Case Mod - In Progress Project Black Rain: RIP 2008

I like that idea too. A color other than red would be cool... dark purple perhaps ..surrounding Larry's "?" with wings

 

I Need UPDATE GOD Damit!!!!!!!!! ...

 

this is even my opinion, I was in love with yours chromed items, and now on my project I've chromed every possible items, even the motherboard spacer

 

With any-luck there will be an update by the end of the weekend..

 

good, it's been a some time since a update

 

Metal Work

OK, here is what I have been up to this weekend. As I tend to do, (jump around) I let the VFD mount go for now and decided to work on interior cover plates for the 5.25" bay/radiator area.
Started off with cardboard:

then some looking/thinking/drinking:
here's what I ended up with:

decided against a top-rear cover..

now to translate the cardboard templates into sheet aluminum (the same AC Ryan stuff). I used a dewalt power shear:

I did the small (EZ) one first:

the bottom edge will be bent 90-degrees and become the mounting point.
lets see how it looks:

on to the large main plate. Same deal, although I did "tweak" the design a little after transferring the pattern to the aluminum.

some c-strip:

and a test-fit:

there is still a good amount of work needed for this cover. It needs top mounting holes as well as a hole in its center for the air intake of the dual radiator. That will have to wait for another day. Out of time, all I offer is a few more pictures:

sorry about the finger-prints!



That does it for now. Only had about 5-6 hours of free time for the project..
Until next time!
MS

 

Excellent work. Always look forward to updates on this project.

 

love it. only thing that bugs me(sorta) is that the thing s you just cut don't go flush to the bottum, but still its amazing!!!

 

Personally I don't like the rubber trim around the edges. Excellent work though.

 

A bit late, but what if you made it in one piece? It would look much better with the rubber molding than it does now.

Still, I like it.

 

Lookin great!

 

That's awesome! Thanks for showing!

 

wow looks really good

 

Love the idea. Although the c-stripping looks a bit out of place, it works on the parts, but not really on that part. You said you're going to airbrush it, right? I think it would be best to airbrush those parts (including the sides) that would look sweet. It's the first time is see the full wc setup in a pic. It looks simply amazing. Are those innovatek radiators good? I'm not sure, but won't the black ice or thermochill ones work a lot better? I know they might not look as sweet, but i think cooling performance should be more important. Why not use some chrome black ice radiators like on soylent green, that looked awesome...

 

looking good as usuall

 

It looks great, but I agree with what others have said in their reactions: the rubber trim seems out of place. I would just put in the panels, make sure those edges are filed very well and then they're nice and smooth.

 

Maan, every time I see updates on this project, you make me fell so good. I like this bling bling style, really I do.
I don't think the c-strip is out of place, I think it's rounding off perfectly the edges, and go very well with the mod - but that's might just me Maybe it would have looked better if the two plates were cut in one piece, but I know how thin that piece which would hold it together would be. Maybe you did it the only right way, I don't know.

And I have to agree with alpha_prime the watercooling setup is stunning! It's SO clean, and VERY well done!
You're a big inspiration to us all, keep going modsquad!

 

I think this is alittle bit on the dark side ^^ Looking nice

 

I like very much the cuts!!!

 

Absolutly agree