This build is heavily inspired by the synthwave movement(look up nightcall), which is like living in an 80's nighttime cruise in your lamborghini countach on a rainy night in miami.

Skateboards were the rage, the whole generation oozed music and sexiness.

I started with an ooooooold Raidmax Smilodon and modded the hell out of it. When I got my hands on it, it had been in a fucking garage for ten years. It was dusty, rusty and there were dead spiders in it.

While I'd have liked to make a custom water loop, the tedium of flushing and removing all the parts made it impractical-- also there was no room for a pump.

I hand-painted the floor to look like an old arcade carpet, and build an oldschool santa cruz skateboard as the feet.

Broke out the new plasma cutter a former client of mine gave me, and did some cutting on the top panel(for a removable top plate) and the right side panel and motherboard plate, to create a classic 80's neon swish look.

The thing that hooked me about this case- besides the swing arm- was that motherboard plate opens outward so, after removing the GPU, you can access everything (kind of) easlily.

The whole thing was very challenging but it's the best thing i've built since Hunchback.

I removed the hard drive enclosures, but kept one side of the superstructure so that I could make my own 360mm rad mount, using a bracket I bought, and some acrylic resin, which poured over it so that it was seemless. This enabled me to not only mount two more front fans than were originally possible, but five along with a radiator.

After that, I made a custom hard drive cradle from a 3d printed model and mounted it to the floor.

With as complex as it is, i had to assemble the case as i installed the parts. the front fans were a BITCH, and i couldn't do anything else until i finished the front. Just wasn't possible, and it took me about six hours to get everything fed correctly. Once it came together though, the build process was... also very long, but it came out looking amazing.

I learned how to graffiti so that I could give the back panel some street cred, complete with old-school payphone decal. I wanted to give that abused look. You can't see it, but there;s also a couple ripped stickers on there, including one of the original "unzipped zack" garbage pail stickers.

Underneath the skateboard, I also tagged the bottom panel, so if anyone removes it, my name's still there.

One other cool thing I did was to completely delete the power/reset switches from the front panel, instead using a trick switch i got from PPCs that i attached to the underside of my desk.

The paints I used gave it the look of neon lights- especially the pink. For anything like this, I use culturhustle paint for it, their stuff is really good for brush or airbrush. Expensive, but worth it.