Meet Rinzler - my Tron Themed NZXT case.

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I wanted to do a theme case for my new build. After looking around, I found the Black/Orange NZXT Phantom on New Egg. I thought it looked remotely Tron like and decided to take things a step further.

I started by modding the unused 5.25 bay grills by cutting out some of the grill work with a dremel and graphite cutting wheel. The first bay cap I turned into a back lit name plaque:





The 2nd I decided to do build a side USB dock, so I could close the front door and leave thumb drives plugged it. I cut off most of the metal grill work and epoxied the back end of an old hard drive enclosure I had cut down. I then bought a sheet of 8th inch fluorescent orange acrylic and cut a piece to cover the back windows. I then mounted NZXT's internal USB hub through the side of the rear corner of the case. I added a little bit of detailing to cover the female USB ends. This allows me to keep thumb drives behind the closed door and still have access to teh additional USB headers, should I need them, to access from the rear of the drive bay.









After installing the main components, I added the first of 2 of NZXT's 2 meter orange LED cable kits. And zip tied a Recognizer toy that had clear orange parts in the main body in the upper right corner. And installed the programmable usb fan with a 60mm to 80mm stepper ring.



Next onto the side case mods and the Identity Disc.

Edited by Digivolution - 6/9/12 at 10:02pm

@ Colonel Zay Thank you. I've got more plans to go for this one. Hopefully it will look as the concept in my head.

@ Anubis1127: Thank you. Scale modeling is one of my other hobbies. So Yeah I use a dremel as much as most people use a toothbrush.

The one nice thing about Tron Legacy coming out a year ago is that the merch and collectibles can now be found for cheep. I did some scoping in a few hobby shops and discount stores and found the rest of what I was looking for. This is everything installed inside the case.

The Recognizer is zip tied in place with one of the LED's from the NZXT kit popped through the back to light up the clear orange bits on the toy.



I found a figure of Rinzler from the movie. The figure could light up momentarily with a button on the back. To get the figure to stay on, I disassembled it and removed the circuit board and battery case. I then dremeled out slots on either side of the back and touched up the paint on the front to only show light in the appropriate areas. The slots I made on the back of the figure allow the NZXT cable to pass though trapping one LED inside the chest and keeping the figure 'on' as long as the PC:





I then added some orange trim on a few parts as finishing touches. All together this is the result:



And with light off:



I started detailing the left side panel. I cut 4 squares of orange acrylic to make the "T" symbol, trying to figure out the best way to attached them.....



Started working on the "Identity Disc" for the right side panel. I cut a torus out of the 8th inch orange acrylic and painted the side facing the case white to reflect the most light. The stock lighting with be replace with 4' of the 2nd NZXT lighting kit. It will be permanently screwed to the side panel and light up with the case when done:



Still more work to do.....