I'M BACK

How long has the hiatus been since American Apathy... I think about 1 - 1.5 years. When working at CIMB I pick up a habit that since now I'm jobless I continue that habit and eventually some idea popped up when I woke up (a few times as well). Seriously.

Hence this is a project that involves no or very few planning (dude, when ideas pop out of your head the moment you open your eyes waking up). I do sketch more or less what I "see", but then since the material is so flexible I can recycle it a gazillion time I want if the design doesn't come out as I like and I can re-mold them however I want. Damn, I feel like Sam Winchester, I got "visions" lol...

Some details to cut things short. Paperazzi involves:

1. An ultra heavyweight case (server-like case) thats why it involves paper not Bondo

2. Tools: scissors, gripping glue, spray paint, poster color, a bit of acrylic, water

3. Material: A4 paper, new or old all become my victims (count in buckets)

So far one side panel is 70% thru molding. Plunked remaining material on 2nd side panel but tak cukup dammit. Since the piktars arent ready yet, I'll keep you guys guessing I'll post some piktars tomorrow. Not at home right now and even if I'm at home, no screamyx.

All hail me, the God of Fd Up Mods. Bow.




Oooh... whitened bull's testicles soaked in porridge anyone?

well im lookin forward

Testing

Did a few tests with different containers. Firstly curves and circles.





Circles are done by just molding it around a disc. Here you can see the paper's rough n not well soaked (first few buckets). Made some horns out of it, or spikes, or.. whatever.







After testing, its a test mold. Eventually I molded it for a few nights for something like this.



Scraped it though cos it looks like and old lady's shoes, minus the smell. So chucked everything I've tested and made into the container for re-soak.



Soak it up...

Side Panel Part 1

With vision comes the sketch. I have to, before I start forgetting. Then wrap it up in some plastic for reuse






Looks easy aint it? All I have to do is plop some paper pulp on it and its done. Not. Had a very un-fun fun with mr steel ruler for about 10-15 minutes. Not once, but 4 times dammit






Then to lay them up on the side panel one by one to determine the shape and position. Mold up the top part which absurdly looks different from the sketch as I didnt realize how hard it is to mold around tight ass areas which really are a pain in the ass




Here.. compare reptile-skin paper with smooth pulp. I basically have to refine most of the molds.






Went up to this few days ago




Went up to this yesterday morning before I leave the house and created this worklog

Side Panel Part 2

Since its too bare and the thing at the sides looks like
- duck's feet
- stumpy dwarf's sword

I need something on top that sorta extend the 3D thing or uh.. well I don't know how to put it in words. Just another vision I had while waking up. OK, ribcage.




Now, I have to pick something of the right size to mold it on. Modding Idol... From left to right: kiap kiap lenglui, mother of 2, and finally grandmother. Of course pick kiap kiap lenglui lar, else pick grandma meh?




Some plastic, tape... SM the idol, chuck in some paper pulp and further it with an even more un-fun fun with mr ruler






Resources running low. Dammit. And luckily some back up, which is just... "some"... for the scale of the mod






I just left the house few hours ago with about 10 pieces of paper snipped into fine pieces in the bucket. I'll wait for the water to clear up before letting them go for a dip as its coffee-colored now due to some pipe fixing in Subang from 12-6am yesterday. Sonowabeetch.

Damn really God Of Fd Up Mods . . . u really cracked ur head just to come up with this idea i guess. Reminds me of making a mask with baloon at highschool . U really have the patince and most of all, skillz . Cmon cmon, more pics, can wait for more . . . lookin damn cun so far. NIce molding of design's, cheap and easy to get sources mod . . . *SAVE THE EARTH*

This is really an original...I've seen some made with carbonfibre or bondo..
can't wait for the mod.....

(speechless...)

Dude this is some good sheat...Nice job bro..

Bro TS, the title should put:GREEN PEACE CASING.
hahaha.really admire your skill

Thanks for the compliments but I'm not workin on it today or the next 2 days. Just balled another one, which is much bigger than the previous ball. Something like.. um, Godzilla's balls instead of bull's... eheh... Will be back

maaaaaaaaaaann.... this is looking real good....

Acey, ive always liked ur style of modding and ur taste in arts (i.e skulls etc etc...)


so i SERIOUSLY hope that u actually finish the mod this time. PLEASE!!!

new ideas in case modding.

real nice idea.

... (speechless)

can commission you to mod my casing? wow... love the dragon (or what you call it) thingie.

LOL there's no dragon la brother... I just mold whatever I see when I wake up.. you wouldnt want me to start cutting your case that explains why I dont do much cuttings on this one even the side panel.

Updates: stall for 2 days, waiting for the paper ball to dry and resoak. So damn bored got nth to do I'm helping out at fren's pc shop lol.

nice mod bro...waiting to see the result...cambateh...

NiiiCeee!!! (said borat).. Very creative..looking foward your project.. Anyway,i suggest u not to use that DOVE spray thingy coz the cap is easily get stucked. I bought 2 of them and totally useless...try use other brands...cheers..

Thank you thank you. Thats the last Dove spray I got and I dont plan to use silver on this case so gonna try better spray, thanks for the advice anyways

Side Panel Part 3

Finally the big ass ball is hardened and spent a couple of minutes killing it. It floats actually, which caught me offguard cos I thought it'll take in the water and "drown" lol.








Now I have almost a full bucket of paper to work with.




Decided to scrap the original rib sketch and mold cos its kinda waste of time to do it both sides and then to combine them. So a new sketch which makes both sides into one, currently one is up, getting another tonight after work.




Found this foam at the shop during re-stock of HDDs, which another "vision" came lmao while i was smoking.




So took a knife and cut it to get the shape, took it home and place it on top of my other side panel. Ok it works, now I need a drawing block to trace it cos I don't wanna use the foam.








Spend about 1/2 hour to paste up the other side panel




Thats about all for yesterday. More tonight cos I need to do another sketch for the main side panel. Still a long way to go for that panel.

Updates: Hmm, my friend just donated a lot of material for me... look at this stash of ECS instruction booklet lol...

ooo man...
this is what we call mod........
recycle oso....
environmental friendly.........
lookin forward for it....

Side Panel Part 4

Went on wetting (with water, not as in wetting my pants type of wetting!) the main side panel to strip out the curves. They suck, literally, and unplanned.




Sketch up the base for the 4 empty sides based on rough space measurement. For once my eyes did me justice, cos if i do rough measurement on plexi like i did before, it basically screwed me over.




Trace em. And some stand-behind-the-yellow-line discipline with an expired driving license. Should look something like the third picture. I totally suck at using MS Paint, period.








This sucker took me almost an hour to come up with after tracing the foam on a drawing block, sketch, retrace on A4 paper which ended up inside out, and retracing on a new block. Its for the right panel or what i call the idle panel. Ain't done yet for the top and the sides, daddy need visions *takes african dream roots and sleeps*






Intel did me a real good favor when I was installing a pc for a customer. I looked at the heatsink wrapping for a minute and figured out I can use it for the center of my main panel

Side Panel Part 5

The 4 left panel add-ons are dried, placed on the left panel to get the placement and starts molding the top part. Will have to wait for it to dry before going again or else the center curve will collapse






Ah the intel box... it looks like this, and I cut out the sides, turn it upside down and start smearing paper pulp all over its behind. Kinky...






So from the right panel sketch, start molding. The base is eventually too big cos I have to do the curves first (it should look on top of the whole line) so I have to do it in a couple of days instead of one.



Might be able to finish the base for this by tonight cos I'm having offday tomorrow.

i see coffee, i see cigarette . . . i see hardwork.

good good stuffs!! What a strange project. Can't wait to see the finished product.

BTW, would be nice also if you could optimize the pictures a little. With the resolution and quality you are posting, the size could be smaller.

bravo...great mod...wish u have more vision to mod it even better... the Intel box...really a great idea....

Wow I think this is the lightest casing.

Next generation of casing to overcome fuel price hike. the paper casing. Keep up the good work.

Side Panel Part 5

Offday... Intel thing dried, so pulled out the plastic holder and got this. Unfortunately tad too high for my liking, so decided to trim it. Still too high, so screw it.






Did a rough sketch and then drew my own so I can have a flat base to start with for the middle part. The lines at the center is kinda messed up.




Continued on the left panel with some extras and molded the new base higher












For the right panel I thought it'll be easier to just mold everything first and then doing the extensions after it dried, so I laid out all the remaining paper pulp on it before transferring it to the right panel






Now I'm out of paper, have to wait another 2-3 days before I can continue

is that side panel strong??how are you going to attach the side panel.

I honestly donno how to reply your msg when I first read it... cos the thing is already on the side panel itself... now im wondering if this question or the quote on your sig is funnier... lol just kidding la

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Side Panel Part 6 / Top & Front

Am still soaking up the paper, now I have 2 different containers as I just soak another pile in the bucket. Let them soften up just in time when I finish using up the current pulp. Eventually I still have to wait till the paper's fine enough to refine the last bit of the left side / active panel, then I need to test on spraying layers, color theme, and will mix a cheap home made purple slime (will be shown much later once I need to use it only)




This what I molded to replace the Intel thingy cos it was way too bulky n high. Now its resting in my bin. Moved it onto the left panel and watered it down flat, still need a lot of refining and thickening for last touch on that panel before I move on to the right one. Paper's extremely rough here. See why I hate to let them play in the sun with the window open? It curves.




I'll need to leave the round sides and the center hollow for the slime and I got something from the case to help out shaping it lol




Its irritating to sit around after work with nothing to do, so I sketched the top panel thingy which will be stacked quite high up. Again, no cuttings on the top panel. Took about 5 minutes to finish designing and about 15 minutes to mold. Don't mind those spots, its coffee, honestly.






This the front panel. Its fn irritating cos I wanna remove the hatch but the legs are deadly molded onto it and fit into the side. Lucky day. Met a returning customer who had the same case minus the hatch so I asked him how did he remove it. "Oh, I accidentally pressed against it while its open". I went home took a look at it, and purposely did some karate kid on it.










Based on real life story. No front panel was harmed during the making of this picture above. Perfect break.

Now the sucky part. Waiting for the paper to soften.


Something to laugh at, a signboard I took at a coffee shop near Kuchai Lama Entrepreneur Park

Hard Disk Cage Part 1

Loller.. I got nothing to do here at the shop. We have a numbnuts working here who is, everyone agreed, at the bottom of the IQ table. I saw him wrecking an old cd-rom and I asked him what he's doing. He's trying to stuff a hard disk in, cover it up, and slot it into one of the bay drives. Gave me an idea. Imagine that, ideas from a numbnuts.

Grabbed one old ASUS rom, unscrewed the bottom part and basically ripped all the greens out.



Then I found something of a latch attached to it, hooked. So I have to amputate Captain Hook in order to use the latch. Remove all the moving parts in it, and bring the hatch down








Perfect fit. Too bad now we need to cut the back as there's no space there.




Hmmm, gonna take me some time to mold thru this thing and stick it to the bottom panel to save place and airflow allocation (strong 120mm fan at the bottom of the front panel pushing air thru this junk first and then the graphics card )


Voila... doesn't move a single millimeter when overturned...



Be back soon

whoahhhh nice sense of art i think~
u r a paperman ah? really good handling those ahahha~
keep up ur hard work...


[ btw... 1st i see dunhill, 2nd i see winston... soon wat ah?]

i smoke everything lol

U gonna pissed those eco-friendly members lol.. It's all about the trees

Top Panel Part 1

Headache. Everyday not enough sleep because of the thing. Layered up the top panel cos I can't touch the left panel since its done. Decide to scrap the right panel design since its too... um.. low profile compared to the left one.




Found the design of the top panel too small and empty at the back so did some free hand add in. Still not done yet, just the first layer, its going to be bulkier than this








Front Panel Part 1

Layered the front panel a bit cos I still havent go and get the plexi for the fan (occupying the 3 5.25" bay under the DVD) and ran out of paper halfway molding.






This the right panel's new design, need to wait for paper to soften before molding. a bit packed but see if I can pull it off.




Left panel done, need to do some refining to fill in gaps and not-so-smooth curves, then test painting on test materials before starting to paint the panel.

very nice lol....
WOW