Luciel Posted June 13, 2012 Author Share Posted June 13, 2012 nope, they are custom order made 1/4 to 3/8 convertors from my local pluming supliers : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciberjack Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 once i have seen some barsb looking like this (from alphacool), i asked u because of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted June 13, 2012 Author Share Posted June 13, 2012 Of course no problem, I´m sure brands do make them, the only reason I went custom is because it was local and it was going to take less time to get them than ordering them online, plus they are made precisely for the copper tubing : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted June 14, 2012 Author Share Posted June 14, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted June 14, 2012 Author Share Posted June 14, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciberjack Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 nice up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted June 14, 2012 Author Share Posted June 14, 2012 cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom1 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 very nice painting now, it's a great worrk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom1 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 impressive acceleration of updates, well done luciel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 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 :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom1 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 mmmm maybe :asd: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 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.          Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArgOsMod Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 fantastic! very good job.:clapclap: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 Thank you Arg0s but it´s still far from finished. I hope it is valid for the competition though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom1 Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 fast and modding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjinnVale Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Very good mod Luciel, you are very fast guy, very good finish, you are a great modder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One1ros Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Picks for voting stage: Â Â Â Â Â Also added to first post of the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One1ros Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 (edited) 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 Edited June 24, 2012 by One1ros Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One1ros Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Qui trovate la classifica finale! Here the final ranking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted August 5, 2012 Author Share Posted August 5, 2012 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 : )  http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=233580 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom1 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 well i want seee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciel Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 Hi Everyone,  After almost a year since I started the project, it is now Finished.  Since October I´ve been adding paint effects, ink effects, done some detail changes, added missing details and essentially obsessed over there damned thing. Following the original idea I did 2 casings, one for the psu and one for the gpus, unfortunately I just wasn´t happy with them, I felt they changed the overall look to much. I never wanted it to look clean as it simply doesn´t fit the post-apocalyptic style so in the end I opted for a rough way around it. The last 4 PSU connectors are bare and inked cabling for the GPUs. I´m sure quite a few of you would´ve proffered casings but I feel this way is what suits the style of the project best.  I also pretty much "coated" the whole thing with a mix of inks that took me a month to get right for a more old-n-gritty feel as while I was very happy with how the faux wood effect turned out, I felt it didn´t much the rest of the oxidized copper effects, this slight effect ink helps blend these two together and really make it look like it´s been around for a hundred years. If you compare these final pictures to the previous update pictures you´ll find you can´t exactly point why, but you´ll understand what I mean (or at least I hope you will )  I also realise there´s no SLI bridge, this is simply because I´ve misplaced mine and didn´t want to wait till I ordered a new one to make the final pictures as I didn´t feel it was that important and... I really needed to end this stage of my life.  APASF is the project I´ve always wanted to do ever since I started painting and modding and while there are somethings that NOW I may have done differently, I´m extremely happy with the final outcome, I´m also relieved it´s over, it's taken a huge toll on me and in the end, it was more of an obligation and obsession rather than something I enjoyed doing as sad as that may sound.  I´d like to thank my sponsors for being so patient with it as it´s taken 6 months more than I originally thought it would and of course for being there with me all the way.  Right, without further wait, here is the final shoot of APASF "A Post-Apocalyptic Steampunk Future".                     Thank you all for reading through this long worklog during what for me has been the hardest project I´ve ever done!  Until next time, Luciel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom1 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Well done . Price ? :asd: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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