that looks awesome mate! wish i had the know-how to do a project like this, good luck with the rest of the build!
Cheers David
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Fair play, that's just beautiful! The attention to detail is absolutely superb!! If you don't win a prize or two for this build I'll eat...erm... something inedible!!
Cheers mate, unless I enter it into competitions then the only comp it might end up in is MOTY 2011 which I'm really looking forward to as many of the best modders from around the world have been busy making some sweet cases & case mods so I'm keen to see how this holds up amongst them, air cube made it into MOTY 2010 just gone but didn't make it to the top 10 so everyone who came past 10th place you could say all came in 11th
I don't know why they don't let people know the full placings, maybe so it doesn't make people feel like crap if it came in last I dunno
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Just got a couple of ATX plugs & some other bits so I can make an extender & a really short 1 just so it doesn't interfere with the air flow from the front fans & I'll be able to have the wires go in the shape of the curve with the extra slack
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I just finished designing, printing, sticking, cutting & forming the copper P clips, the big clips are P clips, the smaller ones it wasn't possible to do them nicely because of the thickness of the copper so they are a slightly different version of the P clips, was the only way to make them in a nice way & the copper sheet I ordered I got lucky with the off cut as it was mirror polished on both sides so was pleasantly surprised
, only cost me £7 with delivery, I said I'd make enough for 3 of the fan pieces for someone on another forum & he wants them brush finished so I might use the ones I made from this mirror copper & send him the ones I already made
depends if I like the look of them when installed
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Also I've got around to thinking about lighting & decided I could make the bottom section fan holders better since my marking method has drastically improved compared to when I started this project I print the designs now & stick them on the material so it's far quicker & more accurate to my design than marking manually & I have the scroll saw now & just ordered a drum sander that is usable on the drill press & can use any sand paper on it so could take it to 2000 grit without a ton of effort
, there was a couple of things I didn't like with the fan holders, after I stuck them together I continued wet sanding them to get a perfectly seamless finish on them but it went wrong & some gunk worked it's way into the seams so when viewed from an angle it didn't look so good especially with light in there & didn't like the fact I had to drill mill some of the holders down a bit & even then the fans were too tight (so tight I cut myself when pushing a fan back out of the holder).
So I'll re-make them but for the depth of the fans I'll use 9 x 3mm sticks of acrylic instead of 5 x 5mm with a luminous orange stick in the middle, the apollish fans don't add any light to the stick areas so it opens a way to light them differently & I'll be making them function as the hdd activity LED
so should be a sweet little feature & got all the bits I ordered except for the drum sander
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Making them again should take no longer than 2 good sessions or even 1.
And the other lighting thing I've thought about is RGB LED strips, 1 600mm strip for each curve bar & possibly 1 300mm for underneath the case, it will have a remote control for selecting whatever colour I want & could turn it off when I want so can't wait to get that to put in but can't afford it just yet
, anyway only a few steps away from complete
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should have the ATX extension bits tomorrow hopefully, today I'll have a go at making my own copper P clips for the cables, hopefully I'll be able to make nice enough ones 
) drilled, tapped & placed helicoils inside them, brushed them & then brushed metal lacquer on them too 
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