Classic spice girls, pmsl. The moment i saw the shot of the gryphon board, i had an inkling that the armour would be getting painted. Seen a few maximus 6 formula based builds were the owners have done some stunning paint jobs on the armour. Amazingly quick delivery of the board too.
Yeah, I was very surprised to get it the next day from a sponsor, usually it has to be approved and signed off etc etc!
What do you do with these sponsored rigs, is this going to be your personal pc?
well, H2Orange is my every day PC, then I have my HTPC (inwin H-frame mini build) and a couple of other little builds... so this one will... urm... im not sure what il do with it actually! I might use it as a back up rig at LANs lol
Just guessing but if he does a good enough job some of the sponsors might ask if they can have it for events to show some of their joys off at.
Oh, im hoping it will be on a stand at I54 certainly! If not I will be dissapointed!
Looking really good. I really like the TUF series boards, both in terms of looks and features.
Are you planning on customising the armour at all?
Thanks buddy! And just scroll down a little in this post hehe
Cheers sexy xxx
Will you be doing something with the armour Dave?
Doing something with the armour you say....
So, obviously the armour wasnt going to stay that colour for long!!! so here we go, into my state of the art spray booth it goes!!!
getting it optimally primed
and then sprayed
not forgetting the PCI-E covers (i set them into the cardboard so that the actual backs stayed plastic... i dont want flaking paint in my pci-e slots!)
and some shots of the (almost) finished product:
I am going to introduce some more purple to the armour.... I have an idea and the parts are on order for said idea to work
however, we are seeing some problems cropping up in this build... some major, some not so...
for example:
The biggest issue I have is the GPU is wider than the case, I did actually think this would happen, so it wasnt a total suprise, but its not going to be an easy problem to fix. I do have some bits on order that will help solve the issue though. I have 3 ideas so far that will hopefully make sure that everything will still go into the Pandora
The PSU wont fit at the top properly. This is due to the top of the case, so i will have to get the dremel onto that and teach it a lesson.
and the last little niggle is that the 24 pin slot is not in line with the holes, so I will have to get the dremel out, cut the hole then make a motherboard tray cover as well, which I have started to measure up
Using yet more really expensive equipment (its totally NOT a bit of cardboard box from OCUK!!!) I started to see where i needed to cover and what i needed to cut out.
This will be the rough shape of the cover. The good thing about this is i should be able to move it in slightly so that i have somewhere to route the cables also, but we will see how that works when i have made it.
I want to try and grab some matt white acrylic to make this out of... PARVUM?! where are you guys!!?!
what sort of paint have you used, and did u rub back the SSD covers and case panels? 
looking forward to seeing this mate. 
