Project : DST (Dallas Stars Tribute)

[Tech-Daddy]

Hey everyone.... this is a placeholder for the worklog on DST (Dallas Stars Tribute), my next case. It will be a fan case (as in, Dallas Stars "fan"...) based on influences from the Dallas Stars. The Dallas Stars are an NHL team, that I follow R-A-B-I-D-L-Y! I was introduced to the game of hockey by a very dear friend.

This case, will be my attempt at repaying all of the kindness that she showed me by taking me to games and being patient with me asking questions while they played.

Her two favorite players are Brendan Morrow and Stephan Robidas, two very talented (and hard hitting) players on the squad. I will be incorporating design elements of this Stars orginazion, their logo, and some custom picture work. It will be a sweet case!!!!

I started by stripping down the case into it's components, so it is now on the workbench, and is going to become an active project now until I complete it!

So, everyone... welcome in..."DST"....

[Tech-Daddy]

So, the luh-vuh-ly teardown pics...

Take a good look, cuz it wont be in this state for long!


Note in the fan grille, the power/front LED's/Reset wires running out and to the right to escape thru a hole in the case frame.... *** were they thinking??!?! The lines are CLEARLY visable thru the front of the grill.


The sides of the bezel are stepped, and that is giving me some ideas...


This is pretty cool, but I can se why it was not implemented further... one screw allows for *all* of the pannels to come off!






Everything stripped on the case...


and now the case stripped and disassembled!



I did some drilling/dremmel work tonight on the back panel to get the hole for the 80 mm fan, and get that crappy punched metal location off and out. I'll likely perform the same thing but on the front of the case frame, where the fan performs intake duties...

[Tech-Daddy]

Nothing really exciting here... just trying to get a smooth finish on the rear, and cover up those blasted port holes. I built up the bondo, and put a tube of paper in place to try and round out the fan hole.

[Tech-Daddy]

progress pics on the updates:

This is actually the front of the case frame. As you can tell, I hated the location of hte piddly 80mm fan... so I made it a 120mm fan!!




Here I am getting the parts ready to prime. I'm using a white primer to brighten the white color coat that I will put on in a few days.





first 3 items with two coats of the paint, I have not put the clear coat on them yet.



Rear panel where ports *used* to be!!!

[Tech-Daddy]

first coat of paint on some of the framework.

Starting off with a semi gloss white. I have clear that will be added later...

[Tech-Daddy]

ya know... the difference between living on a ventalator later in life and not:


I can believe I went as long as I did without one... wow!

Put the final coats of paint on a couple of pieces:




And started clear coating a few other pieces:






This was the back panel that had the port holes that I bondo'd over:


I'll pop a few more coats onto the pieces tonight and let them be ready for tomorrow hopefully!

[TAZTG]

Nice Mask.. Looks like another Nice Project.. This case is a gift to your friend huh???? Does your wife know her?? LOL..

I like how easy that case came apart.. White looking good already, I bet you saved that Baby Booster box just for your Modding..

Keep the PICS coming, been kinda quiet round here lately.. My Modding is on the back burner to do Funds being used to redo our Condo.. (New Floors, Kitchen Cabinets and Counters) Pretty much new Condo..

[rabidmoose171]

Nice Mask.. Looks like another Nice Project.. This case is a gift to your friend huh???? Does your wife know her?? LOL..

I like how easy that case came apart.. White looking good already, I bet you saved that Baby Booster box just for your Modding..

Keep the PICS coming, been kinda quiet round here lately.. My Modding is on the back burner to do Funds being used to redo our Condo.. (New Floors, Kitchen Cabinets and Counters) Pretty much new Condo..

Hehe, house modding.

[proxops-pete]

ya know... the difference between living on a ventalator later in life and not:

Dude! You look scary!! Interesting pic to say the least!
but what's scarier is how you went so long w/o a mask all this time!!

[r'aggro]

Oh man. Bugs. I helped prep and shoot my first car back in high school, and there were GNATS.

They really stuck out in all that GM classic white.

[phelan1777]

Oh man. Bugs. I helped prep and shoot my first car back in high school, and there were GNATS.

They really stuck out in all that GM classic white.

hehehe Speckle paint

[Tech-Daddy]

Har har! Yes, the wifey know her! They have known each other longer than my wife and I have been married!

And, the booster seat box was a HUGE help!

[TheSquire]

Looking good, I'm more of a Montreal fan but I'll forgive you since your an American . Keep the updates coming!

[PointlesS]

can't wait to see how this turns out

[r'aggro]

Very cool idea, I've thought about modding my backup case for my team as well.

Problem is, I'm a Flyers diehard and all the orange and black might be too distracting!