UPDATE!!!!

so i updated way later than my intentional update day but oh well, work has priorities i guess.
anyway this will just be a short update for those of you still following

so the side panels which has been spray painted are doing mighty fine, i washed them down after
leaving it to cure for about a week and the result was much better than i expected.





probably this side panels are one of the best results i've ever done in any mods haha. and here is
a close up shot of the surface. sry the pic is slightly grainy haha



so with that done i've moved on to the cabling works which i am struggling to find time to do.
between work and dota i really have no time man so over the last weekend i got started
on creating the stencil that i'll be using to spray the design i came up with on the side panel acrylic.
normally all the mods in other forums ppl use painting tape, but i have no idea where to find this.
i mean you guys can say why not masking tape but its very different cuz the paint can seep through
the masking tape and it cant be easily cut with blade cuz it tears easily. and also i have to attach multiple layers before i can cut cuz the design is quite big.

so i'm using the same thing i used for my previous mod.



this is basically a transparent laptop skin. the adhesive is strong enuf cuz it uses suction as well
so paints cant seep beneath the skin. and it can be easily cut. i was quite lazy so i asked my sis
to cut it for me haha.



so the left is the design and the right is the stencil for the black paint. i will be painting it this
weekend. and recently i juz sleeved the front panel cables. so here is a shot of the cables.



and after an hour of sleeving. i dont have a molex modding toolkit but a small screwdriver or
tweezers works juz as well. juz have to slowly do it so you don't break the plastic pin haha.
and the final product



so thats it for the latest update haha. hopefully i can do more this weekend cuz i'm dying to play
titanfall so i need this com up and running

have a great weekend guys

Looking Good Bro!! keep at it!

wah so pretty. :3

Thanks bro!! looking forward to the completed chassis

Haha nice gif. thx lots man

UPDATE!!!!!

Well, the random update is here lolz. Anyway I was very disappointed with my work recently hence the
short mourning period. Remember the laptop skin thing? yea..... that didnt work out too well.



yup, utterly destroyed that acrylic piece. well, its a good thing I bought spares I guess. The black turned out
very well. its just the design which screwed up everything. i guess its due to the laptop skin stickiness
combined with the very complex design so when I peeled off the laptop skin, it just started getting stuck
together. thinking of that give me the shivers. anyway, I was about to give up on the design and just paint
that portion black. till, my bro-in-law reminded me that my cousin recently procured a 3d printer.

and what can you do with a 3d printer? THE AWESOMEST THING EVER.
I'm not kidding. so I asked my cousin and he gave me the cad formats I'll need to save in.

so I dropped by his house to check out the 3d printer and to run a trial test to see how things work out
well here goes then



well, I can imagine most people will go like huh? I though 3d printers are the uber cool futuristic thing?
yup. thats on youtube and probably worth a fortune. go ahead I wont stop you. anyway so we loaded the
file and fire it up.





as a mechanical engineer (by profession, but dun really like it) it was freaking cool to see one churning
out materials and weaving them into objects. this was gonna be the prototype and it's printing at a height
of just 1mm. I was afraid that the plastic wouldnt be strong enough but I was so wrong.



so basically you're looking at the finish product. the net mesh at the bottom is like the base so its easy to
peel the object from the plate. it looks gorgeous and I couldnt ask for any better. its pretty strong as well.
I honestly thought 1mm was really pushing it and it will just snap in 2 at any time.



well this is 1 of the pieces that I removed from the base. see the connecting joints? thats... I have no idea
how thin but the main parts are barely 2mm. so that like 0.2-0.4mm? and it held fine.

so with this, I decided to up the game. my initial design was to be kept as simple as possible cuz i'll need to
cut and spray and whatnot. but with 3d printing, I can be more ambitious muahahaha.

I went back to the drawing board and updated the design and made it more complex than it was before.
Though maybe I'll regret but oh well, high risk, high returns,.



so this is the updated designs. there are more shapes and what not. and I even made some parts through
and through with the hopes that it'll look awesome when led shines through it. like this



so you see there are some parts on the base where there'll be some cutout looking thing. hopefully it pans
out as I hope. So hopefully I can print this out soon and well see how it goes from there on.

and also been working a bit on the wirings for the led strips. manage to secure some 3pin male and female
to use them for the led strips.



I got them from the voltage reducer in aerocool shark fans. since I have a lot of unused fans haha.
There'll be lots of wiring to do. already soldered some but well, too recent for pics but I'll definitely follow
up on that.

Have a great weekend guys.

This post has been edited by valor89: Apr 4 2014, 04:53 PM

a 3-fcuking-D printer!!! now can u print me a car pls? just kidding

finally, a serious build on prodigy case. are you planning to watercool it? i just bought a 2nd hand prodigy case. i'm planning to watercool it. but i'm not a pro modder like you to do something awesome like this!

You know shit got serious when you pull out a 3D printer.

+1 to that! Damn the outcome is really nice man~~ if only we could print our graphic cards and processor with that.

3d printer is serious business yo,.

haha. sorry guys I went AWOL. have been very busy and have been waiting for parts and whatnot to fly in from God knows where. So i'll be continuing with works in a week or so. didnt thought that i'll have replies on this thread haha. thx to u guys who are following really makes this mod more enjoyable. i'll be mass updating once i get things going so hope u guys enjoy the rest of the mods

haha. toy car can la bro lolz

not too serious bro. juz some cutting and spraying. nothing big haha. i've seen even more serious ones and mine look like childs play. only the cpu will get the AIO cooling treatment. the rest will be air cooled as usual. i have no experience in watercooling and dun have the finance to back that up. hopefully i get some sponsors in the future for a build haha. all the best for your watercooled setup man. do post some pics for us to drool on

lolz. shit aint serious when u can print the shit man. but yea. 3d printer brings modding to a whole new level lolz

thx bro. hopefully u'll like the end product oh and yea. i am a firm believer that we'll be able to build the world with 3d printer

haha. aint so serious when u'r printing casing parts lolz