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FrostByte is complete. Final Photos.
Thank you everyone for all your awesome feedback and support.

Voting will be up in the next couple days on Thermaltakes website.
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I built a stand for the hard drive, then made it into a plaque.
The Name of this build is now FrostByte.
The HDD is now hooked up and I have made several custom decals for the outside of the case....

Hiding the massive amount of wires on this build is a challenge.
All the cables are finished and plugged in.
I mounted all the fan controllers and the RGB fitting controllers.
The 2 separate loops...

Thank you to Main Frame Customs for supplying me with some Teleios sleeving, wire, pins, and connectors.
All the cables are sleeved and I have laced them together. I just need to finish the PSU...

Thanks for the awesome feedback guys. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

I am finally getting over this cold.
The rest of the dragon is finished with the clear coat and I have removed all the...

I still have a couple touch ups to do, and I have to re-apply the TT badge, but the front panel is just about done.

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All the scales are finally complete.
I am almost done painting the spine and wings.
There is still a little work left on the claws to do.
I still have to blend and add more detail to the face, but...

Got some more done on the scales.
Pretty tired from being sick, so ill try to get some more done tomorrow.

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The tail is now caught up to were the body is.
There is still one more layer I need to do on the scales.
I have started by hand painting some of the face and will blend it in with the airbrush....

Got a little more hand painting done today, I think 1 more layer on the scales and the skin will be complet.
Then all I have is face, spine, wing and hand detail work.
I can hit most of that up...

Huge thanks to Mainframe Customs for supplying all the sleeving, wire, pins, and connectors.
If you guys haven't used them, you gotta check them out.
So my airbrushes weren't cutting it, so I had...

Thanks for the feedback Fugger.

So it's been a long week.
I built a temporary paint booth in my garage. This thing is working quite well.
The inside of the panels and inside of the case were...

Haven't had very much time this week to post up pictures, but I am just about ready for primer.
I added the left hand ripping through the front of the case.
The claws will be sitting on top the TT...

Ok, from all my build logs, everyone wants glowing eyes.
I still have to wire them up with leds, but this is it.

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Ok, so I made some head way on the face today, but the only thing I need to figure out is if i have time to put some glowing blue eyes in. I'm just not sure I will have time for it. What do you guys...

The face is going slower than I thought. I have a bunch more detail to sculpt.
Then I got a ton more sanding to do.

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I sanded down the face and added some more spikes.
Now I just need to let this set up a little, then I can add the rest and begin sculpting the face.
Ohh, and here's a look at the panel on the...

Just a quick update, spines have been added to the back.
The hand will need a couple more layers and a bit of sanding.
Alot of sanding in store for me this week.
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Most of the skin on the body is complete, I still have alot of sanding to do.
Thought I would take a break and show you guys how things are coming along.
I got that feeling it's gonna be a late...

I cut out a basic wing pattern to get a good look at were I was going and how much skin I would have to put on before attaching the wings.
The skin was a little harder to get such a large area, so I...

After getting everything placed were I wanted, I finished riveting it to the case.
The face is going to have to have multiple layers, so I started sculpting the parts that will get covered up.
When...

I built a DIY vacuum former to use for projects like this.
Basically its built out of plywood, 2x4s and construction caulking (to make it air tight).
First, I had to bake the clay in the oven....

At this point, I am just sculpting the general base shape of the dragon.
These pieces will be vacuum formed tonight.
The clay needs to be made to were I can pull it out of the vacuum form.
This is...

I have been wanting to do a dragon build for the longest time.
So, I have decided to go with a blue and white Ice Dragon build.
I'm going to start by sculpting out the basic size and shape of the...