8-Bit Airship (Final Fantasy)

[thorkon]

Here is the video of the case: http://youtu.be/Cz5muWnFMmg


Components:

ASUS Maximus IV Extreme
ASUS GTX 660 SLI
i5-3570k
12gb DDR3 Ram
200 Gb SSD
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series (800W)

Hi, I have been building 8-Bit mods out of wood cubes for the last 4 years and I always start a new one at the beginning of the year. Last year I made Link from Legend of Zelda, here's a pic of that to give you a idea of what my style is:

While I will be doing a picture log I am also really big into making a time lapse video from the beginning of the build to the finished project. I have those in my other builds on this forum or my youtube page.

I am moving into building a rather big mod this year, this one will be twice the length of any of my other mods. It is a Airship from Final Fantasy. I will have moving propellers on it, 6 propeller LED fans, and have the motherboard/cpu visible from outside looking in using clear plastic cubes. I haven't got the exact pc components but one of my main goals is to SLI in this case and give this case some good power.

I have made a mock-up of the image in minecraft (which works perfect as I am using 1 inch cubes and I enjoy playing survival minecraft ). The clouds on the bottom will hold the ship off the ground 2 inches to help give it the feel of flying.

Here's the minecraft mockup:

I expect to be done in a month or so...so lets get to it!

Starting from the bottom of the hull:

The holes are where the fans will be going

The finished hull with holes in place. Moved the camera a bit so it came out a bit blurry and I didn't realize

Front end

Front end with top. This top will be removable so I am able to open the case and get to the parts

http://i.imgur.com/nKVbA.jpg?1


Gonna try to finish the top and start working on the propellors and rigging pulley system for them to spin.

That is all I have done right now. I will update soon with some more completed pictures.

[d_stilgar]

That is pretty awesome for sure. I can't wait to see more. Where do you get your cubes? They look pre-made or at least finished very well before you begin assembly.

Also, welcome to the forums!

[thorkon]

The cubes are acquired from Caseyswood. Com. It would be a pain to do them all myself as I'm using almost 2000 cubes :O

[Cale_Hagan]

looking good!

[TLHarrell]

I may have to look into getting some of those blocks to feed my laser cutter/engraver. Cool stuff. Good to see you working on another one of these projects.

[thorkon]

Mo' updates:
Some size reference pics (i'm 6 ft tall)

Top main hull finished:

Working on the clouds on the bottom. The clouds hold the ship 2 inches off the ground to give it a flying look. It may be hard to tell they are clouds until they are painted white

*Not actual propellor, just testing a fan spinning it and how it may look on the hull

[thorkon]

New pics:

Finished corner with stairs and mock propellers.

My propellers being driven by case fan. The dowel rod goes through the cubes and will be loose and will drive the propellers on the top.

Fan controller that will control the hull fans on the side. The knobs will go in the holes and the barrels will connect to the knobs so by turning the barrels will control the fan speeds

[d_stilgar]

Nice progress and hilarious progress shots. This is going to be huge when it's done.

[thorkon]

Thanks, it is going to be huge, I will most likely need assistance when moving it to go to lans. It's actually not going to have that much space in it due to the V shape. It definitely doesn't have as much as I expected anyway. The sli cards are going to be a tight fit.

[thorkon]

A few days since my last update? Not on my watch!


Here are the propellers in action. I am using Lepa Casino 1C fans in propeller mode. This is the single fan mode:

I made some figurines to go with the ship. These are the heroes from Final Fantasy 4. (FF2 in US).

The acrylic bitting begins!

Inspecting the acrylic