Project: Obsidian: A Scratchbuild "HTPC"

From an Antec slimline case. Its actually more than just a tray, it was part of the case it self. I completely gutted it, hacked and cut till it came out. sorry no pics of that. I was so busy I forgot to take any.

Its been a wile but I have news.

I needed to reinforce the bottom off the case so i decided to add 0.8 mm mdf to the bottom.

Also I decided to cut it to a smaller size(the green line). also I am thinking to shorten the psu main cable. (the sphere)

more tomorrow.

Keep the updates coming, I love this mod!!!

I agree! It's looking great already.

Update 3

I have added a 0.8 mm MDF piece to the botom of this case as you can see in the picture below. this was done because the styrene bottom bended to much under load(with all components inside the case). this fixed the problem. what you also can see is that I started to cut the panel that will fill the gaps around the psu and the I/O panel.

In the next pic you can see what I have done to the MB tray, cut it even to a smaller size. but don't worry there is still plenty of room. for a fan ( on the right side) but first the old situation then the new.

Old situation

New situation

But now I am off and ill be posting an I/O back panel when I get back.

cheers and happy modding

Congratulations! Keep up the great work.

Thanks and ill make sure the updates keep coming, until its finished. ill be giving an up date later today since i did a lot of bondo'ing yesterday. and made the first step for the I/O back panel. so stay tuned.

Yours Cheron.

I know i was planning to post the update yesterday but what i didn't know was that a long time friend was planning to stop by that day and consumed my time to make the post. No offense my friend.

but to the update.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2264/...b39a86.jpg?v=0

Update 4

Ok first of all I bondo'ed all parts to gather but still have to make it a bit smoother. As you can see i removed the I/O panel from the MB tray it self. it was an easy construction with one rived to hold it all in place. so with the rived removed I could slide the panel out.

with the I/O inner panel removed I could easily draw the shape of the I/O on to the back panel. which I then cut out using a scroll saw.

As you can see it was almost a perfect fit but ill be filling it with bondo to smooth it all out even more. with that done I removed it so i could draw up the hole for the PSU this will be a simple rectangular shape with rounded corners (this is still in its early stages)

I used my dremel since I was to lazy to set up my scroll saw again.:dead:
But don't worry it wont effect the end result.

time to glue it all together. I have a real good feeling now it looks like i am actually getting somewhere. still some finishing up to do with the psu hole but dont worry it will be fine when ill be back.

this is what it looks like right now. so let me know what you think.

keep on modding !!
yours Cheron.

here is a teaser of what it maybe should look like when done. be kind on my sketch up skills since its the first time i even made a 3d model in my life.

more when the model is finished.

yours cheron.

You know you mod something. when you see it.:D

Very nice.