Hi everyone here I'm off to starting my first mod, all of my builds have been scratch build so let's see how this one goes.
I know most of us are fans of Assassin's Creed, so I decided to follow that theme.

First of all I must thank my sponsors for sponsoring this build. (Please click on the image to visit their official page)

Avexir


Avexir is providing the Avexir Blitz 1.1 Gaming Red Red LED memory modules for the build. Thank You Very Much Avexir

Bitfenix


Bitfenix is providing the Pandora Window edition and Spectre Pro LED Red Fans for the build. Thank You Very Much Bitfenix
 
EKWB

EKWB is providing me with an EK-KIT L240 to water cool this build. Thank You Very Much EKWB

Renders and build pics coming up soon

This post has been edited by snjvirtual: Jul 7 2015, 01:03 PM

Hi guys, I'm back with the render images, these will change a little bit towards the end of the build and i might add some more features, but this would be the general concept, i'm not going to modify the metal parts, except making room on top for 2 fans.


This case is one of the most elegant cases that i've seen and i dun want it to loose that touch.
I will not be focusing too much on having expensive components in the build so this would be a closed loop build with mid range specs, it's the look that i want to change to give it an assassin's creed theme.

So here we go with the first Update,

Update 1:
So I took apart the Pandora as I wanted some of the internal parts to be white. White looks very clean on a build so wanna make it as clean as possible


Parts ready for painting




So The Painted parts look like this, and when it's assembled it looks very nice.











So that's all for this update guys.
Till next time. Happy modding!


This post has been edited by snjvirtual: Apr 22 2015, 07:21 PM

Hi Guys, small update today. Took apart the Bitfenix Spectre Pro Red LED fans to paint the outer frame white. It perfectly matches with the build when painted white. Red and White, perfect match.









Now I have some free time, so I will keep updating more frequently.

Update 3:

Hi everyone, I'm back with a new update. I designed a background design for the side panels, they looked quite empty just with the red designs, so I decided to add a background of Floral designs just like in AC.
Initially I wanted to get it done in dark grey, but the sticker shop didn't have that sticker at that time. so I decided why not go with gold. You can see some test laser cuts as well in the following pics

This is the 3x3 feet sticker cut I got




When the non-windowed panel is complete it looks like this





So here's the two panel, with sticker and without sticker




Window panel before and after





It's wasn't easy to take the main parts of the sticker out as the lines were as thin as 1mm, it took a long time to do this
I'll be back soon with a new update

This post has been edited by snjvirtual: May 1 2015, 05:09 PM

Hi Guys, Today is a small update on the laser cut products, Cut the top designs and side designs. After everything I realized that " 'S " wan't there, then i asked my friend to do that part on it.
I was in two minds whether to paint the acrylic or not because it looked so beautiful even without paint.




I'll update the painted ones in few days

lol Thanks Bro

Hi all, I'm back with another update, Painted the laser cuts with Red, white and black cols with a bit of gold in some parts. most of the parts I airbrushed to make sure the sides doesn't have a thick paint. so here are the pics of the painted parts


 
 
 
This is how the top panel will look on top of the black mesh
 
 




 
 
This is how the small pieces will fit on the side panels
 
 
 

Hi Guys, Back with a small update,

So for the build I wanted to have the assassin's hidden blade on the front and the flintlock gun on the non windowed side panel at the centre of a circular red acrylic gear wheel looking thing. I used both flintlock gun as well as the acrylic design that looks like a gear to resemble industrial age, where the newer versions of assassin's creed take place.

I made clay moulds for the shapes I wanted for the gun and blade. I did not make a shape first and mould it as this would make it easy for me to add designs to the parts



I made a similar moulds for the gun barrel and other parts of the gun. after using resin to make the pieces and with a little clean up with the dremel they look like this. The wood part of the gun I cut with a Jigsaw and used dremel to carve the shape, then used sandpaper to make it smooth








And after airbrushing this is how the parts looks. for the wood part I used Burmese Teek colour and a clear coat.





Hope you like the build so far. This is my third mod and best among the three I guess. I'll be back with more updates.

Thank You Clem1982
Thank You Vankodog,
More updates on the way....

He he thanks a lot 1gaz1gaz

More detail on it's way

First of all thank you very much for the nomination as one of the MOTM nominees, it's great honor.

It's been one week since I last updated, was finishing up on the build so that I can update faster.

So this is where it get's interesting, now it's time to add LEDs to the build, I want it to look extremely good in the dark as well, so here we go with how i did it.

I made 4 standouts to hold the LEDs that light up the Assassin's Creed Logo using lathe, and made few other pieces to use as connectors to make the connection to side panels

To make sure there are no visible cables on the build I used transformer coil to connect the LEDs, this was very hard coz the LEDs were about 3mm and soldering them to hair like coils were next to impossible, and just side panels have 64 LEDs built into the designs. Hope you guys like it's look

Connectors and Standouts are like this




So with these i can easily remove side panel without disconnecting any cables, just how it's supposed to be opened.


Here are the Standouts


Here you can see the scale with a pen

For all these I used 64 leds and 20 resistors i took out from LED strips


Soldering these was the hardest part as i mentioned to your before


Then I went on and made holes in the acrylic pieces to glue in the LEDs



Testing out the EK logo Lighting


Bitfenix Assassin Logo


Sadly Avexir logo was too small to fit in the LEDs. it was hard to fit the LEDs on the top right design as well as all the parts were extremely thin
So this is how the build looks with everything complete except internal parts








On the next update I will show you how I did the top panel lighting.
Till then have a great weekend

Hi Guys, Back with another update, My final exams are coming up, so i have to finish the build log within this month and concentrate on studies, I'll get back to a new build after August

So this update is about the top panel and the mysterious parcel I got from mail.
I decided instead of replacing the top panel with a fixed panel, it would be better to place the acrylic design over the top mesh, but there was one problem...



The evil hex design blocking all of my light and ruining the designs of the acrylic
so i went on and took it apart piece by piece (very dramatic yeah )



and it was just as I wanted, the depth of the frame was 5mm, perfect for my LED fitting


Sooooo Now the Lights are much visible


Then I glued on the acrylic designs to the top with Epoxy and Glued LEDs around the frame as well. I used a similar contact system that I showed in the last episode to make the top panel easily removable

In the mean time I received a call from the postal office saying I got a parcel hmm what might that be.....
Oh wait it's from Taiwan.....


I should mention about the packing first, oh boy it was packed with several layers of bubble wrap to make sure the things inside can sleep safe and sound.

So what was inside??????
OFC they were the sexy AVEXIR Blitz 1.1 Gaming Red 16GB kit ... and The box they were really looked like a gift box, here are some nice pics of em.









In the next update (21/06) I will open the other mystery box and we will focus on the internal mods

Hi Guys, back with an update, This is mostly the unboxing of the second mystery box and making the motherboard cover,
So what was in the second secret box I got from DHL? Let's have a look



Oh ok it's from EK.







The EK-KIT L240 that EK gave me for this build. Let's take it out of the box and see what's inside
Again I should mention the quality of packing, and this EK kit is well packed for safety of the products and they are actually inside individual boxes inside this box

Let's take a look at the EK-XRES DCP 2.2 combo, this is the pump and the res for this kit.
It's in a well designed box, first it's covered with a sleeve



remove the sleeve there's the box


Open it up and there's the installation manual


Flip that cover and the Pump Res Combo and the accessories are inside protected by sponge underneath, and inside separate plastic packets


and finally the mounting brackets below the sponge to make sure they dun scratch the pump.

Same goes for the EK-Supreme LTX UNI CSQ (2013)
Sleeve


Box


Open it up, and there's the mounting kit and the installation guide.





and then there's the block and the thermal paste


Once again below the sponge (under the block) is the rear mounting bracket
Here's the block

Unboxing the EK Coolstream PE 240 Dual Rad





Inside the bubble wrap it's the Rad



Then The EK Vader F3-120 fans, there are two of them for 240 Rad


They are not anything special, but high static pressure fans with 1850 RPM ( I won't be using them for the build)



Last But not least the fittings and the EK Coolant Evo (concentrated)

So coming back to the modding part. Here, is the motherboard cover I made for the Gigabyte GA-H97M Gaming 3 mATX board. This one I made by laser cutting unlike in my previous mods.

Used red colour to add more detail to it.


Then I painted only the top with white so to leave little bit of red colour and also to be able to add LEDs in future if I want to. So, how it holds to the mobo is in the design, the tight fitting of it makes sure it doesn't fall after connecting all the components, specially the USB3 connector and 8 pin connector with make it fit , but just to make sure I used double side tapes in some places.
(Note that I have painted the mobo as well which I will explain in next update)