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1. Sorry about the spill, Ill be tuning a few bikes up at the Glen within the next few weeks, I believe we'll have the track to ourselves if you want to take a few laps
2. That translation wasn't right, maybe one of these days Ill go through it or I'll ask Frakk to.
3. Nice job
Oh My God!
I'm new to all this case modding thing.. working on my first.. but this is absolutely extraordinary.... i just wish i'd have the experience, money, time, ideas.. and so on.. that you have.. it's absolutely brilliant... i can find no flaws...
I'd like to some day be able to do such work on a case or something of mine... Great Job.. keep 'em coming.. OMFG!!
Just to let you know Antedos I do believe this is his first mod as well I think that he said he may have cut a window out too i could be mistaken but i think i read that somewhere in his log he can correct me if im wrong :)
May it be his first.. and many more to come.. but he has also.. the space to work in.. I mean.. a workshop.. hehe.. i don't have such space, nor the tools he has at his disposal... anyway.. great mod.. and i'm sure everyone agrees it's one of the best anyone has seen.. i can't wait to see it finished...
Your right. The only modding before this was cutting out a window and then cutting out a hole in that window for a badong kit. All my past computers were basically put together and thats about it. Well,... I'm off to do some work on it. PEACE!Quote:
Originally Posted by sXenoG
this looks redonkuless, i've always loved lian li cases and wanted to get 1 and do some mods to it, but i never thought ne of these things. can't wait 2 c how it turns out 2 b. keep up the work
Sorry, feel asleep. Heres my first attempt at some shields. Made of cardboard:)
I think its a bit deep(from the mobo out). I think I can make something a bit lower in profile. Also if I cover a bit more I think it wont look so confined and tall? I'm going ot try something else out now.
Ok,... I've been up ALL friggin night working on this issue with the shields. I created two models in which we have tio choose from. Choose wisely,... model #1.
Model #2.
Both models.
Now,... choose one and tell me how you would want it. As in all UV green or some Uv green and some aluminum, half and half. What would you want UV and what would you want UV. Now,... personally. I like #1. Originally I wanted it with polished aluminum sides and UV in the center. But,... my gurl brought it to my attention that if the sides were UV and lit up, you would see a nice glowing edge. That would be HOT! BUT! I still have a lot of other stuff to do to these things. I want to drill holes in them , cut some grooves, and some other shapes. The edges of all of those cutouts will be glowing. Which means if my sides were aluminum and because of that the edges wouldnt be glowing,... so what. Theres going to be plenty of stuff glowing. You know what I mean? It would be sweet though. You would see that nicely through the side of the computer:) So,... let me know. Pick one,... and tell me how you want it! I'm goign to bed for a little bit. Goingto try and wake up soon to read this and get started on the real deal:)
Personally, I'd go with UV reactive colored acrylic for the side panels. I'd also probably try and build the shields out of .20 styrene which you can then paint up how you want, and would be fairly durable to stand up to some handling. Crimson's MUCH more knowledgable in the area of working with styrene than I am, so it might be best to talk with him about that part, but that's how I'd do it.
Hope my input helps.
I like #1 ... very nice design. I think you and your apprentice ;) both have good ideas on the side panels... what about UV behind the alum on the side panel so that a little sticks out and you still have that glowing edge?
First model - really better than #2
Awsome case, I'm waiting for next update ;)
Love #1. If you wanted to get alot of detail like trim etc. Id say to go with some of that wonderful plastic styrene I made my first cuts in it a couple days ago my first couple sucked but then i found a method that word VERY well for me and got perfect cuts outta the stuff.
ANYWAYS back to your mod. If alum and acrylic are the two materials youw ant to use I say acyrlic with alum accents. Since what the pumps are mounted to are allready alum. The acrylic will set off the background and add some good contrast. Not to mention glow :P
#1
#1
yea i have to say #1 looks tight
I'm going to with number 1. All aluminum with UV green accents. I have an update from yesterday but my image host was down. I will have two updates today. I will post yesterday as soon as I get home and the owrk I do today will get posted tonight when I'm all done.
Bummer wishing for them alum accents instead lol. Cant wait to see how you do accents in acrylic unless ur defyant i thing details got to be HARD witht he stuff :D Have you allready started on the actualy shields or just planning to?
Hold on cowboy,... You might just get you aluminum accents. Right now I have begun to make the side in aluminum. I am going ot make side in the UV green too. I will most likely use both for the side to give that glowing edge thing. For the inner shields,... I will make the aluminum ones first. If I decide that i want to use UV green instead,... I can use the aluminum pieces to help bend a form the UV green shields. I can always cut up the aluminum ones and use them for the accents. I will most likely make one of eveything to try it all out. You guyz have to keep in mind the the tower itself once finished, it will be about 60% aluminum and 40% UV green. So it wont really look like the pumps are being held up just by aluminum. It will all work out in the end. But for now I am making one of everything. Wait for yesterdays pics,... give me a minute.
UPDATE!!! WHAOOOO!!!!
Here I drew a more precise and modified version of the prototype side. This side has better curves. I drew it on the cardboard instead of some aluminum because some of the drawing consisted of freehand. With freehand there is some erasing and I didnt feel like erasing on aluminum.
Also,... because of the fact that its difficult to determine how big the side can be in any particular place of mounting, the cardboard allows me to cut out a trial real quick for fitment. Once I have to cutout I like, I will use it to trace onto the aluminum. This may sound like an inaccurate way of doing it but keep in mind that this piece doesnt really have a target size. Just what I would like it to be. Once it's on aluminum I can file it down so that it looks smooth and continuous. See the difference between the prototype and the new. Much better.
This is the aluminum version. Now,... this is not a piece to be used with the pumps. This is my template:) I will use this to accurately make 4 others. Looks sweet dont it:)
Now,... how to make 4 other almost identical pieces in a fair amount of time? Easily! I took my template of placed it on the sheet of aluminum that I will use to cut out the other pieces. Using pencil I drew around the template leaving about a 1/4" inch of space all the way around. I did that 4 times, obviously. Using the lig saw and some cutting oil, I cut out the those pieces. I use engine oil as cutting oil. It dont really matter what you use, just that you use something. Cutting straight you really dont need it but it does improve cutting big time. When cutting circles and stuff you really need it because the blade twists in the little groove it just cut, rubbing alone the edges causing it to heat up. The blade will start to hang on the project kicking the jig saw all over the place. Anyways,... I then file the burr off all the edges and even do some sanding so those pieces are very smooth. You take all the pieces and stack them up from smallest in front to largest in back. This is important so when you put your template ontop of that stack, it's easier to see if the template is covered by all of the pieces. If one piece in the middle is off and you file the whole thing down and then take it apart, you will see what that one piece was off. That will be not be fully formed and therefore you will be one piece short. So,... take all those piece and stacking as I said before with the template piece all the way in front. Line them up so that every pieces covers the template then lock them in a vise. Drill out the mounting holes for all 4 pieces using the hole in the template as your guide. Once done, without removing the pieces from the vise, sand the hole on both sides of the stack. Then pass some bolts through the holes locking them together. This way when you take them out of the ivse they wont move. Check the pic,...
Here I begun filing. YOu basically file away all the slack on the 4 new pieces. File down to the template but without removing to much from the template. Once you touch the template, you are done in the area for now. Go all the way around.
It's important you keep your file perpendicular to the piece while filing. The edge you are working on must be square when you are done. If not them one side will be larger then the others.
Look at all that meat I had to remove! Just picture that all the way around! Lordy! I was dying! I need to come a bit closer to the template with the jigsaw when doing the inner shields.
All done for now. I used a belt sander upside down to sand the edges down a bit. It helps make the pieces nice and round and helps maintaining a squre edge.
I have to cut out some designs still. Well,... I'm goign to back into the garage now to do some more work. PEACE! Need to get some breakfast first though :moron:.
How long did that one take you? It is amazing what YOU do when you put your mind to it.
Out of curiosity how would filing perpendicular help keep them all the same size wouldnt a steady hand be the reason for that? Ive never filed anything so sorry ift hat is an ignorant question and is commonly known lol :)
Good job on everything your attention to detail is amazing.
One more question, the hardware for that case are u using it in another case for now and if you're not man o man are you patient... That would be the biggest issue i ever had with a mod.
Ok,... youare right. You do need a steady hand to keep them all the smae size. Or,... you need a steady hand to keep the file perfectly perpendicular to keep them straight:) It's not like have to be super steady to do it, you just need to keep mind of the angle you are filing. When standing over the project while filing it's hard to tell where the file is on angle. Alot of beginners forget this and once they file to the line and then look. Theres a slope that leaves them all different sizes. I noticed that most of the time people file with the handle down to far. Which leaves a slope slanting down from back to front. Now about my hardware,... no, I'm not using it in another case. It's all laid out on my desk:( It's hard but,... good. If I wan tot use the hardware,... I f have to finish this project:) It's motivation:) I still have an unopened half-life 2!!! Can you believe that! Lordy! I havent really played doom, other then the demo. That ran great on the system before all this. Cant imagine how it will run after all this with a nice OC.
Check it out. This was my first mod. I sold it before my project now to get the case I have now,... which is basicalli the same case but not as tall. With the rad housing attached its about the same height. I deleted all of the pics I took of my first case mod awhile ago for some reason. Dont know why. The only pics of it is the ones the guy took for his work log. It's the tall silver lian-li case. I install the window and cut the hole in the window for the badong kit. The Aerogate Gatewatch was mine too. Sold it to him.
http://www.motherboards.org/forums/v...ic.php?t=65225
Ok,... choose. If you dont like any,... what would you like to see? I was drawing all night trying to figure this out! I went from to plain to crazy tribal like. The tribal didnt go with the case and the plain just flat out sucked. I wanted something either blade looking or better yet structured looking. I like #4. I would like some circles in there but couldnt quite figure out how. #4 doesnt have circles but it looks structured. Also,... with that much cut out,... it would be the material that would be accenting:) Oh got my mothers scroll saw and a slew of blades for it:)
#4
I think I like #2 best
I'll go with #4 Both it and #2 Look like Wing Spars from a WWII plane but #4 has that polished well thought out look, So I'm for it!
This is a sweet mod Man!
Crazybillybob
i'm voting #2.
fantastic work.
makes me want a house so I dont have to worry about bloody neighbours, it raining on my tools, various other apt. dwelling woes.
#4 looks sweet, but i think it would be a b#### to cut that and get it perfect, especially for 2 of em, i would go w/ #2 looks sweet as well and it will be easier
LOL. #4 I think, would be one of the easist to cut and get right:)Quote:
Originally Posted by uNdErAtEd
Some more variations.
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I dont think I am going to go with any of them. I need to keep these side things looking kinda like the VFD and LED panels. Simple, with no circle of anything round in them.
Tribal....Quote:
Originally Posted by uNdErAtEd
To get 2 (or more) exact copies. Use a bit of spray glue (on one side of each) and stick them all together. Then drill and cut like normal. This is a trick that my old man uses when he's cutting out 2 or 3 of the same thing on his Scroll saw (the old man is a master in wood....I look @ his stuff and go wowww!)
It will be thick but go slow and there shouldn't be any problems (alum is soft!)
You had to go put #9 in there....Wow....I'll stick with #4 (no circles, but Curves and straights kinda ties everything together)
Crazybillybob
I say #4 or #3 They both look the most wicked of the designs :)
i really like #3 it's like.. so smooth in design..
i would think drilling 8 holes of diff size would be easier than cuting out a whole bunch and then fileing them to be perfect, but idk i haven't worked w/ metal so don't consider me an expert, but i know with wood, drilling is alot less pain than to cuting and sanding. but yea idk y u wanted all those designs i though plain was sweet enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by tribaloverkill
I would be intrested in seeing if you could merge #7 and # 4 together to get something that looked nice or if it would look like crap.
I like the even beading that #7 has in it I think the uncut space would be to much
Quick question tribal: (Since you are the master of cutting and drilling in my eyes) ;)
I'm going to cut out a windows for my case. The metal is pre-cutted like this.
The window is going to be in regular plexi-glass (Dont know if its the same name in english, but it is the same kinda material as the one you are working with i think)
I went to the hardwarestore to get som stuff for the cutting and drilling, and the guy told me that he thought that I needed to use one of these for the drilling: (I bought both to be sure)
Made for wood: (the one in the middle of the pic)
Made for glass and tiles: link
Any suggestions of what would be the best?
The glass and tile ones will work sweet because they dont gouge to cut. They scrape. Scraping is the key to cutting acrylic(plexi). The drill bit in the middle,... I never used it but I dont trust it. It's no different then any normal drill bit. It gouges. You can grind you own drill bit to drill through acrylic.Quote:
Originally Posted by thephreak99
Heres a pic of a bit I ground down for drilling through the stuff.
http://www.gruntville.com/phpBB2/vie...=asc&start=760
Heres another one of my bits,...
http://www.gruntville.com/phpBB2/vie...=asc&start=440
When drilling,... you should here a hissing and scraping sound. Plus you should see crinkly ribbons coming from the hole.
Here's 3 more,... and the one I am most likely going with. Boddaker is right. I need to keep it simple as I did with the panels. Sometimes simplicity can be a beautiful thing. Also,... I still have to UV stuff that we'll all be drooling over. The aluminum and the Uv piece will work together to look good.
I like #13 for the simplicity, butI also like #14 for its complexity :p
I know! Damn. #14 is cool but it is too much. #13 is the way I'm going. OFF TO THE BAT CAVE!!! *COUGH*Garage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aero
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Originally Posted by tribaloverkill
Ok. Tanx alot! :)
