Case Mod - In Progress Project: Nightrain - June 27th

Hello Bit-tech'ers!

Project: Nightrain is an evolution / re-envision of the original Nightrain scratch built case I made, which can be seen over at TBCS. Over time, my visions and desires changed and along with that came my need for a new case.

The case for the job is the Rocketfish full-tower aluminum case (aka Lian-Li). I will post hardware when that time comes

I apologize in advance for some of the pictures. It has been very muggy/dark and rainy here so I do not have the benefit of the wonderful thing called natural light. Add insult to injury, and I simply do not have the greatest lighting inside my apartment


Sketchup Design (This has changed a bit as I've chosen to go on a Black/silver path instead of Black/Red):




The innards of the case:


One of the plexi dividers cut and bent:


In place:



The second divider:



Sunbeam fan controller mounted in an aluminum faceplate:


Mounted (Not set as final location):


Faceplates trimmed up for stealthed drives:

I did not like having to press the faceplate, so I am looking into switches to reroute the eject button.

Getting ready to etch the front panel (I didn't have masking/painters tape ... Do not use paper ):


After etching the borders of the letters:


Filling in the letters a bit:


Closer:


Side window cut out:


Installed:


Getting ready for smoked plexi panel:


Panel cut:


Installed:


Etching the side panel:



First pass of outline:



Starting to fill in the characters:


Panel as it sits currently:


And installed:


Another angle:



This mod is just getting started. Both etches need to be cleaned up. I use a full size rotary tool for my etches so I have to take breaks often for my wrist's sake. The divider panels inside need holes cut for cables. I need to order another black plexi sheet to make the motherboard cover. The list just goes on, but as I mentioned, I am just getting started!

Mod on everyone!

 

Holy SHNAP!!!!

This is going to be good, keep up the good work!!!

 

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like smee said this is going to be awesome, cant wait to see the rest!

 

sweet etching

love the etching, can't wait to see it cleaned up ....keep it up

 

You had me up until the etching, but that's just a personal opinion thing anyway. I love the acrylic and the socket heads on the side panel! Very clean job.

 

love the etching work... nice touch