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Holy moley! Nice work!

That looks really good man!

And brasso FTW!!! I also use it to polish my plexi

Very nicely done, great work

Thank you, Gents . Things are , to say the least, a bit hectic at work, so I can only spend a couple of hours over a weekend on this. On the plus side it gives me some planning time

Nice work dude!!!!

Brilliant work on the plexi :bigups:
Where you get that grille from?

It keeps improving albeit a bit slowly. Very nicely done.

silv3rback wrote:Where you get that grille from?

It came with the case.

Very nice work dude, I'm very impressed to say the least, I wish I could do that

Nice work man i love that gril u made... its soooo sexc

Nice work on da fan!

rule69 wrote:Nice work man i love that gril u made... its soooo sexc

Thanx dude, but I did not make the fan gril (if you are refering to the metal plate), it came with the case, where it was mounted on the side panel. The fan came from there too, but I did not like it in that location, and imo it was not going to serve any other purpose than to irritate me.

Thanks for the interest and comments, guys. It helps a lot with the motivation factor, if you know what I mean

Cheers,
Peter.

AAALLLLLRRIGHTY then. I have completed both front panels(top and bottom), last weekend.
The oval hole between the pipes did not look right, so I made the corners more square:


Polished up the 90's(since I have the brasso now ):


Removed the covers:


And assembled the whole shebang. Here it is with the front door closed:

And the front door open :


The next couple of shots are tricked, because I do not have the lighting installed yet, I used a bright light in the background. It kinda gives me an idea of the overall result that I want to achieve, once lighting is installed:




I know it is bright, but with the right amount of lighting things will be less stark. I'll be doing some work again over the weekend, but I am done with the front now...until I change my mind, that is

Cheers,
Peter

Looking good man!

I like the idea of the piping you using, gives it a nice industry look to it.

Thanks Skidd

I made the following HDD arrangement a couple of weeks ago.
The pics are self explanatory...














Thereafter, I stuffed around with extensions to the pipe panel...these will only be mounted at the very last moment, but at least it gives you an idea.





Umm, ja...I need to get the dust of eventually (just in case you thought it to be part of the look )
I am currently at the stage where I am to decide placement of the Optical Drive and temp/fancontroller. I have an idea, but implementing it is going to be something else of a mission altogether

Cheers,
Peter.[/img]

Looking really AWESOME! Nice work

Those HDD mounts are frikken seksi!!! Very good work dude!

Looking really good bro!!!!!
Cant wait to see the finished case


Gonna go down as one of my personal favourites! Keep the updates coming

I can't wait to see the finished product, I'm really excited

Damn I should've checked this mod earlier. WOW dude that looks really great. Awesome job on the HDD brackets. 8O 8O

Thanks for the positive feedback, guys!
I am having a real hard time getting my ODD mount sorted, due to space constraints.
I'm just glad no one can hear me swearing my head off, everytime my measurements are inacurate ...it is actually boils down to a real comedy of errors to be honest .

I think thats the best part for us as the audience, is watching guys screw up and then have to start again. Its the worst thing when you're modding yourself but when you look at other peoples mods and hear about how they manage to mess it up, it just helps remind us that we're human

Human indeed, Vampyre .

And so, without further ado, here it is then:

I made a- what would seem to be, in retrospect- half assed attempt at getting a plan to paper before the event. This helped me absolutely didly squat, as the idea I had did not fit into the space which I designated in the case.
Note to self: Do not think it must be like that...make sure it is like that

One entire evening wasted and nothing to show, you see

Anyway, I fell back on my usual "measure and fit" method, which takes twice as long imo, but is absolutely spot on, in the end

What the f... aha pics at last

The initial cuttings:



You know, I could go on like this but here is it is a bit faster:



Then some mid fitting:

It was a brain storm...a polished tray cover WOOOOT!

And some pipe polishing...


And the (almost) finale:

Layered:

What I like is that at any angle, the light refraction is different. In this pice you would not say that there is an amber insert...


Of course I had to take some gratuitous( now where is that flippin' dictionary) close-ups:


And a final final shot:


Hope it was worth the wait

Cheers,
LJ

Pics are up

looking really GUD! Keep up teh awesome work and keep those pics coming

Looking flipping amazing dude!!! You doing a really good job with that plexi

Keep up the brilliant work bro

Um dude.... Really nice stuff, but PLEASE don't talk about pipe polishing on here

I34z1k wrote:Um dude.... Really nice stuff, but PLEASE don't talk about pipe polishing on here

Bwahahahaha
OK, how about buffing my poles?


Thanks Guys! Mucho Grande Appreciative.