BloodMoon

[Dgephri]

finally!!!

my GX2 waterblock:

hmm, need some vertical changes in the PSU-Drive tray don't I?

I can finally move on to my wiring now. I think I will sleeve the water lines if I can find RED sleeving, not that pinky-looking stuff.

BTW, that is the waterblock from the Webpage photos #1 off them mill...going to have some DD guys sign it just for kicks.

[Silenced_Coyote]

That is one awesome waterblock! How did you get it so soon? I thought DD was still putting it through the testing stages.

[Dgephri]

this is their actual test block. #1 (going to get them to sign it)

The production release will be VERY soon I am told, so others will probably be able to buy them, and get theirs running before I do.

I still have a lot of interior work to get done.

I made friends with them at several LANs, and they are a great bunch of guys.

[Cevinzol]

I like the mod a lot but I'm a little confused about the word "bloodmoon".
Why is the word 'Moon' upside down and backwards.
It looks like "BlooduooW"

Am I missing a game reference or something? I went back through the log to see if I had missed an explanation but didn't find one.

[Dgephri]

Not the first time it has been brought up, but not here.

When I was looking at the Model in Sketchup, the M felt off balance in the middle of the word, and I did want it capitalized.

I played around with putting brackets in the middle, and some other ideas but none of them caught my eye.

When I flipped the Moon to read from the other side of the case, I liked it since I felt the eye had to stay on the text longer, figure out why you can read it, but not all in one quick glance.

Sort of like how you can put extra "the"s into a sentence and people don't notice it right off, but something seems wrong?

I even held off cutting the Moon letters until just a couple weeks ago, the Blood letters were all done Months ago. I wasn't entirely sure and didn't want to commit until I was.

Some will ask and find it annoying, some will just like it and move on, others might pick up on it right away.

No game reference, just a design choice I made when I sketched it.

[Dgephri]

well, nearing a time when I can almost see it done!

Didn't get around to any wiring this week.

However, I did get my Radiator grill done up:

gutter screen like I used on Lubic

And then I did up a preliminary routing on my water lines:

No floppy drives for me...the switches for my LED controller will go here.

[silverdemon]

very nice job, the rad-grill looks reeeaaaly cool

oh yeah, and so does the rest of the case

[Dgephri]

thx! I think I will take the Radiator brackets back out and paint them black so it the grill doesn't look blocked/off center in coloring.

I can't really move the Rad to fix it, so I will just color the brackets black.

[Custom]

I GX2 in a case that small great job, I like the rad grill aswell.

[Dgephri]

thx all, it does get cramped.

what tedium! wiring, painting, tubing, more wiring, more sanding, more polishing, repainting, etc.

I have been puttering around on the less exciting parts of getting ready to power on:

ATX header at the PSU end--
stock

on with the dremel for a lower profile

some wires I am trimming

with no colors, I had to use my handy Sharpie to tell me which is which

And my new idea for lighting the BloodMoon letters

don't think I have ever heard or, or seen etching quite like it...I will give clues on how I did it later on...