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Okay, thanks for the material description.
Your idea with the motorized doors sounds wicked. We'll have to talk about the motors and electronics later (:
I try to imagine a whole case in this cool look, but it's 8 in the morning here and my mind fails on that :? So when can we drool on the first rederings? :D
Hell yeah, i cant wait to see this and the case together, it'll rock
Like I said, its still in design phase. I only have a model to show the movable parts. so picture this case covered similar to the turbine only you won't be able to tell a difference between where the openings and movable parts are and the stationary sections are.
Here it is with everything closed.
And here it is open:
here is another angle to show the twin intake fans and the side fan.
The around the side fan will be clear plexi so you can see the inside of the case.
The pop-up slot load dvd player may interfere with the turbine on top (not shown obviously) -so I might have to move it.
Probably put some type of logo on the front of the case in that big blank area, but not sure what yet.
But that gives you guys something to "Drool" over. LOL
Cool. Will be interesting to see how you manage that design.
i agree, it will be interesting to see how you set it all up and pull it off but i have faith.
Looks nice. Im thinking of a mod, but at the moment it's only a thought, i woudl like to do one but yeah need a case, dont have access to many materials. And no half decent machinary :(
I was thinking of motorizing some stuff, only thing that way on my mind was how i was going to get it so it opened to reveal a drive bay which then opened... you won't have that problem if you use a slot loading drive, but if it ejects itself or something then i wanna know how you will stop it jamming the drive in or damaging the disk?
But the idea is great i like it alot.
Did I get it right? This will be a complete case-con. Not a case-mod?
Nice idea with those segmented doors. Good luck for your plans!
As I said: I am looking forward for your motorisation details, as I need some inspiration on the electronics and end-switches and so on for my Orb.
trubine looks awesome, and I lie the plan for the rest!
well guys, I may have to take a few days off of this, I've got some pains that I have to get taken care of at the doctors. Hopefully its nothing major, but from the way I feel, It might be. Later.
O.O um.. get well soon :)
I hope its not anything too bad keep us updated :)
Thanks everyone.
I got back from the doctors, they said its possibly something related to my chrons. so they gave me a prescription for Vicodin and told me if I still don't feel good by Monday to let them know. Don't you love how doctor's don't know ****. All they do is "try" somethign out and if it doesn't work, you have to spend more money to go in to another doctor only for them to "try" something to see if it will work. its amazing how screwed up our health care system is. Doctors get paid gobbs of money to guess at what is wrong with you....
..and to throw meds at you.
I have serious ongoing sinus issues.. possibly related to allergies (which I dont have AFAIK), possibly to something else.
Everytime I go to the docs about it, I end up with a prescription for abiotics, and get told "try this, and if it doesnt work, come back and we'll try something else".
Finally I just gave up on them.. I'll just suffer with sinus troubles. Better than becoming immune to meds that might be necessary to save my life.
ok, the vicodin seems to help alot so I got alittle work done tonight.
here is a shot of the fan I painted: Not exactly thrilling, yet...
I figured I'd play around with the airbrush tonight so here is what I did.
I took the trim piece for the window and taped off a few areas and painted some rust color:
then I added some silver and tan:
Followed that up with a little back drybrushing:
And here is the final piece:
So what do you guys think? I still have to do soemthing with the rivits but I have to get a fine paint brush. I was just playing around so I'm not sure if I like the colors. I think it looks pretty good, just not sure If I will like it if the whole thing looks like this. But then again, I wanted a rustic, weathered look to a metal structure so I think I hit it pretty good. Comments?
Awesome work! +rep
Good to hear that you feel better.
The paintbrush is really awesome. Particularly as this is your "playing around"!
But (IMHO) this is too colourfull. Not that its to many different colours, but that the single pieces differ so much in colour (doesn't seem "realistic"). But thats only my impression.
That looks great! Definitely and improvement for sure. The previous colors kind of reminded me of dominoes. :p
Oooo, nice! Reminds me of Doom3's colors ;)
ohh god! that's hot!!
Nice job dude. Good ol' dry brushing always makes things look nicer. +rep
I think the teqnique is awesome, nailed the whole weathered & aged look. The only thing I don't like about it is the full pieces of the rust color. I would think going with a layer of the silver on the whole piece, then accenting the rest with the tan and rust colors. Just my opinion, but still an awesome job.
+rep (got to spread some around first though)
looks awesome man!!
definitely a thread to keep watching...
+REP (again...lol)
Mate that looks insane. Great paint skills.
I've been really busy the last few days and haven't had a chance to get much done, so just a small update for now.
I started to airbrush the main body. Here it is with some of tape for the different colors and pieces:
and here it is with the tape pulled off (Not Finished)
I went to remove some of the tape to get a feel for the whole thing (Not finished yet) and it started to remove some of the paint. looks like I will have to fix that.
I also got the other sections of the resevoir supports made. I forgot to take a picture though. Maybe tomorrow night I will get them mounted to the resevoir brackets and can test fit it in the tube. I noticed somethign else I completly forgot about while working. The led light bar I instaled on the bottom of the tube goes right thru where the tubes from the resevoir are supposed to come thru the bottom. Again, I'll have to redo this area somehow.
I dont know.. I actually like it that way. It looks like the paint is falling off from old age. But its your project and do what you think is cool, otherwise you will never be happy with it. Good Luck and its lookin good.
-Dan
I agree but if you chose to leave it like that add a bit of rust and rust stain to the areas around the black patches.
good point you guys, however I probably should have mentioned, that area is actually going to be covered up by the window and trim ring. I wonder if this medicine I"m on is makeing it difficult for me to remember/think of things. I keep forgetting little details like this lately.
Meh my memory sucks, if you had my memory you wouldn't know what the hell it is when you woke up :) lol
Looking good though
Don't worry about it, it happens to the best of us. Can't wait to see it finnished with the window installed.
I'd like to retract what I said about the painting style. Seeing it all put together like this really brings the color scheme together. I like it.
I'd have to agree with Dan. If you want an aged / weathered look, that is certainly one way to get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by danthegeek
Keep it up renderman. The turbine is lookin great!!
Thanks. I'm still trying to decide on what I'm going to do on the back half that houses the radiator and fans. I was thinking of trying to integrate the pump somehow but still keep the top removable for servicing the fans and radiator.
Hi everyone, Sorry its been a while, been busy going to the doctors but lastnight I got some more done.
I finished painting the main round part of the body. I still have to figure out the back half.
Unweathered:
Weathered:
Then I glued the window in place:
I also started to run the el wire around the window:
I have an issue with the el wire for the other side, It has a bunch of dark spots in the wire. however when I bend the wire, they move. its like the el is not working correctly. Not sure what the problem is. I may have to replace this piece. good thing is its only tucked in behind the trim work.
Some night shots:
FYI there are 3 el wires all together.
I should be able to finish the el wire around the window and isnstall the trim ring next. After that, I can concentrate on getting the resevoir mounted.
LOL, looking at these pictures, I just realized that I forgot to paint the rivits. DUH.
TTFN
DEFINITELY MIND-BOTTLING MOD!
the way you weathered that made it looked like it sat out for a 100 years!!!! excellent work!
+rep ;)
now that looks freekin sweet! +rep!!!
looks like all the work paid off!
Excellent work man! +rep
Mate that looks great, the painting really went well for you and the EL wire looks fantastic.
Thanks everyone. I'm really glad you like it.
I'd like to do something different for the back half, so i was thinking of doing some kit bashing similar to Doom3. I looked at some models but they were really expensive. A tank model was around $40. thats too much to spend to just experiment. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
maybe you could ask in model shops to see if they have any damaged kits?
craig's list and ebay are the first places that come to mind, BTW amazing airbrushing on the turbine man :D
I'm so mad.... I got the el wire done and the window frame on last night and I started to work on installing the mounts for the resevoire. I took pictures of everything and was going to bring the sd card to work to upload the photos this morning and I forgot it sitting on the counter. So sorry guys, I'll have to update later tonight.
