Blue Dream: Antec NSK4400 LCC mod - Page 4 - Overclock.net

Whodie · 04-08-07

CD, looks killer.

I have some of the same window molding, and your right it's a freaking bear to get on there.

I like the look of the top panel a lot, really unique. I'm not that creative so the one I did for the folding contest is more of an rounded rectangle.

I definitely like the look of the plumbing better now too. Much more simple (which is what I love, simple and functional). The front panel looks a lot better too.

I have to ask though, do you do a lot of paint with your mods? Only reason I ask is you crank these modded cases out in no time. I've spent about a week just working on the paint. Maybe I'm just slow lol

Whodie · 04-08-07

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Originally Posted by DesertRat

am i the only one who thinks the top wondow looks kinda like
an eye ball, and looks really cool too!

Some wavy red EL lighting coming out from the fillport would make it complete

**pjlietz** · 04-08-07

Look's great Cyber! I can't wait to see it running with the UV windows and all!

dhrandy · 04-08-07

Nice job. Clean looking.

*CyberDruid* · 04-08-07

Thanks guys. It'll be alittle while before she's running. Last night it was 27 F outside--so no paint. Yeah I do tend to crank them out--but that's not with the paint work involved. Soon I should be pretty well set up with a compressor and spray gun.

I hope this case sells...eyeball top panel and all...we'll see. Got a little more to do first...mod the HDD bay to fit over the rad, mount some lights, take it all apart, paint it in and out, put it together with a test rig and take some shots...and put it out there and see who wants it...

TheLaughingMan · 04-08-07

It's definitely an improvement, and a lot cleaner with the loop/front fan.

I just had an idea looking at those recent pics. I'm not exactly sure how to implement it, but IMO it would look killer if you could somehow place some "large" mesh (like the green kind in that Centurion in the background) directly behind the acrylic/windows. I think it would also look good if you could also somehow sleeve the tubes with something similar looking (to the large mesh).

Once the UV kicks on, IMO it would look freakin sweet! If you had some powerful UV, it would reflect that meshed look on the walls. You could do it for the side panel, top panel, and you pretty much done that with the front panel (minus the acrylic/window for obvious reasons). I think it would look quite bad-ass with it all black & blue. (That color scheme would kind of remind me of an Antec 900.)

It would also seem it would effectively cover the rad, if you wanted to cut more into the side panel. Just that one opening on the side panel looks a little mundane to me, for some reason. You could add an additional design above the side window and around the area the rad/bays are.

Or maybe you are hating everything I just typed.

I am just throwing out some ideas I would personally like, if I were a customer (or if I case-modded more).

*CyberDruid* · 04-08-07

That's just what I need to hear. I too have my own tastes...I had considered a "boot" shaped window to show more of the rad--but that molding is tough to work with and I wanted to pop it out in a day. Enlarging the window would not be that hard. As far as mesh instead of acrylic--the more air-tight the case is the better the rad will perform--using the case as a rad box basically with push pull fans. If I add a lot of perforations then I lose the pull fan and gain some extra noise (coming through the perforations).

A friend of mine has the 830 stacker and we actually put in acrylic behind the mesh side panels to kill the noise and allow him to use just three fans. It made a huge difference in how loud the case is. And his is strictly air cooled.

But for an aircool mod of the NSK 4400 a puffed top and side vent with a place to mount a side fan would make this a killer gaming case--with room for 3 opticals and three HDDs and a 3.5 fan controller and a LCD temp and fan monitor. I would not have thought about that if you had not mentioned it.

An aircooled version of this case would be about $300 cheaper too...which makes it a much more attractive build for me and the customer. I like that ideer!

But I agree light shining through mesh is way cool on the walls--I have that going on with ICE

I like that black mesh too and I think puffed up eveball top vent would look trick--much the way the front vent looks better than the UV blue vent...but before I start slicing and pounding I'm gonna light it up as is and see how it looks. I'm thinking the mesh could be laid over top of the acrylic--with a dent in the center that goes down to the Filport for a water cooled version--I could slit some 3/8" OD tubing and make my own trim for it--holding the two pieces together and hiding the edge of the mesh.

For the exterior I am leaning toward that old mid-60's GMC light metallic blue color...paint the face panel and top and sides that color but paint the black plastic piece between it and the case interior and back panel a darker accent blue in the same tonal range. I am thinking the pump, rad, and hroud would look good in the lighter color blue--the tinted window will make that look darker than the exterior but lighter than the interior...

GMC blue--what do you think?

dotcomthese · 04-08-07

I like the whole set up and I think you should not do to much more to the front.....I think the more you do is gonna lead to the more your gonna "HAVE" to do...It looks clean and professional...Maybe change one thing the four screws you have in the fan...Maybe some way of using some of the type that take an ALLEN wrench would look a little more clean.....If your gonna go blue from the 60's, then maybe look into going with The blue used on the 1969 Mustang MACH1....That is some of the coolest blue ever....IMO

*CyberDruid* · 04-08-07

I got a ride in a 19 70 Mach I and it would pull to 45mph in first gear...

The blue I am looking for is not really an "in-your-face-blue" but that faded, vintage hazy sky blue with a touch of metallic--the interior blue is the same color as the factory vinyl...a kind of odd lapis lazuli pearlescent blue.

I can really see those colors... I'm thinking a better mount for the pump is in order--something from polished aluminum. A simple strap of aluminum bent and formed and drilled for the pump and backpanel then buffed up with some Flitz

They have some nice torx drive button head screws on my Buell...that would be better--but I like the idea of hotgluing the grill in from behind (like factory) and mounting the fan to the shroud--that way pulling off the front panel does not mean having to unplug the fan. Since it all gets painted filling the holes is noo Biggy.

I am going to get another of these cases next week and make an aircooled version as mentioned above--with a different shaped side panel and same shape top panel (non removable) of mesh instead of acrylic. I'll use some black rubber molding I have and just give the interior a squirt with flat black and leave the front panel alone. A quick mod that I can offer up on the FS threads just to see how people like it.

By then I should have my spraybooth together and will be wanting to squirt some urethane on the LCC version. It'll be cool to see the two of them side by side....I am really liking the vision of that formed top grill.

THe side panel window(s) covered in mesh or acrylic migh be more interesting if they were less rectangular--how about a pair of triangles...

Renegade5399 · 04-08-07

Nice! How much? [/borat]

That is a nice lil case there my friend!

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