CoolerMaster Storm Scout "Stormtrooper"

linkin

linkin

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Hey everyone. Today, on a whim, I decided I was going to repaint my case. This mod will be in honour of my late grandfather who passed away last month. He always loved to tinker, invent, and create. He had a shed full of industrial strength hardware, including a lathe that you could probably make just about anything in the world on! Me and my dad like to talk about the things he made for us as children. I remember when he visited and made me a metal, medieval style sword-and-shield. When my dad and uncle were that age, they played with plastic army men and tanks. My grandad once saw them, and promptly went into his shed and constructed a panzer-styled tank made completely out of metal, rolling wheels, rotating gun barrel and all! He came out, dropped it on one of the plastic tanks and said "That's not a tank, this is a tank!"

Anyway, getting to the mod. I'm calling this "The Stormtrooper" - The theme being obvious. A star wars stormtrooper. The plan is to paint mostly everything white, with some black accents (PCI brackets, power/reset/front panel buttons, DVD drive, and the PC hardware itself)

Everything in this first post has been done today!

I started by going out and selecting my paint. Also picked up some sandpaper, to lightly sand down everything, I'm hoping it will help the paint stick better. I ran out of paint and also forgot to grab any acrylic clear paint sealer, so I'll be getting everything else I need tomorrow.

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Got straight to work disassembling the case. Not the worst thing I've ever had to do, but it took a fair while. Here she is all bare, naked, and cleaned of dust.

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I sanded a spot and spot tested the paint where no one would ever see it, just in case something happened.

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At that point, my desk looked like this:

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And my bed looked like this:

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I decided to start with the right side panel, and I have also done the front mesh grills (not pictured)

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Continuing on with the main chassis

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I thought I'd save the best photo of the day for last

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Good luck on your project, a little tip for you is when you finish painting give it a couple of weeks for the paint to cure/dry as acrylic paint is soft & can scratch quite easy....Remember to handle gently as the paint is not robust like enamel paint.

I have repainted two old full towers from beige to black, they look awesome.... have put them into mothballs atm, actually thinking of getting them powder coated
 
MMM said:
Good luck on your project, a little tip for you is when you finish painting give it a couple of weeks for the paint to cure/dry as acrylic paint is soft & can scratch quite easy....Remember to handle gently as the paint is not robust like enamel paint.

I have repainted two old full towers from beige to black, they look awesome.... have put them into mothballs atm, actually thinking of getting them powder coated
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Yeah, it'll be drying for a few days at least. I'll also use some acrylic sealant. I've seen what happens when you don't seal the paint.
 
Looks fun. Wish I had the time to repaint my case.

But white and black looks amazing. I built a computer for a friend with a white and black NZXT phantom and it looked sexy.
 
Looks pretty cool. I have a Haf 932 that I modded and I'll be re-painting sometime soon. Good luck, should turn out pretty good.
 
Today's update. Bought, and ran out of, white paint. Again. Got two cans of sealant this time, so once it's all dry tomorrow, I'll seal it (and hope no bugs fly into it while it's drying)

Painted the front of the windowed side panel, touched up the other one, and almost finished the main chassis

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Fresh paint on the inside of the right side panel

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Main chassis shots

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It looks pretty much finished, but I still need to paint the undersides, touch up some darker spots, and then seal the whole lot of it.

Also had a little accident with some newspaper on the freshly painted windowed panel. Ran out of paint by that time as well, so it will have to fixed tomorrow

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That's it for today's update. Everything is drying off in the garage.
 
I told you black and white looked sexy! How long did this take you? And how much money? Nice job, too.
 
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claptonman said:
I told you black and white looked sexy! How long did this take you? And how much money? Nice job, too.
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Three days, $60 in paint/clear coat and some sandpaper. Probably should have let it dry overnight instead of just 4 hours, now my room smells like paint :o

If it was any more expensive I would have just had it sandblasted and powdercoated.
 
MMM said:
acrylic paint is soft & can scratch quite easy....Remember to handle gently as the paint is not robust like enamel paint.
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Not all acrylic paint is water based, if thats what you mean. There are more solvent base aerosol paints (and it sticks to plastic pretty well) than waterborn.
linkin said:
Yeah, it'll be drying for a few days at least. I'll also use some acrylic sealant. I've seen what happens when you don't seal the paint.
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I see you used good paint and good call on the clear coat, most wouldn't think of that. The case looks great, nice job. Sorry you lost your grandad.
 
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