Aperture Science

[The boy 4rm oz]

Looks much better with the mesh up top.

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Looking really good. Are your LEDs wired to blink/fade or are you wiring them to a switch so you can manually change the color?

They are wired to a USB-RGB controller so they work like RGB-LEDs and can produce any color you can imagine. It's programmable too so you can control all these color changes in realtime or even make it react to sound and other cool stuff

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Update! Yay!

I prepared the rest of the window stuff today, specifically the plexi that goes in. Since I still have a lot of the white plexi I thought, why not just use some of that for the window too. Like this:

And it gets better:

I'm going to paint that mesh black too, I think it's going to look pretty awesome, especially if some of the light from inside illuminates the white plexi and shines through the holes



After that ... more sanding. I can't stand it anymore but it had to be done. As you might have noticed, the Aluminum of the Cosmos is brushed, but I want a clean, glossy surface after painting which is why I had to use sandpaper to get the brushed surface even or at least close to even.

You can still see that it's brushed here and there, but it feels completely smooth when I touch it so I hope that'll be enough. Hopefully, the primer will take care of the rest.

After that I spent some more time on the front. My new white 3mm LED's arrived, I've ordered a lot of them so I'm going to use as many as necessary to make the logo glow bright and evenly. I hope one per triangle will do though.

And that's it for today

[DonT-FeaR]

man thats a nice window designn

[Mark_Hardware]

You can still see that it's brushed here and there, but it feels completely smooth when I touch it so I hope that'll be enough. Hopefully, the primer will take care of the rest.

Mebbe use some of that really fine body filler that ppl use to cover the imperfections in bondo and whatnot. It would be a little bit more sanding, but come on, deep down, we all know you love it!

[The boy 4rm oz]

Side panel looks bloody awesome, real nice design.

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My paint arrived! I don't know how popular Molotow are internationally, their products are mainly used for graffity but because of it's durability, this stuff is awesome for modding too. And a lot cheaper than the stuff you get at the hardware store.

Frist, I had to transform my balcony into a highly professional paintshop
Then I started priming the first parts. As you can see, I don't have a lot of space so I'm going to only paint a few parts at once every time, so it's going to take a while till I'm finished with everything, especially because I have to do it 3-4 times for each part (Primer, 1-2 layers of paint and clear coat)

More coming up

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Yo!
I painted the first layer of black on some of the parts a few hours ago and holy crap, it already looks SO much better, especially the frontplate with the logo. The paintjob also came out really well, the structure is perfectly even and the color is just perfect.

It gets better though! As soon as the paint was dry enough I started working on the LED's for the front again and finished the whole thing up and JESUS CHRIST IN A CHICKEN BASKET THIS LOOKS SO AWESOME. Note that this is only a test, I just slammed this together with some tape to try out how the logo looks with all LED's glowing so the final thing is going to look even better.

Now that's what I'm talking about. I'm very very pleased with how this turned out, and it's not even finished! I love those rewarding moments where you see that all that work wasn't for nothing

[The boy 4rm oz]

The front looks amazing painted black and all lit up, very nice work.

[DonT-FeaR]

that looks great.. nice painting booth im gunna try that lol;

looks sweet... cant wait to see it in 2 weeks when i return