My son has been involved in some recent builds I've done for friends and his interest in PC's have grown. I had quite a few bits and pieces left over from the builds and a very basic system In my shed. We toyed around a similar idea a few months ago but the project came to a stall.
He recently came back to me and asked if we could do some modding, We talked it over and this is what he has came up with.
These Ideas are 100% his and for 12 years old I'm Bloody impressed. The work is a 99% his aside from some of the cuts etc. He started with some drawings and we discussed what was doable, initially the project revolved around an X theme, blow holes and side window would be X shaped etc
we had one case to work with, previously we had messed around with it and tried inverting it to have the PSU at the bottom like this
we stripped it down and set back to work,
The mad shed here the chaos happens
Since had a little clean up
The 9600gt (top left) given to us was DOA with a little clean and new thermal compound , its back to life
Time to paint, we practised on card sheets till he got the hang of it. we stripped down the test fan and set to work. nice little finger mark where he snook out to see if was dry
Panels get a lick of paint
Next day we a quick test build, some of parts hadn't been used for a looong time.
I love the white on black on the rear section.
played around with some s****s of sleeving .
Top blowhole cut, was a little rough around the edges
we had a brainwave to use a cpu fan duct that we hacked up, looks great with the purple he picked.
We spotted some great flexible mesh in a local all items for a pound .
Nice clean look to it
Next mod is still wip didn't quite work as planned, (yet)
The idea was have some tubing coming in and out to give a mechanical futuristic look to it, Since the holes we a little rough their temporally covered with spray can lids
FRONT PANEL
The front panel had sections missing , I don't have an exact stock shot but it looked like this before painting.
We cut some mesh from and old set of drawers we had.
More black meshy material used from a unused phone cover
Fitted nicely and very easy to cut with scissors
Tried stealthing thing the dvd drive but we bent and pulled a little much and one side snapped.
Side windows cut, Rounding the corners was too tricky .
We got a better mobo,cpu combo from a friend, has a few issues to say the least however.
Today we went back and stripped it all down after a few days break, few dings and knocks here and there, Aim to to get it fixed up a bit more this weekend. Maybe paint some more fans etc.
Please positive criticism only
Due to his Narcolepsy he has good days and bad, so there is no Target date to finish
EDIT
We would just like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH we are overwhelmed, the level of kindness show here is unbelieveable
He recently came back to me and asked if we could do some modding, We talked it over and this is what he has came up with.
These Ideas are 100% his and for 12 years old I'm Bloody impressed. The work is a 99% his aside from some of the cuts etc. He started with some drawings and we discussed what was doable, initially the project revolved around an X theme, blow holes and side window would be X shaped etc
we had one case to work with, previously we had messed around with it and tried inverting it to have the PSU at the bottom like this
we stripped it down and set back to work,
The mad shed here the chaos happens
Since had a little clean up
The 9600gt (top left) given to us was DOA with a little clean and new thermal compound , its back to life
Time to paint, we practised on card sheets till he got the hang of it. we stripped down the test fan and set to work. nice little finger mark where he snook out to see if was dry
Panels get a lick of paint
Next day we a quick test build, some of parts hadn't been used for a looong time.
I love the white on black on the rear section.
played around with some s****s of sleeving .
Top blowhole cut, was a little rough around the edges
we had a brainwave to use a cpu fan duct that we hacked up, looks great with the purple he picked.
We spotted some great flexible mesh in a local all items for a pound .
Nice clean look to it
Next mod is still wip didn't quite work as planned, (yet)
The idea was have some tubing coming in and out to give a mechanical futuristic look to it, Since the holes we a little rough their temporally covered with spray can lids
FRONT PANEL
The front panel had sections missing , I don't have an exact stock shot but it looked like this before painting.
We cut some mesh from and old set of drawers we had.
More black meshy material used from a unused phone cover
Fitted nicely and very easy to cut with scissors
Tried stealthing thing the dvd drive but we bent and pulled a little much and one side snapped.
Side windows cut, Rounding the corners was too tricky .
We got a better mobo,cpu combo from a friend, has a few issues to say the least however.
Today we went back and stripped it all down after a few days break, few dings and knocks here and there, Aim to to get it fixed up a bit more this weekend. Maybe paint some more fans etc.
Please positive criticism only
Due to his Narcolepsy he has good days and bad, so there is no Target date to finish
EDIT
We would just like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH we are overwhelmed, the level of kindness show here is unbelieveable
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