Hello Kitty Rock Star - COMPLETE!

[TheGreatSatan]

Hello Kitty:

ROCK STAR

I'm doing another kid case for eldest daughter who really wants a Hello Kitty theme PC

The victim case is the Diablotek Fly. The only complaint I have is that the case is rediculously light. I'm not sure if it'll make a difference with all the parts inside, but at least it will get heavier

I love the brushed aluminum interior, except that it's going away

I took the hard drive cage out. It will retain it's natural color to give the interior a cool contrast

My daughter gave me little direction or advice. Her only desire, it had to be RED

The front had two layers of mesh filters. You'd really need a high RPM fan to pull air through all of that

The front got the same cherry red treatment

Even with so many years of modding, there will always be new supplies to try out. This time I'll be using some spray on glitter and the matching sealant

This one shows how well it looks

I found this round mesh in my piles of PC stuff

After I repainted it to silver I used hot glue to bond it to the bezel

I think that silver would be the right color with the whole Rock Star look. Looks cool

Next, the slot covers and mesh drive bays were painted to match

While it dries, I cut a 120mm top exhaust

And reconnect the USB ports

Once they're all dry I put the slot covers in leaving the second slot open for the video card

And after the interior dries, I put the drive bay cage back inside

And the drive bay covers

The specs? A matching DVD drive

Intel i3 2100 processor and a Gigabyte motherboard

Two 4GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance LP

A 120GB Sandisk SSD

An Oveclocked GTX 550 (yeah, way over-kill! for a 13 year old Girl)

And I might as well use this spare 1000 Watt power supply! More of that Over-kill.

I don't like that the PSU is not modular and I might literally cut off all the wires I'm not using

[xr4man]

cool.

i keep eying up that diablotek case whenever i am in the mood of looking through cases at newegg.

[TheGreatSatan]

I added 120mm intake and exhaust fans. They're both Masscool brand and not too bad of an off-brand pushing 60CFM's each

[Fuganater]

Awesome paint color!

[mDust]

I may not have any authority here, but I'm putting my foot down anyway. There are to be NO bieber cases on TBCS. Not even one. /endBadJoke

With that out of the way, nice work as always TGS. I sort of like the sparkles. They turned out better than expected. That and textured paints...it's amazing what they can get to come out of a can these days!

[TheGreatSatan]

I added the top fan as well as some decoration

Quite frankly, the PSU has far too many cables that I won't be needing. So I had to void the warranty and cut off the excess

I'm left with SATA, 8-pin CPU, 24 pin, and a 6+2 Pin GPU line

I used thumb screws to hold it in because I think it looks better

[TheGreatSatan]

I got this little guitar that's actually for the American Girl doll line

It looked red online, but it's clearly pink

Here's where it's going to go

But first it needs to be red

This is actually pretty detailed, with strings

Now for the decal

And the filters need to go back in

Now to throw it all together

I just put the SSD in

And now I need to start planning the window

[TheGreatSatan]

I cut out the window

And the paint job begins

And at the same time finish the paint on the right side

[billygoat333]

I like that sparkly paint. Very cool idea.

[TheGreatSatan]

Now it's time to add the motherboard

I really wanted to run an air cooler, but I never found one I like, so I went with the tried and true H60!

I can install this blindfolded!!

I didn't want water for the kids, but that's cool