Project : BossFX-57

Test mounted the PS with the spacers in place so that the fan fit properly, yay!!! Also looke d pretty cool too! ;)

Having to rethink the power cabling.

Not getting rid of it, but I underestimated the space left after the power supply and the optical drive were added in (plus the drop of the cieling due to the blow hole fan firing in to the scoop...)

So... I have to relocate the cable attachments. And since I will not have anything located in the lower 5.25 bays, I'm going to take 2 of them and build a minimalist drive bay attachment (think like a bay cover for the front bezel, except it will face the back) 2 bays used space. I'll cut a hole into the side of the 2 lower 5.25 bays and feed the power cables through that. Solder them on, and have my plug panel facing out into the open area, and cables will be run from there to their respective devices.

This placement will also put the mobo 4pin Molex (next to the PCI-E slots) and the 4 pin AUX connector within easy reach and it should proove to be an entertaining cable path!

Work done tonight. Remember, I'm going for a vehicle type of feel.

Taking a page from Lupine, I was soo happy with the cabling redirection, I think I'll use a similar technique here. Except this time, the ATX motherboard power bundle will stay out here and not get fed through.

The individual bundles ranked according to where they are on the cable hole of the power supply. I tried to back trace all of the cables and order the various bundles according to whether or not they returned to the top or the bottom of the bundle @ the power supply.

Looming on the cables and routed back to the hole. I'm not trying to disguise anything here. I wanted it to have a "piped" feel to it. Maybe sparkplug wires, or the vacuum tubing that is all under the hood.

And the cascade of cables on the back side of the motherboard.

some will be kept as is, and others will be butchered and reallocated to other power needs.

Trying to get some paint to dry tonight so that I can get some of the long "time" items done while I grab a bit of shut eye in a bit.

1st thing that I knew I had to get done tonight was the front bezel.

When I pulled the tape, I realized that the left side was not masked properly. Missed it on the pre-paint inspection. Now I have to re-mask the grey/black area, and paint this stripe, without creating a run... grrr....
Oh well...

Other than that, and a few oversprays that hit the tops of the grey areas from behind (another numbskull moment, I masked for paint from the front... totally did not cover the holes for paint coming from the back side! *headsmack smiley* )

Both of these should be easily fixable. ;)

Paint is fixed and drying. Next id to get the bottomw of the top manel with the scoop and paint it gloss black (to match with the powdercoating of the frame.

My cable interface bracket.

I've cut a hole behind this bracket that faces the back side of the case, and fed the wires through that hole. I'll then clip the power cables and attach them to the recepticles that will be mounted in the bracket.

Back out to the garage!

Lunch to Dinner pics...

Underside of the scoop. (this is actually painted now)

Custom feet created for this computer. Start with a acrylic block, put it on a spindle, and put a file to it! I did not want round, but square did not sit with the curves that are predominant in the striping and window. So, I blended them! ;) I plan on covering these with the chrome vinyl.

Meteor light controllers: (before and after... no pansy ass blue going in here!)

The wall that will have the UV light firing though it's edge:

(*NOTE*- this was the begining of a very serious problem that ended up costing me about 1 day of work... it was sickening... -TD )

getting much closer to full realization!

I have a little bit of touchup to do to the front Bezel, and I'm redux'ing my power lines that were already done.

I'm not adding in additional jacks to attempt to handle the proper grounding. The only 2 that will not have all of their ground lines are the SATA connector (which will have a optical drive and an older SATA drive) and the P4 AUX connector (12v x2, Ground x1 <normally 2>).

This was the last update I made before submission to Coolermaster...
I had been up for 36 hours straight. There was a LOT of problems that happened in the final push, corners that had to be cut, and ideas that had to be pulled and delayed. It was *exhausting*...
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I am tired, exhausted, and glad this thing is over...
;)

We'll see what the others brought to the table.

I'll talk more about the events of today... later. Right now, I can feel my energy leaking out my feet... ;)

Nighty night all!

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Originally Posted by Thallion

1 - I swear most boss's with hood scoops the scoop is black. Maybe a result of the hood stripe, but still, it caught my eye.

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First off, thank you for replying to the thread! I always like talking about this, especially when it involves design decisions!

I'm not a Boss afficienado (spelling?), so I won't feign complete knowledge of the painting schemes. But what all I had seen, you are right about the scoops being black. Ive seen them with either the entire hood matte black, or the black of the center stripe being continued on to the scoop. So, "yes", you are correct in the coloring of the scoop being off. I was actually considering continuing the "charcoal black" treatment that I had on the front, but if you notice, that stripe is too narrow for the scoop. Effectively, the black would not have been symetrical to the front. If I wanted to black the scoop, I would have had to black out the entire front of the bezel, which I did not want to do (for the sake of color diversity). Alternatively,just putting the stripe the same width as the front bezel strip did not look right either. So, ultimately, I left it as I thought it would look best on this machine. You are right though, it is not accurate with regards to proper color scheme and layout on the BOSS line. Nice catch!

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Originally Posted by Thallion

2 - Your scoop's ending form seems too rounded, like the scoop off a modern car not an early mustang.

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Another good catch! The back taper of my scoop was my own decision, as well as the slight top rounding. The scoops you show I actually did consider (and they would have actually been easier), but I had this stubborn vision in my mind's eye, and like a splinter.. I could not get it out of my head until lafter I built it! ;)

My initial mock ups of the scoop, I did not like the "ski slope effect" on the computer. Just a personal preference, so it was done with heavy influence from the Boss scoops that I did see, but in my own style.

I'm very glad you like the mod! Thanks for the enthusiasm!!

Thanks Thallion! Much appreciate your chiming in!

It's all about the details....
I felt it necessary to pull out some of the little things left undone on BOSS, and here are two of the things I have picked up on to complete this weekend.

This was one of those little things that I did not do in the end... the chrome will be smoked with the MetalCast smoke that I used on the middle stripe, and the red color will be painted over with the OSHA orange. There is a little fan inside the unit, as well as a blue LED that I need to replace with a white one to keep it inline with the rest of the mod. Guess I could go orange on the LED too... might esperiment a bit on that route:

While I work on the case build out on DST, since I am out there... figured I'd quit slacking off and get these little ones worked out too!
;)

Pulling that mouse apart was a PITA!!!!

The top over the IC is the blue LED that lights through the vents and the fan. That will be what I replace with a white or orange one.

6 screws holding the internals together.... cripes...

Finally... broken down:

These parts will be OSHA orange:

and these are with the first layer of smoke paint:

I plan on 2-3 more layers of paint on these parts.

after 2 more coats of "Smoke" and the 2-3 coats of clear:

the top pieces:

Pulled the blue LED out of this beastie, and replaced it with a white 5000mcd light. I then sprayed it with a glass frosting so that the light would disperse and not just spotlight. These pics were prior to me spraying the frost.