THEY ARE DONE! PROCESSING PICS,... Please Hold.
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THEY ARE DONE! PROCESSING PICS,... Please Hold.
IT'S HERE!!! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!! I PRESENT TO YOU,... MY PUMP SHIELDS!!! There's 36 pics:D Thi sis like 2 days worth of pics. Anyways,... lets get to it.
Even though I already tried this the first time and failed,... I tried it again and it work great! I was tired as hell and was rushing. Thats why it didnt work the first time. Anyways,... I cut a piece of green just big enough for the piece. I heated it so it was flexible and then put it on the pipe. I bent it around the pipe a bit and then heated it some more. Once hot enough I pressed a shield over it. I was wearing gloves and had a towel over it. It gets hot as hell. So it molded just fine. The edges bowed up but thats ok seeing they are getting cut off.
Once I had all 4 formed, I taped them up and traced the shields on them. I sent them through the scroll saw cut away most of the excesss.
All four pieces trimmed to their general size.
I used a belt sander that I had upside down. Instant table sander:) I ground away the rest of the excess to its absolute size. This worked very well. I originally started using the hand file :shock:.
Also,... I knifed the edges too. There were certain mentions of these panels being to much. So I decided to not the the edges of the aluminum shields glow. So, I knifed the edges so you wouldnt see anything around the edges at all. Plus it made it alot easier to fit them once moutned to the pumps.
Perfect!
Gawd, how cool. It makes me think of filling or something. I dont know. Weird.
Only the designs should glow.
PERTY! This is with the tape on! This is why I diffused the acrylic. It lights up so much more easier now.
Now,... it's time for mounting holes. I taped off the aluminum shields to keep from damaging them.
I used a piece of cardboard to make my marks, professinal huh? LOL.
After I drilled the aluminum shields I did the Uv ones.
Diffused the UV shields. I left a nice coarse diffuse too using coarse sadn paper. I sanded all in one direction. I think it looks nice and it helps to capture the light really well.
Yeah BABY!!!
Yeah BABY!!!
Yeah BABY!!!
A shot of the inside with spacers in place. I cut those bolts because they were to long. I ended up not using them. I got new ones that were the right size.
DONE!
Lit up!
Inside the case with tinted window up. The tint doesnt really filter out the purple that much. What it does filter out is alot of the glare.
A ruler I got because I am going to need it tomake LEGO's windows for his project.
LEGO's from gruntville donated this airbrush he had lying around. He sai dI could have it because he knows I'll put it to good use:) And that I will:) It's an IWATA brush:) Sweet! I am making his windows for him return:)
So yeah, there you have it. Time to move on. I am going to make LEGO's windows and then I plan on finishing the pump tower. PEACE EVERYBODY!!
Holy crap, I could cry. You continue to amaze and inspire me.
I've got a monster (quite literally) of a scratchbuild/mod coming up in a few months that I've got planned, and you can count on me hounding you with questions every step of the way.
Your level of craftsmanship stuns me. You've got incredible vision and mastery of your tools.
Check this out,... this is what the name of the case is going to look like. Actually it's going to look better:D
It's going to go on the back of the mobo tray towards the top, staring out through the window. Each letter will be cut as a separate pieces. Each letter will have a UV green equivalent to give the letter it's glow. The letters will be cut out of the remaining black lian-li aluminum from when I installed the case windows. It will give it an extra dark look to it. Plus I need something to do with that aluminum. Cant let it go to waiste.
Also,... casemodgod.com is the last forum I am going to add my log to. I just dont have time to add it to any others. BUT,... if there is a forum you really want the log added to, if you could spare about an hour of your time, I will email you all the updates in text format and you can do it:) Just email me the forum you wan to add it to and I will create a log there and you can reply all the updates yourself. Once you are done email me again and I will add it to my list of sites to update regularly. Cool? Peace.
that is just insane. I can't flippin wait
wow nicly done thoose shields look amazing, how long did it take u to polish each one
A couple of minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by uNdErAtEd
lol thats it, i thought it would be like an hour on each one, i tried polishing my aluminum rims on my old truck and needless to say i gave up and ended up buying new rims
Theres a big difference between rims and these shields:)Quote:
Originally Posted by uNdErAtEd