Mod'n Roll 2012: APASF ("A Post-Apocalyptic Steampunk Future")
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First update of D-Day -1.
I am plausibly going slightly crazy...
...yes
Started drilling based on measurements taken yesterday and test mounted both radiators.
Matt black painted the chasis, even though in the picture it doesn´t look matt, that´s because paint wasn´t dry yet.
Painted one side of both radiators (mainly the middle as the the non-radiator-y-bits will receive the wood treatment later today. Before anyone goes crazy about loosing performance and all that. I´ll say what I´ve said every other time I´ve painted a rad or heatsink and noticed no loss of performance. If you do it with acrylic paint, it´s fine. It´s not fine when you do it with synthetic or plastic paints. You can argue all you want, but I wouldn´t be doing it if I hadn´t tested it countless times : )
I´m hoping I can run the system without fans on the radiator to acceptable temps, since there´s 2 rads and all they are cooling is the cpu, if not, will add fans at a later point, but for the "final" look they won´t have fans on them.
Painted the plastic parts of the reservoir...
...and it´s mounts.
And finished all the wood effect trimmings.
Piping won´t be done today as all the parts need to be mounted and while that will happen today, it won´t before the plumbing supplies shop closes for the day.
So will be going hopefully first thing tomorrow morning and getting all the piping done, leave the loop running for as many hours as I can allow it to and still have time to mount the hardware and psu in and finish by midning tomorrow.
...I can´t believe I haven´t aplied the matt clear coat finish yet...
Now I have to go to my actual job and pretend like I´m not freaking out about not finishing this in time :S
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Right, I´m at then end of D-Day -1, tomorrow is the last day.
Now, a lot of stuff has been finished but because some where still drying I didnt want to risk mounting what I need to measure for the piping till tomorrow morning, then as I mentioned in the previous post, piping time.
Anyhow...
Rads finished.
Reservoir unmasked...
...and aged with a touch of "filth".
If all goes well, tomorrow 1 to 2 updates + final update... after that, beer and a nervous breakdown
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nice up!
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cheers!
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very nice painting now, it's a great worrk
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Right guys, we´re at that point, this is the update before the final update (in theory aniway).
So, this morning I assembled all that needed to be in or on the case in order to do the piping.
So, rads, motherboard and other assorted pieces.
And this is what the case looked like pre-piping.
So went down to my local friendly plumbing supplies shop and with some help from the shop attendant (my mate) and later on the owner of the shop (he was intrigued on what we were doing), I put it all togueter, it was incredibly hard to measure everything up correctly, tighten all the fittings being very carefull with the fragile ones (like the plexy ones on the cpu cooler or the plastic ones on the pump and reservoir). And after almost 4 hours, got it ready.
So here is the bare essentials case (nothing is screwed in, details wise, only the liquid cooling related stuff.
I now of course have to aply all the ageing effects to the fittings and pipes.
After that I went to my actual job (as I mentioned in previous posts I took both yesterday morning and today morning off to work on the project but still had to work 4 hours in the evening.
I´ve taken the motherboard out and left the loop running to be sure there´s no leaks before I put everything togueter.
And yeah if there´s no leaks I feel optimistic about meeting the deadline but words cannot express how tired and generally exhausted I feel.
Again, thanks for reading and following the project.
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impressive acceleration of updates, well done luciel
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thanks, I think that if I dont win any of the first 3 places, can I get a price for fast modding or just plain dedication? just under 3 weeks to build this beast
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mmmm maybe
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Hi Guys,
I tried my best, I´m sure you all know from my hectic updates these last almost 3 weeks that I´ve been working every second I get free on the project. Unfortunately it was not enough. The reason for starting so late was waiting for parts to arrive and basically financially being able to buy all the materials, paints, etc I needed to make this truelly unique.
The fact is I´m about 1-3 days short worth of work on detailing, fixing some last minute issues (that always pop up) and so on to be happy with the final result.
That said, I have made it as presentable as posible to be able to participate in the competition so I hope you deem it worthy.
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fantastic! very good job.:clapclap:
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Thank you Arg0s but it´s still far from finished. I hope it is valid for the competition though
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fast and modding
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Very good mod Luciel, you are very fast guy, very good finish, you are a great modder.
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[FASE 2: Preparazione alla votazione] 15 Giugno - 22 Giugno
A fine concorso ogni utente avrà una settimana di tempo per presentare le foto o i video finali del proprio progetto per le votazioni, ogni utente potrà postare un massimo di 4 foto e 2 video per mod, tali foto rappresenteranno l'ultimo post del worklog e saranno quindi seguite dai ringraziamenti agli sponsor in caso di sponsorizzazione.
[Phase 2: Preparing to vote] June 15th to June 22nd
At the end of the contest each user will have a week to present the photos or videos of his final project to the vote, users can post up to 4 photos and 2 videos for each mod, these photos represent the last post of the worklog and then will be followed by thanks to the sponsors in the event of sponsorship.
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Picks for voting stage:
Also added to first post of the thread.
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La fase di votazione è iniziata, questo è il thread ufficiale: http://www.xtremehardware.com/forum/f70/mod_n_roll_modding_contest_votazione_vote-33500/#post437588'>http://www.xtremehardware.com/forum/f70/mod_n_roll_modding_contest_votazione_vote-33500/#post437588
The voting phase has begun, this is the official thread: http://www.xtremehardware.com/forum/f70/mod_n_roll_modding_contest_votazione_vote-33500/#post437588
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Update:
I´ve been fighting for the last two weeks with the tubing, I´m still trying to fix the leak on one of the outputs on the reservoir, the other two leaks have been fixed (I took apart those sections and reinforced the joints with teflon which seals it quite nicely, for whatever reason that doesn´t seem to be working with the reservoir.
I have a couple of options I will be trying on monday, hopefully one of them will work. Worst comes to worst I can permanently fit the joint which will fix the issue but will not allow for it to ever be taken apart again (not that its an issue as I never planned to but its nice to know I can if for whatever reason I need to).
Updates to come following that.
On another subject, I´ve been nominated for MOTM over at bit-tech, and the voting has been going on from the 6th of July. The voting ends on the 6th of Aug, i.e. tomorrow monday at 8 am. I´m currently fighting for the first place so if you feel like helping out, pop by and vote. But I´d like to stress that, only do it if you believe APASF is the best out of the 6 mods shown there. I´d greatly appreciate it : )
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well i want seee
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