Project: [Storm] - 120508 - Pt.1

[thechoozen]

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After a long time of being not so active in this forum i want to share our newest project with you, up to now we call it STORM.

We started a few days ago with this unspectacular big tower case (its not spectacular, but it has a removeable mainboard tray) which we got from ebay

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm1.jpg
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Because its huge like a stacker we decided to build in some kickass hardware (we didn´t decide which hardware exactly up to now) with a big watercooling loop, 2 or 3 radiators (3x120 + 2x120 + maybe another 3x120) and 2 optical drives.

So at first we stripped the case down to its raw body to see how everything would fit and in which way we are gonna make the one or other thing....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm3.jpg

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then we made 2 small mounting brackets out of some alloy stripes which we use to mount the radiator on the bottom of the frame. This was necessary to prevent the radiator from falling down on the next image :D and it prevents that the radiator could be shaked out of its position when moving the case.....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm5.jpg

as next we bend some alloy stripes into the right angles so that we could mount the 2 optical drives with them on the outside of the case....
beside that we also bended some of those stripes to hold another radiator in front of the case, then we painted everything inside white except the radiators they get a fresh black paintjob...
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm6.jpg
The Top of the case also gets a first cutout
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one of the last things we could do up to now was to build a first water reservoir which will be attached directly to the pump to prevent it from sucking air....and to make the filling process a little bit easier....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm11.jpg
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[J-Roc]

I think that has some real potential. Nice work so far. Ther eis one thing that boggles my mind and i cant quite seem to wrap my finger around it. With such a monster case, why are you externally mounting your hardware? There should be more than plenty of room in that case for everything you mentioned.

[p0Pe]

yeah it looks good! nice cooling potential:D

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot!

@ j-roc... you´re absolute right....it´s a monster and normally there is enough room for a lot of drives.... but in this project i want a totally clean upper part (only Mainboard and Gfx visible) everything else should be mounted in the lower part.....the hard drives i´m going to use will be watercooled and needs some room for the cooling blocks....so that we decided to attach the optical drives on the sides to save this space...later when the projects is finished they will not be visible....but thats another step which will follow later on....

[jdbnsn]

Wow, you have been away for a while. I loved A-51, can't wait to see what ya come up with here. Welcome back!

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot jdbnsn!!

today we cut the sidepanels....first we cut the complete panel in 2 pieces

Then the both upper parts got their cutouts and holes so that we can mount a 2x120 mm radiator on each sidepanel. One of the sidepanels additionaly gets a few more cutouts which will be used as small windows....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm15.jpg

beside the cutouts we also cut out some acrylic parts in shape of the small windows which will be placed on the other sidepanel....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm20.jpg


For the inside we prepared a first cover which will be placed in the front part of the case, it will cover the pump, the small water reservoir and nearly all cables which will be needed for hdds and opt. drives....(atm its not fixed in its position that will follow later)

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm17.jpg
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As last step we prepared a frame of alloy stripes which is screwed to the radiator on the front of the case

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm19.jpg
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[Luke122]

Looks killer so far! Good work!

[chaksq]

This looks sweet! I like the side mounted CD drives.

[Luke122]

The bare case looks so good in white.. that's awesome. I totally want to do a white case now.. :(

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot!!! it´s always nice to hear when others like your own work:D

today we build another radgrill for the radiator which will be placed on top of the case (another 2x120mm), after that we painted both in a plain black so that they will bring in some contrast to the white.

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm27.jpg
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For the inside we build another acrylic cover which will be placed on the floor of the top part. Then we drilled a lot of holes in it to guarantee that the PSU can pull air through it.

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm28.jpg
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[p0Pe]

the white acrylic is really making this look good! is white,red black that color scheme your gonna go with?

[The boy 4rm oz]

Great start mate. Excellent work, keep it up.

[DonT-FeaR]

OH MY WOW thats frigan cool good work lots of work already keep it up

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot !!!!


in the last few days we could´t work much on this project because of the marriage of my brother (he is working with me on this project)
but yesterday we made a little progress so here it is :D

at first we cut some Plexi Pipes (100mm + 60 mm diameter) so that we can use them for the real water resevoir which we will put in the lower part of the case, beside that we also made a top and bottom for it

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm38.jpg
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then we made a side part for the inner cover

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm40.jpg
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we also made 2 covers for the DVD Drives which we will mount later

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm37.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

Can't wait to see that res.

[KemMotaRD]

This thing is gonna have some insane cooling!!! LOL :)

[jbaldwinroberts]

Looks wicked. I like the custom radiator grills. They look really cool.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot !!!


in the last days we made some progress.....

first we made the last radiator / Fan Grill which we will use later, after building them, we put them in place to see if they fit in the way we want....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm44.jpg
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then we cut a small plexi stripe and drilled in 20 holes for LED´s, later we build more of them....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm47.jpg

after that we cut out the first part of the water reservoir stand, i think tomorrow we cut the second one....

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as last we prepared a part of the outer skin of the mod....therefore we cutted 32 plexirods in 25cm length so that we can use them later.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm52.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

The side rad mounted nicely. Nice work.

[Chaos Theory]

that's some moddin' right there! keep it up!

-CT

P.s. Who's we??

[FrooP]

he and his brother ;)

[Eclecticos]

This mod is sure shaping up nicely! Very Interesting! +Rep
Subscribed.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot !!!:up::D

@ CT it´s like Froop already posted, we is me and my brother, we do a lot of stuff together :D

@ Froop danke schön :D

today we made some further progress, at first we made the 2nd holder for the water reservoir and put it in place for a quick test....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm53.jpg


after that we made a plexi circle which will surround the fillport of the rez...

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm57.jpg

then we also made the first parts of the case feets...

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm60.jpg

after that we started to build the upper part of the front, therefore we cuttet a thin piece of wood in its raw shape and then we put a thick layer of building foam on it.......after everything dryed out we begin to give it a better shape...but it´s only the base for everything what will come later on.....
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[The boy 4rm oz]

This is looking really cool.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot!!! :D

in the last days we put on the first layer of bondo

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm63.jpg
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then we drilled all holes in the water reservoir and make them perfect for use with G1/4" waterplugs

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm61.jpg

and we decided where we´re going to mount the SD Card Reader....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm62.jpg

[Enigma]

This looking out to be one sweet mod....keep it up !!!

[scar~face]

this looks hawt

[The boy 4rm oz]

Nice work.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot!!!

today we just build a few water reservoirs...

a good friends was in need of a new reservoir, because his old was cracked in the middle and he couldn´t use it anymore....
so we built him a new one out of some plexi pipe.....beside the rez for our friend....we also prepared a few for us and finished the first one
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/agb1.jpg

[alphastryk]

beautiful work...

[thechoozen]

hanks a lot!! :D:thumb::rock:

yesterday we have started to cut out the lower sidepanels so that they fit on the frame without getting in touch with the optical drives....
so we made a fast sketch of the cutout....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm65.jpg


.... and then started to cut it out

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm66.jpg
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after that we started to finish the main reservoir, therefore we drilled some big holes with the same dia the inner pipe has and put everything in place so that we can glue it together step by step....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm68.jpg
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[p0Pe]

looking SWEET dude! keep it up! you make me wanna make resevoirs:D

[The boy 4rm oz]

looking SWEET dude! keep it up! you make me wanna make resevoirs:D

I agree 110% with pOPe.

[thechoozen]

Thank you guys!

today we used the pre cutted wood parts and build a small framework out of it....it will be placed under the case so that the radiator on the bottom can catch enough fresh air....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm70.jpg

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beside that we glued the water reservoir together and made a small test if everything stays dry :D:thumb:

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm72.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

I like those res stands. Nice work on the case base (lol that rhymes haha).

[p0Pe]

this is gonna be ONE KILLER HUGE mod!... did i +rep you yet? if not here we gooooo (mario voice)

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!! :D

In the last couple of days we´re working on the PSU....after we test installed it, we wasn´t happy to see that there is not much room between the water reservoir and the PSU....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm73.jpg
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so we thought why not put the PSU half outside of the case half inside....
therefore we made a bigger Cutout then the Standard PSU Cutout...so that the PSU can now be moved through the hole .....

after that we needed a new mounting for our PSU, so we did a little bit recycling and reused the parts we cutted out from the side panels. We cutted them in shape and bend some 90° Angles out of it....they are screwed to the mainframe of the case....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm76.jpg
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then we bended some alloy stripes in a U-Shape so that we can attach them to the PSU and the 90° angles we already attached to the cage.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm77.jpg
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as next we´re going to finish the new PSU mounting and then we want to start the building process of the opening mechanism for the lower sidepanels.....

[p0Pe]

once again: nice! :D

keep it up m8

[DonT-FeaR]

wow the psu mounting idea is alot like mine and it looks killer here to +rep for thinking like me and for a cool mod!!!:P

[Dane Bramage]

very cool. starting to get glimpses of where you are going. gonna follow this one.

+rep for thinking "outside" the box...

[thechoozen]

thank you m8´s!!!!:D:D

today we integrate another power plug and a On/Off Switch in the backside of the case.....

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after that we cutted the first 3 parts of the sidepanel mechanism....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm82.jpg

i think tomorrow we´re going to concentrate on the opening/closing mechanism so that we can show you how this will work....:)

[daft-parrot]

I love this forum it never ceases to amaze me the skill which is put into your work if i can do half as good as this i will be happy

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot!!!

like i promised we started the building process of the sidepanel opening mechanism.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm86.jpg

then we attached the first parts to the case...

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm87.jpg

...just to see where we have to make the next cuts....so that the sidepanel can be opened completely

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm88.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

That is nice work there.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!!

in the last days we were busy on planning another gimmick we want to place inside the front.....

therefore we made a rectangle hole inside the backside of the front....inside the hole we want to mount a small webcam....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm89.jpg
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then we quick draw on the otherside....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm91.jpg

and put on a bit more bondo....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm92.jpg


and we cutted the raw video material we shooted up to now....so here are the first 2 parts of the video worklog....:clap::clap:

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[The boy 4rm oz]

Nice progress.

[Darth Dad]

Very nice work...
At first I wasn't sure where you where trying to go with this mod, but the farther you go the better it gets!

You can be sure I will be following along...

+rep for tinking out side the box...literally! ;)

[Tavarin]

That is some great work, I love the ideas. +rep and subscribed.

[thechoozen]

thank you all!:D

in the last days we made some progress on the Holder for the Water Reservoir...

at first we bended the 2 Plexi Holders for the rez into a 90° angle

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm95.jpg

then we drill out some plexi circles....

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and cutted them into 2 halfs
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.......at least we drilled 3 holes in all of them......then we put 3 plexi rods through the half circles so that we got an element which will be placed between the bended Plexi Holders for the rez....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm96.jpg

[Enigma]

Wow that looks cool, keep it up =)

[Drum Thumper]

This just keeps getting better and better...needless to say:


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+rep, and a late /subscribe. I'm diggin the plexi work you've got going on here!

[DonT-FeaR]

looking cool that think is nice

[The boy 4rm oz]

Nice res holders, looking great.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!!

a small update:

yesterday we finished the rez holder....

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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....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm97.jpg
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[DonT-FeaR]

nice res holder i love it very kool

[The boy 4rm oz]

That looks very cool, fantastic work.

[jdbnsn]

your header is in place. Let me know if the title needs changed.

[thechoozen]

Thank you very much jdbnsn!!!! i really like it and i don´t think that changes were needed (i think the title will stay)....:D:D:D

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

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/ehgravur.jpg

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....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm103.jpg

then we cutted out the next parts which will be used to finish the lower part of the front....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm108.jpg

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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

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm106.jpg
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then we cut out the marked square in the upper part of the front....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm104.jpg

inside this hole we will place a webcam which will film the inside of an plexisheet which will cover the complete hole....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm105.jpg

This complete thing will be used as a next gen Input device....you can find more informations about it here (http://ssandler.wordpress.com/mtmini/)

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....:D)

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[TEAMIKKE]

Nice project! Keep on going.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Very nice engraving, you have real talent there.

[DonT-FeaR]

hellz yeah nice work mate

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!!


we have done some progress in the last days.....:banana::D:D

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.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm110.jpg

beside that we cutted out some triangles which will be used to mount the plexirod sheets on.....
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than we put the next part of the opening mechanism for the second lower sidepanel in place.....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm113.jpg
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[DonT-FeaR]

oh so its gunna likr fold out kool nice work

[thechoozen]

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....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm115.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm119.jpg


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 ....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm117.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm118.jpg

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

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm120.jpg
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 .....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm116.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

wow what a res!! thats some nice engraving to

[The boy 4rm oz]

Man that res turned out B-E-A-utifully. Real nice work on the engraving.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!!

And i have some good news!! We have a plattform! a big THANK YOU to Thomas @ Abit which sends us this cutie!!!
:D:D
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beside that we spent nearly 16 hours on engraving the sidepanel for the lancool mod....(Work is still in progress)
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm121.jpg

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

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm122.jpg


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

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm128.jpg
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[DonT-FeaR]

very nice i like them alot..

[The boy 4rm oz]

This is looking really good. I love the engraving for the Lancool mod.

[Eclecticos]

Extremely interesting front panel design.
That etching is badass! +Rep

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!!


@The boy 4rm oz yeah i really love this theme too.... i think it will look great when its finished....

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.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm130.jpg

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....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm131.jpg



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


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm132.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

Awesome. I can't wait to see it all moving together.

[thechoozen]

@the Boy 4rm oz me too!!!!!

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.......

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[The boy 4rm oz]

Great progress, it's looking really smooth.

[thechoozen]

thanks!! :up:

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.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm152.jpg
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then we cut out some heat pipes out of an old coolermaster hyper 6 cooler which we will integrate into our cpu cooler...

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm141.jpg
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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....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm145.jpg
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http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm148.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm149.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm150.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm151.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

Nice DIY cooler lol.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot!!!!!:thumb::D

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.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm157.jpg

then we also integrate the hole for the water reservoir
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm154.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm155.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm158.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm159.jpg

and made some progress on the CPU Cooler

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm156.jpg


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

[Enigma]

This seem to be a friggin behemoth of a computer, love it :)

[thechoozen]

:thumb::Dthanks a lot !!!!:clap::clap::clap:


today we made some progress on the cooler...it´s nearly finished now....i think tomorrow we´re going for a first test run with a QX6700 to see how it performs...

after we attached the last copper plate we sanded the complete copper part and then we connected the heatpipes to it.....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm160.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm162.jpg

after that we made a first test run with water to see if there are no leaks....needless to say that everything is fine and dry :D:thumb:
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm163.jpg
i just weighed the cooler and it weighs 439 gramms with the heatpipes but without water...

[thechoozen]

soo today we made the first test run with a cpu under our cooler.....:rock:

and it was a good run:jawdrop::D:thumb:

first we tested how hot our cpu (intel qx6700) gets with our old cooler....after a few hours of vista + surfing the net we got a temps around 38-39°....room temp around 27°...then we played 1 hour race driver grid to warm it up....after that we got temps around 47-48°....

then we shut down everything and switched the cooler for our new one.....then we wait a little bit to give the water the chance to cool down...after the cooldown phase we power up the system ....then we checked the temps...30-31°...but the room temp has also gone done to 25°....so we run another hour of race driver grid and made the last temp check.....36-37°........i think for a first run it´s a really good result!!!:rock:

[The boy 4rm oz]

Awesome results. The cooler looks great.

[DonT-FeaR]

love it, looks sweet

[Drum Thumper]

This mod kicks all sorts of ass. It's like Darth Vader commissioned you to build some art for the Deathstar.

At least, that's what it's lookin like to me.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot!!!!

in the last days we wasn´t inactive....we made a lot of smaller changes and prepared the last covers for the other side of the case.....beside that we made a test run with the watercooling loop and all radiators to see if we can use this system with only 1 waterpump....and good news: it works really good...better than we thought....:D

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm164.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm168.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm169.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm170.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm171.jpg

beside that we got 2 new cases which we will mod for the Games Convention in Leipzig at the End of August.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm165.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm166.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm167.jpg

with a bit of luck we can put all parts from the outside together by tomorrow....and then it should go really fast to finish it....:D

[The boy 4rm oz]

The mod is looking very good.

That is an interesting looking case you have there, reminds me of the ASUS Vento series. IS there a window on both sides of the case?

[DonT-FeaR]

H-O-L-Y S-H-I-T

thats sweet as nice work guys

[thechoozen]

thanks !!!

@The boy 4rm oz yeah it really has a window on both sides of the case.....

today we put all parts together for the first time....it´s not finished but now we´re ready to carve out all the details :D

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm172.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm173.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm174.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm175.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm177.jpg

and that will be the card reader we want to integrate somewhere near the front together with some USB and Firewire Ports....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm176.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

That looks really cool, the shape turned out perfectly.

[DonT-FeaR]

i love this case white cases look sweet

[thechoozen]

thank you!!!


today we move in the mainboard for the first time to see how it fits in and to get a preview of the final result.....the cables and tubes will be rerouted in the next days.....:D

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm178.jpg

[Indybird]

I can't wait to see everything mounted!

-Indybird

[The boy 4rm oz]

'Like a glove' (Ace Ventura voice).

Shouldn't be too hard to route those power cables, it looks like you have set yourself up pretty well for cable management.

[thechoozen]

good news & bad news....they always come together:D

after a few hours of pain @ my dentist we received the bad news.....still no package with a graphic card arrives.....:wallbash:
but then the good news ...today we got a short mail announcing which parts will arrive in the next days....so we´re going to change the Motherboard for an MSI P7N Platinum and we will get a pair of N260GTX which will also move in....:D:D:D:rock:

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm180.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm179.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

New mobo and GPU, nice.

[thechoozen]

atm we are working on the last details so that we could finish this project in the next days
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm181.jpg

then on Friday we finally got the package with the new Hardware, so i think today we´re going to test it and see how good it performs....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm182.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm183.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm184.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm185.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

All I can say is HELL YEAH!!! Great new tech. That custom CPU water block looks sssssooooooooooooo awesome.

[FrooP]

gccm?

[p0Pe]

watercool thoose gfx´s! plzzz:D
hellova nice work dude!

[thechoozen]

thanks!

@Froop yeah we´re going to the GCCM :D (like every year) i´m really happy that we can compete with 3 of our cases (Storm, Biocon, and T.F.I.S )

Maybe i can manage to take my Fire and Flames also with me, they say that there will be enough room for it....

But we were working on 2 new projects only for the Booth of the GCCM which will be exhibit as well....

@Pope year we want to watercool them, but i think we will integrate them later, because the waterblocks were not so easy to get for an acceptable Price....


today we tested the new Toys a little bit :D
12k points in 3DMark Vantage - not so bad for stock
then we also tested how far we can go with the clock and mem - up to now no problems with 718/1142 .....on stock cooling (temps are always lower then 60° with Fan on 100%)

[DonT-FeaR]

i love this mod good work

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Wow, this is turning out incredible. The different shapes manage to contrast well without looking like greebling; the black and white is simple yet effective. Very unique, but still very appealing.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot !!! :D

This time i just have a small update.....we airbrushed the mouse for the system.....and we got the new System Fans so that we finally can replace the ones we used to fit everything on and in.....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm188.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm189.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/storm190.jpg

but beside that we didn´t have enough time to do more on this project....that will change in the next week because in 2 weeks we will exhibit it at the Games Convention Casemod Masters which will be held within the Games Convention in Leipzig....

We didn´t have more time because we have to finish a lot of stuff until the Games Convention starts.....like those 2 Rasurbo Cases which i showed you earlier....but we´re on a good way to finish everything in time :D

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbohr1.jpg

Oh another small update with the gfx cards....we tested them only a short time up to now but we could could stable run them on 720/1150 Mhz (620/1080 Mhz Stock ) we did a few benchmark runs without any problems .....fan on full power and the card did not reach the 60° ....the only limitation we found is our QX6700

[The boy 4rm oz]

Mouse looks sweet mate. I am intrigued by that front fascia.

[Lancelot59]

This case looks awesome! +Rep

[DonT-FeaR]

love the mouse


got enough fans holy crap

[thechoozen]

thank you guys!!!

in the last days we spent the most of our time on those 2 rasurbo cases which i already showed a few posts ago....;)

here are some pictures from 1 of the cases....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger2.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger3.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger4.jpg

[Lancelot59]

Looks gothy, nice and grungy.

[jdbnsn]

Looks awesome! Both mods that is...

[The boy 4rm oz]

Cool mod.

[DonT-FeaR]

wow thats a new good type of ugly :P i like it

would scare the hell out of little kids at night :)

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!

....the work on the 2 Rasurbo Cases is done so that we can finish project storm in the next days....

but here some last pictures of one of the rasurbo cases which we shoot yesterday in the dark with lights turned on....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger6.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger7.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger8.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger9.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger10.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/rasurbogiger11.jpg

oh the white point in the right eye of the skull are the LED´s of an built in webcam which fades to full power when it´s dark around....:D

[Eclecticos]

Hell Yea. Looks awesome! Kinda creep to. .I would be afraid to sleep near it. :)
I really like the diffused green lighting, Integrated mesh, detailed pieces, and badass scull design.

Intrigued by what you have done to the white case also.
+Rep for Creativity, Overall Fabrication, and Construction of your projects.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Dude now that looks cool.

[DonT-FeaR]

legend you are... thats really nice

[thechoozen]

Something new!

This System is now running for a few month in one of our workshops....so it looks like a mess...
additionally one mainboard decided to pass out with a big flame (inside the case) so it really needed a redo....

so we start with a new reservoir which will better fit in the next steps....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu1.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu2.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu4.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu3.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu5.jpg

[Indybird]

Yay! Updates again! The logo is lookin great, where are you going to put it?

Can't wait until the next update.

-Indybird

[PartyLikeARockstar]

fantastic work

[DonT-FeaR]

looks good mate

[The boy 4rm oz]

That res is gonna look sweet.

[DonT-FeaR]

may i sugest sticking the letters on top not bottom..

[The boy 4rm oz]

If they are on the bottom you can still see them through the liquid. Unless you actually max out the res to full capacity you get condensation and drops on the roof.

[thechoozen]

thx m8´s!!!

we will mount the letters on the backplate of the rez (the bottom) because we want the water flowing over it.....for the condensation we will keep the part with the letters always filled up so that there will be no /or just min. condensation on the top of the rez....

today we made some parts which will route the waterflow inside the rez from one port to the other....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu6.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu7.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu8.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu9.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu10.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

ah... ok wasnt surre if you would be able to see through..


looks good guys keep it up

[The boy 4rm oz]

Internals of the res are looking quite good. I have never seen dividers done quite like that before.

[thechoozen]

thx m8´s

today we finished the rez (only a bit of polishing....).....so i think tomorrow we can mount it on the sidepanel and shot a small video....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu11.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu12.jpg

leak test...
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu13.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu14.jpg

[p0Pe]

does it leak:D? remember to put some preasure at it while testing it.

[SXRguyinMA]

looks neat :up:

[msmrx57]

SWEET!!!:banana: That is one nice looking res. +rep Really like how this is looking. Can hardly wait to see this baby finished.

[DonT-FeaR]

that looks really cool.. nice work guys

[The boy 4rm oz]

Res looks really sweet, hope there are no leaks. +rep

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot m8´s!

no leaks so far :banana::D

today i finally managed to upload the video of the testrun to youtube....

beside that here are some new shots from the first LED Test´s (they lay loose behind or next to the rez).....the polishing is not finished but we test mount it on to the side panel......

filling process....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu16.jpg

LED Test´s
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu15.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu18.jpg

test mount
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormagbneu17.jpg


Jtz0nx0fB20

[The boy 4rm oz]

That looks good mounted, nice work.

[DonT-FeaR]

looks good man nice work

[thechoozen]

thx

After finishing the Rez we overworked our plans with this case and come to the point that we will make a "complete" new casemod out of it. So the next part will be a new custom cpu cooler which we already started today....here are the first pics....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu1.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu2.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu3.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu4.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu5.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu6.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu7.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu8.jpg

[Remy]

You and your brother are doing some fantastic work here. Love the custom res and water blocks. +REP

[thechoozen]

thx m8

today we disassemble the old watercooling loop and took the old rez and cpu cooler away....then we added the new ones so that we could test how they would perform with the rest of the loop....everything is still leak free and the cpu temp is @ 22° in idle aftert 1 h TF2...


but here some new pics


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu9.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu10.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu11.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu12.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu13.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormcpuneu14.jpg

[Remy]

Theat res looks fantastic and seeing the back of the mobo is an excellent. CPU waterblock is phenominal too. What kind of glue are you using on your res? I'm in the process of building my own, and although it's not leaking, I'm not very comfortable with the seems.

[ulysses.cazuquel]

Its quality and capacity to modify and too creativity are fantastic

[DonT-FeaR]

:dead: wow nice one guys!

i was thinging of doing that for my project if i ever put w/c in it

[The boy 4rm oz]

Very nice water block, looks fantastic, very nice. Does a nice job cooling also.

[thechoozen]

thx!!!

today we made some progress on the right sidepanel and the top of the case. We want to change that part as well, so we started with a big window.....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu1.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu2.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

The window should look good. I like how it bends from the side over the roof.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot m8!!

today i got the message that the storm project gots a nomination for bit-tech.net Mod of the Month !! :banana::D

beside that its time for a small update...in the last days we made some carbon fibre angles which we will use to mount 2 of the used radiators inside the case....they will later be placed inside of the lower case part...but that will come in the next days....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu1.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu2.jpg


we also started to build some custom mounting points for the case window, therefore we sanded the inside of the sidepanel and then glued (with j.b.weld) a few locknuts to the sidepanel so that we could later screw through the plexiglas from the inside so that there will be no visible screwheads on the outside....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu3.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

glad to see an update..

love the carbon

[The boy 4rm oz]

Yep I saw your nomination over at Bit-Tech, congratz mate.

Nice update, haven't seen one in a while ;).

[thechoozen]

thx guys!!! ;)

yesterday and today we made some progress on the "Mounting Thing" for the radiators :D....
we attached the carbon corners to the plexiglas parts and also mounted them on 2 sheets of black plexiglas on which everything will stand. The Black parts will also be used to mount everything on the bottom of the case.....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu3.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu4.jpg


Beside that we prepared the first fan for the radiators, to see if it will look like we thought...before we start to build another 3 of them.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradifan1.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradifan2.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

Nice fan modding, they look sweet.

[thechoozen]

thx!!

today we made the next fans and mounted the first 2 on a radiator ....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu5.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

i love the black and white paint scheme guys.. keep it up

[The boy 4rm oz]

I really do love those fans.

[thechoozen]

thx!!

today we finished the work on the fans and added another layer ontop of the radiators....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu6.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu7.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu8.jpg

[Remy]

Looks phenominal!! Are those decals on your fans?

[DonT-FeaR]

i like the top pannel..

nice fan work

[thechoozen]

thx m8´s!!!

But we used no decals, the small storm logos were airbrushed ....forget to mention that before...:D

today we made the first parts to route the cables from the psu to the periphals....the first 2 will be placed upon the radiator stand....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu9.jpg

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu10.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu11.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu12.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu13.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu14.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

Man the cable clamps area pure win. I never thought of making them like that before. +rep

[DonT-FeaR]

yeah they are kick ass. nice work guys

[Eclecticos]

Looks phenominal!!

I would defiantly agree with that. Badass! +Rep
Excellent use of all available materials.

[thechoozen]

thx a lot m8´s!!! :D

just to share this...here is a pictures of the radiator housing with both cable routing brackets :D

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormradihalterneu15.jpg


beside that we closed some holes in the upper side panels which we not need anymore....as we were closing the holes we thought that it might be a good decision to replace the glue under the locknuts with something more solid ....like metal...so we welded the locknuts on....

then we stripped down the lower side panels to their raw metall and removed all plastic parts from the first build....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu4.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu5.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

looking good guys keep up the good work

[The boy 4rm oz]

You guys never cease to amaze me, very nice work.

[thechoozen]

thx a lot m8´s!!!

in the last days we made new add on parts for the lower side panels....they are not finished ...but i think you can see how it will look like....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu6.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

cool guys.. good work

[thechoozen]

in the time between we put together the loose parts for the first sidepanel, overworked everything with bondo and put the first layer of primer on it....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu7.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu8.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

That looks really cool.

[DonT-FeaR]

/\agreed

[thechoozen]

thx m8´s!!

today we mounted the 4 sidepanels for a quick test on the case....beside that we moved all the hardware out, so that we can easier overwork the frame....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu9.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu10.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

It is very tall isn't it lol.

[DonT-FeaR]

/\ thinking the same thing... lol its huge.

[thechoozen]

today we made some progress on the frame of the case ....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu11.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu12.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu13.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

looks good. can we please see a build pic?

like a mock up?

[The boy 4rm oz]

looks good. can we please see a build pic?

like a mock up?

Didn't we just see one at the top of the page?

The internals are looking good my friend, the more room to work with the better.

[thechoozen]

today we prepared the "drive cage" for the HDD , beside that we prepared the top part of the case for the DVD Drive and made a first hole to route the watercooling tube through it.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu141.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu15.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu16.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

That's not the CD drive you will be using is it, it looks awfully banged up haha.

[DonT-FeaR]

ahh i thought they had done the front...

lol at smashed cd rom..

[thechoozen]

oh its not the drive we´re going to use, it´s only a placeholder like all the hardware we´re using atm ....

today we managed to attach the drawers to the frame....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu17.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu18.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu19.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

It's good to see it all coming together well.

[DonT-FeaR]

yeah coming together well looks great good work

[thechoozen]

thx m8´s

the lower sidepanels are now attached to the drawers so that they can slide in and out....but before we could to that we had to correct the position of the drawers so that we´re not getting any trouble with the screws....beside that we overworked the Foot of the case....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu20.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu21.jpg

[thechoozen]

in the last days we made some progress on the front part....the raw front is already ok so that we can do the fine work in the next days...


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu22.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu23.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

looking good.. cant wait to see this one done

[thechoozen]

thx

in the last days we attached the first layer of the front and the first part of the top to the case....beside that we prepared the next layers and made an opening for the dvd drive which will open upwards....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu24.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu25.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu26.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu27.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

looking good mate.. cant wait to see more.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Looking fantastic guys, awesome work as always.

[thechoozen]

in the last days we made another layer for the front and glued them together with a bit epoxy....beside that the first parts got some filler...

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu28.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu29.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu30.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

You got a real nice smooth finish on the front.

[DonT-FeaR]

/\ yeah boi!

[thechoozen]

thx m8´s!!

yesterday a package from Laing arrived, including the new pump for the watercooling.Therefore we want to send another thank you!! out to the people from laing which support our project with this goodies!!

With the new pump in our hand we already started to build a custom top for it....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu31.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu32.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu33.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu34.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

More custom DDC tops? ;).

[thechoozen]

More custom DDC tops? .
sure :D:D:D

the progress for today....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu36.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu35.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

You guys would have to be the kings of plexi, your work is top notch. The pump top is looking very nice.

[DonT-FeaR]

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu33.jpg

at walker any1?

looks good guys! much win i see

[thechoozen]

thx a lot m8´s!!! :D


at walker any1?

lol....Attack of the Pump Top Walker :D

atm the most parts of the case are white again....some smaller parts are still missing...but we´re getting to an end........here 2 new pics, one with the pump in its new place ...

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu37.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu38.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

nice work mate cant wait to see this one.

[thechoozen]

small update for today:

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu39.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu40.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu41.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

Love the GT stripe ;).

[Eclecticos]

Really like the buildup, working off the chassis. +Rep
An impressive design for sure. Drawer slide side panel is dope.

[DonT-FeaR]

aww that looks sweet


lol dope :)

[thechoozen]

thx m8´s!!!!

today we made a bit of progress :-) i think the outside is nearly finished....maybe some small details...

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu42.jpg

beside that we prepared the mounting parts for the dvd drive....only a few holes are missing atm....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu43.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

The paint is very cool, looks great.

[DonT-FeaR]

yeah that paint is rad mad.. great work

[thechoozen]

thx!!

in the last days we "finished" the pump....attached the Mounting brackets for the DVD drive and the last parts are in the painting process.....



http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu44.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu45.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu46.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu47.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu48.jpg

[msmrx57]

Lookin great!

[DonT-FeaR]

/\ ditto

[The boy 4rm oz]

Amazing result on the pump, very unique. The whole case looks awesome.

[Mark_Hardware]

Very nice, the white makes it look super clean.

[thechoozen]

thx :D

today just a very short update....the plexi pieces for the top and side window are ready....and testwise mounted with doublesided adh. tape....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu49.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

Sweet window :D.

[DonT-FeaR]

/\

[thechoozen]

:thumb:

yesterday we mounted the lower sidepanels.....now only a few details are missing or not in the right place....i think in the next days we can finish the most of those little time intensive parts...(new cable sleeving, leds, etc)


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu50.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu51.jpg

[Mark_Hardware]

Heck yeah lookin sweet

[SXRguyinMA]

:stupid:

[Waynio]

Reason this comment is so long is it is a catch up of comments I would have said if I followed it from when you started :D.

Wow this worklog has so many excellent tips and ideas in your great worklog which I will check again and again.
That builders foam looks interesting especially what you turned it into, I am so constantly getting amazed when I look through worklogs here, there are many worklogs I have not seen yet here, I'm gonna try and browse through them thou sooner or later.
Impressive plexi work
I love the cpu cooler it is just flipping awesome
the mouse looks cool
another cpu cooler?, did it perform better than the other one I would have thought the other would have performed better, but oh well still great:up:.
the fan mods look cool
the custom DDC tops = unreal but real lol


This mod kicks all sorts of ass. It's like Darth Vader commissioned you to build some art for the Deathstar.

At least, that's what it's lookin like to me
hehehe agreed.


You guys would have to be the kings of plexi, your work is top notch. The pump top is looking very nice.
hehehe agreed.

when I got to page 20 or 21 after about 3 hours of looking and reading from start to there I have to say I'm a bit confused, did you scrap the front and side pictured in page 10, I mean it looks brilliant and very functional but very very different, am I wrong or have you really changed the mod to something quite a bit different or is the front you made to be still put on it, sorry for the questions I just feel I missed a turning point or something lol.

[The boy 4rm oz]

That side panel is way better than I remembered, nice work.

[Waynio]

By the way I am not knocking it at all if I gave that impression :redface: it is still fantastic for definate:up:.
Outstanding work 8).

[thechoozen]

did you scrap the front and side pictured in page 10
no its not scraped but we will not use it anymore for this mod....after a hardware crash (mainboard burned down) we decided to remod the whole case....and the old front was to large for the new version....


in the last days we closed the last free spots in the front with some plexiglas....


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu53.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu54.jpg

[thechoozen]

today just a short update...the outer body of the case is nearly finished...today we started the cover for the dvd drive so that it can get painted
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu56.jpg

and hopefully tomorrow we will end this mess (its inside our workshop:duh:)
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu55.jpg

[Axis Machine]

Wow thats alot of dust lol cant wait to see this thing done. :)

[thechoozen]

like promised we assembled the main parts of the system today...only some covers inside, light and cablework is missing atm...but i think that will be done in the next days....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu58.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu59.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu60.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu61.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu62.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu63.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu64.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu65.jpg

[Mark_Hardware]

Looks good man!

[thechoozen]

today we started to paint the monitor for this system.....
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu67.jpg

beside that we add a bit of hexx mesh to the lower sidepanel....atm they are already white....but in the drying process so i think i can show you finished pics of the sidepanels tomorrow...



http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu66.jpg

[thechoozen]

like promised...here are 2 new pics from the sidepanels

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu70.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu68.jpg

then we want to Thank Lumitronix for their support!!! Today a box full of Leds for this project arrived so that we could start to solder some led stripes....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu69.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu71.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu72.jpg

[DonT-FeaR]

very awesome mate looks great..

[The boy 4rm oz]

Nice LED modules, I was going to make up something similar but I was thinking of using UV surface mount LEDs for a very subtle UV glow.

[thechoozen]

today we made a first cover for the inside of the upper part of the case.....

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu73.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu74.jpg

[thechoozen]

today we integrated the first led stripes and here are the first pics of it....tomorrow we will finish this and hopefully made some final pictures....:D


http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu75.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu76.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu77.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

You get a really nice lighting effect with those LED strips, very cool.

[DonT-FeaR]

yeah mate /\ agreed.. looks fantastic

[thechoozen]

thx m8´s

in the last days we finished the last covers and LED Stripes for this case so that we could mount everything (but the covers are not 100% in their position, we have to correct that tomorrow)

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu78.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

Very very neat mate, very nice.

[TheGreatSatan]

Featured Worklog! Congrats!!

[The boy 4rm oz]

Congratz mate.

[DonT-FeaR]

/\ ditto :P

[Oneslowz28]

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/images/medals/frontpagemodlarge.gif

[Mark_Hardware]

Congratulations! yay

[thechoozen]

WOW
and really really
THANK YOU
for the Feature!!!!!

last weekend we exhibit our Storm Project in it´s 2nd Revision on the Games Convention Online in Leipzig...together with the atomic cheese, Cosmos Dragon and Vibe Project. The Storm didn´t make it up to the final 3 but the Cosmos Dragon got the 3rd Place in the category Casemods and our Vibe the 2nd Place in the Category Casecons (which means custom build).

But here some new pics:

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu79.jpg
http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu80.jpg

In the next weeks we´re going to change some details again :D but you will see:thumb:

[Jarod997]

Very nice! Excellent job. Too bad we couldn't see the original case (from page 10). Nice lines, great plexi and bondo work. And gratz on the placing on the Games Convention.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Dude that looks really really cool, excellent work.

[thechoozen]

thx m8´s!!!!!!



Today i want to send another big THANK YOU out to MSI for their really really amazing support!!!!


But let me explain, after our old mainboard burns down we take the one inside the case as emergency replacement. But after a bit of time we "forgot" to replace it, today we got a new one together with a nvidia 280gtx hydrojet which perfectly fits into our project so that we can finally replace the emergency board!!!!!
And as soon as the new RAM arrives i can show you pics of the new system :D

http://www.babetech.de/images/storm/stormsidepanelneu81.jpg

[The boy 4rm oz]

Congratz on the new mobo and graphics card, lucky you ;).

[DonT-FeaR]

looking forward to it mate :)

[rodrosenberg]

Great mod love how you guys do everything by hand!!!!

AMAZING!!!


Rod

[mDust]

I'm a noob to both this forum and modding in general...this was very inspirational. My idea of modding before I read this was to buy 3rd party parts and slap them together, customizing here and there. After reading this entire work-log I now know what modding is. Supreme work!:bowdown:

[Waynio]

Awesome congrats on the feature and the sponsors, well done thechoozen :banana::up:. +rep if I have not already :).
Looks gorgeous