Case Mod - Complete Neptune's Trident: Wallpapers

Impressive. You are pulling this mod off amazingly.

 

Man thats amazing really!!! Wow I am speechless dawg! Great job!

 

Wow that choice of colors is great! very clean.

 

I just got done prepping stuff for tomorrow's painting session. Sorry I didn't take any pics of the boring sanding,
cleaning, and priming of parts, but I didn't think you'd mind too much.

Here's a couple shots of all the parts:




If you remember my paint scheme, it will be blue with water droplets on the outside of the case, monitor, and keyboard,
and pearl white on the inside, but only in the main top section. It will be blue in the lower rad compartment.
As you can see, I already laid down the white inside the case shell and mesh boxes, mainly because of the mesh.
If I waited til after we painted the exterior, then all the holes will be white, and I don't want that. After I took the
pics I taped all the white mesh areas so that I wouldn't get any blue overspray on the inside.

So basically we're laying down the blue base coat and clear this weekend. Then we have to let that cure before going
back over and doing the water droplets. If you're wondering why we're shooting clear before the water droplets,
it's because we are using water-based paint, and the base needs to be sealed before we do the next layer. Then
after that we'll do a final coat of clear, maybe with a hint of candy or pearlescence. We'll see!

 

I always love the fact that you mod the keyboard and monitor to match. I'm looking forward to the paint Brian!

 

PAINT PHASE ONE: BASE COAT

Here's my painting progress for today. We first laid out all the parts in the paint booth and wiped them with a tack cloth.










I brought with me the color of coolant I will be using so we could match the paint. But my buddy already had some
blue sitting on the shelf and thought we'd see how close it was. Turns out the first can we opened was a perfect match! woot!!


It also meant we didn't have to use the water-based paints he had to mix & match, which would have been more difficult.
So we could stick with acrylic enamel all the way through. The paint is Nason blue metallic by Dupont.


Mixing the paint with reducer and hardener..


Base coat laid down:


I still can't get over how well it matches the coolant!












PAINT PHASE TWO: CLEAR COAT

After the base set up for about a half hour, we mixed up the clear coat. This is necessary to seal the metallic so
when we prep for the water-drop phase, we won't disturb the metal flakes in the base.


After the clear was shot, I snuck in the booth for some beauty shots. Shiny!








So that will have to cure for a few days before we can do anything else. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get back
up to lay down the water drops for another week or two. However, Scott may have some time to do a few test pieces,
and if he takes some pics, I'll post them up in the interim. So until then!

 

Dude, that's truly beautiful!

 

Looks great Brian! Don't you love it when that kind of thing happens? It makes you feel good that you're traveling down the right path.

 

Lovin that blue.

 

Amazing result.Very nice and glossy.

 

Enuff said!

well no not enuff said, that is some awesome paint!

 

ily paint!

 

The blue painting looks very good.

 

Thanks!

Thanks Jeffrey. Yeah it really was serendipitous it being the first can we opened.

Thanks, me too!

Wait til we get the waterdroplets on and a nice pearlescent clear over that!

hehe thanks.

Umm, not familiar with the term "ily", but thanks just the same lol.

Thank you!

 

Here's some help
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ily

 

rofl

im a jeffrey to!!
high 5

 

Very nice work with the paint. To be expected and on par with your other mods.

Great stuff with the res' and Rads.

 

Damn Brian, I just read the whole log and this thing is great. This is setting up to be your best mod yet I think and you're actually inspiring me to get back into this. Ill be keeping a close eye on this mod.

Slightly off-topic: are there any more LANs in the near future that you're going to? I was waiting for Nvision but AFAIK it has been canceled/postponed.

 

Hey Nick! Thanks for stoppin by. But please, don't go and make another show-stopping, Mod-of-the-Year-winning masterpiece on my account. Seriously, I always look forward to your projects, as does everyone here I'm sure. I'd love to see what you come up with next.

As for LANs, I'm going up to Portland next month for PDXLAN14, and most likely Intel Lanfest in Sacramento the following week. I'm also considering attending PAX in September.