Pandoras Purple Box (ooh, er)

[parvumsystems]

Send us the cardboard and it shall return as matte white acrylic (Y)

 

[colinmcr]

I knew you wouldn't be leaving the armour, I'm just trying to make you work faster haha!

Looks so much better now that you've painted it. The purple covers are looking great, just goes so well.

 

[Mads1]

what spray paint did you use for the armour.Plus did you use the z87 armour as the sprayed one is different to that of the z97.

 

[On Holiday]

Looking good!

38 days to go mate, get it done!

(<- Yarwood)

 

[fantasticCG]

Awesome work Davido always a pleasure to read your logs, look forward to more

 

[davido_labido]

Send us the cardboard and it shall return as matte white acrylic (Y)

I need to wait for the water cooling stuff before I send it boys, you sure you don't want me to just send you one of my amazing renders?

I knew you wouldn't be leaving the armour, I'm just trying to make you work faster haha!

Looks so much better now that you've painted it. The purple covers are looking great, just goes so well.

Yeah I need to work faster but at the moment I'm waiting for parts. Is not going to be an easy build but I think i will get there in the end. I might call in some reinforcements soon though to give me a hand for a day.

what spray paint did you use for the armour.Plus did you use the z87 armour as the sprayed one is different to that of the z97.

I'm not actually sure what paint it is. It's just some cheap stuff from b&q. Coverage is nice and the colour is vibrant though so im happy! And that's the armour that came with the board, it's just got all the stickers pulled off. I do think I will be taking it apart again to give it another blast of paint as I've had a little idea.

Looking good!

38 days to go mate, get it done!

(<- Yarwood)

Oh Lord .... Is that all??? Fancy a beer around mine soon.... This is totally not an elaborate plan to get you give me a hand for a few hours haha

 

[davido_labido]

So a little bit more work has been done!

This is the front panel to the Pandora.

as you can see, its rather black and also has this:

This allows a little LCD screen to shine through the smoked acrylic.

This means without masking the square I cant really just paint it. So, I had a slightly different idea and did this...

not very neat i know... but with a file and a bit of emery cloth I managed to get this:

not bad... not bad.

The front panel is still rather black though..... So, i took it apart (its 2 panels screwed together) and put them into my hi tech booth.

give them a couple of coats of primer

then sprayed the almost hidden one (you can see it a little bit from the front) white

and the main panel purple

I put the panels back together (the front panel is made up of 2 seperate ones, and it just didn't look right at all, because id cut the panel for the screen, it just looked like it was too far away from the front of the case, so i came up with the solution.

I had a little scrap of clear acrylic kicking about.

marked the hole onto it and filed it down

Then inlayed it into the front of the case panel.

its not perfect, but i was doing it at 22:30 on a sunday night in the kitchen!!! and all i used were these tools

So, whats it look like now?

Panels before and after (its awesome having a spare case, it means I can do shots like these so much easier!!!)

panels fitted

a really nice shot to show how the case has changed overall, you can really see the difference between my inverted case and the standard one

and one with the case panels on. I need to get these painted/coated next. Ideally though I need to see what im doing with the hardware first! Hopefully then I can progress!

Thanks for reading!

 

[fantasticCG]

Awesome love the purple, come to think of it not seen too many purple builds around.
How many coats do you give it and also will you sand then paint some more?
How much of your own money has gone into this build and sponsor builds in general?

 

[colinmcr]

Crackin paint job mate its coming along great, it's handy to see the original and the newly transformed version.

 

[davido_labido]

Awesome love the purple, come to think of it not seen too many purple builds around.
How many coats do you give it and also will you sand then paint some more?
How much of your own money has gone into this build and sponsor builds in general?

with these i didn't use many coats at all actually, probably one (maybe 2) of primer, then a few coats of purple or white.... with the purple i sanded down between coats as i didn't like the finish so much....
for this build i have bought the GPU, processor and then what ever i use to mod it with really, so paint, acrylic etc. il probably spend around 600 quid by the time ive done, not too bad really for a custom build, but i wasn't expecting to spend that much. its just that i couldn't wait for the GPU so had to buy it.

Crackin paint job mate its coming along great, it's handy to see the original and the newly transformed version.

yeah i like having both cases to compare and contrast and thanks!

 

[fantasticCG]

Thanks for getting back davido, great work look forward to seeing more

 

[davido_labido]

So, a little tiny update as im really not sure about this, so i need to see if you guys think its a good idea or not... I wanted to add more purple to the ASUS motherboard armour... so i did this:

Good idea?
Bad idea?
Good idea, but implemented badly?
Too much?

Im not sure. I do like it, and a lot of the motherboard will get covered when the waterblocks/pipes get moved into the case, so i think this will work well, just having touches of purple showing through.

Anyway, let me know, be honest!

 

[GiraffePencils]

oooft,
Looks good.
it's a bit wavey, but those pics are closer than anyone'll get

 

[davido_labido]

oooft,
Looks good.
it's a bit wavey, but those pics are closer than anyone'll get

Yeah, i really struggled to keep the paint between the lines tbh... the problem is that the armour is actually textured, so every now and again the texture and the lines intermingle, which throws the pen/paint/brush everything else i tried off. I will probably give it another go if i get more feedback though, and as you say, I think we will see the imperfections a lot more now than when the board is in the case.

 

[Nickolp1974]

looks really nice dave, liking the extra purple bits a lot.

 

[Mads1]

armour looks quite good. where did you get your vice from, just what im after.

 

[colinmcr]

Like what you've done no easy way to avoid the textured surface issue though.

 

[Luggs]

+1 for more purple!!

 

[davido_labido]

looks really nice dave, liking the extra purple bits a lot.

Thanks Nick! I'm still on the fence at the moment, I think i wont know for sure until the EK blocks arrive (which ive been told will be sent out ASAP!!)

armour looks quite good. where did you get your vice from, just what im after.

That one is actually from ALDI lol. It does the job well for less than a tenner!! I needed something clean and quick though as my vice is covered in oil and bits of metal which scratches up the acrylic.

Like what you've done no easy way to avoid the textured surface issue though.

Thanks Colin, yeah, its a real shame that i dont have much knowledge on how to paint these lines other than i have. I like the idea, im just not sure that I can do it correctly.

+1 for more purple!!

Thanks Luggs! with so many positive comments on the idea it certainly makes me feel better about it haha

 

[Uncle Petey]

The armour looks quality mate. Nice job