not Dead! i just got side tracked with 3 other projects

Theres been a few updates missed here, i'll catch them up soon now that im modding this project again.

I managed to slap down some 2pak pearl white and clear on 2 of the panels tha other day.

I chose the front and side panels as these 2 would give me the best idea of how the case will look in this colour.














I'm more than happy with the Pearl white! if tmie premits over the weekend i'll get the other panels done.

 

looking good

how many coats of pearl white, and how many coats of clear?

 

freaking brilliant mod!!!

makes me wana just get up off my lazy ass and do summin....

wait.....

nope its passed ! ! !

looking good with those bondo skills though

 

MMMMm nice 3 layer? DÈF¥âÑt¸.·´¯`¤.
But then again whats new, that paint is orig as i love it.

 

OMG nice job DÈF¥âÑt¸.·´¯`¤. keep up the good work

 

DÈF¥âÑt¸.·´¯`¤. JESUS THIS IS ONE MOFO OF A MOD and to think this was an old HP

 

You've done it again

 

thanx heeps guys a few shots of all the panels now painted and cleared









A few shots with and without flash!

 

and a bit of top light testing

 

awesome.

 

Two words: Just amazing!

 

hey that is some smooth paintjob!!
wish i had those skills
great piece of work u got here

 

ooo my god, it is great

 

Defyant, you make me hate myself for not having such skill...

 

*Drool* Can anything else really be said?

 

Man i love your work defyant, its really inspiring to see so much good work, pluss most of your work is modding worlds-first

Keep up the good work, lokking forward to the next update...

 

Love the case, just one question, what is the name of the case you modify?

 

Thanx as always for the great replys guys very much aprreciated as always


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Now that the freshly painted panels have had a day to "set" I was eager to see how the front clear Plex Blades were going to look on the pearl!




I have to say i was tragically dissapointed! my 5star flag ship had turned into a "titanic"..... the plex blades really offered nothing... just looked like fat glowing blue sausages... while the idea was ok early in the build.... now that the panels were coated these offered no contrast against the class of the Pearl Paint.

I pretty much went to bed an unhappy camper. At about 1am (as it usually is with me) the idea came to me in the form of the good o'l Defyant mouse mats!

Remember these?



It was streight to the plex shop bright and bleery eyed @ 7am this morn for some cut to size plex goodness!!!

I was back by 8AM armed with the new FRONT and SIDE BLADES! As you can see the new blades will be a GLOSS black a 3 layer design with a clear plex middle layer thats will light with the 3 colours of the case!



The THICKER of the 2 is 2 x 8mm black strips and one 2mm middle clear the longer side blades are 4mm and 2mm clear.



First thing to do is cut what will be the new CDROM door! Using a "thingamajig" the shape of the front panel is copied to the plex.





Then over to the band saw for some cutting.



Still looking a bit bulky atm!

 

So it's down to the router for some intial shaping.
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Now the long task of hand sanding begins! this goes thru a stack of steps! the first being a ruff sand with 100 grit dry then 400 grit.
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Then it's over some 3 lots of wet rubbing! first 400 wet and dry then 800 with 1500 for fine finsihing.
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Finally to bring back some of that Gloss black shine some hand compound rubbing.


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Gotta throw in the old "outside shot"
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The process is done 2 more times to create the middle and lower blades! one of wich will be modified to be the ATX switch