Modding Mod of the Month October 2010

Vote for the Monster 2.Got all the precision involved and future proofed design.
Great compo.

Andy

 

Most definately TRON but the Ivory tower is just some great old fashioned modding, as opposed to a scratch build

 

OK, had a few hours with nothing to do so thought I'd properly checkout this months MOTM nominee's, congrats all .

I understand how MOTM works now & is kinda based on what you think looks the most promising, not the stage it's at so my vote is going to be a little different from now on, it's MOTY where your voting on completed cases .

Sheesh if it takes me 4 hours just to properly checkout 6 project logs it'll take me a week or more to analyse MOTY .


BETA by Gtek

Which ones that, he does so many lol joking .



DuallPhantoM by k.3nny

Nice paint job & nice adaptation with the optical drive for a radiator, overall a nice clean mod.



Monster2 by PabloFunky

This really is a very bada$$ rig with some ultra nice touches but I didn't see 1 WIP picture in the log, just ready made parts, sorry, but I don't see any modding skills at all going into this, it is however a nice sturdy unique case though & I do like the artwork the artist really is superb so the mystery artist gets 10/10 from me, overall this case strikes me as a performance enthusiast retail case or maybe it should be if it isn't already .
Honestly if this was manually done which it very well could have been I believe this would have been my number 1 this month, it's a crazy beast, no WIP pics though so no vote.



The Ivory Tower by -TYPHOON-

At first I thought it was going to be a normal mod, but wow some serious modding going into it, completely gutted the original insides turning it into something soooo different, the great thing about this approach is the side panels will work just like good old Lian-Li side panels do .
I definitely like this one & I'm subbing to it, one of the best ideas for a base on a case mod I've seen in a while, just rip the insides out & give it new guts while retaining it's functionality = Pure Awesome .



Tiki by tout_tribal

Firstly wow this one dates back some time & is awesome you got back to finishing it .
Secondly I think it's really cool that you had a tag team mod force with your granddad , the carving work is really nice, I definitely prefer manually made mods.
Google translator maybe all over the place but I nearly coated my monitor in coffee laughing at one of the lines lol, was quite bizarre but yeah overall it's a really nice mod that'll be full of good memories, this is a rare warm fuzzy mod & I like it .
And of course it looks excellent .



T.R.O.N [V4] by andy_mcp1
Been following this one & he is doing awesome with the 1 sheet of aluminium folded up, definitely not an easy task but OMG he's ploughing through it nicely & I expect will look awesome when it's complete .



Damn, tough call, very tough call but I'm going with this podium.

Gtek in at 1st - this dude is a crazy unstoppable mod machine with sweet original ideas & awesome diy skill .

andy_mcp1 in at 2nd - Awesome diy modding & is coming along very very well.

-TYPHOON- in 3rd with modding ideas like this I expect great things of him.

 

qualified as a electro mech engineer, so not sure if thats cheating as such, and indeed was done manually

all internal structure was manually guilotined and folded on brake presses etc, manually marked out.

however it was originally gonna be for retail, but never got that far yet.

Yes, sorry for the instant build log, case has been many many hours in production and was on another forum, and so on, so i put the log up as pretty much a one hit log.

not sure i wanna post all the milling machine setting up pics and the workshop floor and the blood and cuts and so on.
i even milled the slots for the side panels at 3.2mm to allow for them to sit flush taking into account powder and artwork on panels etc.

i would say true, not really a mod, as a scratch build, this creates a prototype, so deffo a manual build in most part, but now can easily be a retail product

but thanks for any votes that have been given, good luck to all nominees and the winner TRON. .

will post workshop pics on Monster3 in future if i can.

Thanks.

 

Had to vote Beta - the design is the sickness

 

Heey members of Bit-tech!

Thnks for the nominee of the MOTM!

I got the same situation As Andy, Got some mail of a friend that he was telling me that i was an motm nominee,

Its time to work my butt off, need to sleev my whole PSU, Im out gonna work hard now

 

I wouldn't class it as cheating at all Pablo, & even more so if it was manually milled, once upon a time I might have when I was new at bit-tech thinking normal skills just can't match that lol , but not now, now I just expect to see the most awesome & perfect scratch builds/mods coming from such high advanced skills & machines.
If you have the knowledge & machine access then it would be madness not to do it by machine.
Anyway apologies for thinking it was made by someone else, I just automatically assumed it was with no WIP pics so keep in mind for Monster3 & it could catch more votes & my vote .

 

No probs Waynio.

basically whilst i can make stuff, im rubbish at stuff like project logs and explaining stuff.

with the advent of laser cutters, has made things easier, but monster1 and original Dragon fire, i only had old fashioned type machines available.

so all panels were done, by me setting up a milling machine with a drill head, this way, allows me to do all holes using x and y digitals and just refit the milling bits for all milling work.

good thing is i was able to go overkill on panels this way

top and bottom panels are 12mm ally, side panels are 3mm, front is 5mm and so on, so if went retail quality would have to come down and more folding rather than milling etc etc,

but its great being nominated, always encourages people to build future projects.

 

BETA gets my vote

 

As always all nice.
But Monster 2 gets my vote.

 

@PabloFunky
Those are some really chunky panels mate, definitely built to last a lifetime , I'd expect a sturdy awesome looking case like this to cost a hefty lot but I love a bit of overkill in a scratch build .

There's not really a need to go into deep detail in a log, just a brief explanation of what was done to get from A to B in a log to go with the pictures, in fact the shorter the better for reading, then viewers can mostly gaze at the pictures instead .

I myself sometimes find it a PITA carrying the camera & tripod to the garage to keep it on standby for progress pics but I still do it otherwise people might think I had someone else do it, it also shares how some things are or can be done which can benefit budding builders/modders, I've learnt pretty much all I know in modding from seeing how people mod so my limited education in engineering has come purely from modding forums, TBCS & here .

But yeah whether you win the most votes or not in MOTM it's great to get some recognition + it opens peoples eyes to some cases that might have been missed in the forum .

 

Thanks Waynio, as i got materials at cost and very good deal on lasering, etc etc, cost was kept down alot.

typically if you add up the hours it would take would easy be around £1500 just for the case, as i did myself cost was kept to 1/2 of this.

I wish i could artwork/airbrush, this was most expensive part really, but after getting monster1 artworked, i couldnt live with monster2 with no artwork.

good luck to all nominees again, all makes more reading and to see what people can do.

I love the fact that i can fit my ud9 in and still have room for a bigger mobo if required.

also its mentioned that theres room for a 120mm rad in the front, but in actual fact, it will suit a 200mm rad, im using a silverstone 180mm fan at the moment though as an intake.

The front panel is 320mm width dont forget, this thing is huge, infact i cant really lift it any more.

good luck everyone and thanks again.

 

I'm a fool for Tron, but I like all of this months contenders.. Lucky I can't vote on tapatalk.

 

Wow. Is it just a lack of sleep or is this the best MOTM in a long while? My top 3 are probably BETA, Monster and Tron. I'd say BETA takes it, as it's such an original design and with the fibreglass as well it's just that little bit more unique. Congrats to all nominations though!

 

Though tough choice as usual for MOTM, but TRON gets my vote

 

Beta for me, with Tron as a very close second.

 

I have to choose the T.R.O.N

Why?
The looks are amazing and I would love that on my mesanine

 

tron is nice,

the phantom doesn't have nice sleeving, color looks bad

 

TRON is very nice casemod +11, i also had to choose it

 

Congrats to the winner and big THANK YOU to all voting for BETA