Project: LEXA

[Xperiment]

Looking good boy 4rm oz , loving the green plexi (obviously)

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks for all the comments and +rep guys. I'm glad you like my work. I hope to have an update for you all shortly. I hope you all had a good New Years.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Sorry there hasn't been an update for a while guys. I have only 2 weeks of holidays left before my final year of school starts and me and my friends are trying to make the most of it.

Anyway, all that said I have actually had time for modding (well only today actually lol).
Ok, see this gap:

This is where my reservoir is to me mounted, it isn't as long as a CD drive so I have decided to cover the cap with a piece of mesh and cut pass through holes for the tubing.
Here is the piece of mesh cut to size and holes drilled:

Test fitting, fits perfectly:

Bolted on to see what it looks like:

Mesh painted and installed, sorry no pics of the painting:

A shot of all the drive bays installed, nearly finished YAY:

A lighted shot:

This whole top section is almost complete. I still have to paint the actual drive bays black and trim down a few pieces of the plexi to get it to sit right.

Next we move on to some painting.
Here is the victim:

This piece is the very front of the case, it helps support the drive bays. It doesn't really need painting because it won't be seen but you can't paint a case and leave a piece out .
Here is the painted piece:

After this was painted I thought that I may as well re attach it to the front fan bracket.
The front panel, fan bracket, dust trap, screws and grommets:

The fan bracket fitted in place:

Riveted together:

Grommets installed:

Dust trap and screws installed so I don't lose them:

A picture of the lot:

That's all I did today. The end is getting near, all I need to do is get the radiator and mount it and get some fans and a few more bits and pieces. I also have to make a plexi pump platform so I can fit the pump in the case. Until then...

Happy Modding.

[The boy 4rm oz]

No replies? I'm heartbroken lol.

Well today was my brothers birthday so I didn't get much work done so before his friends came over I put together the case that were done for some progress shots for you guys.
Here are the pics.
A side on view of the entire case:

All of the drive bays:

A close up of the optical drive bays:

A close up of the HDD bays:

The PSU cover and radiator:

The expansion slots:

Getting really close to completion now. Let me know what you guys think, suggestions are always welcome. Until then...

Happy Modding.

[silverdemon]

No replies? I'm heartbroken lol...

We're speechless...

great modding it is, hmm

keep up the good work!

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks, I'm still waiting on a reply for my new radiator but once I get that the mod is almost done.

[Ethan Jay]

This is awesome. You should definitely get some diffuse LED lighting on the plexi.

[The boy 4rm oz]

This is awesome. You should definitely get some diffuse LED lighting on the plexi.

I was thinking of lighting the plexi but I already have 3 UV CCFLs (1x 30cm 2x 10cm) scattered around my case that should do a good enough job. Also the plexi I am using glows brightly when I put it over one of my blue LED fans, I don't know why but it works. However I do have a 3 LED ultra bright LED module which will be lighting the side of the disk drives and floppy drive covers. I hope that's enough lighting, I'm not that great at wiring LEDs up and stuff like that lol.

Thanks for the comment.

[jdbnsn]

I made a banner for your project, it's in your first post. I know the text looks bad, when I get more time I'll try to fix that up to look better.

[poisonreap]

Looks great, can't wait to see the final look! +rep