Neptune's Trident

[The boy 4rm oz]

I can't wait to see the pieces painted, they should look insane. I am wanting to do a gloss white interior on the new LEXA mod I want to do.

[_ferry_]

I just flew trough this project at lightspeed, watching pictures, and it's awesome!

[Boddaker]

PAINT PHASE ONE: BASE COAT

Here's my painting progress for today. We first laid out all the parts in the paint booth and wiped them with a tack cloth.

I brought with me the color of coolant I will be using so we could match the paint. But my buddy already had some
blue sitting on the shelf and thought we'd see how close it was. Turns out the first can we opened was a perfect match! woot!!

It also meant we didn't have to use the water-based paints he had to mix & match, which would have been more difficult.
So we could stick with acrylic enamel all the way through. The paint is Nason blue metallic by Dupont.

Mixing the paint with reducer and hardener..

Base coat laid down:

I still can't get over how well it matches the coolant!

PAINT PHASE TWO: CLEAR COAT

After the base set up for about a half hour, we mixed up the clear coat. This is necessary to seal the metallic so
when we prep for the water-drop phase, we won't disturb the metal flakes in the base.

After the clear was shot, I snuck in the booth for some beauty shots. Shiny!

So that will have to cure for a few days before we can do anything else. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get back
up to lay down the water drops for another week or two. However, Scott may have some time to do a few test pieces,
and if he takes some pics, I'll post them up in the interim. So until then!

[The boy 4rm oz]

That is a beautiful shade of blue, looks very nice, lucky you .

[tomcatt]

awesome painting - I love it !! , and I'll bet you and many others do ^^

[DonT-FeaR]

epic win!

they are perfect!

[Kumo]

impressive clean work, and nice paint room.

[Boddaker]

Thanks guys!

Got a bunch done today, and was able to get most of the interior white pieces painted.

Cleaned and prepped all the pieces to be painted pearl white:
Motherboard IO plate; video card IO plates; IO cover plates; water pumps; water pump mounting brackets;
mobo tray cover; new & improved rad/fan mounting brackets; SLI connector cover; video card covers; NB/SB block;
compression fitting rings (not shown); & CPU block mounting bracket (not shown).

Not having full-time access to my buddy's paint booth, I had to improvise. Set up a make-shift hanging rack
by tying a rope from the ladder to the garage door track lol.

These compression fitting rings are paintable, so they're getting a coat of pearl white as well.

Other pieces that couldn't or didn't have to be hung were placed on a piece of cardboard.

After the pearl top coat:

After a few hours, the pieces were dry enough to handle, so of course I had to assemble some things to see
how they looked! I mounted the water pumps and screwed in some fittings:

Fastened the IO plate back onto the motherboard tray:

That looked great, so I had to set the mobo tray cover on as well as the hard drives and covers:

Should I go get the motherboard and video cards? Sure why not!

A close up of the SLI connector. I masked it off to match the hard drive covers:

Another angle of the motherboard. I don't have the cpu block yet, so the mounting bracket and fittings are just there for effect.

And a shot of the video card back plates. The one on the right is different because I am using slightly different versions
of GTX 260s. They are all EVGA cards, just one is a bit older than the other two. I'll probably put the odd one in the middle:

I'm still working on the video card covers, so I didn't get those painted just yet. I got something planned for them,
and I think you'll dig it, so stay tuned!

[The boy 4rm oz]

OOOOOOOOOOO pretty . Lovin' the SLI bridge cover, very cool. The reservoirs with the pumps installed also look awesome.

[DonT-FeaR]

looks soooo FIRGAN SWEEEEEEET!!!! i really really am going to try steal that...
lol
thats amazing!