Worklog Battlefield 4 - Thermaltake Element Q

[Marcos Viegas]

I am presenting to you my new project casemod sponsored ( for now ) by Thermaltake , EVGA and NVIDIA.

I will posting the steps of modifications in case Element Q with the thematic game of Electronic Arts game Battlefield 4.

Hope you enjoy.

First pictures of the case :

First ideas and testing with a VGA to design the best organization for the project:

First cuts have removed the internal bays, cuts to adapt the VGA and the PSU:

These are the first steps in the coming days, I will be showing more changes.

I thank the sponsors and all those who support the project :rock:

 

[SuB]

Thermaltake eh.. we'll have to see how good this is. It'l have to be pretty slick to get past Tom's Thermaltacky filter

 

[tinytomlogan]

thermalTACKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SuB]

I rest my case (no pun intended)

 

[d3rrial]

Objection!

Thermaltake is cheap by design, to reach people, who bought OEM PCs before and want to try to build their own!

 

[Marcos Viegas]

Well guys, really, Thermaltake has left to be desired in their cases have long time... but in the question of casemod even the worst case has hope for improvement... :yelrotflmao:

You will see in the next steps of "Element Q" will not be left almost nothing of the "Element Q"... :freak:

Now back to the project... :lol:

To the cover of the case, I preferred to make a whole piece of acrylic to make a visual more stylish:

I made this "provisional front pannel" for the project:

First steps to make the change in the acrylic cover to look like they got shots:

Making the holes of "projectiles":

I hope you enjoyed.

I thank all who support and follow the project!

Sorry for my bad english.

 

[Feronix]

No real bullet holes?

Please do mod that glossy red strip at the front btw!

 

[barnsley]

mod the hell out of it so no one can tell it was once a thermaltacky. That or get a another thermaltacky case then shoot it (with a tank) to get the desired effect.

 

[Marcos Viegas]

No real bullet holes?

Please do mod that glossy red strip at the front btw!

Unfortunately no... :lol::lol::lol:

In the next step this front panel will be "modified" :evil:

mod the hell out of it so no one can tell it was once a thermaltacky. That or get a another thermaltacky case then shoot it (with a tank) to get the desired effect.

This idea is good, very good ... who knows the TT does not give me one more for me to do this (although I doubt it) :lol:

And now the news ...

First finish , brushed style:

Now, carving acrylic to make the effect of shots more realistic:

I hope you enjoyed.

I thank all who follow the project!

 

[SuB]

a more 'realistic' way to do this would actually have the acrylic cracked/shattered or have the bullets embedded in it with thermal bubbling Unless you're after some kind of 'like metal' effect ?

Personally I'd have shot it fo-real

 

[Cru]

a more 'realistic' way to do this would actually have the acrylic cracked/shattered or have the bullets embedded in it with thermal bubbling Unless you're after some kind of 'like metal' effect ?

Personally I'd have shot it fo-real

that would've been a lot more fun as well

 

[Marcos Viegas]

a more 'realistic' way to do this would actually have the acrylic cracked/shattered or have the bullets embedded in it with thermal bubbling Unless you're after some kind of 'like metal' effect ?

Personally I'd have shot it fo-real

Making the cracked acrylic 10m is complicated because I had to break it, and there I run the risk of losing the entire piece, so that's why I prefer sculpting effect, the problem of shooting in acrylic is that the effect is not cool (I got the test in an acrylic plate of the same thickness), and because the heating was more like a hole, simple, without any mark of cracked, so I do not even leaving nothing behind with the plate, leaving her alone, or else putting something behind, he also is not cool, because of the heating, it melts and is not a point "shooting", but with a hole and melting, much like the other way, so I chose to do it this way, to look like "bullet holes" in something, in this case, metal, for plastic or glass, is not with the same effect... :smileyshot:

that would've been a lot more fun as well

Indeed, the final aspect I wanted to stay as would have been the coolest way to do this casemod :lol:

 

[Marcos Viegas]

Let the news...

Using the provisional front panel:

Without the front panel:

With the new front panel:

First test doing engraving on aluminum, making a dogtag:

The next step is to write on the front panel of the case.

I hope you enjoyed.

I thank all who support and follow the project!

 

[Feronix]

Liking that new front panel.

The dogtag, not so much. The round edges are not very... round, sorry.

 

[ShaunB-91]

Those bullet holes can also act as air vents.

 

[vorticalbox]

Those bullet holes can also act as air vents.

or dust intakes.....

 

[ShaunB-91]

or dust intakes.....

Haha! :lol:

 

[vorticalbox]

Haha! :lol:

will need to make sure to have a positive airflow in that case.

liking the look so far though

 

[mehere]

Is that engraving done with a vibration type engraver?
you can get very small diamond grinding bits for the dremel which may help you as they are like using a pencil on it

 

[yassarikhan786]

The engraving doesn't look good at all. Apart from that I'll be looking forward to what you do next