New Mod Project.

the eyes are the liquid cooling reservoir, I´d be happy to take in some suggestions about more evil things :smiley:

Lava. Put some lava in there.

Hi Everyone,

First of all I´d like to apologize for the delay on finishin this, I had to wait for several thing sto be delivered and once I finally got them I was already busy with AIO AL (a.k.a. nameless mini-mod) and already had my mind set on doing the second mod in a week “Fallout Cause SP”, and of course after that I had the final lan & modding event of the year to go to (from which I just got back yesterday). Today I did the finishing touches (several changes had already been done as bits arrived but I wanted to wait till the end to post the final pictures) but to put it all togueter, since my last post. The following things have been changed /added; 1. The horns, as you all know I wasnt 100% happy with them and decided to shorten them and make them as symetrical as I could but I decided to not go all the way to hell-boy style, so I stayed somewhere in between. 2. The paint on the front. I wanted to do something simple that would shape the face that I maded with frontal components. I had done this in the past for a friend and I found a simple V helped a lot, so I went for that and quite happy with it. 3. Touch ups and darkening of certain outside sections, these you couldn´t tell all that much in photos but it was simply something that was bugging me so went ahead and did it. 4. Fix 2 scratches on the side panel. These happened in my last trip and while they wherent that noticeable… you know, just had to fix it. 5. Internal paint touchup, esentially went and redid the inside paint, same colour, but it just needed a second coating. The only left was the frontal spacer for which I couldn´t get a replacement as the spacing between it and horns is quite visible and would´ve preffered to close it up but, not much I can do now. If I come across one (I think they are the same on all CM HAF cases) I will defo do it up : )

On a side note: I know this mod has been 50/50 all the way, I hope with the final pictures to have changed the mind of some of you who didn´t like it. Personally I am now completely happy with it and quite proud of the result having in mind it´s my first time with epoxy and foam as modding materials. I can´t get over on how much I love the skin effect either. To those that still don´t like it, well… I can´t make everyone happy, as long as you like any other of my projects, I´m happy ; )

One last thanks to Cooler Master & Kingston for helping out a lot with this project specially someone from Kingston whom I will not mention by name (you know who you are) who has been extremely helpfull all the way, thanks!!!

So here you go, the final pictures of Project: Diabolo:

Thanks for reading!

Looks awesome! You certainly possess (no pun intended) skills that I could never get anytime soon!

Can’t wait to see future projects! :wink:

I didn’t really like the V shape on the front at first, then I realized

look great!

hahahahahahahaha was wondering if someone would realize where it originally came from :stuck_out_tongue:

Just appeared in a PCGamer Article!!! :smiley:

https://www.pcgamer.com/2011/12/16/is-water-cooling-making-a-comeback/

Nice, congrats!

yaaayy

Duuuuuude congrats!

thanks guys, well over the moon, been a pcgamer reader since 01 so well excited about this :smiley:

Thats actually the case I have haha, you do such amazing work you deserve the article for sure.

Cheers : )

Talking to Adam Oxford (the bold guy from the hardware section in pcgamer UK), about the possibility of doing a follow up on my next mod on the mag : )

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