Hello Fellow Modders!!
Matty from the UK here. This is my first ever post not only on TBCS but anywhere for modding
After seeing a few custom built desk PC's floating around the web I fell in love with the idea and couldn't resist having a crack at it myself. I've built PC's before but nothing on this scale.
So for the past 3 months I've been in CAD and came up with a few idea's before settling for my favorite and really going to town on it.
My idea was to have a wooden desk with 2 viewing area's in it for the m/board and for the HDD's. I would have a cabinet on one side which would house the radiator, PSU and cabling to make it as neat as possible. After mulling the idea over for a while I decided it would be a great idea to house the monitors in the desk as-well, sort of have them pop up when i wanted them and hide them away when I didn't.
Anyways it all looked good in theory but the idea was just in my head and in 2D drawings until that is I found Sketchup (No idea how I've missed it before), now I have a 3D model of it and though it looked good so thought why not post it on the forums and get other modders views on it.
So here are the picture so far
I'm really please with the results so decided to go ahead and get a prototype built. I'm not a woodworker and don't really have the space to do woodwork as I live in a flat, therefore i'm going to get the pieces cut on a CNC machine and assemble it elsewhere.
Luckily my mum works for a company with a wood CNC machine and they have agreed to cut the pieces for me for free out of scrap wood they have. EGGSCELLENT!!!
So the drawings went off today and hopefully I'll have the bits cut within a week.
There won't be many updates until then but I'm very keen to see what people think of the idea so let me know
Happy Modding!!
Matty C