new office new desk design and build

[Wraith]

Love every time I come back to this build it's coming along so well and the effort really does show.

As for image sizes I can't say I've noticed, it's always loaded just fine for me either on 100Mb Fibre, 15Mb Broadband or 4G.

 

[Pugsport]

Love every time I come back to this build it's coming along so well and the effort really does show.

As for image sizes I can't say I've noticed, it's always loaded just fine for me either on 100Mb Fibre, 15Mb Broadband or 4G.

thanks Wraith after today its now pretty much done apart from one channel to cut for the front two fan cables


today's progress

laying out for the cover plates on the second motherboard

had to take the back of the desk off and one of the handles off the router in order to get the router in to cut out for the motherboard 8 pin power

while i had the back off i also finished off the channels for the lower intake fans on both sides
right hand side

left hand side

then had to take the front piece off in order to get the router in there for the SSD cover plate

i did think for a fair while which side this SSD should be on, should it look the same as the other board or should it be a mirror image.
finally cut the channels on the underside of the motherboard so all the wires can be glued up out the way when finished

and thats its now apart from the wiring which can be done once painted so it wont have to come out again.

now its just paint prep and sealing the MDF up oh and i got some replacement LED strip in the post today to replace the strip in the lid i broke

 

[AlienALX]

Is that a 4850x2?

Coming along nicely man!

 

[Pugsport]

Is that a 4850x2?

Coming along nicely man!

if you mean these then i think from memory they are 3850 or 3870 x2 cards but my memory is shocking

Thanks Alien, the real work starts now though or the work that i hope makes it come alive

 

[Pugsport]

well cleaned the shed up a it today and made a start on the paint prep

fibreglass around the cover plates on the right hand side

fibreglass sanded down

bodyfiller on to fill in any pin holes left in the fibreglass

fibreglass and filler in the front to try and hide the seam between the two different bits of wood

both SSD mounts filled

hoping to get the rest done over the weekend then it will be already ready for when the weather gets better

 

[AlienALX]

if you mean these then i think from memory they are 3850 or 3870 x2 cards but my memory is shocking

Thanks Alien, the real work starts now though or the work that i hope makes it come alive

Ah yes of course ! they were identical to the 4850x2 ! same cooler everything.

Cool cards to have in your collection man. They were quite scarce.

 

[Pugsport]

Ah yes of course ! they were identical to the 4850x2 ! same cooler everything.

Cool cards to have in your collection man. They were quite scarce.

yes which dose not help me remember which they are

yer think im going to make a stand for them and put them up on a shelf in the office when done, maybe along with some other parts

 

[Pugsport]

Afternoon All

sorry its been ages since any progress was made on the desk, its been a horrible past few years what with the fire, covid 19 and then a family member being ill but i now have workshop again so im able to do some stuff again

so im looking to now finally get the desk painted and finished up but im now having an issues with i cant make up my mind which colour combo i want to go for.

option one: - is grey and burnt orange

option two: - is grey and rose gold

i have been having a practice with the paint gun to as ive not painted anything since September 2019. painted up some old kitchen doors for a family member and they came out ok even if i do say so myself.
few reflection shots

the above grey is also the grey i will be using for the desk build to go with another colour.

i have also painted a few little bits of the desk while i was there
in primer

in paint waiting for a flat and polish to remove the saw dust

i have ordered up some primer to make a start on painting until i work out which second colour to go with

 

[Pugsport]

ok finally started the painting process on the desk. this has reminded me how much i love to paint MDF, not

finished up the filler work and repaired some small knocks the desk had taken to.

the top cover had a small knock to one corner so got that filled up

the bottom edge that the desk sits on was rather wavy so filled that up to

the right hand side seating are had a lot of fibres missing on the edge grain, this would be covered by the pc area lid when shut but you would be able to see it when open so i needed to fix it

filler work completed but rather dusty

then primer to seal the surface up and make it all one colour so i could check for anything i may have missed

flated the primer back and found a few odd pin holes and small marks that needed sorting out

final coat of primer of the pc area and first coat of primer on the outside of the lid

threw some guide coat on the desk and lid ready for flatting back

masking up ready for a change of primer colour

well thats two days worth of sanding and painting

 

[AlienALX]

Glad you're back on it man. I quite like the primer grey lol.

 

[Pugsport]

Glad you're back on it man. I quite like the primer grey lol.

cheers buddy its been a while but had a lot going on, now is the time to get it sorted though i think

yes you could be right, i think the new colour might be a little to dark although i do like the colour

well i bought this just so my new build would have a new PSU and its not in great shape

im going to guess its had a knock or two in transit on one or more of the corners

got it masked up ready to put the main colour on

few random shot from while i was painting

pulled the masking off as soon as it started to tack up

its going to need flatting as i could not get it to flow out nicely no matter how brave i was and with the way my luck has been today i thought id stop before it got saggy.

i also managed to mess the interior up where the pc will live by getting grey primer over the ground coat :angry: and the the new PSU turned up damaged

 

[AlienALX]

Nah that's not too dark man. Really nice that.

Have had plenty of days like that. Best thing to do is just down tools and pack in tbh. I was so close to wrecking my paint job recently it's crazy. God knows what I was thinking. Thankfully I did manage to just leave it alone to harden.

 

[Pugsport]

Nah that's not too dark man. Really nice that.

Have had plenty of days like that. Best thing to do is just down tools and pack in tbh. I was so close to wrecking my paint job recently it's crazy. God knows what I was thinking. Thankfully I did manage to just leave it alone to harden.

cheers, its growing on me the more i look at it and should work well with the basecoat i hope.

yes them days make you just wanna give up but im stubborn and dont know when to quite. Its very easy and fast to mess a paint job up and lose the hours of prep along with making more work to put it right.



well i did say i was trying and its got a bit of a run, well two

not to sure how well they will show up in the photos with the bad lighting. i was always told though if you dont get the odd run now and again your not trying hard enough to get the best finish you can

in the mean time i have put what im hoping to be the last coat of primer on the outside of the lid and the right hand side seating area

the underside of the lid will still need another coat of primer though

also power supply was picked up today for RMA so im guessing ill have that back some time next year and also the basecoat has finally turned up so i can make some more progress over the next few days to

 

[AlienALX]

Ah, so you finally admit that painting *is* like rocket science LOL.

You're correct though. The perfect paint job comes from literally being on the ragged edge on wet coats. Literally at the point where it will run or sag, yet doesn't. And that really is rocket science. It's taken me literally two years with the same brand of paint to get that right. Well, out of a can any way.

And yeah, grey is a winning colour. Always has been really. It doesn't really go out of fashion and looks cool always.

Like the base coat. Wish I could run a gun tbh. That would take a lot of the rocket science out. Just don't have the room.

 

[Pugsport]

Ah, so you finally admit that painting *is* like rocket science LOL.

You're correct though. The perfect paint job comes from literally being on the ragged edge on wet coats. Literally at the point where it will run or sag, yet doesn't. And that really is rocket science. It's taken me literally two years with the same brand of paint to get that right. Well, out of a can any way.

And yeah, grey is a winning colour. Always has been really. It doesn't really go out of fashion and looks cool always.

Like the base coat. Wish I could run a gun tbh. That would take a lot of the rocket science out. Just don't have the room.

haha na its not rocket science im not helped at the moment by very poor lighting in the workshop and no heat. not really being able to see what the paint is doing makes it hard work and much more of a guessing game. i really need to get the workshop finished off so i can have better lighting and some heating but with the way materials are at the moment its not really gonna happen anytime soon.

i agree i like grey and you can mix it with pretty much any other colour.

yes hoping they work out like the image in my head yes using a paint gun is so much cheaper than using rattle cans and gives more options. another good thing is the paint keeps forages, its really only the hardener that goes off. im sure if you have a shed you could get a small compressor and a small paint gun (you wont need a full size gun for bikes and pc cases really)

got the inside of the pc area all painted up again in white so with any luck i should be able to flat it back tomorrow and maybe get some basecoat down to.

toying with the idea of doing these fan holes orange to

inside of the case area is now white and the underside of the lid to

so here is to a day of wet sanding the white bits down with P1000 in the nice warm weather, i cant wait

 

[Warchild]

are those small holes the 24pin ATX? I was going to do the same till I had a nasty shock with my Thor 850W... it has 27 cables connected to 23 pins. My only solution is to use some cable extension mod, but I dont want that.

 

[Pugsport]

are those small holes the 24pin ATX? I was going to do the same till I had a nasty shock with my Thor 850W... it has 27 cables connected to 23 pins. My only solution is to use some cable extension mod, but I dont want that.

yes they will be for the 24pin. im going to have to make my own cables due to the length of some of them, they go from one extreme to the other

well finally got time to put the basecoat on, i had also put the grey on the lid although photos of that dont seem to be on my imgur so i will dig them out at some point and put them up

few shot threw the long basecoat stage and clear coat

masking off

 

[Pugsport]

well managed to get the basecoat on the pc area after some what of a fight. was taking ages to dry before i could apply another coat, about an hour and half between coats

Basecoat

basecoat with clear

unmasked

the grey is flat because its been sanded with P1000 ready for clear

 

[Pugsport]

sorry guys and girls been a while since i managed to update anything here, been a nightmare Christmas and a few weeks before it so ive not managed to get anything done really.

used tigerseal to smooth off the edges of the inside of seating area

got first coat of grey on the right hand side seating area

had some filler work to do on the left handside seating area as it was a bit of old MDF

sanded the old primer to give it a key and remove the scratch marks

started to fill the damaged areas

then put it in primer. first go with primer yesterday was mainly to try and fill the edge grain up and then today it go its what i hope to be final coat of primer

i also tried to dye the white tigerseal with the orange basecoat so i could have an orange ring around the window area on top but it would take so much basecoat to get the right colour it would mainly be basecoat and no tigerseal. This is what colour i got with a 50/50 mix

it will dye with 2k direct gloss paint so i guess it will just be grey sadly

also a couple of shot that show up the pearl in the orange a little better

with any luck i can get the left hand side seating area and the computer cabinet all ready for clearcoat before new years day

 

[AlienALX]

Very smexy.

I might get back into MDF this year. Fancy a couple of things made.