Case Mod - In Progress "The Purple Dragon Project" | April 29th 2007 | COMPLETED! Pics and details on Page 2

You never know I just might become a purple paint kinda guy

 

I love the colour, that's a nice purple

 

COMPLETED!

As mentioned I was on a very tight deadline, so tight that I ended up missing it, so this will be the last batch of pictures.

We'll start off slow with a few early assembly pictures, and then some of the finished case.


The 120mm AeroCool fan in the top window. And yes, that's wires coming out of the fan screws, more on that in a bit.


Here you can see the top window, complete with the LED fan screws, key switch and the Bulgin Vandal button. Mounted the PSU using the black thumb screws.

And now...

The finished, fully assembled case.




I decided to go for a big side window, to match the top window. The edges have been painted black about 4 cm in on the backside.


Here you have better view of the front "window". It's actually just the little 'hole' in the middle of the door that's an actual window. As you saw earlier, these pieces of acrylic were painted black on the back side, and I then mounted a piece of tinted acrylic behind the hole, so that you can see the VU-meter.






Don't ask me why I didn't paint the PSU mounting plate black - I couldn't answer you.


Shineh! You can also see a bit of my 1:18 model car collection in the reflection there, hehe.


A close-up of the top window. The blowhole and edges were sanded with 400 grit wet sanding paper, turned out nicely I'd say.


You can see the little Lian Li fan controller through the window. It's mounted diagonally, using brackets made of the same black, tinted plexiglas.


Both the original hard drive cages were removed. Here you can also see the modded ThermalTake UFO fan. I cut out the middle of the chrome grill, but kept the chrome edge, and painted the fan itself metallic blue.






Secureteh! These security screws can only be unscrewed using the key from this little bundle of keys. In the bundle is also the key needed to boot up the PC, and to lock/unlock the front door.




Here demonstrating that you need the key to turn the mofo on.






All lit up. Subtle light, the way I like it. I reckon some big fat cathodes or other flashy lights would ruin it a bit.


I inserted a little piece of the tinted acrylic in the unused 3,5" bay.


The ducts catch the light from the fans nicely, hard to see because of the flash, though.


That's better.





And, that's about it. Completed.

If you have any sorts of questions, comments, criticism, don't hesitate to bring them to my attention. Hope you enjoyed it.

Until next time,
Azazel

 

I like it all. The color, the exposed screw heads, the nice clean open interior, minimal lights, recessed fan controller. It really works well.

Congrats on a well executed project!

 

holy pimpin ...

you kidding , this thing rocks ~~ this thing is teh best ...


I love the whole project , man , good luck ! and enjoy your new case

 

very nice ,clean ,i like em that way

 

Thanks for the comments.

Some of the pictures seem a bit dodgy. Probably just ImageShack playing up. Will look into it.

 

wow, man, that really looks great. i love the tinted windows with the subtle stripe around them. i normslly dont really care for this stye case, but yours looks very classy. are those LED bolts on top, or are they just normal acorn nuts?

aso, imho. those three buttons on the top stick out badly. if you replaced them with some that werent colored and were flush, it would loo much better.

 

LED bolts, yeah. They're not exactly acorn nuts, though. Here's a pic:



And yeah, the buttons in the top window aren't the prettiest, I agree.

 

buttons on top .. bad!
mounting of teh fanbus? really cool. maybe ill copy that for a own project.

 

Is that 'bad' meaning bad or 'bad' meaning good?
Purple is my fave clour and I love the effect you've created with the windows.

 

Yay, someone else who has the same Purple Chieftec Dragon as me! And there was me thinking that I was the only one.
It almost reminds me of macro black ya know.

 

I was inspired a bit by Marcro Black, yeah. Hard not to be, hehe.

Thanks for the kind words

 

Resurrecting an old thread I know, but that is one seriously nice dragon, pleased to see they are still being used. Had to dig my green one out of mothballs today, and although it looks like it has seen better days externally, they are built like tanks

Thats the best Dragon I have seen in ages mate, really like it, well done

 

I have to revive this thread, this mod has class and I really like it.