Allright, this is for a cousin who sort of doubles as our second daughter, she's 12 and I built her a comp a couple of months ago. I could tell she was visibly disappointed with it as she'd seen some past projects I'd done for others. Nothing fancy but LEDs and a window would have made her day. However, at the time I didn't have the time to do what I wanted to do, and didn't feel like giving her just a minimum job. Her family has had some rougher times this past year and so I figured I'd rather give her a custom paint job and such, little more than the basic as she does spend a lot of time with us and could really use the perking up, she's coming to visit at the end of August so the mod needs to be done by then.
Anyways, there aren't a lot of requirements for this build:
- keep it cheap...under $150, considering paint alone is easily $100 this should be a challenge.
- gloss black is a must, both because I know she likes the look and because its the cheapest paint to get!
- incorporate the family # 55 into it. Supposedly her family is huge on this number, they have a family baseball team and they all have #55 on their jerseys.
Anyways, at this point i'm thinking of orange and black, two racing stripes up the middle, I have a number of orange LEDs, some orange plexy and I even have a left over orange vandal resistant switch from performance-pcs. Lucky her, dem switches aint cheap and dont' usually go into pro bono work!
I'm going to use a Centurion 5, I have two in the garage waiting to be modded so I might as well as start chopping into one of them! I'm not really counting this as an expense as I'll be trading this case for her current case, forget what it is. Some coolermaster case. Anyways, here is a stock photo of the case, thanks newegg.ca:
The only difference is that the one I'm modding has the blue aluminum rather than the silver,.
Anyways, here's a basic sketchup of what I'm thinking at this point....sorry for the weak google sketcher skills, I'm still learning and would really rather spend my time modding than sketching! The widow will be with orange acrylic and I'll etch "55" into it in large font. Two racing stripes down the middle with some fiberglass work to flatten out the DVD ROM cover and empty bay cover. I'll use plexy on the front rather than the stock purf:
Ok...that gaping hole in the bottom middle is an intake fan, a la mnpctech.com turbine style. Hopefully I'll have some photos soon...but this weekend is my annual dota/CSS lan party so I'll definitely be out of commission for a while
Anyways, there aren't a lot of requirements for this build:
- keep it cheap...under $150, considering paint alone is easily $100 this should be a challenge.
- gloss black is a must, both because I know she likes the look and because its the cheapest paint to get!
- incorporate the family # 55 into it. Supposedly her family is huge on this number, they have a family baseball team and they all have #55 on their jerseys.
Anyways, at this point i'm thinking of orange and black, two racing stripes up the middle, I have a number of orange LEDs, some orange plexy and I even have a left over orange vandal resistant switch from performance-pcs. Lucky her, dem switches aint cheap and dont' usually go into pro bono work!
I'm going to use a Centurion 5, I have two in the garage waiting to be modded so I might as well as start chopping into one of them! I'm not really counting this as an expense as I'll be trading this case for her current case, forget what it is. Some coolermaster case. Anyways, here is a stock photo of the case, thanks newegg.ca:
The only difference is that the one I'm modding has the blue aluminum rather than the silver,.
Anyways, here's a basic sketchup of what I'm thinking at this point....sorry for the weak google sketcher skills, I'm still learning and would really rather spend my time modding than sketching! The widow will be with orange acrylic and I'll etch "55" into it in large font. Two racing stripes down the middle with some fiberglass work to flatten out the DVD ROM cover and empty bay cover. I'll use plexy on the front rather than the stock purf:
Ok...that gaping hole in the bottom middle is an intake fan, a la mnpctech.com turbine style. Hopefully I'll have some photos soon...but this weekend is my annual dota/CSS lan party so I'll definitely be out of commission for a while
