Monitor MOD

[Spacehonkey]

I did, maybe i didn't explain it clearly enough.. - My though was if you put a small red LED in each finger on the hands, and if / or would that disturb the screen, if you had small LED's glowing through the plexi..

Evil claws look..?

Oh I got ya. I think that would be overkill on the LEDs though.

[Spacehonkey]

Have you had the chance to start on any of this yet, honk0rz?

-J

What do you mean?
Are you talking about lighting up the panel?

[Spacehonkey]

I meant the screen and the acryllic...
-J

Yes I finished the panel and I tested it out with some LEDs and it looked pretty cool but when I tried to take some pix they came out all blurry. I might try and take some more pix this weekend and post them up for you guys.

[Spacehonkey]

Speaking about the panel once I looked at the pix I took of it all put together I had some ideas that might make it look better. I thought the panel is to big and dwarfs the rest of the monitor so I should make another one a little smaller. Also I thought about paint the grey/silver monitor frame a flat black so it would make more of a contrast between it and the bones. I also scaled down the hands to a more realistic size. I played around in SketchUp again to give you guys a better idea of what I was thinking about. Here are some pix before the changes and after.

Before & After Front

Before & After Back

Before & After Side

Before & After Angel

What do you guys think?

Which looks better?

It wouldn't take that long to make the changes. Plus I basically at a stand still under I work out the joints for the backbone anyways.

EDIT: One more thing. By scaling down the size of the panel it'll make it a little lighter.

[Spacehonkey]

I like the after really.. It makes all the details a little more subtle. Subtle is good!

I want to use your framing ideas for my LCD for nemotank.. I hope that is OK. I will be watching anxiously when you post pics on how you mounted it up.

-J

I really like the changes too.

I have no problem with you taking some of my ideas and making it work for your mod. Hell I would take that as one hell of a complement.

[Spacehonkey]

Lol your typos crack me up dude!

You 'da bomb-diggity, bro

-J

Oops, did that in a hurry. Guess I should go back and correct that one.

Oh yeah by the way if you guys hadn't figured it out I'm dyslexic (I had to look the spelling up on the one) and can't spell to save my life.

[Wannabeamodder]

That's looking sweet! Great sketchup work dude + rep for that.


Charles

[The boy 4rm oz]

This is an awesome mod! I wan't one lol.

[slytherock]

Oh yeah by the way if you guys hadn't figured it out I'm dyslexic (I had to look the spelling up on the one) and can't spell to save my life.

Who need good spelling when you have thoses skills? Your work is freakly nice

[Spacehonkey]

Well I tried to take some more pix of the panel with the LEDs. The pix came out OK, I guess. I tried mixing up the LEDs to see what effect it would have. I use a blue LED on the left and a red LED on the right. I didn't like how the blue turned out, it looks a little to weak. Well herre are the pix and remember some of these are a little blurry but that's the best I could do with my camera.

Without a flash

With a flash

I'll be covering the top of the LEDs with a screw head or something so you won't be able to actually see it from a front view. Plus by covering it up it won't look like two eyes are watching you.

That's it for now. If I have some time this weekend I'm going to shrink down the size of the acrylic panel.