Water Cubed

[Vital]

So what are your plans on mimicking the watercube look?

[jdbnsn]

I have a pseudo-plan to get it done, which will begin with testing a few different ideas on small scraps first before committing to an entire shell. Mainly, I want to use layers of acrylic. The inner layer will be mounted with the LED's and it's outer surface likely frosted. Then the outer layer will be used to make the design, and I have several ideas, just none that are worth mentioning until I have tried them.

[Vital]

Will you bend it into almost shells? To achieve the bubble look? But, I agree I think layers of acrylic will look nice.

[rendermandan]

Dude, this is turning out nice. Keep it up!

[jdbnsn]

Thanks for the kind comments guys, I appreciate it!

Now that the foam is down it's time to re-check some measurements and mount some of the brackets...

I picked up some nylon washers to keep from scuffing up the aluminum and also got a few more hex screws with a lower profile to fasten down the shelf...

Since the foam has a considerable width, I needed to trim out the spaces below the motherboard rails or it would have skewed the rear plate alignment...

This is what I decided to go with for the shelf mounts...

I mounted the LCD/remote controller to begin the wiring process, it will power and control the speed of the two fans mounted on the side walls. I wanted to set this up so that most of the wires could be run beneath the stage, we'll see how well that works out in the end I guess...

[SXRguyinMA]

lookin awesome!

[Matthew]

Oh man this is looking way cool. What are your plans for the outside? The blue and what not.

[jdbnsn]

Thanks! I will be trying a few things out before I commit to any certain plan for the outer shell.

[jdbnsn]

No major updates, just been messing around with wiring the hardware and thought I'd show you how it's coming...

[Drum Thumper]

Pretty slick cable management!