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Every time I see a picture of your room I am amazed at how organized everything is... Yes I have said this before.. but I cant stop admiring it..

Ok back on topic. The standoffs look prefect.. Yes a little more roundover would have surely helped but the limited surface makes it really difficult to do a roundover on that one..

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TnB= Gir

Syrillian have you gotten around to buying Mass Effect yet?

I highly recommend the game and the 2 books. (All written by the same guy, so it all ties in)

arekieh

what are the books called?

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Mass Effect: Revelation which takes place before the plot of Mass Effect 1 (game)

And

http://www.amazon.com/Mass-Effect-Ascension-Drew-Karpyshyn/dp/0345498526/ref=pd_sim_b_2 which takes place between the plots of Mass Effect 1 and 2 (the games)

EDIT: Stupid amazon links are borked.

Syrillian

Hi, arekieh


I'm not certain. By this weekend I should have the chassis assembled, with the motherboard tray in place, and the PSU and HDD trays also complete. After that I need to make the backplane for the motherboard tray and the rear-side of the case itself.... still a fair amount to do.

The cooler is a Zerotherm Nirvana NV-120. Seems decent enough.

You have pretty much outlined the issue spot on. Perhaps adding some layers of the apporpiate paint to the low-spots. Masking-off the areas that are not to be painted ought to make the job fairly straight-forward.

The other option would be to continue clear-coating until the surface is uniform, but I'm not sure if that is the most effective method.

hrm.. yah... being obssesive does have it's merits . Besides, what you see in the image represents about 40% of my living space; there really is not much real-estate to mess up.

Heh. Yeah, my fingers were really close to the router bit (at moments) when I did the round over (< 1/8"). I was sure to have all my attention focused on what I was doing... no day-dreaming on that one.

Overall I am satisfied. I kinda wanted to do an "hour-glass" shape, but I had already cut the squares down. To give the piece that curve would have meant cutting the curves first, and then cutting the piece down to size.

...next time.

How ironic, Girface.

I just finished the game noe 40 minutes ago.

Man! I dunno about anyone else, but that is one of the best games that I have played in awhile. I'm a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge sucker for Sci-Fi, and that game delivered (imho) a solid story.

...so what's this about the mod, "Bring down the Sky"?

As for the books, is it the same story or is it a prelude or sequel... maybe parallel story?


...and continuing OT.

I borrowed the graphic novel (comic book -lol ), Wanted, from a friend. Jeez! It was totally different and twisted... I liked it... a lot.




Thanks for chatting, guys.

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Bring Down the Sky is the first DLC for Mass Effect. It offers a side mission that adds about an hour to an hour and a half onto the gameplay. The end reward is you getting to pick up the games best armor (imo)

I really liked it and it was easily one of my favorite missions in the game.

As for the books, they are set in the same universe of course, but about another character. Shepperd and all of them are mentioned a few times, so it's more parallel.

Syrillian

Thanks for the info, Girface.

I'll dowload it as I work this morning.

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Oh and there's an issue that after installing the patch and BDtS that the lava textures disappear from worlds like Therum and other lava worlds. In order to fix this, you need to delete the file I circled below. It is located in the My Documents>BioWare folder

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arekieh

hey syrillian,
i havent looked at everything uve done for a while,
i just went back and looked at all the updates, and it looks incredible
cant wait to see this finished, and hopefully the rest of the project goes smoothly

and thanks Gir, im gonna go get those books and read them

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More hole-drilling.



Drilling the holes for the fan controls:






Here you can see how the knobs will be entrenched:





Lighting:


The effect was achieved using sheets like these:




Without a camera-flash:




With a carmera-flash:




The pictures are not an equitable representation of the polycarbonate sheet on its own, or when under light.
If I look too long at it I get a sense of vertigo, as the patterns seem to move and shift about in an unsettling manner.


I cut a strip, rolled it up and slid it into a 1" acrylic tube:




Then I experimented with different lighting colors and UV as well:











This is the type that I purchased from TAP (bottom of the page).

Here is another source.


I happened to see the rolls one day when I was at Tap Plastics, so I bought a linear-foot of each to play with.


...pretty neat stuff.



P.S.

Girface! ~ thanks for the M.E. info; much appreciated.

arekieh ~ Thanks for the well-wishes. So far there have been no calamities, but I still have a couple of tricky parts to get through; one of which is the gas strut placement and leverage.

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