Project : Panda (Antec 300 mod)

[k0rben]

Hi guys, i am introducing my first project.



It's called panda because of the black&white theme of the project case - Antec 300.
Maybe some of you think (i hope not) i am copying b&w theme from Fractal define R2 case, but nope, this was planned about a 1.5 year ago. :p

First i made a sketchup model of case :

ITS IN THE LINK so if you want to be surprised don't click
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/5...imurobott4.jpg


I edited the antec 900 model and created this 300. Unfortunately i haven't got colour image of this now. I also created the model of scythe himuro which will be used. For those who are interested - models for sketchup can be found on http://scc.jezmckean.com/ .

My hw now looks like this :



Here is the case in tearing down part the new antec 300s are also SSD compatibile and got this nice backplate hole.



Unfortunately i won't be taking my camera with me to the workplace, only my phone, sorry for bad quality of some pictures.

WORK STARTING - UPDATE 0 :

I deriveted the top panel and the lower hdd cage



The cage - > out and i will use those two cable ties later.



The top panel (covered with painter's tape) - gonna spray that black



The hole for the front i/o to pass thru



The 5.25" cable-hole is here, i haven't got the right tools like dremel or nibbler so i just drilled 1/8" holes and then punched out the circle.



Yeah and i forgot, i thought that i will use the hole-saw but then i realised - it cuts only wood :wallbash:

This is what it does with metal - pretty "sharp" eh?



Now additional holes :




Meanwhile i sprayed the 120mm fan cages and the top metal piece :





Now to clean this metal madness everywhere





The first stage of the positioning the himuro box and drilling the himuro holes.





The stands were cutted by my new scissors for sheet metal.




Now back to case, after drilling som additional holes (for himuro etc.) comes first coat of metal primer :thumb:






Thats it for now, next update tomorrow