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My first Try at modding
Soo this wil be my first project and proberly the most learningsome :lick:
ill be making a photo movie or something like that that will show the entire *build. ill also add 2 pics with this post to show the case at the moment :up:
i must say that this is just the best case to mod, perfect standard size.
45cm long 40cm high and 20cm width.
it will become a case with cut out biohazard signs and the text Anthrax painted in green on de side and top, also i will chance every led in my case for brigth/dark green led's :lick: make green led's shine trough the cut out signs
anyways for me its the first time so i can need all the help from the pro's and the less pro's *everybody is better then me :lick:*
*im just modding not building a new case :P
Pics:
The case normaly
Opened
Running, Gonna chance the blue led's for green ones
The Sides come off as well as the top.
AntraxLife,
Hope you guys can give me all the tips i need :)
*first one i need: what kinda stuff you use to paint your case*base colour?
*second one i need: How do you cut your things out of your side''panels'' without a little disk grinder?
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Nice cat! :)
A) A good brand spray can. I use to paint with duplicolor (car stuff paint), but others are ok also.
B)A dremel-alike tool. But also files, saws and others
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B) Dont-fear inhere even used a hammer and a screw driver. but a dremel like thingie or a jigsaw is prefered:)
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Thanks guys:)
ill try the paint :)
also gonna try to not saw but drill the thing out
with one of em stading drills and then about 100 different bits :P
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ok im cutting out the biohazard sign rigth now *first step! :D*
Follow my work in the work in progress thread :)
*if im wrong about the thread *CORRECT ME*
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First try: Project-Anthrax
ok so im new around here and ready to start my first mod :)
if youre wondering who i am: check the topic about introducing yourself, im in that one :)
So my idea was simple: mod my current computer
> http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...422#post243422
i was kinda going for painting it black with green*virus like green* Biohazard symbols on the sides and the top...
but i came with better ideas when i was beginning :up:
at the moment im actualy cutting,drilling,sawing and trying everything i can to get the symbol *Biohazard one* on the top of my computer out.
im almost done with that and i'll be posting some pics soon :D
im also replacing all of the blue led's in my pc for green once's so there will be green ligth comming out of the top :)
once i am started you'll catch the idea but for now you all have to waite for some pic's and update's :glasses: :dead:
Bart Jeninga
AkA: AnthraxLife
p.s. if you find my name weird or bad spelling*CORRECT ME*, its proberly becouse of me being dutch.
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Quick update:
I could borrow my uncle's Dremel so now it will go faster and looks better :)
i also made the dissision to make a side window with some 3mm plexiglass :)
I got one question about painting: i got some mat black paint in a can but what do i need to do before i paint it?
i took some pic's that will be in the next post :)
AntraxLife,
Bart
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Heya! Welcome to the forum! I am looking forward to your first project :up:
As for your question, Commando did a Spraypainting 101 video. The video doesnt work in the thread he made. But I found it on youtube for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=971D5d28UFE
There you go :D
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Thanks @ Zero :D helped me ALOT! :) and of course thanks for your huge confidence :D
my mom got a HUGE plexiglass sheet from her father *wich is now kinda dead...* and i can use it for a window :D its about 2m by 1,5m and 3mm thick :) so i have all room for error :P
finely some pic here :) me and my first time with the Dremel! i was scared when i put it on 9 or 10 for the first time :P
Me and the Dremel
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3011/img1208.jpg
and the work done after 10 minutes :)
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9190/img1212.jpg
*remeber this is my first profect :P*
-AntraxLife
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ahh i have a challenger for youngest modder!!! bah..!
lol
nice start mate
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thanks, im cutting out the window in the side panel rigth now, gonna do the word Anthrax above it cut out as well.
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*Quick Update*
got the window out now :)
going to cut the top part now and the word Anthrax out of the side :D
Pic's ar on there way.
*Quick Update*
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all done, ill be cutting out the letters this evening.
making more photo's then and ill then post em all at once.
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and here come the next serie photo's, this will be the last ones for the upcoming 1 and a half week seen the fact that my exams start tomorrow and en next week thuesday.
How the top was
and after i done some work on it with the dremel :D
and the side, cut out the 3 part window and begun working on the letter's
See you guys in 1 and a half week, wish me luck for my exams :up:
-AntraxLife
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Very nice! Great start, keep it up! :banana:
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Reaally nice start, well done.
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thanks cowen and zero, i will be posting comments only due exams :( cant mod becouse of my father...
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well this is a quick update, even if i can't mod, i can work and earn money for the newest thing i dicided*correct me please! :P* to put in: Watercooling! :D :D
i am really bad at sketchup or any programm like that so im gonna take some pic's of the drawings i did :) i can design but i can't make, kinda sucks... 2 of 6 exams done> tomorrow one more then 4 days of nothing and then last 3 to come... almost back to modding!! yaay :P
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soo i searched the fans i want and the cooling liquid :D now im off searching for a nice looking watercooler. if anyone knows a site it migth help :)
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yay... new Sig :D :D
im planning on running the watercooling ''hose'' trough the out sode of my pc... proberly trough the front orso :P or the rigth side
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great worK!!!
another dutch guy.. no wonder its good lol.. modding is in ur blood
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haha i hope so :D would come in handy
i kinda need your help forum! you saw the pic of the top?
well the middle is kinda gone loosse so should i put plexy behind it and drill holes for the fan?
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Hoerah another update :) this one will be a bit disapointing seen the fact that i just had 3 exams and now have 4 days off and then the last 3 :D :banana:
i just could sketch some new idea's out tomorrow ill be sketching out the front and then other side's i haven't thougd off :lick:
this one features a small chance in the size and overall look of the window i cut out :D :think: kinda still thinking if i should frost effect the edges of the plexi... :? :think: :?
anyways,
the middle window will get an diamond shape and the 2 side window's will be arching ober the middle one... :alien:
the red lines and area's still need to be cut out... those are as wel the area's that i just came up with :D
the blue one's are the one's already cut out or like the letter's still need to be cut out :D
i hope to get back to cutting tomorrow and the 3 days after tomorrow so i can get most of the cutting done :)
-AntraxLife
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Looks good so far. BTW, I merged the idea thread with this one.
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thanks SgtM...
quick update .. pics coming soon :)
i got the Coolermaster Aerogate 2 fan controller and atm i have 9 fans mounted in my case :D there will be two more in the front im cutting that as wel... but i need to get new cutting weels for the dremel becouse i have gone trough all the ones i had :P
i was wondering... can i make my own resevoir and stuff and then just mount a fish aquarium pomp as the pomp and make my own watercooler?
-AntraxLife
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cutted out the top and front window plexi :) still need to get new cuting weels for the dremel and need to get primer ... i started thinking about engraving the plexi :) post later on....
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love the cuts and the idea
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yeah for a first try its very good
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thanks all :) this means alot to me seen the fact that im just a plain newb at the moment :banana:
done my 5th exam today and tomorrow im doing my last one then ill be free to mod again :D :D :banana: :D :D
also :pics:
here are some :P
some pics of the coolarmaster aerogate II :) it has a chancing ligth every 2 seconds orso... about 7 colours :) it also has a green colour between em and that is the led color im searching for at the moment :up: got this free shipping site with fans (good ones) for 3 to 5$ so thats good if anyone want to know the site ill pm them to you.(dunno if im allowed to post it here)
i got some paint: mat black and new cutting weels :)
also made an sample of how the paint looks like... that is my old case btw :smoker:
The Aerogate II, i love it it is amazing :)
Paint and cuttingweels
Paint sample, nice and plain aint it? the brigth shiny green will stand out... or not? :think: btw. it's my old compact small desk case.
-AntraxLife
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Hoerah! im done with my exams and now i got 3 weeks to do what ever i want :D
just got the AC Ryan Ligthed Acrylic Fangaurds in :) 2 days after ordering :D
going to cut everything up that need to be cut today
-AntraxLife
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good work mate hope the exams went well.
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thanks Dont-Fear i hope so to :) my parrents are gonna give me alot of money for getting my dimploma and rigth about 4 days before i get it ( if i do) its my birthday :) turning 16 then
soo here are some pic's
i worked on the front plate... still not finished.. going to get a A.C. Ryan grill look on both sides of the biohazard sign :) and also going to put 2 green LED fans behind it... just need to find some good green ones :)
and one of the A.C. Ryan fangaurds i got :D they shine brigth green... look wauws in the dark... ill post some pics later :)
if anybody can recommend me a cheap but good looking(the working part doesnt matter :P ) please recommend then :D
-AntraxLife
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looking sweet mate keep it up!
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@ Zero: I will :)
i just put on the fast drying mat black on the front cover and i got to say... the colour is just.... WAUW! i love it it fits my style :) just done the first layer, will do the next one monday and the third finishing one thuesday
ill make osme pics tomorrow and post em tomorrow as wel :) but for tonigth its back to being the OverLord :D i love this game *same engine as fable :)*
-AntraxLife
P.S. if anybody plays combat arms EU pm me :)
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So guys, this is another quick update, ive just painted the side and now im empty on paint so im gonna get that tomorrow ASAP! :)
also i ordered a revoltec dual green cold cathode 31.1 cm ( about 12,25 inch)
so i can proberly mount the 2 tubes beneath and above the window with alot of ligth glowing :)
i asked brinkz0r if he could design a rez, seen the fact that his rezzes have been feathured at the TBCS worklog posting topic :) he answered pretty fast and now where kinda exchancing idea's, still working on that, alsop im looking for a watercooling SET (very important that its a SET) with one where the pump is not attatched to the rezz, if anyone know a cheap combo of items to make a set just so i dont need to buy the rezz :) then im happy as well, becosue brinkz0r is kinda designing one with me :D so thats going to be, OFF THE HOOK! ( that how oyu say it rigth? ... :D)
thats it for now, when the cold cathodes arive and when ive painted the entire case ill post some pics... thats all for now, cya hopefully soon:
-AntraxLife
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lol
nice..
gunna be awesome
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before i begin this update, i must say sorry for the photo bombardment :D :banana:
Hi everyone,
It has been a while since i last did a big update with picture's, altho i haven't updated pictures and stuff like that alot, i managed to do some stuff tho, just a short list: i had gone away the entire weekend becouse of my mom's 50th birthday. i painted the side's, the top and the frame. i have cut out hte plexi window and frosted the top plexi as wel as a part of the side window.
now im waiting for the green cold cathode's to come in so i can finish this mod. the'll proberly come in tomorrow.
@ Dont-Fear, i think it's going to be awsome to, at the very least i hope so :think: have to say tho, after painting and putting it back together it looked awsome :D
all i know what is in my pc is:
Aopen Ax45f-4dn 2.4 Ghz Intel pentium Mobo
Ati radeon 9800 pro
1G HyperX Kingston memory
2 512 or 265 Mb Memory (don't know exactly the brand or teh amount of Mb)
full Zalmal cooling kit
CoolerMaster Aerogate II fancontrol
that's all i know for now, with the next quick or last update i will post the full Spec's with everything, from a USB to the Mobo
now for the pic's, becouse i was so stupid to not take any photo's of the ''build'' (i don't call painting building) you don't have the story between the previous photo's and the one's im going to show now. i will try to explain what i done at every photo and i hope you understand what i did... :facepalm:
first one, the completed paint-job and contruction, you can see the side and top window in, maybe you also cna see the frosted area's but i'll say something later on. the same goes for the green bay.
Side shot, you can see the frosted letter's this gives the light's behind it a very glowing effect, and becouse of that you can see the letter's more clearly. also the green drive bay, i painted it so becouse becouse it fitted the overall paint scheme and it is a great contrast with the mat black. it also makes the ligth a bit brigther, i have no idea how or why, but i like it! :banana:
this is proberly the most perfect and clear photo i've ever taken! :up: 8)
this show's a bit of the ''cable-management'' and also it shows the green bay perfectly. you also see the dust, i will clean it up with some painting pencil (i have no idea what the dutch word: Kwast, means in english... soo yeah.... :think: )
The side's, the top and the right side with the cable's visible. also you see the back. you might have noticed the frosted letter's, comment how you think about them.
some photo's of the case in the ''dark'' with it up and running. comment about the top please! need some reaction about it :) 8)
i hope to do more mod's in the future, already got alot of idea's but still need to think of some way to gain sponsership ( yeah i ready the thread about it, just need to come up with a company, im thinking of the local Dynabyte) and i also need to have some experience at the case contest's and the championship's and a portofolio
bye for now, see you again as soon as i have the cold cathode's... that will be a short update, right now im asking Jdbnsn to move this one to the completed worklog section.
-AntraxLife
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great start I really can see you are going to build great mods in the future.
If I may add try to reroute some cables. I can see you have not much room behind the main board but I think you might be able to hide the smaller/thinner cables back there.
This will even more improve it. see it as a challenge.
gratz on your first victory. I love it.
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Thank Cheron, i will try it as soon as i get my cold cathode's, and now that you say so, there is some room behind the Mobo, so ill try that :)
-AntraxLife