*EDIT* - As of February 2010, this build is sponsored by Danger Den and Out of the Box Mods (see pages 14 and later for incorporation of the water cooling parts supplied by these sponsors). I've also posted newer pics below so if you're seeing this for the first time you can see what it looks like now as opposed to when I started this thread. I'll add another updated pic or two after more significant progress, and after it's done.
Hi all, I'm new to the forum here, and had posted some questions on LEDs in one of the other sections. I decided to post this thread so y'all can see what I'm working on. Short version - a 3 foot long, 1.5 foot tall sandcrawler that doubles as my computer case. The only actual case part in it is a metal motherboard tray, which is mounted on 4 wood blocks that raise it up about an inch and half. My slim slot-loading DVD drive is partially under the raised motherboard, and I was able to route most of the wires under the board. I'm posting a link to a photobucket slideshow, since there's well over 100 photos in there. the model itself is nearing completion, but I need to re-wire the lights (see this thread http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...093#post267093 for more details), and then I need to finish rebuilding the back section (first version of it wasn't very accurate), detailing the outside, build the inside areas, paint it, weather it...etc etc...
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
Taken October 23, 2009:
taken March 8, 2010:
btw, it's wider than the film model. It had to be a certain width, about 17 inches, to fit the computer, and I didn't have space to make it proportionally long and tall. so the length and height are one scale, and the width is a different scale, but only the main panels are stretched. detail work of course will not be, cuz that'd just look weird.
This is also the 3rd version I've made. The first 2 were based on really bad reference material, and dimensionally were way off.