Project: Black and White wavemaster: CPU Magazine Front Cover

i hope this dosnt count as useless thread bumping but heres my log for the case competition: http://www.coolermaster.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5441

 

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Hey guys, exciting news! Got B&W on the cover of CPU magazine:

Image courtesy of Computer Power User


From computerpoweruser.com:
"Mad Reader Mod
Have Racing Stripes, Will Travel
As Jonah “THEkorean” Kim readily admits, the name for this modded Cooler Master Wave Master chassis isn’t fancy. But glance at the Black & White Wavemaster’s gleaming racing stripes or its side-panel reservoir mod, and you’ll see why he didn’t choose a catchy name: The system speaks for itself. Kim put nearly 200 hours into the details that give the Black & White Wavemaster its need-for-speed personality.

The PC owes its paint job to both new and old influences. “In the planning stages of the mod, I was undecided between a sleek, modern-looking paint job and an ‘old school’ American muscle car-style paint job,” says Kim. “In the end I was still undecided, so I did both paint jobs together; the result was far nicer than either of the choices by themselves.”

Of course, the paint job isn’t the only eye-catcher on the Black & White Wavemaster. The PC’s water-cooling system features a reservoir mod that hogs most of the Black & White Wavemaster’s side panel without disrupting the paint job’s clean lines. Kim created the reservoir compartment, which looks as though it bulges out of the PC’s side panel, by cutting PVC pipes. “I took half of a section of PVC pipe, a section of PVC elbow connector, and two long slabs of fiberboard and glued them to the sides of the hole to create an initial shape,” Kim tells us.

Body filler, paint, and hours of sanding turned the blocky PVC pipe assembly into a smooth bulge that slides under the side panel’s white racing stripes. Kim wrapped up the PC by c...."

 

Congratulations on the cover, it is an awesome looking mod.

 

Dude that is awesome news. I really like how you took that mesh and did something totally different with it! Sorry to hear your Treb didnt' do as good as you wanted it though.

MOD ON!

 

Very nicely done! I love the side panel design!

 

NICE!

 

Congratulations on the front cover, well done man

 

Thank you all for your kind words, they are much appreciated couldn't have done it without support from these forums.
Coolermiester, it's an honor, I'm a big fan of yours.