case mod Tie P5 Advanced

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Progress 9 video! i hope you are all enjoying the progress, i need to get moving on the build, only 9-10 days left!

 

[elfensky]

Duuuuude. epic.

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You guys know how much i love the sanding so i have more for you today and a nice looking TIE Advanced body.

 

Starting off with the orbital sander to bring the body filler down nice and smooth, was a very fast process with the 80 grit paper.

 

 

Finishing off the side sections with the delta sander as it is much smaller.

 

 

Also took the time to get the join of the two sections nice and sharp

 

 

And here is the shaped up body

 

 

 

 

Will need to add a bit of grease back into the sliders

 

 

Time to start some detailing! Firstly with the front cut outs. I need to wipe down the wings to apply some vinyl as a cutting guide

 

 

 

 

 

Now that the vinyl is applied it is time to get the grinder out

 

 

A bit of hammering and using the flat head screw driver and we get it out.

 

 

Just a bit of dremel work to clean it all up

 

 

Now to install a back piece in there to work off of. I cut out some acrylic pieces and sanded them to side

 

 

 

A bit of araldite will hold it in place  

 

 

Now i am using our foam again to fill in the edges

 

 

 

I also removed some of the steel rod on the guns so that i could foam around them to form up the guns.

 

 

 

This bigger piece that i put on the BBQ was a bit too big for the mould so it got a couple of waves around the outside. I concentrated the heat gun on each individual wave to get them all flat.

 

 

 

As you can see, the front half has been fixed, time for the second half of waves.

 

 

Here is what the TIE Fighter looks like with the windows on

 

 

Foam is finally dry! time to carve!

 

 

 

I hope you are all enjoying the progress, more shortly.

 

[BeardRex]

Interesting

[colinreay]

Wow it is amazing what can be done with a jigsaw! Thanks for showing the bbq method for acrylic, really handy!

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Here is progress video 10 =) i hope you all enjoy

 

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Mundi a good friend from ICEMODZ.COM  Has provided the build with some custom sized cables made from quality MDPC-X, these cables are longer than standard lengths to create some loose cable for the sliding PSU tray. The colours also suit the star wars theme a lot better!

 

 

 

 

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Lots of progress here guys! Some custom reservoirs, starting the details of the build, priming the build and working on the wings.

 

To kick things off, i measured up the mesh and used some painters tape to mark my cuts out for the wings

 

 

 

This is only one layer of mesh, there will be one layer on the inside and on the outside

 

 

 

Welded some legs to the steel rods inside the ball. The core P5 feet are made from steel so then have been welded to the legs and the plastic core p5 feet slide right over them

 

 

Starting to put a couple layers of prime on

 

 

 

Had an old reservoir so i decided to create two of my own custom reservoirs out of it. Removed the threaded part, sanded it down, and cut the tube in half.

 

 

 

 

 

I then cut out a bottom section for the two halves.

 

 

Time to Tap a G1/4 threading through the acrylic panels.

 

 

 

 

And now for the end caps, I also put a threaded hole in the end caps for an easy fill port.

 

 

 

Time to mend it all together and clean it up

 

 

 

 

Now what would a TIE Advanced be without Darth Vader himself? So I decided to vinyl our reservoirs

 

 

 

 

 

The vinyl will be getting peeled off later on. Time to prime the reservoirs!

 

 

 

A really old dead motherboard comes in handy for some detail parts, I have sourced all kinds of junk from the shed to use for details.

 

 

As you can see, by sanding the motherboard a tad, it reviles the copper circuit inside, i think its a nice touch to that inside area, also got some small pipes to add in.

 

 

 

Printed out an image of a TIE Advanced to i can circle the detail bits i have complete as i progress through.

 

 

 

Working on some of the ball detail so i need to get that curved shape into the detail so it sits flush with the ball.

 

 

 

Lots of hours later and we have some details all glued and ready to go. I used a few old capacitors/caps for some of the details.

 

 

Time to work on the top section of the ball. Measured out where i want my cuts to go.

 

 

 

 

Some more details heated up and formed into the dome shape, that mould i kept really comes in handy.

 

 

A bit of acrylic cement and this becomes a permanent fixture =)

 

 

 

The glue marks will not matter as this will all be painted =)

 

 

 

Added a couple more details so fill in the empty gaps.

 

 

And taped some mesh down to show you guys what i want to do tomorrow.

 

 

 

This mesh will be glued in place with a strong adhesive.

 

I hope you all enjoyed the progress.

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Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates the past few days, been so busy working every day until midnight to get this PC complete so i hope you all understand. I have the footage recorded so i will eventually get it done. But for now here is a sneak picture of where i am at. I used a pencil to draw up the panel lines then etched the whole thing top and bottom with the dremel and it took a shit tonne of time but well worth it.

 

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Here I am drawing up the panel details on the tie-fighter. This will be the guide lines when etching into the surface. 

 

 

To create the panel detailing I used the dremel tool to etch into the tie-fighter following along the drawn up lines. Both top and bottom of the tie-fighter has the panel details.  

 

 

 

 

This is the result from etching into the surface. This took alot of time, patience and most importantly steady hands.

 

 

 

 

Further details of the tie-fighter panels where made by filling the etched surface with thinned down black enamel, aka black wash. Once again, both top and bottom  of the tie-

fighter had this black wash. 

 

 

 

More progress on the wings. 

 

 

I painted the inside of the tie-fighter black.

 

 

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Grills being glued for the top of the tie-fighter. 

 

 

My customer reservoirs have now joined the dark side. 

 

 

 

Starting to come together now! More details being added to the tie-fighter. 

 

 

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The time has come to install the components ! ! !  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Testing out the lid for the Tie-Fighter.  Making sure it's the perfect fit.

 

 

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Details being added to the wings. 

 

 

Using the Core P5 Vesa Mount to attach the wings to the tie-fighter body.

 

 

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Working out the positioning of the wings, getting them ready to be attached ! 

 

 

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Tie-Fighter Advanced wings are getting test fitted before i finish them off. 

 

 

 

 

 

[colinreay]

Wow, it came together great! For filling in the channels with enamel, do you paint them, and wipe off the extra enamel on the surface before it dries?

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On 25/05/2016 at 4:18 AM, colinreay said:

Wow, it came together great! For filling in the channels with enamel, do you paint them, and wipe off the extra enamel on the surface before it dries?

yeas get a fine brush and paint it, i let it dry and then use some thinners to get the excess stuff off

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If you like the build please please take a minute to go and vote for it in the following link, prizes to be won for voting. (Corey Gregory)
http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/

 

Thank you for all the support, we have finally completed the build, apart from filling it up, which will be done tomorrow. 
Feel free to vote for us, if you like what we have done. 
Special mention, this build was all completed by hand, no CNC or 3D printing machines were used. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working on 2 hours sleep, still going strong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Photos soon. If you like the build please please take a minute to go and vote for it in the following link, prizes to be won for voting.(Corey Gregory)

http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/

 

[theninja35]

Fantastic job! It looked tiny until you stood right over it, gave a massive perspective change on how large and how well-done it really is!

[nmil]

Very nice build.

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Got some pictures today of the build all filled up and LED lights turned on. Unfortunately it is now midnight and i still need to add the watermarks to most of the photos so i will post these photos without LEDs turned on for now. 

 

If you enjoy my build please vote for it using this link: http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/ my name is Corey Gregory You have a chance to win prizes just be voting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you enjoy my build please vote for it using this link: http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/ my name is Corey Gregory You have a chance to win prizes just be voting.

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Here are the Pictures with LED's turned on and liquid flowing! I tried to take a picture with each RGB colour cycle to there are a few but i hope you all enjoy =)

 

If you enjoy my build please vote for it using this link: http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/ my name is Corey Gregory You have a chance to win prizes just be voting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you enjoy my build please vote for it using this link: http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/ my name is Corey Gregory You have a chance to win prizes just be voting.

[Hackentosher]

Good god, you're a mad man. Where did you even come up with the idea to build a computer in a tie fighter? I'm sure you mentioned it, but reading is for those who sleep  

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On 01/06/2016 at 4:05 PM, Hackentosher said:

Good god, you're a mad man. Where did you even come up with the idea to build a computer in a tie fighter? I'm sure you mentioned it, but reading is for those who sleep  

haha star wars just seemed to be a popular topic at the moment and for a competition i needed to think differently =)

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Remember to vote if you like the work gone into this, voters also have a chance at winning some awesome prizes! (Corey Gregory) =) http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/page-14

 

Decided to take some images out side! Enjoy =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remember to vote if you like the work gone into this, voters also have a chance at winning some awesome prizes! (Corey Gregory) =) http://community.thermaltake.com/index.php?/topic/49112-vote/page-14