Star Destroyer Case

ashraf · March 18, 2017

Hello everyone ( Sorry if this is not the forum to post something like this . )

I was planning to make a custom pc case build. looking different you tubers who are making custom pc builds like Luke's( linustechtips) water cooled pc and few desk cases inspired me to make something similar. also custom water cooling from Jayztwocents. and then I came across another pc mod which was something I love a lot which is star wars. so after making few designs( in my head not good with designing on paper or computer ), I scraped them all and started to make a model of "ANAKIN SOLO"( imperial class II ,star destroyer ).

Here is the link of the model in sketch up ( not my own design ).

Primary desire was to get the model done with stainless steel structure and aluminum body and the details printed by 3d printer.

Plans never goes as they are supposed to . At the beginning it was ok with make the stainless steel structure .

At the beginning I was thinking of making it as small as possible . but that did not went as it should have. Was looking for a good water cooled solution to get the CPU heat sink size to a minimum. but in my country it is hard to get any enthusiast level item. like getting a custom water cooled loop would cost me a whole lot than it should have.

Well but to accompany the exterior design of " Anakin solo" and insider items i ended up making the design around 121cm * 66 cm and ( ) CM height.

i do have some horrible designs which I have done in sketch up. But let's not look at them but look at the model itself.
Most of the work has been done in a workshop. In the company i work in they have a mechanical workshop i was using the workshop there . but the project took me a lots of time to create as i was doing it only when i was free also the company workshop people were free. and it was really hard to get people free time of people. the project I started more than a year ago. in the mean time my phone LG G4 started boot looped and I lost all my previous pictures of the working project. so I will be adding the pictures that I have with the current place.

Started out with getting some 3/4 inch SS flat bar. then made them into angles with half inch in one side rest in another. primary plan was to use SS quarter inch pipes but that been scraped out as soon as started working to make the chassis. Also when i was planning i thought a single layer chassis will do the work, but i was really wrong. when we started working my single layer showed that it will fail to hold such items. at the moment i also realized that an aluminum cover wont do any good with pricewise and the customization i want to be done on it. so we went with 3mm GI sheet.

This is the chassis itself. the bigger rectangle will hold the motherboard and smaller one will PSU. the triangle shaped things will hold a 240mm radiator at the back. and this will sit on a spring . right now the spring does not have supports for shaking but later on it will be able to hold the structure without shaking.

I cut out my old computer case to get the motherboard tray. i really wanted to buy it for security cause with my planning it the GPU was supposed to be layer down horizontally with a riser cable. i did got the riser cable thanks to one of my friend who lives in the UK . but later on there was a height issue to add the GPU on. so i decided to do the outer shell first then go to inside details. ( well hoping if i can't put my computer in i will still have a killer looking star destroyer model ).

Bottom of the case.

The round cut out will have only lights and a filter. and the rectangle cut out will have filter and 2*120mm Fan for air intake .

Well the bottom part was quite easy. i was told not the include as people wont be able to see them . but i added them anyway because they were in the original space carft.

now then the top part this was the tricky part. when i started the first thing i did was to bend the sheet to get the shape and that was a big mistake. as i later on found out that adding things in the bended sheet makes lots of problem.

Now i am trying to find a solution for adding top side details . like cannons. i was planning to 3d print the cannon but i could not do it as i find it really hard to design the 3D models.

i bought a cheap 3d printer from china . cost was around 300 USD. i went to china for machine inspection of the company. So it was cheap, but to get the same thing in my country it would cost me more than 1200 USD + Import tax.

this was the printer ( well similar to this one ) Zbot FDM-D1

http://www.zbot.cc/index.php?m=wenbon&a=a&t=product&id=9&l=en

The top part has layer on it . the first layer as shown in the picture before.

this is the 2nd layer.

Final layer holds this housing which will hold a ROG dual slot front panel. also the first layer holds a single bay multimedia front panel.

As of today the computer will be

1. core i7 4790k

2. Asus maximums 7 ranger

3. EVGA 2400 FB 16 GB ram.

4. 120 GB Samsung 750 Evo SSD.

5. 2 TB western digital HDD.

6. Asus Strict X GTX 960.( currently out because i sold it to get gtx 1060 )

7. Antec 550 watt PSU.

8. Asus ROG dual bay front panel.

9. Single bay multimedia front bay.

10. thermaltech water 3 AIO water cooler.

Well but if I can find a good custom cooled water cooling solution I am planning to make a better build may be even will try for a AMD ryzen build. and the graphics card bumped up to to GTX 1080 ( not going to happen cause of the expense but it's nice to dream ).

Am also trying to have a more detailed post of it in a blog if any one interested then i can link it to them .

Now the time for lighting's . trying to find out how to go with the lights. ( manual or some auto motions ).

Sorry for the bad English. And thank you, who ever made it to down here