blupupher

That looks great. Glad your going to do something about the orange peel, it would be sad to see such a great color left like that.
The Satin interior/ gloss exterior looks great also.
Are you going to be doing anything special inside (LED's, Cold cathode, UV etc?)

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YOSHIBA

wow other ppls huge long expensive logs take forever and still do not look nearly this good amazing

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wildfire99

wow great job, the paint looks fabulous i no how hard it can be to get a good looking paint finish as i just finished painting my antec. ^_^

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Sorry for no updates, I had to go to work and make money . I will have them later today or tommorow if i can.

First off I want to thank the people who gave their feedback. Im pleased to hear people like it so far. It was a lot of work compared to a krylon spray can paint job. It is still not done allthough the bulk of the paint work is completed and it is now just tying up loose ends now.

Thank you , The sanding, buffing and polishing hope only to take couple days or so. Im happy it looks good now for new paint but it is going to look 3x better when I get the orange peel out. It will really draw out the depth an gloss. Yes I am going to add a ccfl (blue of course lol) plus the 3 led fans that come with the case and possiblely some other creative idea if it comes to me.

Thank you, Glad you like it. I have looked at your mod log too, it is coming along excellent, I been meaning to post a reply in your project also. I'll give you a shout in yours after I finish my reply's here.

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Thanks. Well I did take vacation off from my job in addition to the 2 days off I get. I worked on it for 10 hrs a day for 4 days. So the whole process went smoothly. All that sanding and prep work was a grueling task that took most of the time.

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coffeejunky

Wow that blue looks amazing...I really like it. Nice Professional finish too.

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Thank You. I am glad my hard work paid off in the end. It took me about a half hour at the paint shop before I picked out the perfect color for it among the color chips. It was hard work to get the finsh like it is.

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Small Update.

Im in the process of sanding out the orange peel on all the panels, It is such a pain cause I have to make sure that its completely smooth otherwise if I leave some "peel" on thier it looks like little pitts in the finish. It would detract from the reflection of the room its reflecting and the gloss.

Here is some of the products I used and a view of my work area. Full List is in earlier post.

Lots of sandpaper used various grits of this brand.


Very important item for painting right here !


I used this on the other layers like the primer and when I sanded it to remove sludge you really dont want to use the inital cleaning solvent in the later stages. But used Final kleen as the final cleaner before the basecoat.



For all the plastic parts.


This awesome sanding block worked out really good


HAHA! My work chair/test piece sacrificed it to the painting god lol. I used this chair before every application of paint or primer. So I did not have any suprises on my panel when I sprayed.


The "workbench" I call it . It worked great for me .


Now put my parts back in the boxes for the short time being for safe keeping until they go back into their home.

Here are some pics of the members of the Blue light district:











The original delivery of Blue light:


Should have the color sanding done in a few days or so. It will so much better all buffed out and polished.

Till then Thanks for Viewing. Feedback is appricated.

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niko439

nice i was going to do the same colors with my antec p180

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OtrFLOYD

This turned out really nice. I was thinking of doing a professional job myself, though not by my hand >_<, but I never got around to it. Oddly enough, I did all the painting myself and it's not nearly as nice as this, but I could say my primed layer was close to your satin black finish. Keep it up. Can't wait to see the end results.