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looks awesome! very unique :D

Huh... not what I was expecting, but I love it. I love the compartmentalization of the internals!

that is so wicked I really like the finished product.

Thanks guys :) I hope you like it so much you would like to vote for me ;)

http://casemod2011.coolermaster.com/....php?u=123&c=1

Update

Although you have already got to see the end result, I will update you on the progress of building this case. I will write it in present tense, that feels more natural. The side panel is the biggest feature of the case. It is a complex part, made of e few bigger and smaller parts of polycarbonate, it has windows, and intake and soon an outtake. All of that took a lot of time to build :) Since it needs to look like one part, I have glued the parts together:

(Oh I forgot to update you on the painted frame, won't happen again;) )

I kept the nicest feature of the side panel a secret for a long time. I will add three black strips of 8mm Lexan. This is a fuzzy picture of the rough shape of the first one:

After a few drawings, I drew a nice fillet on the front:

This is how the three strips will have to fit later on:

The top of the side panel still has to be reshaped. It still has a straight shape. Before I do that, I drilled a few mounting holes for the side panel so I'm sure they line up.

I also mounted this strip to the side panel more solidly now with some new bolts:

And then I am finally able to cut a nice curve out of that sheet. Once again I cut all of it at an angle, to make the top line horizontal:

The most recognizable feature of the Cosmos cases are the tubes at the top and bottom, so I will mount all of them in the end result. The side panel needed a modification before that was possible though:

Of course I won't leave the end hanging in mid air, I need to cut it :)

My hardware order has also arrived. First the motherboard, an Asus P8P67. There are about seven versions of this board, I got the one with the easiest name ;) I would have liked a Z68 chipset board, but I needed it a few days before it came out.

The fastest Intel i5 sandy bridge processor, the 2500k:

And a set of memory sticks, unfortunately with mesh stickers :P

I didn't try the boxed cooler, I just went straight for the big one :)

Hmm, doesn't fit!

But we'll work around that. Don't tell this to anyone, but it has always been the plan that the CPU cooler wouldn't fit ;) How do you like my new dishwasher?

After I cut a rough square, I created the exact lines with tape:

That's it for now, more about the side panel next time. That will be a big update :)

For now, I can still use your vote for the case in the Cooler Master contest. I'm in the 10th position or something, in the Tower category. I hope to rise a few places within the next few days, but I'm afraid that isn't going to happen. Remember, you can vote once in each category.

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Originally Posted by brinkz0r

Although you have already got to see the end result, I will update you on the progress of building this case.

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For many of us... it's more about the journey rather then the destination.

Thanks for updating us, and good luck. Killer build!

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Originally Posted by OvRiDe

For many of us... it's more about the journey rather then the destination.

Thanks for updating us, and good luck. Killer build!

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Thanks, and I totally agree. The finished product is just standing there, and everybody is telling you that you should be proud of it. I am usually more like "yay, it's finished, now what".


Update

For the Cooler Master contest deadline, I could only send in five pictures. And even worse, they had to be resized to 355x267, which meant that I had to throw away 17,9 megapixels of every picture. Since I have made many more, I am sharing the best of them with you. I haven't polished them up in any way, just resized and bordered them.

Clickable for 2000 pix wide :)

And my favorite :)