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Chaos Theory
10-05-2008, 05:20 AM
Hi,
Last summer a friend and me were bored.
He happened to have a pc lying around, it was unmodded, so we thought we'd better fix that:D
Neither of us had done a casemod before, so offcourse, we made some mistakes.
I don't have any pictures from when we were working on it, but here's the completed case:

Side:
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/1952/hpim1313av5.jpg

That was supposed to be a lambda but we forgot to check if the panel was positioned correctly before we started cutting it.
We cut it with a hacksaw, but we couldn't find the blade for aluminum, so we just used the wood blade.
The window is a piece of plastic from a box a toy came in, stuck to the panel with hot glue.

Without flash:
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6328/hpim1314xp2.jpg
Sorry for blurryness.
The blue was a fan that was allready instaleld, the red light is 6 leds hotglued to a piece of a cd case, bent with a lighter. It's stuck in an empty drive bay with ducttape. The wires for the leds were jammed in an unused molex connector and hotglued in place.

The other side:
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/1634/hpim1307ve3.jpg
we didn't have any clear paint to go on top of the chrome paint, so we just tell people it was supposed to look like that, it look nicer IRL than on the picture.

Another pic:
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6853/hpim1312ja8.jpg
you can also see my garfield poster and Van Halen painting, I aslo made that when i was bored.

-Chaos Theory

thorkon
10-06-2008, 04:39 PM
Nice :). maybe its the picture giving a orange hue but it looks a little blurry with the paint. Or unless its graffiti style. I think it might be the chrome just giving that blurry look. Unfortunate that the window version of the symbol is 90 degrees off. Definately a honest mistake which I'm sure I would end up doing if i was trying to do that XD

I like the idea of using stuff that you had around and modded with it.

FuzzyPlushroom
10-06-2008, 04:56 PM
Pretty damn spiffy for a "use-what-ya-got" mod. My kind of project. +rep for effort, and 'cause the silver panel looks quite good.

Chaos Theory
10-07-2008, 02:56 PM
thanks!
the symbol was spraypainted using the other panel as a stencil :D

phen0m
10-12-2008, 07:30 PM
I like it, it looks pretty sweet, but I think for more effects, you should add a design around the lambda, with a different color, I think black would be nice.

Chaos Theory
10-18-2008, 05:36 AM
Steppe (my friend) moved to france the last weekend of the summer vacation, so the case is there now