Winged Victory of Mercy

[saamwee]

Greetings! I'm SamCa, modder from Philippines.
Huge thanks to EVGA and COOLER MASTER for the support!

I will be building project "Winged Victory of Mercy"

The mod was inspired from the the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture, Winged Victory of Samothrace...

 

....with a mix. The design will be combined with Angela Zeigler aka Mercy (from Overwatch).

I decided to pick her because she perfectly fits as the "modern angel" of the mod.

 

 

SPECS:

Intel Core i7 6700
EVGA Z270 FTW K
EVGA GTX 1070 FTW
EVGA 16GB DDR4-2666
EVGA SUPERNOVA G3 1000W
COOLERMASTER MASTERFAN PRO 120

Western Digital 1TB

BYSKI watercooling parts
 

I modeled her into the looks of the statue and the planned scratch case.

I will be using metal bars for it's base to support the motherboard, gpu, psu, rads ,reservoirs and specially the radiator .

 

The Motherboard is placed below together with the reservoir and gpu. The storage devices and psu will be inside the body. (I will make a mechanism in which i could open the body to expose the storage parts and psu)

the radiator is placed at the top as well the fans with it.

The watercooling tubes will be sketched throughout the build.

 

For the armor, I will be using fiberglass and resin. For the other details like the wings, i will be using acrylic sheets.

 

 

[kelvinhall05]

Looks cool!

[Billy_Mays]

14 hours ago, saamwee said:

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Hope you show us build logs

[saamwee]

Before anything else like the fiber-glass and resin. I need to make the paper model of the body for the base.
I printed out the parts to be placed together.
I used sketch-up, exported to obj, converted to pdo, and unfolded using pepakura.

The cutting begins!

 

I used my old good hot-glue and scissors for this process.

 

It took me 6 hours to finish this upper half

 

 

 

I finished the torso of the mod. next week I'll make the wings, the lower armor and the metal base for the parts to be placed inside.

 

 

 

[saamwee]

Almost there,  finished the to-be-fiberglass parts.
Checked the wings part if its size is proper for the radiator size(420mm)

The other details like the feathers of the wings will be made from acrylic sheets (4mm-4.5mm)

[saamwee]

Huge thanks to EVGA for the awesome support
I will be using EVGA Z270 FTW K motherboard

[saamwee]

I will be using EVGA GTX 1070 FTW graphics card

Huge thanks to EVGA!

 

[saamwee]

Time for fiberglass and resin.

[saamwee]

Applying the first layer of resin to be sturdy and rigid.

 

[saamwee]

Hi guys, here's the update. The body will be finished very very soon.
And i will be working on the wings next week.
I used acrylic sheets to layer some armor for the body and used some rivets and allen bolts to hold them unto the body.

 
Here's the plan for the frame:

I used steel pipes for the frame.

[saamwee]

The metal pipes are measured and ready to be weld.

Sanded the mobo tray and checked if it will fit correctly.

 

 

 

After hours of sanding, I painted the body using a primer paint to see the imperfections and to be corrected asap.

 

The sanding made the body to achieve the curves and eliminated the sharp edges.

[saamwee]

Almost there, welded the pipes together.
I decided to alter the design a little bit because of the size of the mobo. But the chassis frame is still the skeletal base of the body as you can see.
Drilled some holes to fit everything .

 

 

And here it is, finished the chassis frame. Now it's time to assemble everything from the wings and to the other details
I will use rivets to attach the mobo tray and the bracket of the parts to have a rigid and sturdy build.

[saamwee]

EVGA SUPERNOVA G3 1000w and EVGA SuperSC DDR4 RAMS  
thanks so much EVGA.

 

 

 

 

Mounting the PSU. I used 5 mm acrylic sheet.

 

GPU mount placed at the center.

 

 

I used some 3mm Acrylic sheets for the pump and res mount,

[saamwee]

Thanks Cooler Master Philippines for providing the Masterfan Pro 120 RGB  

[saamwee]

Painted the metal frame

[saamwee]

Done with bending tubes and finished the watercooling loop.
I will be working on the wings and other details to finalize the build  

 

[saamwee]

I used acrylic sheets to build the wings and the shroud parts. I painted them to white and used some vinyl stickers for detailing

 

 

 

I used a PCIE x16 riser for the gpu because of the orientation.

[saamwee]

I would like to thank everyone who supported me from the beginning til now
Specially to EVGA and Cooler Master Philippines for their continuous support.
Here's the final pics of the build.

[iFreilicht]

Very cool! I thought you'd maybe try to fit more stuff into the body, though. Having a huge mATX board like this is really a bit of a waste, I think it would look better if the base was shorter. Not that this makes your craftsmanship any less impressive, it still looks stunning!

[saamwee]

14 minutes ago, iFreilicht said:

Very cool! I thought you'd maybe try to fit more stuff into the body, though. Having a huge mATX board like this is really a bit of a waste, I think it would look better if the base was shorter. Not that this makes your craftsmanship any less impressive, it still looks stunning!

Thanks for the feedback, I would like to fit more stuffs inside the body but the sponsors prefer that their products are exposed so I decided that the parts layout would be like this