Project: Mod in a Week // "Fallout Cause SP"

that truly looks incredible. :slight_smile:

thanks guys : ) I´m extremely pleased on all the detailing and how it´s turning out, another update in a couple of hours ; )

5th Day - Wednesday 30-11-11 - Update 2

Cold cathodes and wirless keyboard/mouse arrived which I´ll be using (and in the case of k+m, modifying it) on this project.

I continued applying usage, abuse and rusting to the borders, openings and imperfections of the case:

Now the back of the case, which you wont eventually see much off since the screen will be mounted on it but still:

And finished with the front side:

And the top:

Tomorrow I will deal with the front:

Still haven´t decided what to do with it.

Once that is out of the way I will assemble the case to have a complete look to it and see if I feel like changing something or if I have to do any touch ups and so on.

I will also get started (and hopefully finish?) with the keyboard and mouse.

The day after that, which is the final day I will assemble the whole thing and take some final picks.

Thanks for reading!

My god, that looks awesome. Kinda looks like something you’d pull straight out of a junkyard; keep up the awesome work man!

well I was going more for post-nuclear wasteland than junkyard but I´ll take it as a comment about it´s realism, so thanks! :smiley:

6th Day - Thursday 01-12-11 - Update 1

1st of the month, white rabbits! :smiley:

coughcoughahem… aniway!

As I mentioned yesterday, the wireless keyboard and mouse arrived. I could´ve gone for something fancier but to be honest I really like the standard logitech oem combo, it´s cheap, great quality, sturdy and lasts just about forever. So here we go, keyboard sanded down, masked and ready for painting:

First layer done:

And the same process as with the rest, darkening, particles, and… rust! I´d never though I´d say this, but, I really really really like the whole rusty look it´s turning out to have (originally I planned for only a bit).

And now I´d like to thank everyone on every forum this is posted who helped me out with suggestions for the front of the case.

I ended up mixing two suggestions, one was rusted out front and the other one was olive green light coat with a light coat of the yellow I used on the rest of the case on top, so here you have the result:

More later today, thanks for reading!

I could never imagine something like that sitting on my desk, but I do appreciate the craftsmanship and detail you put in there!

Neither could I, and I made it!, I like different things for my desk, this one is more oriented to expositions, this one will be at a modding expo with 3 of my others in a 6 day event starting next tuesday, after that we shall see : )

Would you paint guitar bodies? :x

Now I’m thinking you should put a green light somewhere in the case so that it looks radioactive or something. :wink:

@Bolteh:
I don´t see why not : )

@danielsangeo:
Way ahead of you, have a double green cold cathode waiting to be installed, and it´s the revoltec ones, they are stupidly bright so it should look awesome : )

I am digging the hell out of this, and the new Mouse/Keyboard look excellent. You’re awesome.

Looking really nice, would love to be able to do something like that myself, but I lack both time and resources(probably skills too). Anyway keep it up.

Wonder why bright green always symbolizes radioactive matter. It doesn’t glow green, but it can make water in power plants glow blue(Cherenkoc effect), pretty cool.

Thanks a lot for the comments guys, really glad you like it : )

PS: remember to also check out my other project in progress, thread here is “nameless project…”

6th Day - Thursday 01-12-11 - Update 2

This for me is quite simply, the cherry on top:

Took me about 2 and half to 3 hours to get it just right, to get that look like it´s been stamped on the case rather than painted (in my oppinion aniway), hope you guys like it!

Tomorrow starts the final day (ends mid-day saturday), and as of now, all the modifying and painting is finished so tomorrow I will be assembling it all togueter (ps: didn´t take pictures but the psu, dvd rw and hd have been painted black, it´s almost my signature thing to paint all possible components so… nothing fancy, just mainly so no ugly grey bits to see through the openings) and taking loads of pictures of the final look which will conclude succesfully the “Mod in a Week” challenge.

Thanks for reading : )

The green color apparently comes from the time when you had glow-in-the-dark stuff made with radium and, like 3D-filesystems where the camera flies through buildings of data, it became sort of a media stereotype for radiation/radioactivity in general.

Might not be accurate but… :smiley:

Luciel: Your mod looks awesome! Can’t wait to see it all together!

Thanks Danielsangeo : ) another update later today : )

7th Day - Friday 02-12-11

Assembly took longer than I thought it would but almost there, the following pictures are the process, because I had to remove the HDD cage from bellow to install the monitor´s hardware and hide cables I had to dismantle the memory card reader to take out the pcb and cut the frontal plastic part that goes with it. Once done and used silicone glue to put them togueter and again to attach it to the case (as you will see in one of the pictures), this allowed me to install the hdd where that would normally go (i.e. enough space to do so now). The cathodes are barely visible but are at the top and on the right side. Also due to popular demand, I replaced the cpu cooler with another exactly the same one, modified the 775 adaptor so I could shift it half a centimetre to right so I´d be able to rotate the cooler to a possition where the heatpipes are pointing up and down as opposed to the side so it doesn´t prevent me from installing both modules of ram:

Now I just have to mount the screen, make sure it works and I can take some sweet final pictures, all done by tomorrow at around 6-7pm gmt+1 in order to meet the one week challenge.

Thanks for reading!

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