I have been following the forum for some time now and i've just been amazed by the talent I've seen here and it has inspired me to try my hand at my first cosmetic mod.
I just got an antec 1200 as an early xmas gift and quickly moved my system over and began tweaking with things. In the past most of the mods i have done have been internally, i cut a few extra holes into my Antec 900 to allow me to route all the cables behind the mobo and also cut a hole in the bottom to allow me to flip the PSU. But since the 1200 has a much better cable management system i found that there is very little internally that i want to to it. So that leaves the outside to mess with.
I have three bay items (DVD Drive, Temperature displays, and a Drawer) that i am going to camouflage to look like the empty drive bay covers.
First up is the dvd drive.
after many hours of trial and error last night (I've never worked with styrene before lol) this is how far i got. Sorry i don't have any pictures of how i got to this point but since it involved a bunch of fumbling around i figured it best to leave them out lol.
I'm nearly finished with the drive i just have to make a cut out for the drive button and paint the styrene and touch up the mesh. I still need to figure out how i'm gonna mount the mesh piece that attaches to the dvd drive tray. I think i will use some kind of epoxy but I'm not sure at this point. (any suggestions as to how to best do that would be greatly appreciated.)
as soon as this is done I am gonna build a Temperature display using two of these:
and my remaining drive bay cover. I should have the parts for this coming by the weekend so as long as i finish the dvd today or tomorrow i should have that done some time next week. Unfortunately that is as far as i can go right now as that will use up all my drive bay covers (The dvd drive used up two and the temp will use the third). I have contacted Antec via email to attempt to acquire more but no response yet. But until then i wont be able to finish the project and cover the drawer. Does anyone knows where i can get some more drive bay covers for the 1200?