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Question for you guys, does anyone know where I can get some cheap plastic material? I dont really need to use anything as high grade as acrylic since I will just end up painting it anyways.
What I am looking for is a styrene supplier. In addition to this, what is everyones prefered brand of modeling putty? I need to get some kind of filler, and I really don't like bondo, yet would it be the best thing to use considering that I am covering a large area?
Thanks in advance.
I would just use plexi. I went to a plastics place over here and asked for some offcuts that were 4mm thick, the guy gave me about 500x500mm worth for $10AUD.
Polly filler should work well for your putty needs. We don't have Bondo (that I have seen) over here in Australia but I have found that basically any of the fillers that you can get from the hardware store works well. Just ask for their advice before purchase and you should be fine.
The issue is not funds, its the actual material itself. What I need is something that is fairly soft so it will cut easily using a dremel, something that I can use a heatgun to bend, and something that is very thin.
I need something around 3mm thick, that I can cut with a dremel. I also need to drill many holes through it, and it is preferable that it has a rough surface.
Mabye you should look away from plexi and look towards aluminium sheet metal. Nice and soft, easy to bend without heat gun and easy to drill.
That will not work either :)
What this case is for is the PDXLAN 12 modding competition. The only rule was the case had to be an Antec 900.
Now, for my theme, I decided to make what I felt that the Antec 900 should have been from the start. Making an alloy top panel would completely void that goal. I need to use a sort of plastic, and it looks like acrylic is not going to work for what I am trying to do.
Maybe Styrene? Like what Paul, Bod, and rendermanDan used on their mods?
Well, I ended up using acrylic. Turned out pretty well actually, will end up being perfect once I get it all done.
I will throw up some pictures of my work thus far tonight.
So, as I promised, I have updated pictures! Keep in mind, this is not by any means the finished product, just one more step to the end.
Here is my shipment from Performance PC's, they stuck a cat in the box too, I don't know what to do with it but it sure is cute!
Here is the interior of the case after I got done putting trim on the holes and got my wiring all done up. All the wires will be hidden behind the mobo when I am through.
Here is a shot of the front sans panel.
Here is a closeup shot of that
This is the custom piece that I built to extend the top panel so I can mount the thermochill.
A shot of it all together
And finally my desk with the current shuttle that I am using while I build this:
If you are looking for a filler and / or an epoxy, try marine tex. I have found that it works pretty good.
Looking good buddy. YAY free cat lol.
