Project: Dark Carbon

[The boy 4rm oz]

Man those feet look awesome, great work. +rep

[mittelmeier]

Those feet are amazing looking. I think the red light looks great how it is. +rep

[Zephik]

Those turned out great looking!

I'm starting to see a pattern in your mods though. You do such a good job that I don't want the updates to stop! Yet they always do. I can't get enough!

[SXRguyinMA]

the feet look great! maybe for a more even lighting try some EL wire? looks great though! +rep

[KiLLERMAN21]

Yeah, I think its decided that you dont need to change the feet at all, they look great. +rep

[The boy 4rm oz]

Just sand the top of the LEDs down a bit Dan to diffuse the glow, that would give you a more even glow. EEL wire is great but it tends to burn out fairly quickly.

[rendermandan]

Well, I thought about the el wire idea. I used it in Motorized Madness and after a while the High pitch whine that came from the 3 transformers was driving me batty, so I switched them off. Plus the el wire isn't as bright as I wanted. trust me, I have something cooked up for the lighting in this case.

And I'm glad that everyone liked the feet. However I did make a small change.
I remade the bottom of the case feet. -Yes Another 8 round blanks out of black and red plexi. But this time I didn't glue them together. I noticed on the one that I had glued that as soon as the two pieces were fused together, the red stopped "Glowing" having no air between the two pieces caused all the light to be absorbed by the black and having small bubbles in the glue is what was causing the "Spotty" look.

So after remaking the pieces and only gluing the very inside edge. (still strong enough!) I gave another one a test. And this is the result.

Before:

After:

I think everyone will agree. this is a much more uniform glow. It does have some hot spots, but its better than the first round.

Here is a bunch of them all wired up.

Here is what they look like on the bottom panel.

I also spend a little time today building the cover to go over the radiator and fans.

I would have gotten more done but I had to wait for some epoxy to dry.

Later.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Your right, they do glow better, much more uniform glow. The rad box is looking really good, nice work.

[mittelmeier]

The uniform glow looks a lot nicer.

[KiLLERMAN21]

Yeah, definately does look better.