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PROJECT LOG The Witcher Mod - Jon & Ron

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Thanks for the awesome comments guys. I absolutely love feedback.
I added some rocks off to the side of the main tree.
There was going to be a tree going down the middle of the window.
But, I don't want to block the view of the inside.
Next will be alot of sanding and clean up.

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Let me give you a hint what im working on today.
It start with S and ends with Anding.
And, I have these little guys I will be playing around with.

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I got the eyes drawn on.
And used some magicsculpt to mold the eyes into the head.
I also spent alot of time sanding. Its very very close to painting.

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Ohh and by the way, THEY GLOW.
You will have to picture them as red leds.

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Well, I was busy with alot of other stuff this weekend, so here is a run down on what I got done.
A lots of sanding and scraping to get things were I like it on the wolf face.
I have a little sanding to do around the case and its ready for paint.
The feet were sculpted using a wire cage, then clay.
They will look like stumps for all 4 feet.
They were baked in the oven, and now are ready to have the mold made.
I started on the custom reservoir.
To match the them of the case I will be building the reservoir into a lantern.
First step is to get the basic shape of the lantern and build the candle inside.
I then had to sand down the acrylic on the flame to make it a tight fit.
I drilled out the base and tape it for G 1/4.
Everything was glued together and then leak tested over night.
The top will be left off till i get the exact shape down for the rest of the lantern.
There will be a amber flicker led for the flame.
Ron is excited to start the airbrushing soon and we will post plenty of pictures on the way.

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I put the Koolance waterblock on the gpu and cpu.
Then I started adding some detail work to them, by using some red vinyl.
Thank you Koolance for your awesome donation!!!

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I love the motherboard covers...did you make them or did they come with the motherboard?
 
My LEDs for the reservoir came in the mail today.
Here is a short video of what the reservoir will look like.

 
Its been a pretty busy week for me with work and other projects.
Ron is back from California and has started his airbrush work and molding the case feet.
He will be posting pictures about it when he gets time.
I finished the top of the reservoir and have started leak testing it.
In the the meantime, I have built most of the cable sets and have started the lacing.
Thank you MainFrame Customs for your donation of the cable sleeving, pins, and connectors.


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Ohh and here is a link to a tutorial, if any of you would like to try lacing cables.

 
Ron has been hard at work airbrushing the the case.
He has done some amazing work so fare.
The airbrush work is just about finished.
He made a mold for the case feet and cast the 4 feet and will be airbrushing them last.
I should be able to pick the case up friday to start building it out.

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Haven't had time to upload much progress this week, so here is the run down.

I had to build a mount for the reservoir that would make it easy for us to build off of the lantern.
Using some acrylic pieces i glued them and cut them down.
I then used some acrylic tubing to hide the running thread that will be used to "clamp" the ends together.
This will help give it the lantern look and give us something to build off of.
The challenge is to build a support bracket that can hold the weight of this beast and make installation easy.
Using 3 angle brackets and fastening them to the acrylic, they will work as a sturdy mount.
It is build so you can attach 1 piece of angle to the case, get it where you want, and then just slide the lantern in place.
I then sanded it down and gave it a quick paint job to get an idea of what it would look like by raddle canning some pewter paint onto it.
After that, I had to build something to hide the wires for the flicker led.
Hot glue and a black fiberglass tube make up the candle.

I needed to get the fan grill painted as well, so I masked off the Tt in it and painted it cardinal red.

Ron has handed over the case and case feet.

I will sand down the case feet and add the mounting holes, then hand them back to Ron for painting.

I also worked on the wire management I have it really close to done.

The case will be going in for clear coat sometime this week.

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10 days left to finish
I handed the lantern off to Ron to finish the detail work on the lanter while I worked on the build out.
He will also be painting the feet, which I should be able to pick up tomorrow.
I worked on what tubing I could until I get the reservoir tomorrow.
I built a mount to display the ssd Crucial sponsored for this.
The logo is gonna have to change to match the theme, so I will work on designing that tonight.
And I also wired in the leds for the eyes. I used hot glue to in the whole of the case to diffuse the light.
The wire on the inside didnt look to good with the hot glue, so I built an acrylic plate to cover it up.
Everything is wired and built to hold true to the Caselabs panel design.
You can pull all the panels off without unhooking any wires.
I plan to mount the power button on the front bottom of the case, so it will be some what hidden.

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