Here's a quick sketch of what the end goal is going to be.

 

Everything but the side panels are getting sanded and sprayed with primer tonight. I don't have a mask and this room isn't ventilated so I'm starting to get pretty high.

 

Sorry but I've been working ten hour days and it turns out covering a black case in white primer takes a long time and a whole lot of primer. The case is close to being ready to be put back together. Meanwhile I had a bunch of stuff I ordered arrived today so I got to work on some other aspects of the build while the clear coat dried on the case.



New today:
XSPC 360mm EX radiator
Primochill hardline compression fittings 1/2"
Primochill clear acrylic tubing 1/2"
Corsair SP120 high static pressure fans x 11
XSPC Photon D5 res/pump combo
XSPX Photon D5 aluminum mount ring
Mayhem X-1 oil black concentrate

What's old:
XSPC 240mm radiator
XSPC ray storm CPU block
XSPC GTX Titan/780/780ti block
Intel i5 4670k
PNY GTX 780
ASRock Z87 extreme 4 mobo
Corsair vengeance 16gb 1600mhz
Corsair RM750 watt PSU

Painting the Primochill fittings and the mobo heat sinks gold







Here they are dried and put back on the mobo







Got a few fans done tonight as well





Tomorrow night will be spent cutting a new mobo mount and doing some more fan painting.

Thanks for checking out my stuff.

 

Nice work man! Looking forward to the final product.

 

Thanks man, I had no idea what I was getting into lol. I totally see why so many people abandon their mods. The only thing stopping me from riveting the case back together is that for some reason, the entire inner rear panel has a slight pink tint to it for some bizarre reason. Now I have to sand it down again and use a gray primer instead of white to cover whatever is causing that pink tint and then repainting and clear coating it all over again. Still have to cut a piece of plexi to make the new mobo tray/res mount which can't happen until the case gets the riveted and I can take measurements.

Fun stuffs

 

Project is getting pushed back further. The inner rear panel is giving me a migraine. I sanded down the original white primer that had a pink tinge to it and washed the piece and left it to dry last night. Tonight, I sprayed it down with the grey primer and it immediately started to crinkle. I'm not getting good adhesion for whatever reason. Luckily the owner of a local car customizing shop owes me a favor and is going to sand blast it down to the bare metal for me. I'll be back with updates in a couple days.

 

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I'm back with a small update. I recut a new shroud that the fans and radiator will attach too. Cut and painted my mesh and put on the u-channel molding.

Before and after shots of the top panel.

Before


After

 

slowly but surely this project is coming together. i finally got around to cutting the new mobo tray and am drilling the mount holes right now. i had to drop the motherboard down farther towards the bottom of the case to make room for the push/pull config on the top panel. heres a shot i took while doing a quick check to make sure everything is going to fit right. nothing is bolted down and the clear piece of plexi that everything is sitting on will be painted white to match the case.

 

I accidentally snapped my acrylic mobo tray I had cut the other day so here I am remeasuring for a new one. I'm glad actually since I think this second one came out a little better.



All measured, cut and drilled. Now I just need to cut the hole for the CPU backplate and it will be ready to be sanded and painted white.



As I've said before I had to mount the mobo lower in the case to accommodate the top 360 rad with push/pull. Basically the IO ports get pushed down into the PCI slots so a little dremel action was required. Supper happy how it came out. I was really just winging it on this part.





Of course lowing the mobo now leaves a gap where the top of the IO panel used to be. Here I cut a small piece of plexi to fill it in. I'll be sanding this piece down and painting it white. It fits in so snug I won't even have to glue it

Here's the PCI covers I bought to replace the stock ones that come with the case. They are of course painted gold to match my theme.



Here they are in the case







Now I had to cut a couple PCI covers to fit the two slots the mobo has pushed into. I cut an extra one to make sure it would fit.







Perfect fit. This whole part of the project came out great.

 

Looking good!

 

Nice mod, loving the color scheme!

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Curious to see how this turns up

P180 was one of my favorite cases

 

Hey what kind of paint did you use for the heat sinks?

 

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Originally Posted by DStanding

Hey what kind of paint did you use for the heat sinks?

Rust-oleum metallic gold. I tried several different brands of gold paint and this one had the best tone. The hearsinks were already anodized black so there was no preparation needed. Anodized aluminum is one of the easiest to paint surfaces.



Everything else that's gold in the case is sprayed with the same. I thought about getting an Asus mobo because it hearsinks are already gold but I'd rather have the fans, hearsinks and fittings all match the exact same color.

It's been a difficult color scheme to get right. To much gold and it becomes gaudy. Not enough and the gold gets lost in a sea of black which is why I decided to paint the case white. It will help the mobo and acrylic tubing using mayhems x-1 oil black pop out at you and the gold becomes an accent color.

What I didn't want was a theme of

BLACK/GOLD

Id rather go

BLACK/WHITE/gold

 

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Originally Posted by d00bzilla

Rust-oleum metallic gold. I tried several different brands of gold paint and this one had the best tone. The hearsinks were already anodized black so there was no preparation needed. Anodized aluminum is one of the easiest to paint surfaces.



Everything else that's gold in the case is sprayed with the same. I thought about getting an Asus mobo because it hearsinks are already gold but I'd rather have the fans, hearsinks and fittings all match the exact same color.

It's been a difficult color scheme to get right. To much gold and it becomes gaudy. Not enough and the gold gets lost in a sea of black which is why I decided to paint the case white. It will help the mobo and acrylic tubing using mayhems x-1 oil black pop out at you and the gold becomes an accent color.

What I didn't want was a theme of

BLACK/GOLD

Id rather go

BLACK/WHITE/gold

Many thanks. I love how well the gold matches the gold of the caps.

So just clean 'em and spray 'em with a couple coats? No sanding or anything?

 

The heat sinks were already anodized. Yours probably are too. Anodized aluminum requires no prep work other than being clean. Make sure you get it right the first time because paint adheres to anodized aluminum so well it will be difficult to remove. The Primochill fittings came out of the box as powder coated white. Sorry I forgot to take a pictures before painting them. Powder coat actually has good adhesion with spray paint so I just cleaned them and sprayed. So ya, just light coats with a few minutes in between to allow the paint to get tacky. Be forewarned that these metallic paints come out heavy and thick so less is more.

I wish I paid more attention in photography class I don't know how to light these pictures worth a crap

 

Omg so happy right now! I found my paracord in the mailbox when I got home from work.



The gold is as close a match as you'll ever get. I was really worried because everybody's idea of what color "gold" should be seems different.

Let it be know throughout the land that rust-oleum metallic gold paint is a perfect match to lutro0 customs gold para cord.

 

Looking forward to more progress

 

A little hint for the demel blades. you can find them on ebay for like a 100 pack for 10 bucks. get the reinforced ones and let the dremel do the work they will last a very long time. I am still going through my 100 pack I started out with like 5 years ago and I do tons of modding;.