Metal Dragon Build

[Rakesh Sharma]

Metal Dragon Build 
This time I am planning of sculpting a metal armour dragon head in a scratch PC build.

Will be cutting, shaping small pieces of MDF board using hand files to form basic dragon head and later will be using wood-filler for final shape and last will be hand painting the build.

Since MSI uses dragon in their logo, so I shared my idea with MSI, and they were very happy to support this build.

 

Happy to announce that AMD and MSI are supporting the build.

 

First I will be making a dragon head, once close enough I will share the idea about how the whole PC will look like … till then enjoy the build process with me

So to start with I took a scaled printout of the dragon head and started measuring and cutting MDF pieces.

Slowly things started transforming from 2D printout to real 3D shapes.

This build will be a little long and slow process and I am only able to work on this in night or weekends. But I am enjoying the process and hope you all will also like it.

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 10-Sep-2021
Started working on dragon eyes. Have taken lot of care as eyes are most important feature in a sculpture.

 

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 13-Sep-2021
Saturday late night work resulted in some decent output. Getting little closer day-by day.

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 20-Sep-2021
This week, working in late evenings slowly I am able to finish lower jaw of the Dragon head.  Next on line is the tongue and the neck.

 

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 04-Oct-2021
Was little busy in life so have not posted any update in last two weeks, but project is slowly under progress.
Mostly finished the Dragon head and applied a primer layer, now one’s primer layer hardens will start sanding following with another primer layer and start colouring. 

[adarw]

On 9/6/2021 at 2:37 AM, Rakesh Sharma said:

MSI, and they were very happy to support this build

there going to give you pc parts? lol. 

1 hour ago, Rakesh Sharma said:

Update : 04-Oct-2021
Was little busy in life so have not posted any update in last two weeks, but project is slowly under progress.
Mostly finished the Dragon head and applied a primer layer, now one’s primer layer hardens will start sanding following with another primer layer and start colouring. 

 

 

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sick.

[Rakesh Sharma]

5 hours ago, adarw said:

there going to give you pc parts? lol. 

sick.

Hope so ,,,, lol 

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 11-Oct-2021
Started working on painting of the Dragon head. 
Will try to give more finishing and appearance details to the dragon.
Awaiting for the hardware to arrive so that I can start working on the PC section of the build. 

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 10-Dec-2021  
Hello to all. Sorry for little delay, due to some unforeseen circumstances build was little halted. But now everything is on-track.  
Also like to update that AMD is now partnering with us in this build with AMD Ryzen 9 3950X processor.

Also started receiving hardware from MSI .

Will be updating more on the PC section of the build. 

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 20-Dec-2021  
This weekend started working on PC section of the build.    
Making open frame base from some MDF boards.

Applied some sealant, primer and a base coat.

Also purchased some 12mm and 5mm clear acrylic sheets.

Some test fitting of hardware.

Will be doing some wet sanding of the paint surface, add some more filler and ready for final paint coat.

[A1200]

Wow I am blown away by your craftsmanship. Looking forward to the completed project.

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 22-Dec-2021  
Final paint coat on the base frame done. Now started installing hardware.

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 27-Dec-2021  
Continue installing hardware with working on RGB lighting and finishing base cover plate.  

Now working on 12mm back acrylic sheet. Done all the I/O cut-outs, now will be doing some hand engraving. 

[Rakesh Sharma]

Update : 25-Feb-2022
After a long time and hardworking this Metal Dragon Build has finally come to its end.

Hope that you all enjoyed this whole build journey with me. Thank you all for your kind response and support.

Also like to thanks AMD and MSI for supporting this build idea.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following is the list of hardware used in this build -

• AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Processor
• MSI MAG B550-I GAMING EDGE MAX WIFI Motherboard
• MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT Gaming X 8G Graphics card
• MSI MAG Coreliquid K360 CPU Cooler
• MSI SPATIUM M390 PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD
• MSI MPG A850GF Power Supply
• Kingston 16GB FURY Beast RGB DDR4 3600 MHz

Thanks and Regards

[Rakesh Sharma]

Few more final pics of Metal Dragon Build now on the table as my new main PC.