Project: Terminator

[Frenkie]

This is the werklog of my new project, called Terminator. It is a tribute to the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie in which his greatest fame has earned. His famous statement, "I'll be back" is from these films. In June of this year, the fourth Terminator film will be aired in the Netherlands, this time with Christian Bale in the leading role. My plan is to have finished the case before the premiere of the film. (at least I'm going to try).
You know me from my strange cases, which are not everyone's taste, I know very well.This casemod will be no exception, because the case which I start with is a major point of discussion even in its standard non-modded form; It is the Antec Skeleton.

A kind of open case for people who quickly want to swap hardware or for overclockers. Or for people who like crazy case mods!

Thanks to the people of Antec (Maurice thanx!) who were very fast with shipping me the case.

From the last championship of the tBCL I got some real nice hardware, among other things a very nice BeQuiet! Dark Power PSU 650 Watt.

For the time being I am using a INTEL motherboard with a mini-processor until I find something better.

Something also very special I was able to negotiate with the crew of BouwEenPC.nl ; a Scythe Oriche CPU cooler.

For comparison;

an E N O R M O U S cooler, which IMO is not going to be sold a lot.I only hope that I will get it under the Skeleton top fan, some reviews complained that this is a major problem with the skeleton.

The colors that I have selected are silver and blue. The head of the T-1000 cyborg is carried out in chrome, but I have not the means to do so. I have can of spraypaint with so-called chrome-paint, but I wont believe it until I see it.

[DonT-FeaR]

another frenkie mod.... another work of art....

[rendermandan]

WOW, that cooler is HUGE!!!!

[SXRguyinMA]

indeed! this should be cool

[Luke122]

Excellent!

Also, I've had good luck with chrome paint in the past. Good prep + a bit of polish at the end, and it's very convincing!

[Frenkie]

Originally Posted by Luke122

Excellent!
Also, I've had good luck with chrome paint in the past. Good prep + a bit of polish at the end, and it's very convincing!

Well Luke, from several different sources, I received disturbing news about that spraypaint. It seems it DOESNT work at all! I have to try it out on test pieces before I make a BIG mistake. Anyway, here some more pictures.

The boys of Space Promotion once again were very nice to me, and gave me several blue colored casemodgear to use.

On top of the mod (just as in The Machine 2006) there will be a Markus Mayer skull.

This time a different kind, the previous was a devil, this one must be human.

On the Internet I found many pictures and images of the chrome cyborg T-1000. (Oops, dat moet de 800 serie zijn )

I started with the skull to dispose of the vampire teeth who were in that skull.

Then I used the pictures to modify the skull.

The material of the skull is called poly-stone, a reasonable hard plastic, very easy to dremel. Just makes a lot of dust

[jdbnsn]

OMG, this is going to be the coolest Frenkie mod of all time!!! You are the man!

[nevermind1534]

Originally Posted by jdbnsn

OMG, this is going to be the coolest Frenkie mod of all time!!! You are the man!

[Drum Thumper]

/subscribe. Too bad we don't have an option to automatically subscribe to new threads by certain users!

This is gonna rock, I can tell that already.

[Boddaker]

If you want a good chrome paint, look no further than Alsa. About the best chrome out of a can you will ever find. Darth Beavis used it to paint the skeleton for his Autopsy mod (as showcased on that page).

And I can't think of a better case to use for a Terminator theme. Great choice there Frenkie!