Project Black and White Dragon.

alexakasloth

alexakasloth

alexakasloth

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Hey all, this is my first mod so I expect to make a few mistakes (I have already!)

The main theme will be a gloss black exterior with a gloss white interior, I also decided to use Xilence fans for the red, plus they seem to be decent fans for the price.
Some of the mod's i'll be doing are:

Painting interior and exterior
Modifying exhaust to fit two 92mm fans (was 80mm)
Modify intake to fit two 120mm fans (was 80mm).
Replace plastic intake with steel mesh grill.
Side window mesh mod.
Filling line around the door and and filling lock hole to give a smoother look.
Suspended hard drives as the 120mm fan mod will take away previous HDD cages, though I might put some rails on the floor of the case *idea*.

Some pics of how far I've got:

Start with the front panel, cutting the lock out:
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Cutting out the front plastic grill, I cut off a little extra, the colour change is where i've filled the hole in and sanded it.
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Intake cut, waiting for aluminium plate to come where the 120mm fans will be mounted on:
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This is how I wanted the side panel to look:
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Though I extended this to cut off the handle:
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The exhaust where 2 92mm fans will be mounted, i'm also waiting for some aluminium to arrive to make a plate for this:
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Some of the insides painted:
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Need's a sand and repaint here:
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This is one of the fans i'm using:

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I've got mesh, some more fans, aluminium and pop rivets coming this week. Friday is supposed to be a nice day so I will get the rest of the inside painted and put back together.
 
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Oh, the spec for what's going inside:

A64 3500 w/ Freezer 64
Gigabyte K8N Sli
XFX Geforce 7600GS
1GB Kingston
250GB SATA Western Digital
80 IDE Western Digital
80GB IDE Seagate

The motherboard and GFX card are silent and the CPU fan is very quiet as it's on a fan controller at 7v, i'll probably have all the case fans at 7v so it will hopefully be a very quiet system! :D ;)
 
Hmmmmmmm, i have my old Chieftec Dragon behind me :P

The 80mm fan holes are what drive me to get a new case in the first place!

Might have to look into this, ill keep watch, and its going well so far dude
 
I'm yet another person with an old cheiftec sitting in the corner, waiting for me to come up with a use for it and the noisy 80mm fans that sit in it gathering dust. I'll be keeping an eye on this to see if there's any ideas I can steal. :cool:

With that colour scheme its a shame you didnt go for some sharkoon fans, is it too late to change?

PK!
 
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With that colour scheme its a shame you didnt go for some sharkoon fans, is it too late to change?

PK!
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Already ordered the xilences though I think a bit of red with the black will do nicely.

Mesh came today, got 2 big panels 900mm*500m :D A lot of mesh for £20.
 
Just to give you an idea of the type/gauge/diameter of the mesh:

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And look what came today!

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That black stuff is so more trim for the fan holes.

The plan for this weekend is to have a go at the plastic facia installing the mesh and filling the neccesary parts.
 
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Ohhww toys :D , i got a rivet gun to make my custom hdd bay, i don't think I'll be using anything but rivets from now on lol. I like that mesh, it should look great when its done.
 
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