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Loving the look of the straight, parallel tubing. Would like to see more details - when you have time to post more pics - of what happens to the tubing once it disappears into the top of the case after it passes the Powerzone logo. Would love to make it up to Insomnia to look in person....but fear it would cost me a divorce :D

Can I pick your brains on a (loosely) related question? If you'd been a bit of an idiot and scratched the black paint on the midplate you'd spent so long working on, what how would you hide the evidence? Spray paint the whole thing black? Many thanks.
 
Cenedd said:
Loving the look of the straight, parallel tubing. Would like to see more details - when you have time to post more pics - of what happens to the tubing once it disappears into the top of the case after it passes the Powerzone logo. Would love to make it up to Insomnia to look in person....but fear it would cost me a divorce :D

Can I pick your brains on a (loosely) related question? If you'd been a bit of an idiot and scratched the black paint on the midplate you'd spent so long working on, what how would you hide the evidence? Spray paint the whole thing black? Many thanks.
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I will be posting more pictures soon, I have taken a few as I rushed to get it in a finished state, but I still need to take a few more and didn't want to post (nearly) finished pics before I post progress shots.

And as for the paint, it depends on whether the mid plate is actually paint or powder coat I guess. With paint, you might get away with a quick blast from a rattle can (I have done this on cases where I have had to scratch the finish to get acrylic in place) and managed to get a good match. The hardest part isnt actually getting the colour corrcect, it is the finish. I have found that "satin" seems to be the best match for the finish that most cases tend to have (well, most cheap to mid range cases). Strangly enough it is the cheapo wilko paint that has the best match. If you search "Satin Black" on the wilko site, no doubt you will find the one I used last time :)
 
Thanks I'll give that a try. There's a Wilko quite near me conveniently. It's the PSU shroud in an Enthoo Evolv ATX so I'm not sure whether it's powder coated or painted to be honest. I know that it's 0.7mm thick steel and the paint isn't very thick. Managed to let the pump slide right across it shortly after I'd taken all the protective masking tape off :mad: If it's powder coat is it the same but I have to spray the whole thing to get an even colour?

Good luck getting everything finished for I57....hope nobody delays you with stupid questions about something like scratched paint! :rolleyes:
 
yeah, if its powder coating it is just thicker usually, so would take a lot more to fill in a scratch, you would need to use some fine sand paper and rub it down first, then spray it, so would be best to spray the whole thing in one go :)
 
rush boy always comes good, can't wait for proper shots of the project when you have time - that parallel tubing run looks mint and I want close-ups
 
I seen a few pictures you put up on Facebook Dave, the lines you have with your tubing along with the colours really make it look a nice clean looking build, I love it mate!
 
Very, very nice :D

As always it looks stunning, the colour co-ordination is sublime (Loving the look of the orange accents on the CPU/GPU and the SSDs)

Also, is that a 45 run from the CPU to GPU with no other tubing as since I have that motherboard I would like to run my tubing like that :)
 
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