Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh it's good to be back. I couldn't access Photobucket for the past 3-4 weeks. That's y I've been totally inactive in the forum. Finally managed to get into my Photobucket so I quickly uploaded sum pix before I get stuck n cant access Photobucket again. It must be the Streamyx 4m upgrading thingy in my area causing all these probs I haf with US websites.

Anyway, here's a quick simple mod I did a while back. The owner dropped his case on a rock of all things. Fell right smack on the left side panel. The whole left side aluminum panel got so badly damaged that it cudn b fitted back onto the case. So he needed me to make a whole new panel out of acrylic for him. He wanted it to haf a glowing dragon on the panel too. So here goes.


He sent me this pic of the dragon he wanted.










Stripping down the case.











Masked n marked the top panel for a 120mm blowhole. This case is difficult for top blowhole coz it has a USB panel up there originally. U can c the USB thingy under the masking tape. I had to follow the straight line of the USB thingy coz any further back n it'll obstruct the PSU. So I decided that a square blowhole was the only way to make a 120mm fan fit up there.












Top blowhole done. Covered the hole with honeycomb mesh for more airflow. I tried the normal mesh with small holes but this honeycomb looks better so I decided on the honeycomb. Look carefully at this pic n u'll c that the front door part is a different shade of silver. This is because I was asked to repaint the whole front panel in gloss silver. The original Thermaltake paint is really bad quality, very rough finish n doesn't shine at all. The front part I painted is now so glossy n smooth that u can c the shades of silver r totally off. Oh well, mebe it'll come back again for a full respray in total gloss silver.










This is the part of the front panel I repainted in gloss silver. Also painted the slot covers in matt black.











N here's the Tribal Dragon acrylic panel I made. Fully assembled on the case. The way the panel mounts onto the case is exactly like the original Thermaltake side panel. Slide on n lock with screws on the back. Took me about a week to figure out the best way to do this.









Voila! Here's how the dragon's gonna look once the owner receives his LEDs for the back of the mobo tray. I put the panel in front of my blue CCFLs to show how it shud look once the LEDs r in.








Hopefully the owner will be kind enuf to post up sum pix of his complete rig once he installs everything back inside including the LEDs to light up the dragon.

This post has been edited by ianho: May 29 2007, 02:31 AM

Finally a new casemod!!! no more bore dom!
very nice touch for the dragon..

Absolutely awesome. cheers!

Cool.
Luckily this one doesn't require us to wait for updates.
Uncle, was curious on the conditions of the wrecked side panel. Can upload a photo on that?

how do u install the normal sliding mechanism for the side window uncle? cut the rail from the original window and attach it to the acrylic?

Awesome mod. I am molesting it everyday. lol.
But too bad now no time to fix the things inside, very very busy

Wrecked side panel wasn't given to me. It was left at home. Mebe Hypermax will b kind enuf to show us the horror show pix.








Nope. Everything on the panel is fully custom made from scratch. No ready made parts on it at all.







Aiyoooooo. How u can tahan not to get everything up n running. Sumore ur Shuttle case now so hot in this blazing hot weather.

hey uncle, how did you position the CCFL ? right in the middle or at the corners ??

this idea took so long to implement


after seeing this, i think i must really make a pulsating circuit to pair up with the LED......

let the dragon have a warm red-ish heart beat at the middle

i believe uncle just use the CCFL light directly inside from his KIng Kong.. thats why the CCFL looks so even..

Crap, that looks totally awesome man. Imagine if you had those light changing LEDs or you would pair of several LEDs, white, blue and red and you get a dragon which changes colour...

Impressive work... I wonder how much you charge for that.

nice.......just in single page thread and...walla....finish allready....hope can do it to my Atrix casing.....

I have banished the wrecked panel in my dungeon, cannot even bare the sight of it, makes me wanna cry

Yup, you are right, my shuttle is giving me a big headache right now with the thermal issue. Yesterday my comp hanged 3 times consecutively while idle.

Eh bro, now waiting for your superbright LED
Will contact you soon once i am free to setup my rig.

This post has been edited by hypermax: May 29 2007, 12:02 PM

how did you do that uncle the dragon so cool it must must be fun if i can did it at my own case and i see there is a ATP3 cooooool.

the dragon look so spiky....its tounge so long tho....scary yet cool

wow.. the dragon is so lovely ... I bet u have spent so much of time in getting it ready to drop our jaws ...

Anyway how long it took to get it done ??

Does this mean that the whole sidepanel is made out of acrylic only? How do you spray the paint on it anyway for the dragon to look so nice..Anyway, great job and handwork there..

It took me only 1 day to do the Dragon panel. It's just the thinking n experimenting before actually getting to the point where I can make the actual panel. The thinking n experimenting part took about a week.



Yes, the whole Dragon panel is made out of acrylic.

hmm ??

U mean the dragon is a layer of decal paste over the acrylic panel ??

plz uncle no more poisoning luring .... tell us how's done .... PLZ PLZ PLZ

if me.. to make something like uncle did.. just masked the dragon shape onto the inner side of the acrylic and spray on the same side.. then when u pull out the mask.. tadaa..

maybe uncle did some fogging effect to makes the dragon image mid-transparent like that.. either directly sanded on the window itself or attached another sanded-dragon-shaped acrylic.. but its must be a hassle to cut out the dragon shape from acrylic..