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

This post has been edited by Acey: Jun 11 2008, 12:22 PM

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.



This post has been edited by Acey: Jun 17 2008, 06:45 PM

very nice lol....
WOW

nice man.... me still keeping a keen eye on this project...

awaiting further updates.

i saw tatto..hehe

Where got tattoo? I never show my legs also lol