Long time no post

My apologies for not keeping this up to date. I would like to blame college classes for taking away from my free time. I had three choices with what to do with my free time being: Homework, Project Build, or Project Blog. Since as you can see I have been slacking on the blog, I will present you with a huge update. This probably will not be dial up friendly, I warn you now...

Penciling out one of the side panels

 

Penciling side panel two

Using a hand nibbler I slowly start shaping the side panels 

into something prettier

I apologize now, I forgot my camera when I began working at my mothers (I use the basement to use power tools and spray painting) so I was forced to borrow her camera, which I have not yet taken the pictures from. I will update with more photos later of more of the prep work.

Ready for painting!

 

Incase you were wondering what was with the black rectangle

on the top, this was me testing out the black paint.

I actually had painted the interior first with the blue paint. However this was the day I forgot my camera. I will post the interior paint pictures later. 

Second day of painting I did remember my camera.I ended up taking awhile masking the case off with newspaper and masking tape, I was so pre-occupied I actually forgot to take photos of between masking it. Although showing you would be pretty boring anyways...

The outside being painted black. This is the bottom of the case

This is after coat two, of four. The flash does do the paint any justice

Painting the pci knock outs. The outsides are black, 

while the inside is blue

 This is the back panel which holds the rear radiator.

So after doing the exterior, I removed all the masking I did. Unfortunately this pulled up a lot of the of the blue interior paint. I was very sad at this point. I normally do not prime my cases, but I usually use a different brand of paint (Rust-Oleum) which has never done this to me. Apparently even though Tremclad's rust paint that it would stick to bare metal without primer, it lies. Oh well, I had to make due, I ended up making a few extra coats in the interior to fix this, from far away it is impossible to tell. Up close with you eyes about 6 inches away you can see the different layers of paint. 

All in all, the case overall looks pretty awesome in my opinion. I really like the blue and flat black. I had a lot of people questioning if glossy vs flat would look better, but I am pretty confident this was the better choice.

The paint is peeling off :(

 

Case painting completed, with handles and wheel back on!

 

Shiny wheels :)

 

I installed the motherboard to see how the blues interacted 

with one another. My blue did not match, but really none of

the blues on the motherboard did. Looks like win to me!

So there you have it, a long awaited update. The overall process of painting required three trips to my mother's house. Considering the only times I really had were weekends, this spanned over a week and a half. I also painted some of the side panels after I finished cutting the windows out. They are currently sitting in my living room waiting for me to cut some plexiglass to put on them. I will post the side panels once I finished them.