After 4 years and countless hours of work, I'm happy to say this mod is finished. I realize all of the image links are now broken. It would take a long time to fix them and I'm not sure I will do it. HOWEVER, I uploaded most of the important pics to an album you can see here...
Casting knobS:
I have been busy painting the bezel. No pics of it right now, but I have also been working on custom knobs for my Rheosmart 6. Here is a stock photo:
The stock knobs are a little small and boring. They just don't look right on this case, so I took a bit of epoxy putty and...
I'm not really sure. Fiberglass work takes a lot of time. Making some of the tools, such as the hot wire foam cutters, required time as well. I never track time or money invested in case mods. I prefer not to be depressed :p
ProgresS:
I have been hard at work on the case, as time allows. If the pictures look a little different, it's because my trusty old Canon bit the dust. The replacement Panasonic doesn't take great shots.
Here is the full version of the teaser pic I posted a couple of weeks ago. I finished...
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The case lives!
It has been a long time since my last update. The case went dormant for over a year, sitting in pieces in a closet. The good news it everything has survived and I'm making progress again. The bad news is SWTOR turned out to be a huge flop of a game. I played it for about...
The case will be on hold for about a week, due to the holidays. I will have some updates soon!
Thanks :) I have some ideas for the vacuum former, but it might not be for this case.
I'm glad you like it! Yes, there are some similarities to the 500r and a bunch of other cases as well. Honestly...
UPDATE:
It's been a while!
I normally update every week and it has been over two weeks since the last post. Sorry about that, but I HAVE been working on the case. So, there are a lot of pictures and quite a bit has been done.
The first thing I did was clean up the chassis and paint it. The...
Awesome work :) I really like the end product. The only thing I might criticize is how the fiberglass piece meets and mounts to the base. It's not as elegant as the rest of the case. Overall, that is a very minor thing. Bravo!