Holy Crap!:eek: That cut out is awesome! Really love this. +rep keep it coming.
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Holy Crap!:eek: That cut out is awesome! Really love this. +rep keep it coming.
thats wicked. cant wait to see more on this one!
Amazingly intricate cut, looking forward for more progress :up:, +rep if I haven't already :).
So time for an update.
First we will take a slight detour and I'll show you what we worked on last weekend. Crappy old folding table, completely sanded (by hand):
My buddy doing us justice:
Finished project:
Ok, now back to your regularly scheduled program! So I had some problems painting the top of the case. Basically, I didn't take the time to sand the thing and I was just putting layer after layer of paint on top of paint. It kinda went like this:
So I gave up for a day or two and worked on the front of the case.
Leo helped:
I also became extremely frustrated with my arc. I learned that unless you have a bunch of straight edges to push the bondo up against, it is really hard to sand bondo straight. I bought some cheap Lexan sheets at Home Depot and I'm going to make the skeleton out of that. Primer should be a good color for it, and the great stuff will be used for the molding:
Time to go back to the top. I sat down, and in about an hour I had it sanded down to this:
Since the cutout is so delicate I didn't bother sanding it too much and went ahead with the painting:
Wonder how its gonna turn out... Lets take a look at the new hardware real quick! Xoxide had a good deal on a supposedly super silent cooler for AM2's, so I bought that and an LED fan and got them in today:
I might do a review on the cooler as it seems super interesting. I also picked up a hard drive and DVD drive finally. I have yet to decide exactly how I'm going to integrate the optical drive. I'll work on that tomorrow most likely.
On a related note, I feel really good about my color choices so far:
OMG, whats this? I actually did it right?
Well, much better than I had done, but there are a few spaces I need to touch up. No worries though, it works for me.
And her:
More to come later!
Ninja Turtles? Your girlfriend just got this <_____________> much cooler!
holy ****..
lol i officially love ur gf :P i wanna watch that movie now.. darn you!
nice progress :up:
Love the diorama casemods ! You should check out the worklogs of Terw_Dan here in The Netherlands. He is amazing with diorama's !
Very nice work man, as always!
Also, nice catch! :wink:
Another update! Tomorrow my mom's birthday, and I will hopefully have it done by next weekend.
Got the plexi in:
Tried to get a pattern to cut out:
This was the best solution I had, support the glass with a bowl, center the cutout in the bowl, cut.
The bowl thing worked, the free hand saber cut didn't really work. I'll fix it later.
Hey, where'd all that tape go? Thank you Guerrilla Glue! Case sides are now done.
I also completely redid the arc, here is the proof of concept.
But how, pray tell, should I construct the actual arc? I didn't have a lighter, so I tried a frying pan and some aluminum foil.
Worked perfectly:
And once again, thank you Geurilla Glue!
Since the sides weren't all perfectly seated I reinforced it with a little bondo work:
Fits well:
I then sanded all the sides down and made everything nice and flush:
Check the difference:
I still have two other little panels to put in on the thing, but they should come easily. Once I put those on I'll take the time to decorate the arc and hopefully call it finished. After that, finish the front of the case, make sure the top fits, get the glass cut how I want it and secured, then actually put the components in, then its done!
Yea... next week...
