Project: Elements of Fortune

[a.cowen]

Looks awesome.

If you get the LED blink right it's gonna look exactly like these ones I saw in Vegas. How cool.

[Eclecticos]

Truely amazing project you have going on here. Incredible design sketches. +²Rep
I have subscribed to your project, and plan on watching it take shape.

[DonT-FeaR]

wow this is gunna be sweet... i believe i may be repping you soon....

[tomcatt]

thank you everyone !
It is a lot of work, but I surely think it will be very sweet when I get the LEDs installed and the cogs spinning in water

[Dane Bramage]

that's a friggin sick design, man. i don't think there has been a total build like this since Doom2. your attention to detail is quite impressive. hope you can pull it off. you got the skillz... just need the stamina. too much detail for me to even fathom.

+rep

[DonT-FeaR]

yeah man the stamina is all that you need and skill helps to.

you have both so far so good luck

[tomcatt]

Struts … soon I’ll hate them ;p

There is just very much work on them, but I know it will be worth it !

The sanding

Tested with a LEDlight from my bike

Then I worked a bit more on the reservoir.
There will be cogs inside the reservoir, as you may know … but the cogs/gears need to have some light too.
Therefore I’m making a wall around the res, and I’ll use aluminum foil to get some reflection.

In these wooden walls, I will attach LEDs. But I also use a UV CCFL (now blue)

The LEDs:

Then, I went to the local hardware store to buy some paint and wires.

First 2 layers of primer, then highgloss black …using this paint-tool.

I painted the sidepanels, bottom panel and motherboard panel.

The bottom:

After 3 layers of primer on the bottom block, it’s now time for the first high gloss black layer.

The day after painting this, I sanded and painted the block again.
The result of the block:

The texture is a bit rough … actually this was not my intention, but it is really cool looking. I know how this comes, because the first layer primer wasn’t perfect smooth

The other panels got a first high gloss paint layer too.

I also made a movie during the paintjob.
Note that it’s my first time painting something like this…. I think it worked out good.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK2RhKQGs1A
cheers

[Nate Dogg]

I love your attention to detail and the painstaking way you go about perfecting your work.

+1

[DonT-FeaR]

nice lots done

EDIT:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tomcat175

the use of rammstien = win..

[tomcatt]

I made some models, and some more testing of the cogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j33x1uUBw10

and some more sketchupping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvntly7hL8


Because I’m out of materials for the cogs and lights, and a lot of people don’t know what I’m making. … I’m going to make an example of the total case.
I will begin on the frame (fully MDF wood)

+The top

There won’t be a bottom, because I think I like the fact that you can see the ‘mechanics and cogs from the wheels’.

In every side panel there will be 4 FANs. So that makes 8 FANs on both the panels.
+ The FANs on the radiator … that will be 2x 6 (+ = 20 FANs
I hope to get noctua fans on a lower voltage (Noctua U.L.N.)

This is … don’t know how to explain in good English :p lol
But It is for the finishing of the dust-filters (intake FANs)

Then I finished the intake holes

Before:

2 finished panels

These are the dust-filters I got from a store

But I don’t really like the shape of the grill … hmm
Then I broke them

It’s a cleaner smoother result now, I think
But I’m going to make it better in the future

Now back to the frame
Because I’m going to make that first now !!

The making of the windows

The total picture for this subject of the total case

Thx for reading/watching