Peter.Cort
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***THERE'S A PIC OF THE CASE AT THE END SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO***
Case: Apiva X-Discovery
ok so yes I've fallen victem to case mod fever... I have a great many ideas for my case, but don't really know how to do a couple of the things I'd like to do.
one thing I'd like to do is put something on the top of my case, not sure exaclty what. I'd like to put like an air tunnel type thing, with an opening, I made a cute paint pic to kinda show how it would look.
as you can see, the first one, it would be a bent piece of something that would go up and in it I would house 2 80mm fans blowing air out of the case. the other one would be a 120/200 mm fan that would be tilted up with some metal supporting it, and it would be blowing out air. The thing is, it kinda has to be a above the case exhaust system, only because there isn't a lot of space between the top optical drive, and the psu, so it has to be away from the inside top of the case.
also another thing I'd like to do is get a piece of tinted acrylic (maybe, might just keep the clear acrylic on as it looks nice) and put that in on the side, and maybe do some etching on it, but I have no way of etching anything on it.
the final major mod I'm looking at doing is making it so I can fit my back pannel on. I have a removable motherboard tray and a really nice setup on the back of the case, so all my wiring is back there, and as a result I can't fit my back panel on, so what I'm looking at doing is making like an extension piece, that would house all my wires, and I could basically line it with fans for superior air flow. It would look something like this
If you've read this far I'll give you a cookie
Basically my question is how would I mount the extension piece, I'm thinking the easiest way would be to just cut come notches where the extension piece would meet the case, so it can just drop and attach.
So you can see what I'm working with.
Finally I just need a little advise on proper painting procedure, as the last time I tried to paint it ended up horrible wrong. So I'm going to go for a purple and white theme, and here's what I'm going for. I'm going to do it all in a high gloss finsh so it's really really shiny and great looking. (I'm gonna do all the inside white as well) To start it off since the drive bays are plastic, I'm not going to touch them so they will stay black. There's a mesh part that I'd like to paint with some Chrome paint for a nice touch. From there I don't really know what I'd like to do. I'd like to incorperate both the purple and white paint in some sort of really nice looking design, just don't quite know what to do. I have a couple ideas, but need to draw it all out before I start stuff. And yeah, to the main point of painting, how do I want to do it? Do I want to sand down to bare metal or just sand enough so the white primer will stick to the case?
So thank you to whoever read all this. Hoping for some good feedback
Case: Apiva X-Discovery
ok so yes I've fallen victem to case mod fever... I have a great many ideas for my case, but don't really know how to do a couple of the things I'd like to do.
one thing I'd like to do is put something on the top of my case, not sure exaclty what. I'd like to put like an air tunnel type thing, with an opening, I made a cute paint pic to kinda show how it would look.
as you can see, the first one, it would be a bent piece of something that would go up and in it I would house 2 80mm fans blowing air out of the case. the other one would be a 120/200 mm fan that would be tilted up with some metal supporting it, and it would be blowing out air. The thing is, it kinda has to be a above the case exhaust system, only because there isn't a lot of space between the top optical drive, and the psu, so it has to be away from the inside top of the case.
also another thing I'd like to do is get a piece of tinted acrylic (maybe, might just keep the clear acrylic on as it looks nice) and put that in on the side, and maybe do some etching on it, but I have no way of etching anything on it.
the final major mod I'm looking at doing is making it so I can fit my back pannel on. I have a removable motherboard tray and a really nice setup on the back of the case, so all my wiring is back there, and as a result I can't fit my back panel on, so what I'm looking at doing is making like an extension piece, that would house all my wires, and I could basically line it with fans for superior air flow. It would look something like this
If you've read this far I'll give you a cookie
Basically my question is how would I mount the extension piece, I'm thinking the easiest way would be to just cut come notches where the extension piece would meet the case, so it can just drop and attach.
So you can see what I'm working with.
Finally I just need a little advise on proper painting procedure, as the last time I tried to paint it ended up horrible wrong. So I'm going to go for a purple and white theme, and here's what I'm going for. I'm going to do it all in a high gloss finsh so it's really really shiny and great looking. (I'm gonna do all the inside white as well) To start it off since the drive bays are plastic, I'm not going to touch them so they will stay black. There's a mesh part that I'd like to paint with some Chrome paint for a nice touch. From there I don't really know what I'd like to do. I'd like to incorperate both the purple and white paint in some sort of really nice looking design, just don't quite know what to do. I have a couple ideas, but need to draw it all out before I start stuff. And yeah, to the main point of painting, how do I want to do it? Do I want to sand down to bare metal or just sand enough so the white primer will stick to the case?
So thank you to whoever read all this. Hoping for some good feedback