Project: Miracleman XB - completed

This mod is inspired by the incredible series written by Alan Moore back in 1982. Miracleman was similar to DC's Shazam. He was a young reporter who was given great super powers through atomic energy. Speking the word ATOMIC backwards: written as "KIMOTA" is what transformed him into Mircleman.

The series gets very dark. It touches on mass genocide by super heroes and the idea that we may not be alone in this universe.

The victim case is the Cooler Master HAF XB.

But first it needs to be stripped to the bone

Then blasted with a bright sail boat blue

Bottom

and top

The front panel metal mesh will be blue too

Nice!

Not to stray off topic, but whenever I see "XB" I think of this:
The Buell XB 12 S Firebolt.

OK, so I have motorcycles on the brain...

I am glad to see you constantly modding systems. Not sure how you have the time...

BTW: Who is this one for and what is it's function in life?

What timing .. I am about to start a HAF-XB myself. Unless I just jinxed it by saying something.. LOL

I wanted to do two 120mm fans on each side, but they won't fit

So I'll do 92mm fans instead (I'm not using the grills, they're just for reference)

Time for my hole saw

I cut two fan holes and the mesh on each side for windows

I just want to see how it looks, so I put the mesh back on. Yep, that looks stupid!

That odd looking honeycomb looks even worse

So it has got to go!

Now it's Red!

And so is the PSU shroud

And just about anything that's not already blue.

I want to see more.

While the red paint dries we go dress up the blue chasis. First I put the hot swap bay PCB back in

On to the cooling. The Cooler Master XB only comes with two 120mm intake fans, but I want 140's instead

I'll be using Aerocool Blue LED Sharks

And I put the tooless clips back on

I really don't want to see the stickers through the fans through the mesh, so I'm taking them off

I put the motherboard tray back in

And then a rear 120mm Blue LED exhaust fan

There's also another two 80mm Blue LED fans going on the back by the drive bays

Lastly, the slots cover go back in.

Next time we'll look at the side panels

I put the top piece is dry

And so is the PSU cover

The drive bay covers are done as well

Now I have to paint the side panels

It took 3 strip downs all the way to the metal for it finally to stick. This was a really annoying process, but it's finally done

Now it's time for some custom fan grills

Now that the sides are dry I put the plastic handles back on

I'm using an all plexi top

And using rivets to hold it in place. I put tape over the tip of the rivet gun so I don't accidentally scratch the paint

I got this custom applique from CrazyPC (I still need to remove the bubbles)

KIMOTA!