The "Call of Duty" case mod

[~XcaliburFX~]

Hi all, I thought I'd share the case mod and system I just finished up.

Call of Duty

The case although themed after the Call of Duty game, is somewhat of a small tribute to my son (who had been sent to Afghanistan) and many other soldiers who are serving their country daily. As I said it is only a small tribute in the latter respect.

The case is an Antec SLK3000B and has been custom AirBrushed with the Call of Duty game theme. I added several mods, such as, cutting a dog tag shaped window around the soldier, added grenade feet, a grenade simulated thrown out the front (new front panel painted with ripped metal to simulate this), cut-away the front and rear chassis headers and replaced with mesh for more ventilation, added a 3 x 120mm Red LED fans 1 being rear exhaust, 1 bottom intake (blowhole style), and 1 front intake. I then added 2 x 80mm fans 1 exhaust blowhole in the top, 1 intake on the two 500GB Seagate HDDs to cool them. I added a Lamptron Military Style Baybus fan controller to regulate the fan speeds.

The power switch is a Marine lapel pin, the reset switch an Army lapel pin, along with a Navy and an Air Force lapel pins to the side. I fabricated a mesh grill from an old PSU units ventilation mesh to make the grill that fits over the 3.5" bay area to allow air in to cool the HDDS.

The Dog tags were added around the front grenade, and have the EVGA case badge emblems on them from the GTX 260 and the X58. lol

Inside we have:

Intel Core I7
CoolerMaster V8
EVGA X58 motherboard
Corsair Dominator TR3XG1600C8D 6GB
EVGA GTX 260 FTW 666 clock
2 x 500GB Seagate HDDS
Dual DVD burners ASUS and Samsung SATAs
Card Reader
Lamptron Fan Controller
Bgears B-Tarantula 650w PSU

Below are a few future upgrades I am considering, depending on how things work out of course lol.

(Motherboard: may upgrade to the EVGA Classified soon)
(Memory: hopes are to upgrade to Dominator GTs)
(Video upgrades: possibly be some additions or even upgrades here soon as well)
(PSU upgrade soon to Corsair HX1000)

Below are finished pics ... well temporarily finished for now. ;-)

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd285/XcaliburFX/Call%20of%20Duty/DSC01869.jpg

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As I said few upgrades are planned :)


p.s. Since the PSU is going to be upgraded soon so the psu cables were not managed to a great extent ... that will happen on the upgrade. :)

~X~

[BuzzKillington]

Very nice detail. I especially like the rust effect and the diamond plating with the eagle.

Best wishes to your son and for the rest of our troops.

[jdbnsn]

Fabulous work!!!! I admire your attention to detail and your cause ( and I think you will find many friends in uniform here). Did you by any chance take any "in progress" photos?

[DonT-FeaR]

yea/\ that be nice :P looks sweet

[Liquid_Scope_99]

Call of duty mods ROCK !!! very nice +rep

[~XcaliburFX~]

Thanks, glad you like it. :)

the air brushing was done by a friend in Jacksonville Fla (Dana Lind) and was his first ever attempt at art airbrushing. he normally does paint and airbrush touch ups for car dealerships. As for a worklog .. yes a worklog can be found at Modders Inc.

[DonT-FeaR]

or post one here :) of to play cod

[KiLLERMAN21]

:O That case is amazing! That looks so awesome, and its for a great cause. Im sure everyone will agree, we hope your son comes home safe and sound.

Awesome work man, +rep.

[SXRguyinMA]

Nice Work!

[jdbnsn]

Are you willing to post the worklog here?

[rendermandan]

Good job. And Welcome to TBCS! Please share your worklog. We'd love to see it.

[~XcaliburFX~]

Thanks ... my son is currently stateside and being reassigned to the 160th, the "Night Stalkers" ... check out the 160th on Utube sometime ... whew!

Thanks again for the positive comments and the well wishes for my son. :)

[~XcaliburFX~]

Are you willing to post the worklog here?

I'll see what I can do about making up a condensed worklog to share. ;)

[DonT-FeaR]

dont condense it! lol

[The boy 4rm oz]

A very interesting mod but not really my style. The grenade feet kinda ruin it for me but you paint work is amazing. +rep

[~XcaliburFX~]

Well it may take a bit on a log ... as I have had the flu and according to the Dr today, a viral infection left over by the flu now lol, so needless to say I am running sorta slow.

[Waynio]

:banana:Looks awesome, great paint job & love the grenade feet and i expect the cooling is good too +rep :up:

[dak1b]

very cool mod. as a cod fanatic i can really appreciate this case mod! GREAT WORK!!! +props