der_george
08-25-2011, 05:19 PM
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/1_800x419.jpg
This is a small Diary for our 24 hour Casemod für the DCMM 2011 at the Gamescom in Cologne. This year 4 of last year’s teams decided to build a little surprise for the 24 Hour Livemodding Challenge
Background Info and Perparation:
On last year’s DCMM we decided to build a small present for DCMM’s tenth birthday in 2011. It was Matze’s idea. He saw a casemod in Madrid that was made of different cases and thought it would be a good idea if we made something similar.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/2_450x600.jpg
At first we wanted to build a Transformer. Every team build a different part like arm, leg, torso and so on. But the problem was that with some parts there would be hardly any potential for doing anything different, whereas others have way more potential.
Later on I had the idea that we could build a giant spaceship made up of smaller spaceship modules.
This was my first Brainstorm:
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/3_800x571.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/4_800x492.jpg
It went down quite well with the other modders, so we carried on planning in that direction. The secret planning Threads at www.we-mod-it.com grew and grew. Loads of great Ideas where being posted and as were more and more Sketchup and 3D-Drawings. We all met up on my Teamspeakserver to discuss all the problems and ideas that we had. The biggest point of discussion was if we should build it in one piece right from the start and thus let the cat out of the bag right from the start, or as first proposed to build it all in separate pieces and put them together at the end.
When we were well into the planning we had the first real setback. One of the Modders who took part in last year’s livemodding didn’t want to build the spaceship. No way did he want to take part in the project. Because it was very close to the registration deadline I didn’t think that we would manage it this year. I didn’t believe that we would pull it through. Some of the guys then decided to save the whole thing and make different teams for this year. Oli and Patrick were now Team 1 and Semme (the new guy) and me Team 5. The rest stayed at it was. Now we were back on track and the planning continued.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/5_800x600.jpg
The only thing that could mess it up for us now was if not all managed to qualify for the contest. Well it happened. One of our 5 teams didn’t qualify and instead of 5 teams like in the year before now 6 teams were allowed to start. Patrick wrote an email to the organisers asking for the other teams email addresses to supposedly organise going out for a meal or drink in the evening. But he didn’t want to give us their email addresses due to term and conditions that they have. So we searched all the forums and opened topics looking for the two missing livemodding teams. Luckily we found them quickly. One Team was from the “Jugend Ausbildungs Zentrum - JAZ” who help young adults who can’t find a job or apprenticeship - they didn’t have much modding experience. The other team was a more experienced team, who hadn’t taken part in the livemodding before but had visited the DCMM regularly. The JAZ team were persuaded quickly. The only condition was that they didn’t have to change their concept much that they had been practising for months. (A nuclear power plant that would now become the reactor) We placed them in front of the engine section and behind the gravitation ring because it fit in there quite well. The other team didn’t want to take part because of numerous reasons, but we didn’t want to try and force anyone into doing something that they didn’t want to do even though we knew it would look odd having one team doing their thing and 5 building a spaceship at the convention.
Now we just had to wait for the case size and type that we would be getting this year. We presumed that it would end up being the case that they used for the last two years. But this year it took much longer than in the years before, because this year caseking would sponsor the cases for the livemodding. Caseking only told the organisers a few days before we packed and left what case is was. It would be a Xigmatek Asgard 2. At least it was a step up in quality but a lot bigger than what we had planned. Luckily Henning made the framework to carry the spaceship bigger than it needed to be in case something like this happened, we could then adapt it to our needs whatever length it ended up being.
Now that the planning was completed and everything was packed up and ready to go on the long journey to cologne.
Patrick and Oli would build the front which has a design similar to the Star Trek battlestar galactica. The two Blass-brothers (Team BT-Custom PC) are going to build a section that integrates the front into the gravitation ring section and incorporates a wicked reservoir. The Chaosmodders, Matze and Henning would be building the gravitation ring and some weapons und a liveable atmospheric dome. Behind them the JAZ-Crew, Willi and Simon would build the reactor and the last section would be built by Semme and me – Team Aquatuning – a propulsion section with 6 engines and 4 reservoirs as fuel tanks.
Packing and getting there:
Patrick took a nice video of himself packing his car:
vQvzdie8-xk
I got 50Kg of Stuff just from Aquatuning ('http://aquatuning.de/') and some more Coolermaster ('http://www.coolermaster.de/index.php') from that I had to pack. And that stuff was nearly all just for our team. Aquatuning and Coolermaster supported nearly all of our teams. Million thanks to both of you!
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/6_450x600.jpg
This time round everything went well in terms of our stay. The complete opposite to last time – it was really good. Thanks for that as well. :0)
Day One:
First of all unpacking and setting up:
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/7_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/8_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/9_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/10_800x533.jpg
Hennings framework looked really nice. It was led under is working area in individual parts, but the jury didn’t smell it yet. :0) When the clocks started ticking 4 of the teams started to make the body out of MDF. The JAZ-Crew bent its cooling tower. All of these thing took their time to make sure that everything would fit when the whole thing was completed. Jury didn’t notice anything strange. When Patrick had completed his rear part he traced the shape onto another piece of MDF and went over to team BT-Custom PC “Oh, here’s the piece of material you wanted.” Jury didn’t notice a thing. Later that day Matze and Henning had completed their gravitation ring and went over to team BT-Custom PC with another piece where the axle bearing for the shaft had been fitted and fitted it onto their case so that it all worked perfectly. Still we knew that the jury hadn’t worked out what we were doing. We finished day one without blowing our cover.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/11_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/12_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/13_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/14_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/15_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/15-2_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/16_800x533.jpg
Here you can see the gattling guns. In the next picture you can see that the front is starting to take shape.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/16-2_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/16-3_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/17_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/18_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/18-2_800x600.jpg
The „cooling tower“ and the first parts oft the „Habitat“ below.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/19_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/20_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/21_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/22_800x533.jpg
Here is what it all looked like after the first 8 hours had passed.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/23_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/24_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/25_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/26_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/28_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/29_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/30_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/31_800x600.jpg
Day Two:
On the second day we carried on the way the firstday ended. Patrick and Oli milled their front into shape, we carried on with the fins and the engines and chaosmodder with their wiper contact to the gravitation ring.
Our aim was to get so far that we could build everything together after day two. We got all our heads down and focused on our parts. Luckily Henning noticed how the JAZ-Crew wanted to glue a piece of green fabric, like AstroTurf onto the reactor. All of a sudden 6 Modders rushed to the JAZ teams working area to stop them from doing so. An observant member of the jury saw what was happening and came rushing over to find out what was going on. Whilst I persuaded the JAZ-guy not to glue it to the ship the other 5 distracted the member of the jury. It worked. We nearly blew our cover, it was very close. Now we all realised how far behind the JAZ-Crew were. In our short conversation we realised that they desperately needed help. Lots of help. In my lunchbreak I built a cover for their case for them. The second day ended…
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/33_800x598.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/34_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/35_400x600.jpg
Dirt and Dust! Everywhere!
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/36_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/37_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/38_800x533-1.jpg
The nearly finished habitat and the gravitation ring with contacts for the LED lighting.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/39_800x533-1.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/39-2_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/41_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/42_800x600.jpg
The engine section taking shape..
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/43_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/44_400x600.jpg#
First layer of paint going on the front part. The boys did good work.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/45_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/46_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/47_400x600.jpg
Someone’s pleased with the perfect shape on all 5 fins. Schakal is still sceptical. :0)
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/48_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/49_400x600.jpg
8)
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/50_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/51_800x509.jpg
Yeah, that green thing was going to go onto the case…
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/52_800x600.jpg
This is a small Diary for our 24 hour Casemod für the DCMM 2011 at the Gamescom in Cologne. This year 4 of last year’s teams decided to build a little surprise for the 24 Hour Livemodding Challenge
Background Info and Perparation:
On last year’s DCMM we decided to build a small present for DCMM’s tenth birthday in 2011. It was Matze’s idea. He saw a casemod in Madrid that was made of different cases and thought it would be a good idea if we made something similar.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/2_450x600.jpg
At first we wanted to build a Transformer. Every team build a different part like arm, leg, torso and so on. But the problem was that with some parts there would be hardly any potential for doing anything different, whereas others have way more potential.
Later on I had the idea that we could build a giant spaceship made up of smaller spaceship modules.
This was my first Brainstorm:
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/3_800x571.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/4_800x492.jpg
It went down quite well with the other modders, so we carried on planning in that direction. The secret planning Threads at www.we-mod-it.com grew and grew. Loads of great Ideas where being posted and as were more and more Sketchup and 3D-Drawings. We all met up on my Teamspeakserver to discuss all the problems and ideas that we had. The biggest point of discussion was if we should build it in one piece right from the start and thus let the cat out of the bag right from the start, or as first proposed to build it all in separate pieces and put them together at the end.
When we were well into the planning we had the first real setback. One of the Modders who took part in last year’s livemodding didn’t want to build the spaceship. No way did he want to take part in the project. Because it was very close to the registration deadline I didn’t think that we would manage it this year. I didn’t believe that we would pull it through. Some of the guys then decided to save the whole thing and make different teams for this year. Oli and Patrick were now Team 1 and Semme (the new guy) and me Team 5. The rest stayed at it was. Now we were back on track and the planning continued.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/5_800x600.jpg
The only thing that could mess it up for us now was if not all managed to qualify for the contest. Well it happened. One of our 5 teams didn’t qualify and instead of 5 teams like in the year before now 6 teams were allowed to start. Patrick wrote an email to the organisers asking for the other teams email addresses to supposedly organise going out for a meal or drink in the evening. But he didn’t want to give us their email addresses due to term and conditions that they have. So we searched all the forums and opened topics looking for the two missing livemodding teams. Luckily we found them quickly. One Team was from the “Jugend Ausbildungs Zentrum - JAZ” who help young adults who can’t find a job or apprenticeship - they didn’t have much modding experience. The other team was a more experienced team, who hadn’t taken part in the livemodding before but had visited the DCMM regularly. The JAZ team were persuaded quickly. The only condition was that they didn’t have to change their concept much that they had been practising for months. (A nuclear power plant that would now become the reactor) We placed them in front of the engine section and behind the gravitation ring because it fit in there quite well. The other team didn’t want to take part because of numerous reasons, but we didn’t want to try and force anyone into doing something that they didn’t want to do even though we knew it would look odd having one team doing their thing and 5 building a spaceship at the convention.
Now we just had to wait for the case size and type that we would be getting this year. We presumed that it would end up being the case that they used for the last two years. But this year it took much longer than in the years before, because this year caseking would sponsor the cases for the livemodding. Caseking only told the organisers a few days before we packed and left what case is was. It would be a Xigmatek Asgard 2. At least it was a step up in quality but a lot bigger than what we had planned. Luckily Henning made the framework to carry the spaceship bigger than it needed to be in case something like this happened, we could then adapt it to our needs whatever length it ended up being.
Now that the planning was completed and everything was packed up and ready to go on the long journey to cologne.
Patrick and Oli would build the front which has a design similar to the Star Trek battlestar galactica. The two Blass-brothers (Team BT-Custom PC) are going to build a section that integrates the front into the gravitation ring section and incorporates a wicked reservoir. The Chaosmodders, Matze and Henning would be building the gravitation ring and some weapons und a liveable atmospheric dome. Behind them the JAZ-Crew, Willi and Simon would build the reactor and the last section would be built by Semme and me – Team Aquatuning – a propulsion section with 6 engines and 4 reservoirs as fuel tanks.
Packing and getting there:
Patrick took a nice video of himself packing his car:
vQvzdie8-xk
I got 50Kg of Stuff just from Aquatuning ('http://aquatuning.de/') and some more Coolermaster ('http://www.coolermaster.de/index.php') from that I had to pack. And that stuff was nearly all just for our team. Aquatuning and Coolermaster supported nearly all of our teams. Million thanks to both of you!
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/6_450x600.jpg
This time round everything went well in terms of our stay. The complete opposite to last time – it was really good. Thanks for that as well. :0)
Day One:
First of all unpacking and setting up:
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/7_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/8_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/9_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/10_800x533.jpg
Hennings framework looked really nice. It was led under is working area in individual parts, but the jury didn’t smell it yet. :0) When the clocks started ticking 4 of the teams started to make the body out of MDF. The JAZ-Crew bent its cooling tower. All of these thing took their time to make sure that everything would fit when the whole thing was completed. Jury didn’t notice anything strange. When Patrick had completed his rear part he traced the shape onto another piece of MDF and went over to team BT-Custom PC “Oh, here’s the piece of material you wanted.” Jury didn’t notice a thing. Later that day Matze and Henning had completed their gravitation ring and went over to team BT-Custom PC with another piece where the axle bearing for the shaft had been fitted and fitted it onto their case so that it all worked perfectly. Still we knew that the jury hadn’t worked out what we were doing. We finished day one without blowing our cover.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/11_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/12_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/13_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/14_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/15_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/15-2_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/16_800x533.jpg
Here you can see the gattling guns. In the next picture you can see that the front is starting to take shape.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/16-2_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/16-3_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/17_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/18_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/18-2_800x600.jpg
The „cooling tower“ and the first parts oft the „Habitat“ below.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/19_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/20_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/21_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/22_800x533.jpg
Here is what it all looked like after the first 8 hours had passed.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/23_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/24_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/25_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/26_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/28_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/29_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/30_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/31_800x600.jpg
Day Two:
On the second day we carried on the way the firstday ended. Patrick and Oli milled their front into shape, we carried on with the fins and the engines and chaosmodder with their wiper contact to the gravitation ring.
Our aim was to get so far that we could build everything together after day two. We got all our heads down and focused on our parts. Luckily Henning noticed how the JAZ-Crew wanted to glue a piece of green fabric, like AstroTurf onto the reactor. All of a sudden 6 Modders rushed to the JAZ teams working area to stop them from doing so. An observant member of the jury saw what was happening and came rushing over to find out what was going on. Whilst I persuaded the JAZ-guy not to glue it to the ship the other 5 distracted the member of the jury. It worked. We nearly blew our cover, it was very close. Now we all realised how far behind the JAZ-Crew were. In our short conversation we realised that they desperately needed help. Lots of help. In my lunchbreak I built a cover for their case for them. The second day ended…
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/33_800x598.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/34_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/35_400x600.jpg
Dirt and Dust! Everywhere!
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/36_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/37_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/38_800x533-1.jpg
The nearly finished habitat and the gravitation ring with contacts for the LED lighting.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/39_800x533-1.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/39-2_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/41_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/42_800x600.jpg
The engine section taking shape..
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/43_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/44_400x600.jpg#
First layer of paint going on the front part. The boys did good work.
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/45_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/46_800x600.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/47_400x600.jpg
Someone’s pleased with the perfect shape on all 5 fins. Schakal is still sceptical. :0)
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/48_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/49_400x600.jpg
8)
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/50_800x533.jpg
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/51_800x509.jpg
Yeah, that green thing was going to go onto the case…
http://bilder.betzpatrick.de/modding/casemods/24h_raumschiff_mod/52_800x600.jpg