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Ok,... so there is a way!

Dec-24-2007

There's is a way to pull off the brackets I want to make. But first,... I'm not sure if I am sure about the design of these things. Here are some polished strips that I will use to make the bottom brackets.


For me to make these without ruining the finish,... I need to groove them. I dont want the production ones to be grooved like this. Reason #1: the grooving weakens the brackets. Reason #2: you can see ALL the ugly groove things from the side. So ACRyan will have to make them without grooving. Wont be a problem for them though.


Grooves cut. This is one side,...


And here's the other side.


Just like the grooving,... i'm measuring once and drilling many.


All the same. Thats looks so cool. Now,... back to the not being sure about the design,...


This is what I was thinking. It's looks sooooooo clean! so simple and so clean. The one and only thing I dont like about it is that,... the method of fastening the reservoir isn't obvious like the other one is with the hooks. But,... thats what makes this bracket look good! It's just slim and small and clean. Not as mechanical or industrial looking as the last.


The process in which I bent them. The trick is to find what should be bent first.


This is what I used to bend all these. A piece of wood. LOL.


Done. Easy.


Damn thats just so neat and clean looking. They are like tucked away under the res,...


This is how you fasten. You use the shape of the bracket. simple right? But now,... the top bracket has to have the hooks facing out so that it can be assembled with ease.


Check this out. Goign to turn my rivit tool into a threadsert tool. This is a 6-32 bolt in which I altered.


These serts need to be pulled atleast right now they do seeing the bracket was bent before they were stalled. Now,... initally I was going to create another piece to go along with this piece so this piece would have hooks too. But it was ugly and pointless. I was going to use the threadserts to hold the pieces together. Well,.. I already drilled the 7/32" holes for the serts so I couldnt use the captive nuts. I want the company to use the captive nuts though. They look better.


Anyways,... you screw the altered bolt into the serts and then stick the other end into the rivit tool. Just squeeze! It worked so good!


They look great. This is a final product right here.
 
You, my friend, are to case modding as Richard Chase was to serial killing.

Knocking another one out of the park, like usual.
 
Lastly,... the top piece:)

Dec-25-2007

Same thing. Doing a test with this piece here.


I had to make more strips.


You see the groove on both side like that? Is it me or does that look way to cool?!?! I dont know why I think that looks so damn cool.


Now,... here what I was talking about. What to bend first!!!! For the top piece,... I have to make this bend first. This is the overall shape of the bracfkets right here. I bent this by hand with my fingers. I cant hammer because it will dent and scratch the polished finish.


Then,... keep in mind. I'm using my fingers to do this. The grooves aren't deep at all but they make that much of a difference!!!


Done. Now,... if you notice,... it looks the same as the forst mock-up but you'll notice that I did not bend the sides up all the way for the top riser thing. This is because I dont have too! This is easier! plus this helps to set the height in which this thing sits on the res. Also,... the hook portion of the bracket is missing a side too. It just slopped and then hooks. This is because this is easier! Works too!


Looks great. Again,... i'm goign to instruct ACRyan to not grooves the production ones. So they will look a lot better. These are prototypes.


Very nice.


I am thoroughly impressed with the results.


See how thats going to work:)


Time for the real ones:)


I started grooving these so im going to hea out as soon as im done here and continue.
 
Small update. I was only able to get in like 2+ hours the other day before work:/ But in the two hours I managed to get the top strips ready for bending. So when I go back today I will have the tops completed. Good news too is that these top pieces will work fine with the smaller reservoirs I made Darth. So,... I need to get started designing some KICKA@# shields! CANT WAIT!

Dec-26-2007

Here are the top pieces,... the holes needed for the threadserts,...


Gave them a slight countersink so I know the serts will install a flush as possible.


Will have another update tomorrow.
 
Brackets are done! Time to start the shields!

Dec-27-2007

This is the first bend I made. This bend needs to be done over a pipe and its hard when I have the other bends done first.


Glue some chipboard to my pliers to prevent scratching.


Here's the first bend,...


Second,....


Third and forth,...


Finished all of them.


Threadserts intalled.


Looks great!


Damn that looks hardcore to me. To bad their covered up:( Thats ok,... I'm going to make another top piece for those who do not want to use shields. Later on though.
 
Just messing around,...

Dec-29-2007

The "Hell Glaive". Looks more like something out of Turok then Blade,... but still, IT'S HOT! You see,... I want a glaive that cover up as much of the reservoirs as possible but doesn't,... this is why the blade is very much thin and see through. I dont know for sure that I will use this exact design becuase I still want to tinker with it, explore the possiblies. I have to go to the studio to do that. I need the reservoirs right in fron of me. This blade has to be able to be mounted to the brackets.


Here is the actual Hell Glaive that I'm going to use. I think it looks better then the one in the pic above.


Going to trace now. I need two "clean" copies.


Clean copies. Clean meaning thin lines. When I draw I usually draw over the same line several times as I make make curves. It thickens the lines. When I copy I draw a very much thinner lines over the thicker line but I use the thicker line to see the perfect round shape.


Cutting away some of the paper.


Glued to the aluminum.


Now im going to etch the image onto the aluminum because I know this paper isnt going to stay attached.


Quick tip: When doing something like this,... its very important that you make sure the image is straight! If its not the mounting holes wont line up! To make sure its straight,... just us a ruler and line it up with a few points on the image. Choose something on one side and then line up the ruler to that same point on the other side. The ruler should pass through the very center of the image. Try different points to verify.


You see how its dead center.


All etched. You have to make sure you etcher makes through the paper to the aluminum. Would be s@#$%^ to lift the paper and there be no marks:/


Drilled,...


Fresh off the scrollsaw.


Filed and sanded baby!!! SICK!!!!!


Makes me want to kick some vampire arse!!! Hell Blade,...


Going to look crazy cool. OMG its going to be the S@#$.


So if you dont know already. I know some do,... tribal art is what I do. It's where I got my name. I posted some of my work online a long time ago. Some still remember. Tribal art comes very easy to me. I have tons of tribal images I have made through out the years. Anyways,... I have to work tonight,... tomorrow I have off so I'll be in the studio working on this.
 
you are a legend . . .if these guys only saw the build this is going in . . .it is one of the few worthy of this custom resevoir setup . . .and not my design that makes is so . . .Geno took my design and gave it steroids and crack just as Tribal does to an ordinary resevoir . . .this is going to be legendary.
 
Small updat. Didnt get much time to work on the reservoir,...

Jan-01-2008

I bent the hell glaive over the reservoir,... it turned out nice. It's not what I wanted but this is fine. What I wanted wouldnt have looked good with this design. Still needs much work.


So DB decided that he only wants to use the sFX reservoir for this build. He said he wants to use the other two for future builds. I still have to make shields for the two smaller ones. But first I will finish DB's res and Qhs's res too. Also,... my Hell glaive design is going to be used elsewhere on the case too. Geno already simplified the glaive but I am going to simply it myself. I have to do that at work tonight and have it ready for geno first thing in the morning! ARGH! lol. It's all good though.

Here's a quick video I made. It's crappy just like the rest of them. But it's entertaining,... a bit, at least i think. I dont know, just watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/v/BVlyEuoMtMU
 
nice pieces of art you building there , have been following your threat for quite a while now ,really nice pieces of art .
But one question , sorry if it may sound stupid , but what are you doin with so many res ?? you selling them ??
 
Update.

Jan-03-2008

This is how I polished the shield up. It's a huge roll of cardboard:) This will keep the buffing wheel from catching a edge, ripping the shield out of my hands and destroying it.


Worked very well:) Didnt take all that long either:)


I am starting to not like these top brackets all that much anymore. I know I can do better then this s@#$! ARGH! But for now it's good enough.


Damn thats hot.


I still have to make the center disc thing. Thats easy. I'm actually contemplating whether I should make a bottom shield thing with names on it,...
 
Quick update,...

Jan-05-2008
I knifed some of the edges to make the blades look like blades, sharp that is. I have to do some touch up work in some areas. These areas look kind of serrated.



Also made the center disc that is suppose to hold the blades togther. The two discs are held togethre with a clear acrylic peg I made.


I still have to make the stakes that will go on each side. I have off from work tomorrow so I will be doing that all day and night till it's done.
 
This is going to be the best mod ever...there i said it.
 
Pre-update. I had to come home eary because I didnt bring the DayWalker font with me! ARGH!

Jan-07-2008

Cheapskate this is for you man,... or anyone who turn cuts with a drill press. This is something you all should be using,...


It's a,... something. It's kind of like a nut that the drill press can hold.


Piece of acrylic with a bold and a washer.


The other side.


The nut thing installed.


In the press. The way it works is that when you are cutting,... it's tightening. It wont tighten so much that you cant get it off or even breaks but what i'm trying to say is that it wont loosen up:) If you cut with drill press using regular nuts,... you know what I mean. Also,... this will help prevent bending the bolt too. It works so damn good! I'll be using this for now on.


Here's my new coat button! Looks so much better! I made both of these with that new nut thing.


Made my own little dollies,... it's funny, they look kind of like,....


Moving on,... This is a practice run. This will be a stake:)


Lets do it!


Ok,... rock on!!?!?!


Huh?


The stakes. I have to draw the text on them still. They will look a lot narrower once rounded.


The Hell Glaive.


This explains the A.C.R.S.T. on my table,... it was the marker. It's alive. Swear.
http://www.youtube.com/v/P-WMfYVrhZ0

Anyways,... im going back to the studio when im done here. Also,... im calling out of the work tonight so I can spand some more time in the studio. I want to finish this reservoir tonight.
 
WHAT AN UPDATE!!! I learned something new about myself! I'm pretty decent at shaping of aluminum. I mean it was my first time and I using using S@#$ tools too. But yea. Check it out! Your cream your panties! You've been warned!! OH,... AND NO SKIMMIN THROUGH THE PICS!! You knuckleheads better look at every pic and read my S@#$! LOL.

Jan-08-2008

My stakes. Etched into the aluminum.


I need to spend some extra time on the scroll saw cutting out that text. I cant reach those narrow areas with the little files.


Right off the scroll saw, swear. You see how clean the text looks! Took my time. Used the blades like a file and cleaned the text up good.


Filed and sanded:) Notice the two gooves I didnt cut on each stake? I'm saving that till after I shape them. That area is going to be weak and might break.


Shaped! Won't lie,... that was kind of hard. I mean I dont have the right stuff to be doing this and the text made it hard too. A lot of weak spots. Was very careful.


Now I cut the grooves.


Very nice.


Sanded.


That looks so damn cool!


Polished!!!


Pre-view! OMG that looks great!!! This turned out better than what I pictured it to be!!!


Oh I cut myself by the way. I cut it with a sanding disc!!! There was an 1/8" lip of disc that wasn't covered by the pad. It was like a grinding blade,... it was the most awkward feeling thing,... being cut with a grinding something eeew. It's pretty bad,... it's 1-1/6"L x 3/32"D,... I measured.


Buy one get one free:)


I'm making the acrylic backing,...


Drilled throught eh acrylic and bolted it the the aluminum for shaping.


See.


All done. Eye candy shot from here on in,...
 
rDB756g is DONE! The Hell Glaive res is done! YES!

Jan-11-2008

The two last pieces I had to make. The brackets to hold the stakes to the reservoir. I added to more LED's to help light up the stakes.


Damn that looks cool!


Is it me?!?! Why does bracketry look so good!


Cleaned up and done!


Some light,...


The money shots,....


Some people asked to see it with green LEDs,... it look more like teal in the photos and more like sea green in person. I think something is up with my green LEDs.


Wallpaper(1600x1200):


I'm working on making a cool video too,... short but cool.
 
Hey guyz! Been doing some drawing for for Qhs's res. Here what I am going with. Qhs and I talked about having something that looked outerspace, spaceship like futuristic kinda something. So this is what I'm going with,...

Jan-23-2008

His res shields are going to be comprised of several pieces that will be layered to give the overall look some depth. I drew many designs for his shields. The design you see in the drawing below was design #2. I think I had drawn about 2 more after this one. At first I didnt like this design because I thought it was to much or to busy. As I was drawing the others this design really started to catch my liking. So I dicided to go with it. The others I had drawn were way to alien like for some reason. They just didnt suit his pc. His PC in my opinion is more human like then alien. This design is more human then alien. The way this is going to work is that this is the very top piece. This piece will be bent/ sanded/ and polished. THEN, i'm going to make a tinted equiv to put on top of this piece. I am not going to cut everything out of the tinted piece you see in the drawing. The tinted piece is to give a drawing color and to hide a lot of the design work cut out of the aluminum piece. It is only till you turn it on that you will see some of the design work though the tinted acrylic. It will look like a polished mirrored black. Going ot look awesome. It's going to look very industrial too. I am installing LEDs on to this top shield too. Facing down towards the reservoir:) So the wires will be ontp of the shield. I will make nice polished wire holders to separate the wires and make them look nice. Sleeving too.


This is the next piece. This is the under grill piece. This will be polished too. BUT! No tinted acrylic. The idea is to go from black - chrome - black again. The piece at the very bottom of the drawing is the actual part. Towards the top of the drawing is how it will fit with the top piece. Now I having to been trying to make everything look nice and neat looking but that wasn't happening. You see,... because one piece is under another, I wasn trying not to cover up the design work of the upper piece. I want the light to shine through. But then I was thinking that covering up some of the design work will make it look more like a serious machine, hardcore. I dont know. Cant explain it. but now,... I want the person to see some of the under grill through the upper pieces. Not mujch but just enough to know that it is there. This also makes it easier to design the under grill. I wanted the grill to be all over the place but at the same time I wanted something that looked tech like futuristic. When I tried drqawing smooth, it started looking to alien like. So this is what I'm going with. To me,.... it looks great. But this is probably because I know what the final product looks like:)


I still have to draw the side skirts now. This is something else I might have trouble deciding on. I want the sides to flare out to give more depth. I have figure out how I want to do that. I have to figure out how many pieces per side, 1 or 2. I want these sides skirt piece to hold LEDs too. For the signage im going to create. It's going to look so damn hot.

Now,... something off topic. I want to share these videos with you that I though were #1, Cool, and #2, funny as hell.

This person usedd 1500 HDDS like domino's! LOL. I thought it was never going to end,...
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/75904

Why is it sooo funny when other people fall down and get hurt? I dont know but this is funny as hell. This is the best waitress fall I have ever seen.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/59720
 
Update!

Jan-25-2008

My newest machine! I got a new scroll saw:) It's niiiiiice.


Old. Ick.


New.


Drafting Qhs's res,...


More drafting,...


Thinking,...


Strike a pose and VOGUE!


I'm going to start cutting these pieces out first before I design the lower side skirt pieces because they have to fit up against the grills nice and flush. The side skirts are going to be kind of hard to make so I want the grills in their final shape to make the process of design the skirts easier. I glued the design to the aluminum,...


Etched and drilled,... ready to be cut. I will do this when I go back to the studio.


DAMN! I made a video scroll saw what to buy video and youtube said it's to long! What do it do! I can't shorten it! This is just great.
 
Small update.

Jan-26-2008

Omg this took me all night to do! 14 hours!!! Newer better scroll saw,... same cuts:) You see,... doesnt matter how nice your scroll saw is:) I was actually cutting pretty quick jut to get it done. Didnt care that I wasnt as close to the lines as possible. You see,... sometimes its quicker to just file the rest as oppose to spending the extra time in front of the scroll saw cutting every last bit of it out;)


All filled out nicely. 120grit sanded. That just looks so cool!


This is how the pieces are going to overlap. Notice how the grills show through the top piece. Initially I didnt want this but after thinking about I changed my mind. I want you to see some of it through the top piece because nothing in life is THAT perfect. It give it a bit more character. Makes it look like machine like hardware or something. I cant explain it.



I think this is about right when it comes down to how far the top piece will be offset from the grill. Going to use spacers. I can't wait to make the tinted equiv for the top piece. Going to look cool.


Now about the video. I am going to remake the video taking all new footage keeping in mind that I have 10 minutes total for this video. Sorry about the wait. I'm just not cool with splitting a 14 minute video and I have my heart set on youtubing my video's. The wait is worth it trust me:)
 
DAAAAAAAMN! Ran into a problem. Don't know why I didn't see this coming. Well,... just follow along.

Jan-30-2008

I rounded the shielding. For the most part it went well. I had to alter the grills a bit because some of the holes and grooves didnt line of as well as I wanted it too. But this is fine. Looks great.


Here's the tinted equiv I was telling you about. In the process of making it.


I want it to go on top.


Very cool.


Here it is shaped. Its looking great! BUT! I want to round all the outer edges, sand and polish. I dont want to leave the edges square. Just doesnt look right. Even though there are no pics here of it,... I rounded the edges and it looks a lot better then square edges but its such a crappy job though! There's to much detail for me to really get in to do it right.


Here are the options,...
Option #1: No acrylic equivalent. Just polished aluminum.
Option #2: A tinted equivalents that go under the aluminum instead of on top. This will look better then having a square edge equivalent on top. I want to do this idea.
Option #3: A clear dusted equivalent of 1/16" acrylic on top. Although the res wouldnt really match the case,... hot damn it would look nice though!!!


This is kind of what it would look like with the tinted acrylic under the aluminum. It would look great. I know it would. I just wanted it on top:( Next time. The acrylic on top of aluminum is more for a shield with less design. Or a design that would allow me to successfully round and polish all edges so it looks like a tinted bubble on top of the aluminum.


I think i'm just going to do the tinted under option.


I didnt reshoot my video for the scroll saw because I was pissed and just not in the mood to shoot it again. Last thing you want is cranky me making a video. Actually,... I think one day I will do that, LOL. That would be funny.
 
Oh man,... looking sweet.

Jan-31-2008

Here's the thinner clear frosted arylic cover for the top piece. Oh I polished all the pieces too. I had to see what it all looked like.


It's very thin. Less then 1/16". It doesnt look bulky ontop like the tinted did. I have to do this more often. I love the way it looks.


Assembled. So damn nice.


Lights on. Only six ill placed LEDs. Looks crazy cool! I want it! I have to make the side skirts now. They are going to match the top piece.
 
Hmm interesting video.

You seem to be a bit how do you say... goofy?

No offense, I thought you would be proper-ish????

Interesting video though.... I want that muffin btw.
 
the link makes this come up.


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formula409 said:
the link makes this come up.


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Seems like it has been deleted. I get the same error now.
 
tylerdustin2008 said:
Hmm interesting video.

You seem to be a bit how do you say... goofy?

No offense, I thought you would be proper-ish????

Interesting video though.... I want that muffin btw.
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LOL . . .oh you do not know Tribal . . .he is a wild man . . .word on the street is he hangs out with Steve O and Johnnie Knoxville . . .and yes, since you know Tribal and I are buds you now know my true identitie . . .yes, I am Weee MAn
 
OMG FINALLY! I finally got the first video of The Elite Modder up online.



Check it out. The last one was taken down because I used a song without permission in the video. I didnt know that was a problem. Anyways,... I'm using a friends music for now and eventually will be making my own to be used.

The Elite Modder is my own little modding show. ACRyan is helping out with it and so is TBCS. Right now its little but it's going to be a big deal very soon:)
 
check it out! Tell me what you think so far,...

The Elite Modder title,...


I'm working on an animation and a logo for it. Once I have that down I'm going to hand it over to TBCS so they can work their magic,...
 
The Elite Modder - "FIVE of FIFTY"



The Elite Modder's newest addition. Hope you like it. I'm off to the studio now! Got to finish that last RESERVOIR!!! AHHH!!
 
Update!

Feb-24-2008

So this is what I want to do for Qhs's reservoir. The side skirt thingies.


Here's the bottom brackets and how they will fit.


Design glued to some aluminum. Simple design.


Done. Kinda. Ehhhh not really.


I'm not absolutely happy with the final shape. It's not right. It's not hugging the res the way it's suppose too. It looks good but still,...


Acrylic covers which I most likely will have to make again because these fit the aluminum perfect and if I go bending the aluminum they probably wont be able to cover them completely. They were easy to make anyways.


I want to see if I can do better with the pushed it area you see here. It will look fine once I sand in there cleaning it out. But I want to see if theres a better way to do this.


The brushed aluminum behind the dusted acrylic makes it look brighter looking. I'm goign to brush the top piece after all this is done.


They are not contouring properly. I have to fix that. It's buggin me.


So for the long delay with updates. I have a lot going on over here. Tryign to move all my worklogs over the acryans site. I think I only have blackout left but still,... that log is 2 - 3 years old! So many updates! Also,... I keep all my updates in a text file on my computer to make it easy for me to edit and copy and paste on all the forums in which I post. I didnt start doing the text file thing until 2007 so all the blackout updates before that have to be assembled all over again, matching my comments up along with the pictures. PIA!!! So yea. I have off tonight so I plan on finishing these skirt things. I want this res done ASAP!
 
Consider them tweaked:) Still ony like 95% happy with them though.

Feb-26-2008

Looks Kind of like a TIE FIGHTER! I was so going to make a video of my playing with it like it was,... lol. they are a tiny off from each other buts this is ok. Wont be able to tell once they are installed. Driving me nuts though.


How cool does this look!!!


If I had a TIG I'd weld stuff like this together to form shells for entire PC's or even smaller stuff. One day:)


Damn this is looking good. It looks like it's going ot float or fly away. LOL.


Much better contour. Can be better but this is just fine.


So cool.


I love the flared look.


Lovely.


New acrylic. Looks kind of like pasta or something:)


The acrylic I pushed through that tabbed area. Mush better this time but could be better.


Almost done. Just have to sand some more. The weird shape makes it hard to sand:(


Can't wait to finish this! The end is nearing!
 
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