Industrial Eskimo

TPC · Sep 28, 2015

Small progress!

A few day ago I decided to whip out a can of gloss clear coat to bring my case to my desired gloss-white finish I so love.

Here the first few results. It's no where near an automotive grade finish but I didn't expect that to happen anyway since the case has a very rough finish to begin with and I didnt want to sand down/polish all the panels. (I would have done that though if the result wouldn't have turned out that good, imo.

This pic right there is showing exactly how I wanted it to look like.

And just so you guys have a bit of reference of how glossy it actually is.

Right this have been the first 2 panels I made, kinda like a test. I'm excited to get to work on the side panels.
Hope you guys enjoyed this quick update and i hope to see you in the next one!

Feronix · Sep 28, 2015

Nothing

paulstung · Sep 28, 2015

loos good mate. Funnily enough Silverstone do the RV05 in white now.

jimma47 · Sep 29, 2015

TPC said:
Too much imo, but still worth a share I guess.

This with Red Trim instead of the yellow would look sweet. Even though I'm over all the red/black builds. I'm liking the Green version you posted earlier too. edit- actually this with green trim is even better IMO.

Loving the build name as well

AlienALX · Sep 29, 2015

The orange peel on the clear coat is pretty dreadful dude. No offence, but you need to get wet sanding and applying a few more coats to that.

TPC · Sep 29, 2015

AlienALX said:
The orange peel on the clear coat is pretty dreadful dude. No offence, but you need to get wet sanding and applying a few more coats to that.

I know it's not great but I can easily live with it.
One of the many reasons it turned out that way was the rough paintjob the case had to begin with, I completely forgot to take care of that and just started applying clear coat to the case. When I realized what i wanted to do in preparation it was too late.
Happens I guess but it's not un fixable and the case certainly won't stay like that. I already have many different vinyl samples, metallic and chrome etc, shipping to me.

paulstung · Sep 29, 2015

That front panel has done wonders for it mate, it gave it just what it needed, as much as I love black and white cases, they always seem to fall a bit flat.

TPC · Oct 17, 2015

Tiny babysteps were made!

I replaced my Scythe Ashura with the Prolimatech Samuel17 from a buddy of mine. Mostly only for aesthetic reasons.

It is a seriously small Top-blow cooler but it does the job very well considering that!

Temps are rather similar to my Scythe.
Under Prime95 Small FFT's it now reaches 62°C and with my Scythe it hit around 40°C with fan and around 55°C passive.

Thanks for checking by once again!

P.S.: Yes, I took off the thermal armor. No I won't explain why

DarthDudo · Oct 17, 2015

TPC said:

lovely build it looks very quiet with all that heatsink stuffed in there

Feronix · Oct 17, 2015

Really liking how your rig looks now mate

TPC · Oct 17, 2015

DarthDudo420 said:
lovely build it looks very quiet with all that heatsink stuffed in there

Feronix said:
Really liking how your rig looks now mate

Thanks guys!

TPC · Oct 18, 2015

Baby steps, as said before

Custom fan labels. Do I need to explain what they do? mate?

AlienALX · Oct 19, 2015

I suggest model paint for the wires dude.

TPC · Oct 19, 2015

AlienALX said:
I suggest model paint for the wires dude.

good call, i was about to use a sharpie

TPC · Oct 25, 2015

More steps in the right direction!

On thursday a part from Silverstone arrived. A secound front panel for my rig. Why you ask? I will use it as a back panel. You will get what I mean later.

Sorry for these blurry phone pics, I just plain forgot to take decent pics while working on the panel.

The finished work is all sharp though

What i did here is I removed the Raven logo because the panel orienttion is actually flipped by 180° so an upside down raven would just look stupid.

I also cut the whole panel in an angle to make it a bit more streamlined.

This hole is meant for cables to go through.

This was the most difficult part. I had to shorten the whole panel at the top, so I cut out the piece there, heated it up to remove the angle mostly and then glue it back to the main panel. See pics below.

You can see how the panel has changed compared to the stock one.
Now some more sanding, painting and I also have to figure out how to mount it to my case :/

Huge thanks to Silverstone for sending me a panel!
See you next time!

AlienALX · Oct 25, 2015

That's pretty cool of Silverstone to send you the panel. Props....

I like how you have removed the logo. It was one of my gripes when I had mine. It looks far stealthier now which is a good thing.

Great work so far dude.

Mysterae · Oct 25, 2015

TPC said:
good call, i was about to use a sharpie

Black insulating tape works wonders

. Tuck it in the groove with the wires.

Are you going to refit the thermal armour or is that a secret?

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TPC · Nov 2, 2015

It's me again! (hi)

I had some spare time on hand today so I decided to rip apart my rig to be able to work with it more without me having to worry about my components.
Because I had a LOT time I had a "spooky" fotoshoot with the empty case, was a nice feeling not having to chug around 15kg.

Enjoy these teasing pictures of my case in the process of being slowly finished.