UnWantedSoldier
10-24-2009, 05:07 AM
"Space... The Final Frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise..."
With Project: Blue shift (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17103) drawing to a close, (its being held up currently by available funds) i have turned my attention to something that is very close to my heart. I am first and foremost a die hard Trekkie. (though i can say that i dont own a uniform lol so i guess I'm not that die hard lol) and after doing a Google search for star trek themed case mods i have to say that the pickings are quite slim, a few Borg cases and a NX-01. This means that its time for me to try my hand at my first themed case mod.
I give you Project: Enterprise
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 /A (Star Trek I-VI) and the trek ships of that era have always been my favorite design and will be the basis for this mod. Here is the victim for this mod. A case my boss gave me (mother board is dead only half of it has power but the psu checks out)
http://www.stsedition.com/uploads/P-Ent1.JPG
http://www.stsedition.com/uploads/P-Ent2.JPG
Whats left of the original p4 system (Dead)
http://www.stsedition.com/uploads/P-Ent3.JPG
My plan is to install a 180mm fan (http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=327&products_id=26262) in the face plate and create a duct for it that will make it look like the main deflector dish. Then i am going to turn some of the drive bays into the Torpedo launchers (i think those will house the power and reset switches or possibly temperature gauges). I Plan to cut a custom window in the left side in the pattern of the traditional Star Trek Delta
http://www.stsedition.com/uploads/SF-Insignia-Decal3.png
In addition to the side panel i want to cut out the top panel to look like the side banners on the side of the enterprise engineering hull (i'll put up a pic of that later when i can find a good one) Next i will use styrene panels to cover the side front and top panels to make them look like the hull panels on the enterprise. The final peice will be a painted mural of the Enterprise on the right side panel to be painted by my brother in law Erick "Dub" Weir (http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=46663493). I frankly don't have the skills to pull that off but my brother in law is one of the top tattoo artist in the the state and i haven't seen a medium he couldn't work with, be it paper, canvas, or skin, he does amazing work so i cant wait to see what he will come up with for this.
So stay tuned as i plan to start work on this project this weekend
With Project: Blue shift (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17103) drawing to a close, (its being held up currently by available funds) i have turned my attention to something that is very close to my heart. I am first and foremost a die hard Trekkie. (though i can say that i dont own a uniform lol so i guess I'm not that die hard lol) and after doing a Google search for star trek themed case mods i have to say that the pickings are quite slim, a few Borg cases and a NX-01. This means that its time for me to try my hand at my first themed case mod.
I give you Project: Enterprise
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 /A (Star Trek I-VI) and the trek ships of that era have always been my favorite design and will be the basis for this mod. Here is the victim for this mod. A case my boss gave me (mother board is dead only half of it has power but the psu checks out)
http://www.stsedition.com/uploads/P-Ent1.JPG
http://www.stsedition.com/uploads/P-Ent2.JPG
Whats left of the original p4 system (Dead)
http://www.stsedition.com/uploads/P-Ent3.JPG
My plan is to install a 180mm fan (http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=327&products_id=26262) in the face plate and create a duct for it that will make it look like the main deflector dish. Then i am going to turn some of the drive bays into the Torpedo launchers (i think those will house the power and reset switches or possibly temperature gauges). I Plan to cut a custom window in the left side in the pattern of the traditional Star Trek Delta
http://www.stsedition.com/uploads/SF-Insignia-Decal3.png
In addition to the side panel i want to cut out the top panel to look like the side banners on the side of the enterprise engineering hull (i'll put up a pic of that later when i can find a good one) Next i will use styrene panels to cover the side front and top panels to make them look like the hull panels on the enterprise. The final peice will be a painted mural of the Enterprise on the right side panel to be painted by my brother in law Erick "Dub" Weir (http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=46663493). I frankly don't have the skills to pull that off but my brother in law is one of the top tattoo artist in the the state and i haven't seen a medium he couldn't work with, be it paper, canvas, or skin, he does amazing work so i cant wait to see what he will come up with for this.
So stay tuned as i plan to start work on this project this weekend