Can't wait to see the color scheme come into full bloom, this rig looks promising :D

I will be following this one, thank you and can't wait to see more.

Scarlet-Tech
I will be following this one, thank you and can't wait to see more.

+1 to this. Congrats on the sponsorships and glad to see you getting started on your project.

Good luck with your build, looks interesting. You have some nice hardware to work with. Grat's on being selected.  

Hey guys! It's been a while since my last update, and yeah, I am still alive and breathing, somehow and I really want to apologize for the lack of updates. It's still crazy busy back at work and I am trying everything I possibly could to sneak here and there to come up with some more renderings/concept of the project. Here's a few that I came up with. It still might change since I want to add a bit more details to it.
 
The photo below is the right side of the case. I didn't had enough time to put in the holes on the tray since I only had about an hour of free time. 
 


And this is the left side of the case. Still need to add the PSU custom shroud and some more details for the top panel.
 


 
Next week, I'll start to order some materials that I will be using and hopefully, by next weekend,I'll have a complete and better rendered drawing to present and hopefully I'll be able to start some material cutting. 
 
Thank you for checking my work log out and see you on the next update! Ciao!

Hey guys, another small update. I actually was able to do a little bit of actual material cutting yesterday and today.  Last week, I was expecting for the acrylic sheets that I ordered 2 weeks ago, which it did got delivered, but the shipment was missing the acrylic sheet that I was going to use for the front plate/panel. So here I am again, waiting for the sheet to arrive and hopefully it gets here next week. But right now, I found some small, left over sheets that got chopped up from previous project. Decided to start to try out some cutting, which went good, fortunately.
 
Here's my latest rendering/concept. Added a PSU shroud with some logos on it. Still contemplating if I am going to use smoke black or just black acrylic sheet for the shroud. 

 

 
 
And here's the first "patch" for the PSU shroud. The amount of sanding and polishing time that was consumed for this small detail is just excruciating. (note to self, will be throwing any future small cutting on my small CNC.)
 

 

 

 

 

 
Well, that's all for now. Will get my hands more "dirty" next week when the sheet for the front plate/panel comes in. Thanks for checking out my log and see you on the next update! Ciao! :)

Hey guys, update time! I was supposed to throw an update last weekend but I really don't have that much photo to upload because I ended up sanding, filing and smoothing out the edges of the letters for the PSU Shroud. Spent a lot of time sanding and filing just to get a snug fit. Some of them got a little bit too much filed down but it was not that bad. 
 
The photo below is after smoothing out the edges. Took me a day and a half to sand them down to get them to fit on the letter cut outs on the smoke black acrylic sheet. Last Friday, I was doing the last letter, the letter "G" but then, I didn't noticed I was pressing too hard on the material and I ended up snapping it in to 2 pieces. So I ended up making another one.

 
Same thing happened to the green piece of acrylic for the logo patch. So, again, I ended up making one. Finally got it to fit in snugly. By the way, these are getting clued together. 

 

 

 

 
I was supposed to do the PSU shroud first last Friday after smoothing out the letters, but the magnets that I was waiting last week wasn't able to make it last Friday. So I ended up focusing on the front panel. And yes, I said magnets. I will be using magnets for the PSU shroud and the side cover for this project instead of screwing them in the case. I started with the detail for the front armor. 
These are gonna get painted before getting clued to the front plate. 

 
And before I forget, the final cutout for the Overwatch logo, is this guy. Took me a while to carefully cut this out because I am afraid that I might break it again while using a Dremel Motosaw.
 

 

 

 

 
It was not perfect, but it looks good to me. I over sanded a few edges too much but it's not that noticeable unless you put your face a few inches away to actually see the over sanded edges.
 

 
First part of the PSU shroud is finally complete! After all the sanding, filing smoothing out, it finally paid off. 
 

 
And remember those circle cutouts that I made? It will be glued like this. These green circles will be glued on top of those white circles, then they will be sanded down and will be painted black. 
 

 
For the front plate, Saturday night before I went to bed, I traced out the front plate cutout on a piece of acrylic sheet. Being a paranoid person, just in case I screw up with the bending, I'll have a cutout already drawn on another piece of acrylic sheet. :)
 

 
As some of you know, I dont have a workshop, so most of the time, if my sister's car is still park on our backyard garage (tent), I usually end up in our backyard deck. And of course, it stared to rain..... Luckily, my sister lent me her garage space. 
 

 

 

 
Some additional detail for the front plate. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Next week will be a lot of gluing, sanding (again), and smoothing out. Then I'll go back to doing the PSU shroud since the magnets came in today. Till the next update! 
 
 

Looking forward to your next update.

Update time! Just a small one though. 
 
Did some gluing for the additional small details for the front plate.

 

 

 

 
Did some more acrylic sheet cutting for the side covers.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
And this is where most of my time went. I have been experimenting with which glue is the best to use for gluing the cutouts together. I have a Weld-On 3 acrylic cement. I tried to glue a few scrap smoke black acrylic sheets, but it gives me a "fog" effect. Wiping down the over spill immediately after applying the acrylic cement won't do any difference, it will still leave that "fog" spot on the acrylic. Did some research and saw a couple of people using acetone as their glue. I gave it a try, it does glue the acrylic sheets together BUT its not as strong as the acrylic cement (although some people are saying that the strength of it is the same as the acrylic cement). 
 
The green acrylic on top was glued using acetone, and the one on the lower right was used with acrylic cement. I didn't applied pressure on both of them, and using the acrylic cement gave me the best result. 
 

 
This is what I was talking about. And it does the same to the green acrylic sheet. And then I remembered, I had acrylic polishers. Technically, this fogging is a scratch. 
 

 
After using the Novus 3, 2 and 1, tadaaa! It's still there except for that you need to really, REALLY get your face close to the material to see the scratch.
 

 
I was supposed to do some paint job yesterday and today, but the weather here decided to not become friendly to modders AGAIN. So I decided to just do some more polishing and gluing. And since using acrylic cement will need some additional polishing to remove the "fog" effect, I decided to just wait this coming weekend to proceed with the paint job. For now, will do some more polishing and gluing.
 

 
That's it for me for this update. Until the next one! 

Cool GTX
Nice work, look forward to next update

Thanks! 

RZR747
Congrats man, u deserve that sponsorship....that's an awesome case right there....
 
 Thanks!
 
PS: Guys, I know this is not the place to ask, but please excuse me, I'm a noob here and don't know where to do that. I want to begin creating a custom case, but will it be sufficient to just make a virtual model of it (I mean a 3D one, created in 3Ds max)?

Well, that's my first step whenever I have a new project, be it a scratch build or case mod. It kinda helps me plan make a plan on what will be my priority when it comes to cutting materials and gives me a total overall look of what I wanted to do. :)

RZR747

Kazuma16
 
 
Well, that's my first step whenever I have a new project, be it a scratch build or case mod. It kinda helps me plan make a plan on what will be my priority when it comes to cutting materials and gives me a total overall look of what I wanted to do. :)

I just want to create a custom case (to get sponsored of course and also develop my modelling skills). But, I did not know if I would get sponsored just for 3d moddelling the case, since I can only create the 3d, virtual model (for vaious reasons). 
 
BTW, what software did u use? 

As far as I know, potential sponsors will almost always look for your past projects. And whenever I am looking for sponsorship for case mods, I usually attach photos of the previous projects that I did before when sending my email to them. It's kind of "proof" to them that you have done and finished case mod projects before. I mean, they're going to "invest" to your work and they need some sort of proof that you can give that "investment" back to them, right? 
 
I am using Autocad MEP, so everything you see with my rendered photos, they're all made from scratch. Autodesk doesn't have that much library when it comes to PC components so most of the time, I would take measurements myself and draw them. I still want to try out Sketchup since GSU has a great library (and being constantly updated too) for PC components. 

RZR747
So, I need to really edit cases, not just draw some models...nevermind, I'll figure out what to do...while I figure out what to do, I'll congratulate u once more and wish u success...once u get the job done, that will be a really awesome case...

Thank you! Wishing you all the luck too! And don't forget to share your renderings in forums like here. Cheers! 

More Pics - PLEASE
 
What is new on your project ?

Looking forward to more pics of this project.