What was the name of the transparent/uv reactive paint you used? And do you know where to purchase it online?
Thanks for the help.
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What was the name of the transparent/uv reactive paint you used? And do you know where to purchase it online?
Thanks for the help.
Here ya go! :D
http://www.frozencpu.com/search.html...reactive+paint
this is one sticky thread
:omg:
PRAISE RANDOM DIETY OF YOUR CHOICE - I FINALLY HAVE POWER & INTERNET AGAIN ... i couldn't get a hot shower OR slashdot for a WEEK!!!! :eek:
once again here's me...
like - wtf??!! the universe soooo hates me. bonus, though, of being bff with the sysadmin - the first day after the hurricane that we were actually allowed back in the office, he told everyone that the generator was running low on diesel and he had to shut it down and have everyone go home. then we came back, fired that sh*t up, watched movies on the CEO's big screen tv, and drank 3 bottles of 1986 merlot he found in the server room, lol.
anyways --- thank you all so much for your kind words, let me see if i can respond accordingly:
yeah thanks, i totally didn't even notice that until you said something. i should really get my ass back to work!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rankenphile
see above - yeah, i hear ya. everything here is destroyed. there's trees everywhere, traffic signals in the middle of the street, police curfews and crap - totally teh sux0r! oh - and the damn NIN concert was cancelled. and i had floor tickets!!! grrrrr!Quote:
Originally Posted by Archimedes
sweet! i just broke up with my girlfriend last night, and i'm super excited to be single! pass the dirty martinis, please!Quote:
Originally Posted by thephreak99
well apparently you're second now, after phreak99, lol. maybe i'll whip up a quick PHP app to apply..... did i mention that i also dyed my hair hot hot pink and play a kickass game of pool? yeah - i rock .... :p .Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozzhedian
it was clearneon, which i was warned against, but ended up being fine. c'est la vie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rankenphile
sooooooo
i think that's it for me for now, as you can see just recently got back my internet connection, so i'll be online more now. and i'm gonna do some work tonight since y'all are so encouraging!
thanks, rock on, peace out, etc, ad infinitum
Sorry to hear that your area got so trashed. |\/|@j0r 5|_|cK4g3. Especially the |\|||/| concert.
As for the merlot... like, duh! Didn't you know? Server rooms make great wine stashes! :D
WB--glad you made it through! ;)
hey everyone
i have some fun new pics to post, but my damn internet connec is still flaky from hurricane be-atch ... i mean ... wilma. (and how are you posting this, you ask... well i'm at work :p )
so - tonight? i hope? i did some fun stuff over the weekend, and with no massive bodily harm!
amberella :)
awesome, can't wait :) hope you Internet connection gets better soon as well :D
aloha! so, news:
upgrades: i have a stable internet connection!
downgrades: i no longer have a kickass digital camera :( so i apologize if these are not the bestest quality ever, but they should suffice. hey .... at least i finally have some new pics to share!
this is just a basic mock up to show you the case itself - and might i add that while there's plenty of room vertically and in front of the motherboard sideways, fitting those IDE cables by the power supply is ROUGH in that upper area:
here is the most basic idea of what i'm going for... you can see that my goal is to enclose the stack of components in this thin wood box (there's already acrylic there, so it's not affecting airflow, purely cosmetic) and give that box the finish that you see in my previous test posts. that lotus blossom is evenutally going on that nice clean expanse of wood right there. also, there's going to be a fan in the bottom of the cube (and the back is more open than the sides) to make sure there's no circulation probs.
next are some pics of the little fan cover i made for the CPU fan. it only covers the actual fan itself, not the heatsink, so it shouldn't warm anything up either. since most of the stuff i'm doing in this project is inside the case instead of, say, covering it's outside with skulls (still a noble cause if you're into that...), it's important that i don't interfere with anything actually WORKING, lol. i didn't take pictures of the stencils and everything like i did for the lotus blossom previously, but you can rest assured that the process was pretty much the same. overall, i'm happy with the way that this dragon worked out, but i might end up not using it anyway, as when it's actually inside the box it is already a tight fit, and i'm worried about running some cables around it. it seeeems to work as of right now, but we'll see. and see that shiny little glint on the lower right hand side? that's cuz it's all glassy from the thick, pourable epoxy. i'm so happy i thought to use that, it really looks awesome in person.
here's the motherboard. you probably can't tell (due to my parents' crappy digital camera i was forced to borrow) but it is a deep purple color. purrrrty. also, the lines of the dragon are actually nice and clear. again, camera. ugh.
soooo that's that for now, more later this week. i have the basic forms for all sides of my main cube area, which includes a front panel, so i am getting ready to really get my hands dirty .... next up:
- enlarging the back fan hole from 80 to 120mm
- mounting the fan bus and cutting the 4 corresponding knob holes
- procuring some appropriate length screws for the PSU ... the manufacturer's aren't quite long enough to compensate for the additional thickness of the acrylic case
- cut and add an additional HD slot for my second harddrive
oh, and last but not least:
my thumb! it's actually all healed and growing out now, so it looks pretty decent. you can still kinda see were it was cut in half.
and this last one is a joke, really. so... it goes out to who it goes out to, lol. ;)
peace out, and goodnight.
amberella :p
OWWWW! hehe. well i'm glad your thumb is doing better. everything looks really nice so far, looking forward to the finished project.
on a side note, you have the same hair color as my friend. nice :D
Lookin' good. Keep it up.
Looks good so far. The flower looks really nice and I like the idea.
love your hair color. I cant get away with that in my job, so I envy your freedom with haircolor. All I can get away with is really weird streaks. ;)
As the resident naughty-painty-stencily-graffiti-artisty I feel obliged to A) congratulate you on a very nice stencil. And B) give you some tips!
firstly, reg marks! If you cut two little squares in the same place on each layer, you can line up the layers much more easily. 'but then you will have 2 little squares on the stencil!' well, if you're sensible you stick 2 little pieces of masking tape where the squares will be!
Also, WHERE DID YOU GET UV SPRAYPAINT?!?!?! The only UV spray I know of is spanish Montana Alien 'Poltergeist', and thats very hard to get hold of....
Good job!
nice tats. (someone had to say it.)
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Your beautiful..... I mean your case roxxors all soxxors. No seriously looks good. Hope your thumb heals up, but seriously your hott....Im not a petififle either<.<
or am I? heh heh heh heh
Spraypaint here.Quote:
Originally Posted by onelegout
I got some of this a while back for my arcade mod. It's neat stuff, but goes on very thin - it's actually an artist's fixative, not a proper paint. It takes many, many layers to build up a strong, reactive effect, but it's worth it. It is not entirely invisible, but darn close, and it works under a clear coat finish. Neat stuff.
I really like that paint design on the fan cover, it has the illusion of being backlit, moreso than other UV objects. keep it up *thumbs up*
Great!You'v made a hell of a yob.Keep going in this way.
heya - yeah, i have marker dots that line up the stencils. and thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by onelegout
ok so i am like the worst person ever for not finishing this damn project yet, but i am starting a new IT consulting biz right now (Blackwire LLC) and it is like sucking my time away from me. i know more about partnership taxation than anyone should at this point. here's an artsy-fied picture of me at work, doing a little routine maintenance on a some rack mounted servers:
HA! JUST KIDDING! (ok it is me and i am at work, but it was just a joke)
anyway - I prooooomise to finish this thing before the hardware becomes obsolete. ugh, i swear. at least my business is up and running (and profitable, so far!) and my thumb is healed!! it is back to 100% of it's previously thumby antics, and i only have a kinda-weird looking scar. c'est la vie.
-amberella :D
Quote:
Originally Posted by FynexFox
somehow i missed this post when i was just reading stuff.
thanks for the compliment, i think, but i am curious as to your concern about being a petififle. as i'm sure you're aware, the spread of petififilia throughout this great nation threatens the very fabric of our core values - freedom, democracy, and access to all the pr0n your bandwith can take.... so please, should you feel even the slightest tendancies (petite-petififle, i believe that first stage is called), get help. for yourself. for america.
and i'm 23.
amberella.
ohhhhh waaaait ... i get it. you meant petiFIVEL .... the compusive need to watch "An American Tale." You gotta admit, that mouse is spunky!
http://www.gamehead.com.au/image.php?productid=83965
Holy Lace ups Batman.. Corsets and Rackmounts.. Does it get any better then this!?!?
I was totally thinking the same thing overide. What an outfit for that kind of job!
dongles anyone?
oh and don't feel bad about not finishing, procrastination is where it at now a days. Everyone's doing it.
Bump. Are the pictures dead links? If so do you have a photobucket account or something because this case really intrigues me and I would like to see the pictures. Thanks. Sorry for bumping the thread.
Think about caeing the HD's in plastic and then stick a fan on top and that would vaccum cool the HD's I did it to whole case Vaccum tight it and the fan the crap out of it and it stays cool just if you case it put fans on front blowing in and back one flowing out. just an idea.
Holy crap she's posting an update! :banana:
So last we spoke (16 months ago **ahem**) I had sliced my finger basically in half while working on my case mod. It was one of those things you think, "Nah, who could REALLY hurt themselves if you have half a brain?" Well, the answer to that is apparently, me (and you). So be careful - a simple slip and you end up with 12 stitches, a lot of painkillers, and three months without full use of your left hand. :(
At any rate, this was only the first nail in the coffin of my mod at the time.
Nail #2: my lease was up and I had to move. I trucked all this project stuff to my parents' house where I was staying while looking for a new apartment (in New York, not Florida). Then the company I worked for closed (nail #3) and I was also sans job. S'ok, I thought, since I would need a new job to go with the new apartment anyway. Instead, the IT director at my company asked me if I wanted to stay in Florida and start an IT consulting business. I did, so we did (nail #4). Oh, and then 2 months later I ended up moving into his house/our office and we got married in march (nail #5). That's a lot of nails!
And during this whole time, the case and all it's accompanying tools, paints, components, and stuff sit in my old room at my parents' house, where my mom had so thoughtfully covered the entire eyesore with decorative pillow shams. I kid you not.
Now though, Axel (the business partner/husband) and I are back on the moving-to-new-york bandwagon. We're selling a TON of systems and components left over from the old company on ebay, along with all the extra tech stuff we've accumulated around the house. That means a lot of cleaning up and "refurbishing" of systems. It's taking over my house. Seriously - this is what my house looks like right now (and this is not even the half of it):
The bedroom:
The couch:
The hallway:
The office:
Hey wait... what's that on the floor??? Why ... It's the lotus case mod project!!**
**kind of
Soooo - yesterday I suddenly got it in my head to set up the "lotus blossom" system to see if the components even work at this point and upgrade the hardware with stuff literally lying around my house. Then I will keep just that ONE system to play with and I'll be able to sell even more stuff. Basically I'm preparing to fit 1200sqft of house into 800sqft of NY apartment, any Axel already has multiple servers and desktops that can't be sold because they're our daily workhorses. Hence, most of my stuff is now useless as, quite frankly, I never considered myself to need a terabyte of storage or my very own RAID array. :think: Sad, but true.
Long story short, Axel and I hooked everything up to see if it works, completely sans decoration. It is not, as one might say, the "Best Case Scenario." Rather, it's a messy rats' nest. BUT - it's a messy rats' nest that WORKS!
Some things I noticed upon exhuming this project:
1. Do not spraypaint those pretty round IDE & floppy cables! (Unless you're using special paint for plastic, I guess.) I had tried sprying white cables with the UV paint (and sealer) and they turned into a sticky MESS. :( Gross gross gross dust magnet. I threw them out (hence the ugly floppy and too long IDE cable).
2. Once piece micro form factor acrylic cases are a bitch to set up. But you knew that already.
3. Someone asked what UV paint I used. It was ClearNeon.
3. Under the wrong conditions (like a hot garage and a Florida summer), epoxy yellows like that's it's job. The test board that I did my initial lotus stencil design on looks like this:
The board was in the heat for a few months, then inside for the rest of the year. The board is on the left, against a white sheet for comparison.
4. Modding with a friend is fun! It's like having extra hands.... and someone to clean up after you!**
**Just kidding++
++not really.
So from here, I am back on the bandwagon. I NEED to get my house ready to go on the market, but I WANT to work on this project again. So I might not be able to update again ASAP, but I will finish it, I promise. After re-reading the thread, I realize how frickin' cool of an idea it was, and how sweet it will look when it's completed. I have had some great new ideas about how to approach some of the artwork that will be more feasible in the real world. For example, painting the components themselves rather than introducing "covers" would be a lot more practical, and potentially look just as cool, but work better with the space allowed in that TINY case. Also, I got so many little 3 bulb UV lights that really are kind of unnecessary. And I painted their covers before thinking that they needed to have clean plastic joints, so there's clear coat paint globs on some that keep them from snapping back together. C'est la vie. There's more, I'm sure, but I'll have to meditate on it and post later.
And one more thing: Thanks so much to everyone that sent me replies and messages over the last year; I had no idea I'd have so much feedback when I finally logged in again!
Best Wishes to all and sorry for the monster post!
amberella :bunny:
first thing i thought when i saw this updated...holy **** shes back!
glad to see you still have this project going....cant wait for your updates!
Holy **** she's back! My first thought was "Who's Res'ing old threads this time?" :D
Great to have you back.
-Dave
Wow I'm surprised you guys still remember my little project! It's hard to focus on all this stupid work I have to do right now when I just want to dive in to playing with my UV paints ... but I'm being a good girl. If I can work 'til 3, it'll be a miracle. But I have to stop reading these forums first!
Wow she's back!
...wait... do i even rember this mod? was i even registered...nevermind...
Congrats on your marriage btw :D
apparently a welcome back is in order. I'm not familiar with your work, but from what I've read, you've done some nice work.
Welcome back :) I went over this thread and i think the work you did so far is very nice ! I can't wait for some updates :up:
I just did to, and it's great! That lotus was killer!Quote:
Originally Posted by Computer-Geek
Nice poster BTW :up:
So this evening I re-approached the project from a logistical standpoint. The first thing I noticed is that this is a crazy small case. The wood panel that is meant to cover the top of the optical drive wouldn't even go into place without removing the motherboard.
With the wooden pieces I had already crafted propped in place and me holding the power supply, you can see what a tight squeeze it is. It was hard enough to connect all the cables before there were any obstacles in the way; I'm going to need to be very careful not to block access.
On the other side of the case (which I didn't photograph) the acrylic jogs around the 5.25" down to the 2 3.5" drives. The shape is kind of like a "Z". At first I was going to make the far side of the wooden box straight and ignore this jog, but now I see that where the motherboard juts out to - in combination with where the front power switches and lights are - means I'll need to follow that zig zag. Furthermore, I'll need to complete this box and install it piece by piece while simultaneously screwing in the drives each step of the way or I won't have access to those mounting screws later. So basically once this mod is done, I won't be updating this system EVER. But it'll look cool, so whatev. Here are all the wood pieces to make the main box, laid out so that I can figure out what to draw on them:
I've decided to stick with the themes that I initially intended, but maybe to expand upon the designs. This is mostly because I can't really remember what I wanted the finished design to look like from before. I know that I wanted to use the lotus blossom and some eastern thought concepts. I had created that fan cover with the ouroboros on it, but now I see that it's too tight a squeeze to use it. Instead, I'm going to incorporate the snake theme somewhere else. This is what I came up with just free-handing it as a start. I want the 3-dimensionality of the box to be reinforced, but with something simple enough that I can stencil. I want the finish product to look "stenciled" as a style choice.
Now that I'm thinking about it - Maybe I should try to set up the box as it will be in the case and draw the snake moving through the box like it was crawling through the drives? The right 3 panels are the "Z" jog and aren't very visible in the case so they don't need to be too complicated. Thoughts?? Something completely different?
I remember seeing this mod start up. It's cool that you have started working on it again. Also congrats on getting hitched.
Glad to see you back. Congrats on the nuptuals!
Happy Birthday!
I'm sorry if this comment has been made before.
[beyonce or whoever voice]
Under my amberella, ella, ella,eh eh eh under my aberella, ella, ella, eh eh eh eh eh eh! We're gonna mod all night togetha! we're gonna make it through this stormy wetha!hurrican charlie can't stay foreva! unless we're not under our amberella, ella ella, eh eh eh (and so forth)
[/Byonce voice or whoever]
And great mod by the way. Fantastic work on the painting and such.
^ agreedQuote:
Originally Posted by Scotty
and good to see this mod back on track... looks great... +rep
Whoa carp, Amberella's back.
Congrats on getting married! Thats great. Now if you'll excuse me for one moment...hahahaha "decorative pillow shams".
Ok, well, the mod looks good. Are you going to paint the wood, or leave it looking like wood?
LO-frickin-L ... no - that has yet to come up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quakken
It's going to be painted super clean white with the UV paint so that with UV lights off it looks blank and sterile, but with lights on it's all bling-a-fied.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aero
I've been preparing to move, but found some time to do research on the type of dragon i'd like to add to the project. I'll have that to post soon. Today I created a paper mock-up of the main box structure since working on it flat was not quite jiving and I want to make the snake/dragon look less like it's crawling ON the box, and rather more THROUGH the box. So here's a little pic of the boxy paper thing. No biggie.
In the meantime while I have the camera out, I finally took a pic of this mixed media art piece thing I did in an unrelated incident. (It's big and hard to photograph). The thing is about 5 feet wide. It's old comp pieces on stained wood with acrylic paint. And the binary is that old school punch labeling tape stuff. Also, here's a link to bigger version (1400x702) if you're interested.
Ok, perhaps more tonight - I'm going to work up a dragon.
amberella out. :bunny:
