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Two homemade custom fangrills :)



Today i catch suny weather and paint case parts with primer...

 
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Today i assemble the case..





After successful assembling I decide to cut fan grill at plexiglass who will be the barrier betwen psu, hard drives and motherboard



Everithing was good until i start sanding a and e letter. There everithing was going down :S The letters are broken and not longer in one piece.Tomorrow i ll try glue parts and save few hours of work.
 

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Very nice so far .
Not sure the name fits though . Black pearl is just not right . Sounds like I am going on a sailing voyage with Captain Jack Sparrow . Were you putting the sails Mate ?
You made the side fan cover right ?
 
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yes i made those fan grills

You do good work . Why not look into making some thing other than a name ? Names on cases kinda get old . You do some nice work . try taking it outside your comfort zone ?
 
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I thinking about cut some fensy grill but i didnt have idea what to cut so I decide cut this some king of logo...
 

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I thinking about cut some fensy grill but i didnt have idea what to cut so I decide cut this some king of logo...
DO you like scifi ? Do like a space ship .
 
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yes, but i am not sure thats fit to this mod if you know what i mean ;)
 

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yes, but i am not sure thats fit to this mod if you know what i mean ;)

Ok Mate .
I guess I will have to see the end product I fail to see what fits this mod yet .
 
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After long time i have some updates :)

Finally i paint and polish case panels.



After fail with plexi logo i decide to cut out logo and put round mesh...



Holes for watercooling tubes I use for power and reset switch.



I pulled the cables and attached them to the back of mobo tray.

 
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Work on case is almost done and its time to test electronics :D



These are white leds :D

On the plexy barrier i cut some other design. Tomorow i need sand angles a bit and thats done.



Thanks to my colleague i have logo and i can start engraving it on side panel.



And big thanks to my major sponsor, Fractal Design.

 
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Today i receive my hardware for project :)



AsRock 890gx Extreme 3, AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0GHz, 4GB DDR3 GSkill Ripjaws

Iam thinking about painting mosfet cooler in white... What do you mean?

Thanks to my major sponsor
 
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Very nice but I would like to see some better pic's the ones there were and are fuzzy . but never the less good job so far !
 
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Those are some quick pics in my room with crapy light. I will try catch some suny weather and picture case.
 
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Great job so far! Keep up the great work, this case is going to look really good I think! :toast:
 

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O: That looks so good. I might have to do something like this to my case once I get my new fans and stuff.
 
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All i can Say is Wow this is Some Amazing Work. This is some Professional Stuff how did you start doing all this ?

Id love to build a Case from Scratch But wouldnt know were to start....Lol
 
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subscribed, great project so far bro. :toast:
 
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Thanks everyone for watching and posting :)

@virus; Well this is my hobi and I always love doing staff like this since i was a kid. :)

Every start is hard but when you start building your case you cant stop and when you build something like that you know that all effort is paid off. :)
 
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Today I receive some hardware from Fractal Design



After sleeving fans i put motherboard in case to see how everything fits...



If everything goes how i planed I plan assemble case this week....


Thanks to

 
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I thought painting your heatsinks would raise temps a lot ... only a few C? that is not bad at all :)

either way it looks awesome!
 
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