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hey everyone this is steve from gamers nexus Donette we were at day 3 of pax prime 2013 and there's actually a fourth day of this year which is new i'm here with bob stewart from vs Montcalm he worked on the Rose well-thrown industrial case we actually did a video on this case previously with boo from roseville and Bob what can you tell me about the case how did what did Rose will ask for when they approached you they first met with us at CES and they had a new case coming out the throne it wasn't on the market yet and so they just sent us kind of you know one of the first ones and they and they wanted something really awesome and they weren't sure what they wanted so they pretty much just said whatever you want to do what can you tell us about the the paint techniques use any special modding techniques you had to employ here so this was quite a bit of work a lot of sleepless nights and there is actually to start with this thing weighs in at close to a hundred pounds so it's not something you want to drag to a land party really although we did make a special crate for that has wheels and everything so makes it easier but it's had sheetmetal work throughout inside and out and then we've done some basically some fake welding on here and we just wanted to simulate kind of a rough industrial look in fact we named it the throne industrial and so everything we did throughout we wanted to make it really rough and tough and rugged and just kind of you know we kind of went away from this super clean and perfect look a little bit and things like that so we have had a little bit of feedback here and there on the welds and and some comments on the quality of our welds and things like that and you know it's funny because they're actually not real well so it's actually a compliment when we see what kind of shitty welding job we did and the fact that they think it's a shitty well door it's a good well it doesn't matter the fact that they think it's a real well is it just tells me we did our job because it's just totally fake and however it looks real and so you know we put in a lot of little you know scabs welds and stuff like that and then airbrushed in all the burn marks and things like that and then we kind of followed the theme all the way through and so we did some expanded metal on the front and then on the top here and use some use some square bar and wire you know just did some wire feed welding some real welding on that and then we we wanted to look rough as well so what we did here was we just left the rough welds and then we clear-coated it so that it would match kind of the theme that we had going on the rest of it and everything so one of the other things we did is you know we always want to have a nice site window to show off all the good stuff inside so we had a that's actual real safety glass wired safety glass you could punch it or whatever you want you're not going to break through it so that also adds about 20 pounds to the way to this day so all of the hardware inside is all stainless steel so we probably have about I would guess about three hundred dollars just in two little bolts and washers and all that kind of thing it's just all stainless steel it adds up fast and then the brackets we made out of stainless steel perforated metal and so everything that you look at is either stainless steel or or aluminum yeah we just followed that theme all the way through created a new power supply cover and things like that to match the rest of the case and and so and then on the back side we've got the name the throne industrial painted and things like that so and as I understand there's a lot of machine work in here as well so we're going to jump to a clip with rod where we'll talk more about the machine work and check all the links in the description below for BS mod calm and of course full article coverage alright so now we are back with rod Rosenberg same from BS mods calm he worked on the machine work for the throne wrote industrial case can you tell me more about some of the custom machine work he did what was you know what really was pushing you in the project to show your best efforts sure so we have a whole industrial look so part of it was making the metal look good we did a lot of work with the custom case feet they're machined out of solid block of aluminum drawn up in Sketchup in a machine on a CNC machine we also put a lot of focus on the band girls they're all weld out of steel we put 8 inch bar on the sides to accent amount make them look like they were all trimmed out and then left all the weld marks and just clearcoat over them the match the rest of the theme can you tell me more about the machining process itself for for our readers who are interested in case modding so for the machine machine is really expensive we were lucky to have access to a machine shop to do that machine work we had to spend a lot of time drawing it makes for a fit and then a lot of prep work with the metal what sort of software goes into designing the the different components for the case most of it was all designed with Google Sketchup which is now owned by Trimble so you can download that for free from Trimble's website and it's actually pretty easy to use do you have any anything in here that you really want to draw attention to that you feel like is easily overlooked I think a lot the wiring a lot of people see the big flex conduit on the side of the case and they think it's water cooling lines and it's just regular flex conda's used in hospitals and stuff to cover electrical wiring you can buy at Home Depot and it covers the six pin and eight pin power connectors for the video cards very cool and when you when you showed the case two rows well when they saw for the first time what was the reaction like I think they were surprised with how heavy it was and in the front glass and then maybe the rough appearance a lot of people think it'll be a showpiece it'll be a car it'll be all waxed and shiny but but this one's a little bit rough to give the industrial theme what can you tell me about this front piece right here what's what's going on over here and up here so in the front and top panels we put an hour meter in that records all the time that the system is powered on we also had a hard drive activity light and a custom power light and then we put a voltage regulator a voltmeter on the front that monitors the 5 volt and 12 volt power right off the power supply along with a push button that turns the strobe light on and off very cool and I think boo showed us a controller to control the LEDs in the system can you tell me more about how that's rings up sure so the LEDs in this they're 16 feet of RGB LED throughout the case it goes across the top across the front and around the window those LEDs are red green blue individual LEDs and there are controlled by control it sits in the five and a quarter bay and has a 32 key remote to control any color light you want any anything you want to put out to aspiring modders out there you know any advice you can give them on getting started it doesn't take a lot of money it takes time it takes a file some plastic parts and a can of paint and your rate Ahmad awesome once again rod and Bob from BS mods we have another video linked below that talks about how you can get into modding some basic overview stuff so check that out check out the full article coverage and I will see you guys next time peace