Command & Conquer GDI Powerplant PSU mod
This is the worklog of the second round in the Dutch competition of BouwEenPc.nl.
First round I came in third with my Wall-E DVD mod.
This time the assignment was to mod a powersupply. Ok, initially I thought it would be difficult to imagine anything, the DVD player mod has at least something of moving parts where you can do anything. But fortunately, the kink in my brain gave me a new impuls and I think this is going to be fun.
I still play many games and this time I used Command & Conquer as inspiration. What's is really beautiful to a PC power supply to mod it to a power supply of the GDI base. And so be it;
Take a powersupply. (The crew of BouwEenPc will send us a Fortron Blue Storm PSU to mod, so here I use a mockup untill it arrives)
An old lamp foot of a lava lamp.
Two CPU fans out of the dark and ancient catacombs of my room.
Some red CCLs to create a bit of atmosphere.
Liver pate.
Unscrew the light bulb from the foot.
Mount the foot on the powersupply.
Attach the liver pate on the side and mount the two CPU fans on top.
This is how the mock-up looks like now.
And this is how it looks in the game.
Imagine here some hours of manuel labor in between ....
With Vikureen I will model some parts and think it will be a nice mod, underneath the large tower a red (heat) fire and underneath the two CPUs are blue LEDs (cool). I will eat the liver pate and there I will make some little mini-towers.
Here you see the two CPU fans, stripped of everything which is not necessary.
The liver pate replacements; two cans of exactly the right size.
What pieces of PVC waste .....
.... come on the side of the cans
a found a piece of perforated plastic.
Ideal for the railing of the big cooling tower.
So you see how that comes out, the bottom edge will become a black and yellow warning stripe.
And here you see how I go to work on the basis of the prints from the game itself.