Water Alien Rebirth - From Brazil

Worklog of case mod I’ve started December, 22.12.2006 wich I intend to subscribe on the 2007 international CM Contest.
22.12.2006

Name: Water Alien Rebirth (i'll redo the Leadership Alien 3 Gamer case from zero, implementing water cooling)

HARDWARE CONFIG

MOBO A8N-E (COOLER MODED)
2048 DDR (COOLER MODED)
Athlon 64 4600X2
MSI NX7900GTX 512 (CM AQUAGATE-VIVA)
Audigy 2 ZS
2HDs 80GB Sata2 em Raid 0 - Samsung
DVD 111D Pioneer - DVD GSAH10A LG (CM Rounded UV Cable - Blue)

Case:

Some instrumentals, materials and work photos

My Herbalife tea"Gás"

Dremel Saw in action

Improvisation

After a Dremel sanding

My worktable, almost there.

Notebook for the next updates:

23.12.2006
Some other pictures

The table as i left yesterday

Replacing nails for screws

Suporting big screws

For internal reinforcement

Sand it with Dremel

Cutting the suport screws

Just ready for a cleanner job. A lot of dust has flooded my room

Some materials over the table and other are coming soon from e-bay.

The real case:

Nice mousepad, fine for hard pc working for long periods of time.

This dragon will take a 2-3 days of hard engraving work, but it have to be done.

‘Here we go

Closer

Oops...

The base.

Materials (epóxi, fiberglass, polyester, PVC glue)

Paints

Aliens...

A baby et ...

Huge CNPS9700LED bought on e-Bay to CPU, the VGA cooler will be the Cooler Master Aquagate-viva

New stuff

For a professional cable sleeving mod on ST550EAG:

Plastics

More plastics, for texturing (I’ll try a new technic, pay attention)

23.12.2006

Updates

I am deciding to paint the original cables of my ST550EAG, its very nice worked out, doesn’t need the full mod, just a paint and molex replacement.

A 360º view

I’ll move the HDs case.

Holy Dremel

25.12.2006

A little update

24.12.2006
Today updates:

A beautiful day...

Chipset cooler mod

After a lot of sanding...

Working on de case base:

Put into Coreldraw and printed on adesive tranparency paper:

Without an apropriated bit i've bought but still don't get it here, i used a wrong bit and screw it up everything, this is the results...

26.12.2006

Today i started the ST-550EAG MOD, and just realize their coolers are soft to replace, so i decide to replace de 92mm for a 120mm.

It was a hard work today, cutting with dremel and soffering with Dremel Router, but i learned something today and tomorow i'll work better. (i hope)

Photos

Breaking news... really !

Cooler i'll change.

Easy

'Gas'

CM 2007, Here we are :)

chip :shock: with Dremel

Sanding

Cut done !

Cutting plex-glass with Dremel saw maybe not a good idea (i'll use apropriate bit with router to redo de cut tomorrow)

Learning...

Piece of... cant say !

Trying

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31.12.2006 / 01.01.2007

I decided doing some tests with leds ligthing before going on with the project.

These rivets are for tests purpose only.

Seems the idea works

I was running up to do some soldering works when the UPS arrived, damn ! For one second i thought the CM WC had arrived, but was another Dremel I've bought to do engraving jobs(this one is diferent of mine because it start at 5000 rpm and goes to 35000, the other one i have goes from 10k rpm to 33k rpm)

Dark photos are not what i can do best...

Some news at the font modding... (still leaning to use the Dremel router, if anyone knows where i can find any kind of tutorial, please, tell me where)

Doing these borders results in a very nice finishing.

I reached out a very nice fit on this piece

Some hand sanding with 360, 600 and 1200 sands, respectivelly, to acomplish the final results...

Dust, dust2 and dust2007... :)

The concept:

Now i'll do a 120mm hole at center of the top and put an nice one cooler with leds on with. (i'm thinking put blue light inside to contrast with red lights an red UV reactives i'll use inside de case.

It's all for now, i'll put more soon...

Coments are very wellcome...

See you and happy new year for everybody !

Pedro Torres

To a moderator:

Please, theese is my worklog i am also posting it in other forums, so, they get too long because it was several days condesend in one post.

I ask you to delete this post after reading and let the others, i will update it daily and this kind of post will not be repeated. I appreciate you patiente and attention.

Thank you and happy new year for everyone,

Pedro Torres Filho
Brazil.

PS-> Also, let me know if there some kind of inconvenience on posts and i'll edit it. Again, Thank you !

Awesome, Keep up the work!

Wow. This is looking truly amazing, my hat goes off to you. Great job so far, I'm looking forward to seeing more.

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Originally Posted by tybrenis

Wow. This is looking truly amazing, my hat goes off to you. Great job so far, I'm looking forward to seeing more.

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I agree. Great work! +rep.

This is a fantastic worklog with a lot of effort and great photography. Keep up the good work!

+Rep!

-Dave

Very nice table, i spy a razer mousepad, but wheres the mouse? i <3 mine

Very nice mod, love the feet!

Hi everyone,

I am working on a new font cover, because, i want to put a 120mm fan and the cover i've made do not have left enough space for it. (it's a very small font, i coudn't believe)

Look at that:

Alson, today i've ordered a CM Dual Storm fan for the VGA memory chipsets that will changed when the CM Aquagate-viva arrives.

I want thanks to all of you for the coments you've made, they're very wellcome and makes me very proud. This also lets me believe i am doing something nice here.

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Originally Posted by tybrenis

Wow. This is looking truly amazing, my hat goes off to you. Great job so far, I'm looking forward to seeing more.

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Thank you tybrenis, i proud to accept your eulogious references to my work! :D

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Originally Posted by Omega

Awesome, Keep up the work!

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Thank you, i will !

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Originally Posted by sgtm

I agree. Great work! +rep.

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Thank you, sgtm !

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Originally Posted by DaveW

This is a fantastic worklog with a lot of effort and great photography. Keep up the good work!

+Rep!

-Dave

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Thank you Dave, i'm loving doind this, including taking work pictures...

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Originally Posted by NocturnaL

Very nice table, i spy a razer mousepad, but wheres the mouse? i <3 mine

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Seems like one, but it's not a joke, 'the mouse is on the table' ?! :)

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Originally Posted by Indybird

Very nice mod, love the feet!

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Thank you, i've walking a lot by hardware store to another 'till find this one... It will win a texturized paintig later...

That it for now, see you later...

And, again, thank you and very happy new year to all of you !

Pedro Torres

PS-> Sorry any english mystakes.

Welcome Pedro,
I agree with everything above, great worklog!
Jon

Nice work so far, I am monitoring this one. I like the creativity here!

BTW: I notice you have your refreshments handy, What are you drinking?

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Originally Posted by Airbozo

Nice work so far, I am monitoring this one. I like the creativity here!

BTW: I notice you have your refreshments handy, What are you drinking?

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It's a delicious and energetic herbalife tea... Really nice. :)

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Originally Posted by jdbnsn

Welcome Pedro,
I agree with everything above, great worklog!
Jon

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Thank you !

Today i got an item wich is essencial for this project, and will define some of the next steps and was what i was wainting for. It was delayed about 20 days by brazilian aduana services...

I consider it one of the bigger conquest to my project, because this is the most important reason i am doing the mod, to cool down the system and let it more stable, besides the beautifull look and fantastic performance of Zalman CNPS9700LED.

This cooler is very compact and many says it really works... bought it for a reasonable price but was hard to find it, so, i bought somehow at e-Bay and wait a lot 'till put my hands on it.

Some pictures:

Now, with theese CM WC in hands, i'll decide where to install it and will next it do some cuts in front panel and other parts of case.

I hope to rear some words of others owners of this WC, most of then, general tooks about it.

I found it absolutely amazing. Very well designed and finished, it is a small piece of art and technology, no doubts about... The only "to do" thing is, maybe, a lapping on block to add some shinny, what you folks think about it?!

Thank you for the coments, see you soon !

Pedro Torres.

Today i removed the foots that will be fixed with screws later and did some cuts behind the case to do a small widows that allow light to pass by.

While cutting, i got these 2 smal tanks models that will be used in some exterior textures details. I am wainting the airbrush arrive here to start painting some exterior parts.

The tanks:

Pieces:

Small window for light pass trought...

Cuted:

Some sanding to revel the cut imperfections.

After a hard sanding, this result:

As i spected the WC is small and will fit in that space left by HDs.

Tomorrow i'll do their cuts and for small ET instalation. Also, i'll start some fiberglass working...

Thank you for beeing here,

Pedro Torres.

Today updates:

After some sanding work...

Testing...

Plexi-glass work to back side window:

Cut and borders made with Dremel router:

After some sanding...

I don't liked the result, then, tomorrow i'll do it again.

Tomorrou i'll capture the ET form with fiberglass

Attempting Alfa 1.0

Capturing the ET oval face form:

I dit it 3 times and put all together with soft tape.

Exed...

Now is to put the polyester resin and fiberglass tocapture the ET face form

See you tomorrow

Pedro Torres.
Tomorrow i'll really start that fiberglass work i told before.

Thank you for beeing here !

Pedro Torres.

Can't wait for the fiberglass work.

Great worklog. Great pics.

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Originally Posted by Commando

Can't wait for the fiberglass work.

Great worklog. Great pics.

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Thank you Commando, casemoding is a very nice hobby i've start and i'm really loving to do it, but, every coments like this yours, makes me want do ever the best i can.

This was my first time with fiberglass and i learned a lot. I did this form capturing first because it doen't need best results, than, i made use of this moment to learn.

Thank you for your coment !

Today updates (A):

Finelly, some updates with fiberglass works, that i loved to working with:

Did all work over a plastic and used dispendeable materials, making thiks easy to clean up after ;)

More important of all that, the apropriate mask ;)

Touching test done, it's almost dry..

Removing the piece, next time i work with fiberglass i'll use only tape instead using alumin laminate paper 'cause it's very easy to remove:

As this is just for modeling the plexi-glass, i think it's enough, but, to for some detailed work, it is not apropriated. (first time i used fiberglass, what emotion... :D )

Quite enough (just cut the borders to be nice and it's done):

Thank you for beeing here.

Pedro Torres.

woooww damn nice work with the F/G
can't wayt to see what's next :D

+rep

Ooooo....fiberglass...
I've always wanted to learn how to build with that stuff, I have a subwoofer box built into my trunk with it that was custom made and I really wanted to stick around to see how it was done but had to work. Looks like you figured it out quite well, great job! This project is great reading!!!

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Ooooo....fiberglass...
I've always wanted to learn how to build with that stuff, I have a subwoofer box built into my trunk with it that was custom made and I really wanted to stick around to see how it was done but had to work. Looks like you figured it out quite well, great job! This project is great reading!!!

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I think this is the best think on casemoding, the learning... Glad you learned something with this worklog.

Thanks !

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Originally Posted by GT40_GearHead

woooww damn nice work with the F/G
can't wayt to see what's next :D

+rep

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This week i'll buy a thermal blower to print the ET figure on plexi-glass and give a 3d aspect to it.

Thanks !

The next pictures i've worked on photopaint to let it lighter to load... :)

Just cutted the borders:

Cut on front panel where i'll place de little ET.

Getting ready to fix the leds on base hexagons

Seems i'll make some money tomorrow at afternoon to buy the thermal blower i need to do some plexi-glass and other plastics works.

See you later,

Pedro Torres.

Your fabrication skills are top notch! Also your attention to detail is a lesson for us all. Keep working and you will be sure to win the competition.

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Originally Posted by simon275

Your fabrication skills are top notch! Also your attention to detail is a lesson for us all. Keep working and you will be sure to win the competition.

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Thank you simon275,

Today i learned something else when tried to do a circular depression on foot bases, look:

I did this circular depression on hexagons to the leds lights go directly to the borders, increasing it's ligh efect.

Also, i got the airbrush, wich i'll use to paint the external textures.

Now, i am depending of thermal blower to start huges updates.

Today's some processed pictures (hope get ligther to load it):

S* happens... i've lost one of hexagons because used a wrong Dremel bit and solve this using correct tecnique, watch this:

One ready base to acomplish the leds:

The airbrush (it was the cheaper i've found, but, seems it will work just fine - at least, i've already crossed the fingers)

Thanks folks, i'll do an effort to get the thermal blower tomorrow to start a true job here.

See you,

Pedro Torres.

Very original project!

You've inspired me with your *frosty* PSU plexi-glass look. very cool.

Fantastic work log, Pedro!

How do you like the Dremel router? I've been trying to decide whether to get that or the Dremel router table (or a full sized router table). Also, were you using the Dremel saw to cut your plexi?

Again, great work.

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Originally Posted by javafiend

Fantastic work log, Pedro!

How do you like the Dremel router? I've been trying to decide whether to get that or the Dremel router table (or a full sized router table). Also, were you using the Dremel saw to cut your plexi?

Again, great work.

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Hello javafiend,

I think the router i have is easier to operate. It's easy to change the bits and is not fixed, so you can rotate it, instead rotatind the material you're working on it. (have i made myself clear?)

To cut the plexi i use the saw to do long cuts, because it's fast and do strait cuts. To do short cuts, i use the Dremel cut disk - the thin 409 piece, because it results in less dust, but, produces a toxic smoke, so i have to use a not confortable anti-organic mask.

This router, with the apropriate bit, can do fine works on plexi, wood, and a lot of materials, and you can define the deep of cut, for example, it's really an amazin stuff.

(*Dremel is not paying me to do this comercial :D) - yet !

Thank you for beeing here, hope i could help.

Some picts of a small update from today's work, including, the fabrication of 2 new hexagons that i've to cut again.

Did a finishing job on back side window and other sanding works, nothing relevant work today. Tomorrow will have some significant updates, i hope.. :)

This will result in a better fit of plexi-glass:

See you people,

Pedro Torres.

Brilliant Pedro. This worklog is wicked. Top pics and I can't wait to see more. Keep it up kiddo:up:

Wow man, excellent work. I love the case feet you made, and great job with the fiberglass! And I love all the pics! It gives great detail into what you're doing.

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Originally Posted by blue73

Brilliant Pedro. This worklog is wicked. Top pics and I can't wait to see more. Keep it up kiddo:up:

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Thank you for your coment, tomorrow will have some hard work.

See you...

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Originally Posted by .Maleficus.

Wow man, excellent work. I love the case feet you made, and great job with the fiberglass! And I love all the pics! It gives great detail into what you're doing.

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Thank you Maleficus, i've made a small update on lightning base feet hexagons.

Yor coments are aways very wellcome, thank you !

I got today the light efect i was looking for. To show it better i've to do a small movie of hexagons and leds it in action.

That is a lot of light and is exactly what i want, to give the impression that the case is floating over lights, like a spacecraft...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQA4FrEjaDM

Some pics:

Indeed lights. It apears ever when flash is used, amazing look:

I am going to sleep, 'cause i'm very tired.

Thank you all !

Pedro Torres.

I was waiting for that part :up: turned out well

I did a small back panel to mobo no plexiglass:

Received this P-72 plastic model for external texturing job:

And,

Finelly i've got that heatgun:

Things will happen

Thank you people,

See you soon, with big news !

Pedro Torres.

First results. Tomorrow i'll do a finishing job on ET and bring new fotos at daylight, theese are not very well.

That's all for this moment !

Pedro Torres.

window looks wery well man
great update


+rep

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Originally Posted by GT40_GearHead

window looks wery well man
great update


+rep

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Thank you !

Today news:

I got a little busy this week and the project got a delay wich i hope to compensate it with a tomorrow big update i am working on.

Some pics of today work and some materials i bought:

The ET face deep is just fine, tomorrow i'll do a little blondo job on it and will finelly print the ET face on 3mm UV plexiglass.

See you tomorrow with a really nice update,

Pedro Torres.

This is a fantastic worklog Pedro. It is quite inspirational. Thanks and well done. Cant wait for the further updates!

I shudder to think that chloroform is still being used. nonetheless useful, just a little more toxic than most.