Some Paint and Lights

[onefstsnake]

Decided I would paint the inside of my P182. The silver was nice but boring.

I like black, but didnt wanna see all the dust. So I used a metalic blue that has alot of flake in it. For some reason the flake doesnt stand out very much.
I also sleeved a couple of wires and added two blue cold cathodes.

Took me about 3 hours, mostly watching paint dry.

Well on to the pictures.

First the before
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/onefstsnake2/pc/Untitled-12.jpg


After paint.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/onefstsnake2/pc/Untitled-90.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/onefstsnake2/pc/Untitled-161.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/onefstsnake2/pc/Untitled-34.jpg


Before lights
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/onefstsnake2/pc/Untitled-31.jpg

After Lights
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/onefstsnake2/pc/Untitled-27.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/onefstsnake2/pc/Untitled-30.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/onefstsnake2/pc/Untitled-28.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/onefstsnake2/pc/Untitled-24.jpg

[Jolly-Swagman]

WOW ! that really looks great I like the blue, makes the black MB stand out too,
Well done :clap:

[Albaholic]

That does look very nice. Did you sand and prime at all?

[RIG RIDER]

The blue is stunning!
Painting the hard drive cage black might give you more continuity with
the color choices you made, it would tie in well with the black mobo.
Bad a** wire management:attn:, looks great!

Does the metal flake stand out more to the naked eye and natural light than compared to a digital pic and flash?

[onefstsnake]

Yeah the metal flake really pops in person. My camera is pretty old so you really cant see the sparkle.

I did do a rough sand before priming it. I then hit it with my heat gun for a while before doing a few coats of the blue metal flake.

As far as the wire management, the P182 helps out a ton. I still need to replace my second DVD drive with a SATA unit. Ribbon cables suck.

Next thing on my list is a window mod.

[turkey4550]

nice job dude!

[Jimingle10]

well done...im a big fan of the blue lights

[carb0n]

Wow, that is very impressive! Although my favorite color is red, I would love to have another case laying around that looked like that. Definitely catches attention, my friend.

[jjdog711]

i don't know if those are uv cold cathodes in there, but if they are it would look amazing if you coated the inside with some invisible blue UV paint (http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=117&products_id=20667), i think it would rele look great and may make those flakes stand out more.

[onefstsnake]

just standard CCFL's