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CM Stacker ideas

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musicknight

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Im building my first computer and am trying to get some ideas for modding. Im using a Stacker as my case and am trying to out build my friend so im up for some crazy ideas. I am first thinking of painting the case a pearl emerald green. Kind of like a car paint job. I want to cut a window into the side but dont have any cool shapes or ideas for what it can be in. Please give some input as to what i can do.
 
Well, what about stripping it back to sheet, painting it with a matt black undercoat of some type, waiting for that to dry, and then putting a coat of the pearl emerald or whatever over the top. While that's still wet, you could run a matchstick in random lines through the paint, which lets the black show through the green. Look pretty awesome. I did the same sort of thing with my old fridge. Now it's black with Tiger Mica lines showing through. It's plenty sexiful.
That huge mesh panel on the side? Take it out, and cut a piece of metal in the shape of something (Dragon? Serpent? Flames? Waves? Japanese Kanji character?) and attach it to the case side with small metal bent radiations, sort of like bike spokes, but bent/cut circularly, and not as thin. Paint the radials pearl emerald green, the design black, or whatever colour your base paint is.
You could get the front drive bay covers, and remove the mesh on that and do a horizontal crossbar across there, with words of some type. No idea what sort of words. "FRAG" ? "PWN3D" ? "OWNED" ? Or just have them spell out a word, or your name, or something like that going downwards.
Put your PSU down the bottom of the case, rip out the top holding bracket, and somehow set it up as a closeable box for your keyboard, mouse and headphones for when you LAN. Maybe a slide-out tray with depressions for each item?
Get rid of that dinky drive bay from the top, with it's power switch and what-not, and instead rip off the "CMSTACKER" gray thing right on top at the front, and mod a switch into that. Or both. Whatever rubs your rhubarb.
Crossbars. Every case looks good with some type of protrusion. Maybe two bars, like towel racks, but thinner, running from the front of the case, close to the sides, and then finishing up and screwed into the screw holes in the back. You know, the ones that hold the sides on? Yeah. Those ones. Make them removeable on both front and back, though, or you won't get the sides off :D.
Fuck that blowhole thing on top off. Turn it into a drink holder, or a slightly raised fill-port if you watercool.
With the two chrome bars running up the front, you could rip them off, put some CCLs in there, and get some "dirty" plexiglass over the top of them to dull the brightness. You could even just put in standard light tubes, and cover them with a green-tinted plexi of some description. It's entirely up to you.
Pull apart your LCD and put it on the motherboard side of the case, with the case side around it. It = 100% transportable LAN machine.
Well. I'm out of idea at the moment. I might think of some more, later on. All this stuff was based on your colour scheme, btw.
 
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