Case Mod - In Progress [Storm] - 040809 - Rebuild /GC Online

so yesterday we finished the rez holder....





then we made a test run with the first side panel.....as next we will stabilize the whole movement with the rest of the mechanism....

 

in the last couple of days i did a little bit of engraving...not for this project....but its also nice....



on this project we also did some progress....

we add the next pieces to the front...this time we covered the optical drives so that they will be integrated in the final front....


then we cutted out the next parts which will be used to finish the lower part of the front....




then we also glued the pre cutted plexi rods together, sanded and polished both pieces ...they will later be used on the outer body of this mod




then we cut out the marked square in the upper part of the front....



inside this hole we will place a webcam which will film the inside of an plexisheet which will cover the complete hole....


This complete thing will be used as a next gen Input device....you can find more informations about it here

and i have shot a small desktop video of the first test run so that you can see it actually works....(and i really have not done the fine tuning....)

 

ok i see....still no comments here....

but we have done some progress in the last days.....

we put the lower part of the front in place and fixed it in its position with some tape....so we can see where we have to file a little bit so that everything gets smooth at the end.....



beside that we cutted out some triangles which will be used to mount the plexirod sheets on.....


than we put the next part of the opening mechanism for the second lower sidepanel in place.....

 

Sidepanel mechanism is nice.

Seeing your plexi skills though, I would have thought something in that would suit it more. Just a suggestion.

I'll watch this one

 

You've got skills my man.

 

thanks!

in the last days we spent a lot of time in planning the electrial part for the opening mechanism, but beside that we made the first LED Module for the rez....





then we cropped the small triangles on the sidepanels so that we match the shape of the front.....then we put the plexi-rod-sheet testwise in place to see if they fit ....




we also finished the raw structure of the front part .....later when everything is dry....we can sand it in the right shape....


beside that we started a new casemod....this time a lancool metal boned k7.....it gets a nice engraving.....here is the first part of it .....

 

good news!! now we have a plattform! a big thank you to Thomas @ Abit which sends us this cutie!!!








beside that we spent nearly 16 hours on engraving the sidepanel for the lancool mod....(Work is still in progress)


and we did some progress on the front.....




like the claps which covers the DVD Drives....

 

There's a lot of nice stuff going on here. I like how the reservoir came out.

 

nice engraving..keep on going!!

 

that front intake looks insane...

 

Nice il like the DVD covers how will it Works

 

Wow that is quite impressive. It reminds me of a train, sort of like a soviet train.
I hope those front fans are going to be changed so they match. Maybe a clear red (no LED) would be amazing, if you could find them, I suppose you could get some red UV fans and just not UV them up.
I really like the use of the red tubing in the res holder, with the clear acrylic it looks very nice and clean.

 

hey thanks a lot guys!!

@Matticus yeah the Fans are going to be replaced later...but we are not sure if we´re going to use clear/red or just dark black ....

in the last 2 days we were busy with sanding/bondo/sanding/painting/sanding/painting the front part...so that it will be finished soon.....



beside that we put the next LED elements testwise in place to see if they are going to disturb us in any way....but they didn´t do...so they can stay....






then we screwed the first servo to the backplate to finger out how we will connect the servo to the sidepanel holding arms....

 

yesterday + today we did some progress on the outside of the case....therefore we prepared some polystyrene stripes which will cover the outside of the case.......

 

in the last days we started to build a CPU Cooler....therefore we took 3 copper plates (from old cpu coolers) which we overworked....the first plate was prepared to hold the water plugs....the second plate only gets a cutout so that it can be placed in the middle....and the 3rd plate was milled with a grid where the water should flow through.....






then we cut out some heat pipes out of an old coolermaster hyper 6 cooler which we will integrate into our cpu cooler...




beside that we spent some time on the outer parts....therefor we cutout a lot plastic parts, which we use to build the covers for the radiators and fans....

 

awesome...so when is my case gonna be done...lol...jkin...i thought u said u were an amatuer...i think ur more like advanced+...awesome dude

 

Very original duder - liking it !

 

WOW! never seen anything like it!! can't wait to see the out come of this one!

 

I love the custom build Cpu Cooler. Its f**king awesome

also the whole case is one of a kind and everything (seems to) fit perfectly .

 

thanks a lot!!!!!

yesterday we had to overwork the cover for the upper sidepanel, because it hadn´t the right measurements....so we rebuild a slim version and changed the design for the faceplates.....



then we also integrate the hole for the water reservoir





and made some progress on the CPU Cooler




hopefully the cooler will be done today.....