Cygnar Storm Strider Casemod

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Originally Posted by SXRguyinMA

congrats!!

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:banana:

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Originally Posted by TheMainMan

Great to see sponsors taking interest, your work deserves it!

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Thanks!!! I appreciate any and all the help I can get.

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Originally Posted by Notyab

That is amazing work. I wish i had the time and resources to do something fun like this. Great work man :)

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Actually, so do I. I'm working 2 jobs, doing this case mod and planning two others (a clockwork DVR and a My Little Pony case). As for resources, I've been doing this all on the cheap. I buy scrap aluminum plates for framing. The aluminum I'm melting down is scrap from local bicycle shops (wheel rims and some frames are aluminum). My biggest expense was buying the computer parts.

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Originally Posted by dooglo

This is simply just awesome. Great work. Love the craftsmanship your showing all of us.

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Thank you every much.

are the pictures in post 41 dead for anyone else?

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Originally Posted by Snowman

are the pictures in post 41 dead for anyone else?

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Yeah, it looks like Yahoo Business Hosting is having some trouble. I'm getting a hold of them and seeing what's going on.

I'm getting dropped connections when attempting to connect to the server.



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Looks like there might have been some problems with the A record for my domain hosting. Hopefully the quick little work around works until they get it figured out. Try refreshing the page and see if it comes through now.

When it rains, it pours!

I might have a second potential contributor/sponsor!

Details will be posted soon with an actual update!

Update #18: Paint and Tapping Frustrations
Count Down: Only 23 more days until PAX 2011.

Look what arrived! First off I’d like to thank my new sponsor. Privateer Press! For those of you unfamiliar with Privateer Press they make a several fun games and a line of paints. The idea for the model was derived from one of their Battle Engines from the game Warmachine.

http://privateerpress.com/

Not only did they agree to sponsor me but they sent their help in record time. A package arrived on my door step by the time I finished reading the email saying they’d sponsor me. It was filled with four cool looking boxes.

Each of those boxes were filled with model paints! And they sent two cool patches to use for a process display!

The colors I requested and they provided were:
Exile Blue, Cygnar Blue Base, Cygnar Blue Highlight, Arcane Blue, Menoth White Highlight, Morrow White, Thamar Black, Battlefield Brown

I should be able to use these colors to replicate the colors they used for the gallery entry for the Storm Strider:

All in all, this help from Privateer Press brings me to a new level of happiness and excitement! I can’t wait to try out all of the new stuff. Even better news, I’m in discussions with D. Anthony over at Green Fairy Studios. They would like to help out the project by painting and/or detailing the case! As time runs short, this is a much needed boost to my confidence and my ability to make the PAX deadline! Feel free to check out his work: http://greenfairystudios.wordpress.com/

Now, back to the case! I am all tapped out. Literally, I am out of taps. I ran into a bit of a snag and snapped not one but two of my taps. Fortunately, I was able to extract the snapped pieces without damaging any of the pieces. Do any of you experience metal workers out there have any advice for me? Am I just strong arming my taps? They are kind of thin/small, 4-40 taps. Is there a brand anyone prefers?

Here’s the base plate with half of the posts attached.

I’ll probably have another post on Friday/Saturday. Stay Tuned!!

my only advice is to only turn the tap about a 1/4 turn at a time. backing it off after every 1/4 turn and then every couple of full turns backing it all the way out to get the metal shavings out of the hole.

perhaps you used a slightly too small drill bit to make the initial hole?

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Originally Posted by xr4man

my only advice is to only turn the tap about a 1/4 turn at a time. backing it off after every 1/4 turn and then every couple of full turns backing it all the way out to get the metal shavings out of the hole.

perhaps you used a slightly too small drill bit to make the initial hole?

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The drill bit i used was included in the tap package as the 'matching drill bit'. It's probably me just being too aggressive or not clearing enough shavings out.

well i guess that's the right drill bit then.

Absolutely amazing project.... I'll def be following this one till the end...

TD

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Originally Posted by Commando

Absolutely amazing project.... I'll def be following this one till the end...

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Thank you!

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As a little update:

Do not be surprised if every single mod I do for the next 10 years has blue LEDs. I just got a screaming deal from a US LED manufacturer: 1000 Blue LEDs for $27 USD.

Even if 950 of them don't work, I'll still have enough for this project and will have paid less than buying them from the local Radio Shack.