Search the Community

THE LITTLE OWL Little is just an understatement here as I will be using an XSPC H1 case. STORYLINE: Jakob (pronounced Yakob) commissioned me to build a kick **** machine BASED on the NEW NOCTUA NF-F12 (ones that are optimised for water cooling rads) fans. In addition he wanted me to base the case on Noctua collours, however some people do not like these, so one had to base this build around a slighty differing theme. If you look at the noctua website, the colours are much more 'red' than the fans themselves (which are brown based) IDEA EXPLAINED. Essentialy this is going to be part scratch build/part mod with a dark red and white themed case with the internals being polar white and typhoon red. The RED LASER TUNNEL effect will be used here Sponsors so far: Noctua (Ofcourse) LAMPTRON (ofCourse) MAYHEMS INNOVATION COOLING for the IC Diamond note: Remember the LASER PROJECT? This will be used in here. PAINT TO BE USED HYCOTE tornado RED HYCOTE POLAR WHITE HYCOTE GLOSS WHITE HYCOTE PRIMER HYCOTE CLEAR OVERCOAT Hycote Crystal Silver Hycote Pepper RED pEARLeSCENT hYCOTE tANGO RED mETALLIC Photo of a default XSPC H1 CASE Remember my last build where I used acrylic feet instead of the luggage-trolly-like castor wheels? well since the mounting of the castors are exactly the same as the Mountain Mods level, we can re-use that idea. Take one XSPC H1 Base plate carefully mark out where the fifth hole for the LED is to go. score a line from bottom left to the top right mounting hole and likewise for bottom right to top left. Now do the same for all four acrylic feet mounts Now here is where I had a problem, as I didnt have a centre punch available in order to create a pilot for the drill. So i thought of using an engraving tool that comes with my dremel set. Slowly but firmly press the dremel onto the desired spot This then allows a 2mm pilot hole with the dremel Now that is sorted lets use the big drill shall we? Press the drill trigger slowly as to drill gently through the delicate aluminium (DO NOT USE HAMMER ACTION) This then creates a nice 5mm hole for the LED to shine into the acrylic feet. TESTING THE FIT Note the LED has just enough room to fit whilst leaving the 5mm room to have a grip within the hole. watch out for the next part:D