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see the proper way to prep plastic is to actually you know scuff it up and then use alcohol so the alcohol gets rid of the oils that are in the plastic because the oil is used as a release agent in the molding process so when you try to paint over plastic it doesn't always want to stick very well because of the oils and the alcohol will get rid of it so a little kit I think there's like a lot of the areas where we're where we will be creative and some of the stuff we bought to be creative haven't even been really on camera at all yet so we want to get a super-clean battlestation super clean build and then add the flourish and like everything that's going to make this thing creative and unique tech showdown is brought to you by synergy 2 in partnership with g.skill be quiet and cable mod synergy 2 makes sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers so simple that anyone can use it learn more at the link below so I'm painting the case for you right now so we're gonna do white on the whole case but then we're gonna do some accent pieces in pink so some of the mesh and different things so we thought that pink feet would be kind of a nice contrast so just getting those painted ahead of time oh fish eyes just get didn't get prepped very good yeah so if you don't prep something and clean it really good I don't know if you can see it but so the black little spots that you're seeing are what's called fish eyes and so if there's a contaminant on the surface and you try to put paint especially if it's like a oily contaminant it will separate the paint from the surface and so it leaves what they call a fish eye so this is the front panel piece so what I did was cut it down we removed the actual door that would go here and we're just gonna make like a filler panel to set inside here so this was on the front of the actual door and so I took it off and it just had to be cut down a little bit oh my god it's a perfect fit okay we'll mount this in here so it's permanent and then we're gonna have to drill a couple holes for water cooling lines and then some mounting holes for the brackets for the reservoir so our reservoir is going to I look great with this so our reservoir is going to sit right here and so looking at the front of the case we'll have a reservoir on the outside I do kind of wish that I had gone with a white primer if we were gonna try and do any vibrant colors but if we do go ahead with a chocolate round for real then it'll work just fine that actually looks super pro down there all my parts drying I mean okay super Pro is probably one of these parts is touching the sawhorse leg ah hey wait I'm good no I'm using up all my pegboard just trying to find a spot for this to dry so my power button and my reset putter still in here I think I have an idea for how to mask the loss though problem is we don't have time to do like really tidy and asking with you know razor blades and stuff we need a piece of tape to cover what can't get paint on it but I think if I flex this out and I can slip this under it actually we're gonna leave the sticky side oh wow this must be the world's crappiest masking tape brilliant so I think what I can do is just stick this in there and demonstrate once and for all that there's no problem you can't solve by flexing out and sticking it in there no it's fine I can work with this because that is what tech showdown is about working with what you got in spite of Ed's best efforts to sabotage everything you hold dear no no no three cans of the of the clearcoat yeah I think so like if we're going you know shades of chocolate then we might as well go shades of chocolate like I really didn't want to get into the whole like painting thing with this project but these guys have forced our hand a little bit like we can't show up with a not painted system at this point oh man i am i need luke to get back here with more paint holy crap this painting is taking longer than I had hoped okay how long will you be there I just I'm out of primer the multi tonality of our color scheme is probably the only thing that saves this chocolate idea so I need to get literally everything taken apart where we were pretty screwed okay so I'm officially out of primer which means I have to find something else to do I'm gonna start with the monitor disassembly so in terms of color scheme for the monitor frankly I don't have a ton of options we're going with with gold and chocolate so what I was kind of thinking was gold for this thin bezel frame then we do a brown desktop wallpaper then we do this stand and I don't know like we could go gold all the way and then maybe I could mask off like like a jagged line have brown come out the bottom or something like that but I mean every every time I add you know masking I'm adding more complexity to something I'm already not gonna have a lot of time for move back yeah hey I have a wide mix of news for you ah Oh what is this all good though right mostly uh-huh start with the good and then tell me to better I got a lot of track ok there weren't a lot of trains that you could put things on check this out I got the logo off so we're gonna be able to put that back on after we paid but I got like this which i think is cool I got this which we can unscrew the top off of it and just things that bit cool so that could like be pouring off like the GPU or something out what I got a little thing so if you want to have a pad on top of the computer ok this I think we could just like put some on it or something ok I don't know and then there's only like to the eventually put things in which that'll be the thing that pulls them that's a caboose Oh push doesn't matter we need one of the stack all right I can get that later yeah might be cool yeah the old fire truck sure and a little ambulance oh okay yeah we need that yeah our team needs an ambulance yeah okay I don't know if this is gonna I don't know if this is gonna translate to like oil wrapping but I'm sure gonna it looks okay wow this is tacky dude oh no I'm not I'm worried about me keep painting I'm worried about us keep painting man don't you ever think about us oh my god you have the primer right only in therapy No are you serious yes synergy - is designed to be easier and more seamless to use than synergy one features include sharing from anywhere with automatic control of any other computer without reconfiguring SSL encryption to protect your keystrokes from attackers dynamic networking so it detects the best route based on your setup and being able to always run in the background on all your operating systems so you can set and forget and it even works across VPNs and tricky home networks if you get the pro version you can get access to other cool features too like clipboard sharing dragging and dropping files copy pasting lock screen synchronization and lots more you're not getting no oh that's bad I will go get primer I should i do Ace Hardware should just go to Home Depot I don't know okay is there anything else you can do in the meantime uh yeah I can keep working on the monitor don't worry I'll find things to do a good cool I swear I could have strangled Luke when he came back without primer my level of impress went from here here I cannot believe he came back without the primer well I got sick this morning which was not good and I'm tired and I have to like go around the city and stuff and forget primer which was like oh the main reason that I went into the store so that was pretty bad so Luke and I couldn't help noticing while we were checking out they're super boring generic candy color scheme over here but they have four tables and meanwhile we're scraping by with - so we've liberated a table that's how we do in Canada hey buddy yes we would probably just ask for it look they're American they wouldn't really like get it you know hello let me just get this hanging first yeah it's good okay so I just feel like pink right everyone knows Steve from gamers makes this it's gonna be like picky on the actual computer but what these guys don't know a central bar okay what about it I'll explain it in more detail there okay hey super dope kid so we're almost done getting everything painted we need to adjust the ramp to monitor a side panel and once we have everything under paint we got to run and grab a couple things that we couldn't get yesterday and then we'll be back here and we have to lay a second color of paint on our tabletop and we want to try to get that done about four o'clock which lets us let the paint set up a little bit let's pull the tape and then be done for the day and let it cure I bet you did pretty good pretty darn good so it's going to it's going to be a little bit closer on the second code as well because right now we have a lot of that white popping through so you're gonna see that it's really close we've actually done pretty well we just have so what we're gonna do now is we're going to bond this little insert panel right here that we cut we're going to bond it into this piece and let that sit overnight so that it's good and strong and when we come back in the morning it'll be locked in and will be solid and then we can stuff it in yeah so loose this is code number three of the monitor this is the point where this gold either starts to look good or we give up hope on it okay cool yeah cool the biggest surprise for me today was how well the gold turned out I I was Ruth oh I was pretty worried when I saw the first coat cuz like you can never judge paint by the first coat but it's a clue that looks pretty right yeah okay yeah I'm actually done with that okay could maybe use like one more coat but it's definitely coming together hey one more coat is a hell of a lot of use are there easier than oh my god blow it up it's terrible that whole thing that we were kind of told we couldn't do I think they're gonna go pretty far with that you know what though I honestly I'm not worried about that well we assumed based on that we had parts provided by sponsors so no we weren't explicitly told we couldn't I was I was told by you okay you know how we observed that their system is like really safe like actually like boring I'm worried that they did that on purpose what do you mean I'm worried that that we're looking at sort of a fraction well don't look at it then this is a bad time to mention that I don't really know how to mask and I'm just kind of winging it I already knew that okay if I hadn't already known that before today I would have known it from watching her do it so there's that I mean it was based on your masking skills that I decided to do all the painting rather than hand off at some point might have just damaged the finish on one of the most important parts the frame of the monitor hold on let me see if I can retouch it while it's still wet I believe so Luke crazier thing um I'm out of stuff to paint Mouse all right done do you want me doing something else but you're gonna have to kind of disassemble it for me did you do the keyboard ah I'm gonna assume that I did but I can't find it if we use a bag to mask it off we tie it nice and tight then I think I can probably spray around it and hit the frame holy crap it does look ridiculous it looks crazy some mad scientist lab today was a blur because I was doing the same thing over and over and over again and I was on paint fumes well that's what today is gonna be like so I mean sample size of one but other than me spitting on it just now making lightsaber noises finish on this looks pretty good I'm I'm really happy so I'm gonna start hitting this with paint my goal for today is to finish painting things so that tomorrow I don't have to look at another can of paint speaking of which what am i doing I'm gonna finish taping off this power supply yes and then I'm gonna finish doing some of the stuff that we were talking about - those tubes yes and I need that thing yes ah ah yes the thing the secret weapon ah so turns out that I had a thread Ripper block on my desk the whole time I don't know where they're gonna get one if the competition was two days I think that would look awesome yeah I mean I like it I'm like pretty pleased with how this turned out actually iron man yeah man I bet that's not the team I can't get any paint on where it is anyway so are you good mm-hmm okay yeah I contained it you don't look that good yeah I know I've like filled my mouth twice in the last 10 minutes pretty gross yeah I know all right that needs to be primed too so just the block and the feet of the monitor and then we're done priming okay so are we good for primer then yeah we're good but if I did send you to go buy more primer that's what you'd buy right yes oh my god I hate this nozzles also it's leaking at the bottom frickin brilliant I'm trying to imagine a way that I could be more pissed off by having two bad spray cans in a row yeah I think it looks chocolatey I'm not gonna get after them for the color I think it looks chocolate I don't think I could be more mad right now well you and that color have had their differences together something great has happened my hand my fingers are oh well our cards dead okay you can use things yeah okay we don't know it I just have to do all of this over again so our GPU can't be our cool than anymore cuz we ripped off the fan header which is like ridiculously on here what I'm trying to do right now is get the block part off of it because then you could just paint this yeah I swapped the other card yeah yeah hell yeah go over some of this okay sort of I laid it out on the ground but like sorry right now I am trying to get a rough idea of how this whole train track thing is going to be able to come together I'm pretty unsure but I'm gonna try to make it work I'm still painting thanks for asking you know what yeah let's diorama it up for a little bit here just to make sure what I need to buy we need to sanity check this I don't want to go back to toy traders if we don't have to so I actually don't mind our idea at this stage we've got the Train we've got the town we've got the theme I think the system is going to end up looking pretty sharp I still have some deep concerns about the water cooling because I haven't figured out how I'm gonna make the limited amount of tubing that we have work with the fact that I now have to integrate a reservoir and pump but my only concern at this point is the legs our plan for the legs completely fell through and we have no backup Oh bought some candy from the candy Train and are gonna go to the park I guess because they're not there yet because they're by the candy Train that that that's a dog the candy table can't candy die it's a black licorice dog it's not a black lab it's a black licorice dog there there's a tree you know I don't know what lollipop tree it's a lollipop tree yeah and then there's some strawberries which are probably gonna be jube jube shrubberies I don't know every previous tech show down the setup has been that Lyons and I go shopping in the morning before tech show down actually starts and buy all of the stuff that we're going to use because we know the theme and then the entire duration of tech showdown is us implementing that theme that's it we have one shopping trip and we make it work and with this tech showdown we decided to sit there and try to visualize it or sit there and start taking things apart while trying to think of what we should do and I think the best thing for us would have possibly been to just go to the dollar store and go to the other store and see what we can find like we did in previous episodes I could also be totally wrong about that I don't know I just think our theme isn't super great yeah so I've got all my tape put back over the white area so that I can just stay stay with the same pink area that I had before and tried to get it as close as I can to the same edge so that it doesn't look Wiggly or anything like that so it doesn't have to be super perfect but I'm gonna go ahead and just roll the pink back over the top of this you can maybe see on the camera there's some light areas and dark areas and so you'll get that just on your first coat and so on the second coat and then if you go with like a third coat it'll darken up more and more each time so it'll it'll become more solid it is better but just magnetic so those just drop off now we have our pink and white mouse to match and they're ready to lock into place all except for it well it won't look right on the inside corners window hill Wow so this is an awesome fact only 60 calories contains 20 servings at 60 calories we have to put our steel bendable rods into our lollipops so I got to cut the dowel off and now I'll have to drill a small hole and to fit the steel rod just right yeah sweet pinks a little lighter but not too bad okay a lot of pee first the award is all pink keys white keyboard and with the white piece of you cover underneath we should get a nice sweet blow from the gonna be a trick what might be a trick to get this okay oh why am i so long oh that's right I left it long ago how do you okay so here's the little box I made the adhesive is still a little bit on the sticky side oh nice dude what it's awesome doesn't that definitely gonna be sweet yeah alright I have to be bubbled up to look really oh yes not quite actually Colton actually thought we did do it for a living oh no we don't we have day jobs me yeah it's something about working on servers and stuff and he's like you what yeah both of us do this as kind of a professional hobby I think is the best way to describe it we try to achieve professional results but both of us work five days a week and we're up here all week on vacation that's a really bad ugly contrast we could pull them we could paint them the problem is durability of paint but wow that's that's hideous we could just pull this front cover all right I'm just mad adding the whole thing yeah i'm have to do i have to fix a couple of these will heights because that phidias okay so yeah keyboard mouse monitor tower Bob's an OCD freak with working with him sometimes really challenging especially since I'm not at all and he gets easily distracted but you know having someone who's no sandy freak on a case modding team it's pretty valuable because everything gets put exactly the way it should be on the finished product and that sound means it's the end of the work day and the end of the show tune in next week when the boys will assemble their final builds and present them to the three celebrity judges will hi Justine be tickled pink will Central Park leave its mock on Riley and will Steve Burke of gamers Nexus be impressed by things that Steve Burke of gamers Nexus would be impressed by all will be revealed next week on the final episode of tech showdown