Cooler Master Case on hold, ideas for new case mod.

I have put my Cooler Master Stacker case on hold since I would like to get in some experience and such before I start hacking up a $160 case. I am going to be modifying a case VERY similar to the one below since I already have the case at home:

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I am going with a card theme mod on this case. Themes/symbols can include cards, suits, chips, slots, billiards, darts, dice, pinball, jukebox, money, etc… Does anybody have any ideas that could go into my design? Any other symbols that might fit the theme? Right now the only thing that I have come up with is a side panel window, quartered off, with a symbol of each of the four suits in their own individual quarter, etched in. I would throw red led’s in the diamonds and hearts areas and a different color in the spades/clubs areas. Input?

i like the side panel idea, with the card suits

i was thinking, maybe for spades/clubs instead of etching you cut out around the spade or club and back it with some frosted plexi and a white LED

contrast a bit with the LEDs on the diamond/heart

if this ain't clear i'll see if i can mspaint something to explain it in a bit

i see what you mean i think, what if i had an entire window, etched the heart and diamond and threw a red led on them like before, but then i cut the spade and club out of the acrylic, and in its place put a piece of acrylic the same size and shape, would there be a way to meld it so its one solid sheet of plexi? do u get what i mean?

acrylic glues should be adequate if you're careful enough. i'm not really the pro on this, but tybrenis should come around and tell us who's right, wrong, and how the hell to really do it.
do you mean a different color of acrylic for the spade and club?

yeah, like tinted acrylic for the black effect. Also, im off to the hardware store very soon to buy stuff. I have no tools. planning on a dremel... any must-haves while im there?

please keep the ideas flowing. one thing i thought up is maybe, where the ugly silver panel is now, move the power button and put a miniature dart board there in front of a fan opening? also, on top, a very small billiards replica? i am officially calling this a casino themed case.

If you know anyone good with airbrush art, have them do a Ace of Spades and a Jack of Spades on the side, with dice showing seven (5 and 2)

That would look amazing.

I like the Jack of Spades idea..............

I'll try to come up with some ideas later, but off hand I would say making feet out of billiard balls would/could look good. And you can make a custom power button using a red/transparent Di (singular dice = di or die?), well anyway, buy using a clear red colored Die you could attach it to the push button component and run an LED in the back to the "power" terminals of the mobo so it lights up when turned on. just a thought...

I could see a mean airbrushed joker on this one, with all of the suites flanking him. If you really wanted to get tricky, you could do a full on bondo'd molded monstrosity with the idea. I like the card theme, good idea lots of room for creativity with it imo.