Project: Blue Shift

[a.cowen]

Hah, my games sit in a wobbly tower atop the 1200. On that useful little shelf.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Nice update, it is all coming together nicely.

[DonT-FeaR]

yeah nice work mate great progress

[UnWantedSoldier]

*blows off the dust that has gathered on the thread and pulls it back up from the depths of the 6th page*

well now that that's taken care of lets get back to work lol. I've been pretty busy the last 4 months with work and moving. (My girlfriend and i moved into an apartment together woot!) But i have been inspired to get back to modding and decided to try something different. So far most of my mods, have all been primarily functional mods and it has left me feeling that something is missing from my case.... Paint.

I introduce you to Project: Blue Shift.

to begin im going to paint all the mesh (the front and side mesh) blue and parts of the top panel as well. I may later paint the mobo tray and other select internal parts.

To start with i stiped off the pain from the temp display and repainted it blue

While waiting for the paint to dry i started on the top panel, first i had to strip it down and rip off the switch panel i put in on the top. Now i needed to figure out a cleaver way to cover the large hole i put in the panel when i mounted the switches. i decided i would make a series of plates that would both cover the old hole and provide a new location to mount a new switch panel.

The black parts of the panel will be painted blue while the white pieces will be black.

Unfortunately this modding session requires that i keep my computer up and running while im working on the mods, since my computer is our sole source of entertainment in our new apartment lol (no tv yet) so until this is done its being held together with masking tape and zip ties...

P.S. If any moderators are watching can you change the title of this thread to Project: Blue Shift -thx

[billygoat333]

lol loving the ghetto rigging to keep the case together. done that before

[DonT-FeaR]

lol i love ghetto pcs even if its only while ur making the case.

[UnWantedSoldier]

little more progress finished the dvd drive. This time i used screws to hold the mesh in place, previously i had glued it but that wasn't going to work this time with the blue mesh over black background so i had to come up with something else.

Last night i finished prepping the drive bay covers. Tonight i will start painting them, i also painted the handels black last night (sorry no pic of that)

i should have more pics up tonight after i get a little more work done.

[UnWantedSoldier]

as promised more pics

Here are the handles

and now the painted mesh drive bay covers

before

after

im gona give it a day or two for the paint to fully cure and then ill assemble the drive bays. in the meantime i need to sand down the side panel mesh and the top fan mesh in preparation for painting those. once i do that i can prep the top panel and paint it as well.

[DonT-FeaR]

looking good mate! liking the blue

[Mark_Hardware]

ahhh many red boxes of shame