**Building a Custom Star Wars-themed PC Case**

As I began working on my custom Star Wars-themed PC case, I knew I wanted to create a truly unique and immersive experience for anyone who lays eyes on it. The first step was to identify the key elements that would make this build stand out from the rest. For me, it all started with the concept of "damage." I wanted to incorporate elements that suggested the ship had been damaged in some way, perhaps during an explosion or battle.

To achieve this effect, I began by applying a primer coat to the entire case. This helped to create a uniform base color and allowed me to add details later on. Next, I started working on the impact damage itself, using a combination of airbrushing and heat-sinking techniques to create the illusion of explosions and glancing blows that had missed their mark.

One of the most interesting aspects of this build was the incorporation of a heatsink from an old stock cooler, which I had found in my workshop. By attaching it to the case using some zip ties and adhesives, I created a makeshift "hazard" that added an extra layer of realism to the overall design.

Another key element of the build is the hole that has been blown out on one side of the ship. To add some visual interest to this area, I decided to use a Cooler Master V650 power supply unit as a focal point. By poking wires through the hole and using them to create a "messy" effect, I aimed to give the impression that the explosion had caused significant damage.

I also wanted to play with the idea of color in this build, so I experimented with different hues to create an interesting contrast between the various components. For example, I used a combination of black and red paint to create the illusion of ketchup and mustard stains on some of the wires.

As I continued working on the build, I started to think about how to integrate the various components into the overall design. This is where things got really interesting – I decided to use different techniques such as heat-sinking and airbrushing to create a unique " damage" effect that would be visible from all angles.

One of the most fun parts of this build was experimenting with different colors and textures to achieve the desired look. For example, I used a combination of black and red paint to create the illusion of ketchup and mustard stains on some of the wires. By carefully applying these colors in different areas, I aimed to give the impression that the explosion had caused significant damage.

As I worked on the build, I kept thinking about how to incorporate more details to make it truly unique. This is where things got really interesting – I decided to use zip ties and adhesives to attach some smaller components, such as a fan on top of the case, which added an extra layer of realism to the overall design.

**The Final Touches**

As I neared completion, I began to think about how to finalize the look. This is where things got really exciting – I decided to use airbrushing techniques to add even more details and textures to the build. By carefully applying these colors in different areas, I aimed to give the impression that the explosion had caused significant damage.

Overall, this custom Star Wars-themed PC case was a labor of love that required patience, creativity, and attention to detail. With its unique blend of airbrushing, heat-sinking, and zip tie-based details, it's sure to be a showstopper at any tech event or gathering.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right it's been a while since we played around with this guy the star wars build i was waiting on some 3d printed stuff to come in uh from my friend aj so that's what we're gonna do today we're gonna continue on with this madness i don't think there's anything else i'm actually waiting on to complete this build now that i think about it uh so yeah let's see how far we can get today i'm thinking this video maybe one more will be what i need to complete it the very last video is going to be all the custom touches with the airbrushes and whatnot so let's see how far we can get today evga is proud to announce their new x570 for the wind motherboard with multiple rgb and argb led headers fin stack heatsink switchable bios and 15 phase digital vrm the x570 for the wind motherboard brings evga's legendary build quality and performance to ryzen processors to learn more and see the full feature set follow the link in the description below so you can see i started adding some of the gribbles and stuff on here this is just a heatsink actually i took off of another motherboard this right here is also a heatsink i took off my motherboard in fact those motherboards are sitting right here so this is why i like keeping around old stuff that is either damaged or doesn't work anymore because i can take the heat sinks and stuff off and use them in these builds in fact i think i'm gonna end up using this one as well i might try and find a big flat one i might even cut some pieces off of these motherboards like i've talked about the past to make them uh just fill in the space nicely if you will so i'm going to take this top piece off which really likes to get stuck because the paint is built up oh wait i can't take it off because this is wow jay you're stupid so this panel is really getting heavy now with all this stuff on it but anyway the top piece the exhaust fan is in my opinion the most important piece of this build not just for aesthetics but also for functionality and cooling on this guy so this 3d printed piece right here we talked about trying to make this out of styrene but obviously 3d printing is much better for that so aj or xeroscape if you follow my live stream he 3d printed this for us and you can see that's a really good fit in fact let me put the wire back down through here so you guys can see so i need to do right now is i need to make a template to find where i need to actually mount this thing i'm not sure what the infill is like on here if it's hollow or not and how i'm going to mount this down but i'm going to try but it gave us a few different sizes i think the 100 in abs is perfect um look at that that so that's not the fan that's gonna be on top it's gonna be an rgb fan but as you can see that just looks amazing he also provided me some other 3d printed stuff let me get it so he also had these uh rebel insignias made for me um this is actually the rustible as you can see it's already rusting i don't think i'm going to use the rustable one though because i'm not planning on doing rust effects on this ship but you can see that it's got the i think iron infused or whatever the metal is that's in there to allow it to naturally rust and that's actually what's happening to this all on its own as you can see but i can use these like up here right look at that so if i were to mount that in the center so you can see now we've got and i'll and i can paint that red right the logo is red or i could just do this one make this one red put down the quick cut sticker and then not to worry about trying to mask it off and then we get the rebel insignia so it's little things like this that really start to sell the uh the theme if you will something else i worked on off camera is this is one of those vents i showed you um the graphics card side is this side right here so i'm gonna be mounting this on here i need i want to cut out holes in here a little bit to make airflow a little bit better but this is gonna blow directly on the graphics card and i was just fortunate enough to where the size of these is just perfect in terms of fitting two 120 millimeter fans right in between these two uh fins if you will i guess we'll call them we'll call them fins and come on stupid wires the wires are all in my way so then those will be blowing directly on the graphics card and they're going to be rgb and i still need to like put a fan grille on here of some sort or have one 3d printed that's very star wars themed that way i can you know not my fingers get caught in there or whatever but these will be glowing like light blue like engine thruster type of color i might end up painting this black because i think it being a black grill would be kind of neat and this is just primer so i can still paint whatever color i want over it so we got some cutting we got to do today we got some painting we got to do i want to add some more gribbles on here um it's really a fun day fortunately he gave me two of these right so he gave us this one's really heavy it's a whole different material but i believe this is 105 because you have to account for like material shrinkage and such the fan mounts down obviously and then if i don't get this lined up perfectly like if it's not where it needs to be then those holes for the fan won't line up so i need to come up with some sort of a template to line all this up and my theory on how i can do this is i can tape all of this down and i can be like boom right so now i can see where the holes are and where the edges of that are and i'm not using this fan by the way i will be using an rgb fan for obvious reasons so i can make myself a template here that i will then be able to transfer over to the top here line up the holes for the fans and then i'll see exactly where i can drill with my ideas i never know if they're ever going to actually work i feel like i just get lucky half the time okay all the time but whatever i now have to also mark my safe area my safe area i mean the area at which i have to work now i know that within these corners that is what i have to work with so i've got to make a mounting point like there and one line there and one right there and one like there so i have kind of a backup plan if i ruin this like if the screws won't hold or the screws crack it out i want to use the self threading like fan screws but i'm going to drill the holes to be roughly the right size for them to thread without cutting too much because i don't believe it'll break it but then if i fall out fails i'll just end up like hot gluing pegs in there let the pegs come down through hot glue the back side clip them flat and then they'll just be held on that way i don't want to use two-sided tape on this i don't want to use hot glue on the surface because it will just be ugly but i believe that this method will work so i think i'm actually going to use smaller screws first work my way up to those if i need to right because you can make a hole bigger you can't really make it smaller nice thing is on the screws that i want to use the head is a lot bigger than the threads so obviously if i'm not perfect on the location of the holes when i transfer it to here then at least there's some room to move it a little bit but i can't move it too much because like i said these holes for the fans that are here still have to line up there we go that she threads in nicely but it just like it doesn't even bottom out it just immediately like it just immediately starts like it's not stripping but churning so let me just try the secret to hold on nicely that's all i need to do is hold on it's not like it's a load bearing piece of any sort if i've got to do some like small amounts of thin two-sided tape on the bottom i will i just don't like taping to paint you can see now what i meant about making my template here now i don't need this anymore oh the edge of that one barely made it there i think i need to stuff these screw holes slightly because i don't want them threading into the case i want them threading into the plastic piece and i think if i put like when i go to thread it on if i just put like a few drops of like glue in there then the threads catch that should be enough to ever keep them from backing out i don't believe they should ever back out all right so that's mounted on there now had a little mishap with the drill as you see i went down too far and it splintered that out right there so i'm trying to decide maybe if i want to make this some damage or something but i could also just super glue it down and file it or sand it and it'd be fine i don't think we have any superglue here though so i'm going to rub this up a tiny bit put our coat of primer on there just make sure my fan still lines up only three of my fan screws ever lined up anyway because i screwed it up it's intaking instead of exhausting just like this video is exhausting i'll check it out hey nice this is what's going to allow me to run you know the high speed hardware in there without any sort of cooling issues so i'm going to get the fan out i'm gonna put a coat of paint on this and it's funny because you'll see just how quickly once you have a uniform color how nice and neat it all really starts to look when it comes together all right so while that dry is drying i'm going to grab another heat sink off of here i don't think i'll put it on that side this is the new so remember i said in part one that i needed another one of these vent pieces to get rid of the glass um nzxt sent me one that i think had a defect somewhere which is why they didn't use it which is perfectly fine because i'm going to tear it up anyway i had to grind off the nubbins at the top like i said because they don't line up with the holes i digress i'm trying to decide like i want to cut a big hole in it so that i can mount this to it so remember i've got this i've got a mount on here that's going to blow directly on the graphics cards and some of these holes do line up which is how i'm going to mount it which is the awesome part i'm not sure yet how i'm going to mount the fans though even if i just left these holes on there and let this blow directly into it i'm worried that it will make a lot of noise in fact i feel like right now i should set up a power supply turn on these fans and see how they sound blowing onto the holes like that i'm fairly convinced that they'll make a pretty bad turbulent sound that's not too bad what's the airflow like once again not too bad i feel a lot of air splashing out though which makes sense because there's a bit of resistance there get it resistance yeah there's actually a really decent amount of air coming in and it's all cool air yay feel a gentle breeze okay i think this will be fine actually one of the suggestions that somebody gave me that was really good by the way was hey jay you should uh you have this you know exit wound just clearly something blasted out right that's the way the energy went you should make an entry hole on the other side now the entry hole would obviously be a lot smaller um because the energy coming out you know expands and so that's why the hole's bigger and i don't technically need this to be all airflow because we've got three sides that are full airflow at this point now with that big old hole and stuff there so i'm starting to feel like i could just use this as a flat surface now to be able to paint on and do some gribble work um and i feel like i would much rather just use instead of the metal on this side i almost feel like i would just much rather use the styrene so let's give that a shot so this was a test that i had done on the styrene to see how well it melts remember this damage right here is half metal this is all metal on this side and this is all styrene on this side which is much more melted and stuff so i feel like i'd like to use a thicker piece for this so if we have a damaged impact there maybe even a second one like up here we have a small impact impact mark and a small one and then we can still have it blowing out the middle right there i mean it doesn't have to line up so now that i know where i've got room to work on there let's move this out of the way cause i do any grinding i don't want any metal bits in there that's what i love about working with this stuff you don't even need power tools with this this is a drywall scoring knife it works perfectly not supposed to go backwards like this but it works oh still the plastic on it this way nice but dang it i feel like i should have gone wider we'll save that piece because i want to rivet into the i don't want to rip it into the holes because i don't know if it shows up on camera those dipped down they're not flush if i rip it there it'll just it'll bow the piece in like that and it'll look dumb so i just didn't think about that i always want to work with styrene watching adam savages you know one day builds he's a styrene all the time that should be better yeah that overlaps the edges nicely now remember i talked about those seams and stuff whoops that look really good so what i'm going to do on this one now i'll leave that there it didn't turn out as good on the other piece as i wanted where is it oh still in here this one didn't turn out as well as i would have hoped oh jeez that's on there tight mostly because of the fact that i did it after the fact right see that one's crooked but i'm justifying how that's all i melted that on purpose to look like damage that came from the explosion i think it's okay if panels are a little crooked on this side i i think it's fair to say some metal shifted if i decide the shape i'll show you a neat way to do this so if i was to take this you're like boom right so when i cut these and i break them apart and i just do a slight gap just then you'll have that seam that i wanted but they'll line up and meet up perfectly because of the fact that they are from the same piece if that makes sense so now see what i mean not even if i put them back together exactly as they were i've got that seam there but i like i think a little gap would look good like that see what i mean normally there what i mean on me so that's the other thing too is if i just sort of round this is the edge still on this side yeah i was like why's it standing weird okay jay noob so here's what we'll do we'll cut so that we're not wasting your guys's time i'm going to get this all mounted up riveted in and then painted then we'll start putting greebles on it all right so there's the way that the panels look like on there you can see the holes that i pre-made in there so i can do the damage effect of it going in so i'm going to start by drilling a hole a small hole and then i'm going to melt said hole to look something sort of like we had on the other system there so i'm going to sort of just lightly sort of sketch how i want this this one here that kind of a tear shape to your drop shape because i want to kind of look like it came in at an angle right so so what i like to do for that start by drilling my hole and then turning so this is just a step bit so of course it's really rough but you can see now it's coming at an angle like that so same thing with this one here drill my hole and then put an angle that's all i need to get so what i'm going to do now is get my torch now and just sort of start shaping my hole there inward it actually looks like it just got shot doesn't it some damage on here that looks cool because once it's all painted obviously push that plastic down my fingers my fingers are impervious to heat i don't remember what the condition is called i know it's not poor circulation there that's a cool looking hole right there oh that looks sick dude that's freaking cool yeah how do you like the way those panels turned out yeah yeah way better on this side yeah and then you see the grading to the background so i've got this motherboard it's x299 socket and i kind of want to use the socket so let me see if i can get this off if not at the very least the retention plate on the back would make a neat looking green that's cool i like it it could be there could go there could go there there actually i think that fits like right there pretty nicely you could always do something with those take the little guys at least fit in the middle that okay so while this piece is drying over here and i know the sunlight is kind of screwing with the camera and stuff but you can see with the first coat of primer on there once all the colors come together i just took a heatsink off of a stock amd cooler that's another heatsink off a power supply you can or a motherboard you can see the impact damage now looks really cool you remember this is all just blank canvas i'll be airbrushing a lot of details on here resistance logos this right here is like glancing blows that didn't make it through and i'll i'll be playing with that some more um but i need to see it all uniform in one color before i can start to really kind of see how i want the overall you know thing to look in my head on canvas but i have another idea i thought of the other day that i kind of want to do and that's the fact that this hole right here that's blown out the side of our quote unquote ship should have some stuff poking through so i'm gonna use this one here's a cooler master v650 i've lost the modular cables for it it's really kind of got no purpose for us anymore 80 plus gold it's not a bad power supply but unfortunately something's got to be sacrificed for this and i don't have any bad power supplies or anything but i want some wires sort of poking through this hole and i want them to be ketchup and mustard i want the colors for this i don't want an all black one but we need them to look damaged right so different links on some of these when i do airbrush light airbrushing of black on these to dirty them up and to make them look like they were in the explosion right because there would be so or something it's funny a lot of people ask me how do you come up with how do you know these techniques like i just sort of come up with it it's like these techniques are anything special you see it's damage is easy it's the super clean builds people do that are like oh my goodness like in the mods and stuff so one of the nice things about the zip ties they're gonna give me something to sort of glue onto here i can't tell you guys how many times i've glued my fingers to stuff because of that thing i came out earlier with heat oh is it see see what i was saying i don't even feel it i don't even oh my god that's so cool it's just super glued or uh hot glued no if we if we go like that if you can't tell i sort of not just explode computers like this but the workspace too i'm not exactly what you would call a tidy worker when it comes to this sort of stuff nice so all four sides are now back on so you can see here our explosive damage hole which i'll still do some work on these wires but this is just an early the idea there was a wire conduit there and it blew up right our impact holes here some glancing blows that i have a lot of work to do on random heatsink thing and gribbles right our fan is on top and mounted which is so cool looking on top now what we got to do is on the graphics card side which is which side this side right here and we're not gonna do this today because it's time to start wrapping this up we'll be mounting this and the intake fans obviously i just want to hold it up there now so i can start to sort of see how it's coming together here oh that's gonna be so cool like i don't even need to do this on this side i just want to i'll figure out let's figure out something to do on this side too but anyway as you can see the star wars build is coming together we're getting awfully close to doing my favorite part which is the airbrushing techniques so there you go like i said i can't remember your name who said this i apologize you know who you are though someone had suggested making the some impact holes on this side i mean i think i'd imagine something a lot bigger but i already have a giant explosion on this side so i want to do it again on this side but there's our impacts and i cannot wait to see how this turns out when we start painting it all and get it all wired up thanks for watching guys hope you guys are enjoying the build series for the custom case stuff we'll see you in the next oneall right it's been a while since we played around with this guy the star wars build i was waiting on some 3d printed stuff to come in uh from my friend aj so that's what we're gonna do today we're gonna continue on with this madness i don't think there's anything else i'm actually waiting on to complete this build now that i think about it uh so yeah let's see how far we can get today i'm thinking this video maybe one more will be what i need to complete it the very last video is going to be all the custom touches with the airbrushes and whatnot so let's see how far we can get today evga is proud to announce their new x570 for the wind motherboard with multiple rgb and argb led headers fin stack heatsink switchable bios and 15 phase digital vrm the x570 for the wind motherboard brings evga's legendary build quality and performance to ryzen processors to learn more and see the full feature set follow the link in the description below so you can see i started adding some of the gribbles and stuff on here this is just a heatsink actually i took off of another motherboard this right here is also a heatsink i took off my motherboard in fact those motherboards are sitting right here so this is why i like keeping around old stuff that is either damaged or doesn't work anymore because i can take the heat sinks and stuff off and use them in these builds in fact i think i'm gonna end up using this one as well i might try and find a big flat one i might even cut some pieces off of these motherboards like i've talked about the past to make them uh just fill in the space nicely if you will so i'm going to take this top piece off which really likes to get stuck because the paint is built up oh wait i can't take it off because this is wow jay you're stupid so this panel is really getting heavy now with all this stuff on it but anyway the top piece the exhaust fan is in my opinion the most important piece of this build not just for aesthetics but also for functionality and cooling on this guy so this 3d printed piece right here we talked about trying to make this out of styrene but obviously 3d printing is much better for that so aj or xeroscape if you follow my live stream he 3d printed this for us and you can see that's a really good fit in fact let me put the wire back down through here so you guys can see so i need to do right now is i need to make a template to find where i need to actually mount this thing i'm not sure what the infill is like on here if it's hollow or not and how i'm going to mount this down but i'm going to try but it gave us a few different sizes i think the 100 in abs is perfect um look at that that so that's not the fan that's gonna be on top it's gonna be an rgb fan but as you can see that just looks amazing he also provided me some other 3d printed stuff let me get it so he also had these uh rebel insignias made for me um this is actually the rustible as you can see it's already rusting i don't think i'm going to use the rustable one though because i'm not planning on doing rust effects on this ship but you can see that it's got the i think iron infused or whatever the metal is that's in there to allow it to naturally rust and that's actually what's happening to this all on its own as you can see but i can use these like up here right look at that so if i were to mount that in the center so you can see now we've got and i'll and i can paint that red right the logo is red or i could just do this one make this one red put down the quick cut sticker and then not to worry about trying to mask it off and then we get the rebel insignia so it's little things like this that really start to sell the uh the theme if you will something else i worked on off camera is this is one of those vents i showed you um the graphics card side is this side right here so i'm gonna be mounting this on here i need i want to cut out holes in here a little bit to make airflow a little bit better but this is gonna blow directly on the graphics card and i was just fortunate enough to where the size of these is just perfect in terms of fitting two 120 millimeter fans right in between these two uh fins if you will i guess we'll call them we'll call them fins and come on stupid wires the wires are all in my way so then those will be blowing directly on the graphics card and they're going to be rgb and i still need to like put a fan grille on here of some sort or have one 3d printed that's very star wars themed that way i can you know not my fingers get caught in there or whatever but these will be glowing like light blue like engine thruster type of color i might end up painting this black because i think it being a black grill would be kind of neat and this is just primer so i can still paint whatever color i want over it so we got some cutting we got to do today we got some painting we got to do i want to add some more gribbles on here um it's really a fun day fortunately he gave me two of these right so he gave us this one's really heavy it's a whole different material but i believe this is 105 because you have to account for like material shrinkage and such the fan mounts down obviously and then if i don't get this lined up perfectly like if it's not where it needs to be then those holes for the fan won't line up so i need to come up with some sort of a template to line all this up and my theory on how i can do this is i can tape all of this down and i can be like boom right so now i can see where the holes are and where the edges of that are and i'm not using this fan by the way i will be using an rgb fan for obvious reasons so i can make myself a template here that i will then be able to transfer over to the top here line up the holes for the fans and then i'll see exactly where i can drill with my ideas i never know if they're ever going to actually work i feel like i just get lucky half the time okay all the time but whatever i now have to also mark my safe area my safe area i mean the area at which i have to work now i know that within these corners that is what i have to work with so i've got to make a mounting point like there and one line there and one right there and one like there so i have kind of a backup plan if i ruin this like if the screws won't hold or the screws crack it out i want to use the self threading like fan screws but i'm going to drill the holes to be roughly the right size for them to thread without cutting too much because i don't believe it'll break it but then if i fall out fails i'll just end up like hot gluing pegs in there let the pegs come down through hot glue the back side clip them flat and then they'll just be held on that way i don't want to use two-sided tape on this i don't want to use hot glue on the surface because it will just be ugly but i believe that this method will work so i think i'm actually going to use smaller screws first work my way up to those if i need to right because you can make a hole bigger you can't really make it smaller nice thing is on the screws that i want to use the head is a lot bigger than the threads so obviously if i'm not perfect on the location of the holes when i transfer it to here then at least there's some room to move it a little bit but i can't move it too much because like i said these holes for the fans that are here still have to line up there we go that she threads in nicely but it just like it doesn't even bottom out it just immediately like it just immediately starts like it's not stripping but churning so let me just try the secret to hold on nicely that's all i need to do is hold on it's not like it's a load bearing piece of any sort if i've got to do some like small amounts of thin two-sided tape on the bottom i will i just don't like taping to paint you can see now what i meant about making my template here now i don't need this anymore oh the edge of that one barely made it there i think i need to stuff these screw holes slightly because i don't want them threading into the case i want them threading into the plastic piece and i think if i put like when i go to thread it on if i just put like a few drops of like glue in there then the threads catch that should be enough to ever keep them from backing out i don't believe they should ever back out all right so that's mounted on there now had a little mishap with the drill as you see i went down too far and it splintered that out right there so i'm trying to decide maybe if i want to make this some damage or something but i could also just super glue it down and file it or sand it and it'd be fine i don't think we have any superglue here though so i'm going to rub this up a tiny bit put our coat of primer on there just make sure my fan still lines up only three of my fan screws ever lined up anyway because i screwed it up it's intaking instead of exhausting just like this video is exhausting i'll check it out hey nice this is what's going to allow me to run you know the high speed hardware in there without any sort of cooling issues so i'm going to get the fan out i'm gonna put a coat of paint on this and it's funny because you'll see just how quickly once you have a uniform color how nice and neat it all really starts to look when it comes together all right so while that dry is drying i'm going to grab another heat sink off of here i don't think i'll put it on that side this is the new so remember i said in part one that i needed another one of these vent pieces to get rid of the glass um nzxt sent me one that i think had a defect somewhere which is why they didn't use it which is perfectly fine because i'm going to tear it up anyway i had to grind off the nubbins at the top like i said because they don't line up with the holes i digress i'm trying to decide like i want to cut a big hole in it so that i can mount this to it so remember i've got this i've got a mount on here that's going to blow directly on the graphics cards and some of these holes do line up which is how i'm going to mount it which is the awesome part i'm not sure yet how i'm going to mount the fans though even if i just left these holes on there and let this blow directly into it i'm worried that it will make a lot of noise in fact i feel like right now i should set up a power supply turn on these fans and see how they sound blowing onto the holes like that i'm fairly convinced that they'll make a pretty bad turbulent sound that's not too bad what's the airflow like once again not too bad i feel a lot of air splashing out though which makes sense because there's a bit of resistance there get it resistance yeah there's actually a really decent amount of air coming in and it's all cool air yay feel a gentle breeze okay i think this will be fine actually one of the suggestions that somebody gave me that was really good by the way was hey jay you should uh you have this you know exit wound just clearly something blasted out right that's the way the energy went you should make an entry hole on the other side now the entry hole would obviously be a lot smaller um because the energy coming out you know expands and so that's why the hole's bigger and i don't technically need this to be all airflow because we've got three sides that are full airflow at this point now with that big old hole and stuff there so i'm starting to feel like i could just use this as a flat surface now to be able to paint on and do some gribble work um and i feel like i would much rather just use instead of the metal on this side i almost feel like i would just much rather use the styrene so let's give that a shot so this was a test that i had done on the styrene to see how well it melts remember this damage right here is half metal this is all metal on this side and this is all styrene on this side which is much more melted and stuff so i feel like i'd like to use a thicker piece for this so if we have a damaged impact there maybe even a second one like up here we have a small impact impact mark and a small one and then we can still have it blowing out the middle right there i mean it doesn't have to line up so now that i know where i've got room to work on there let's move this out of the way cause i do any grinding i don't want any metal bits in there that's what i love about working with this stuff you don't even need power tools with this this is a drywall scoring knife it works perfectly not supposed to go backwards like this but it works oh still the plastic on it this way nice but dang it i feel like i should have gone wider we'll save that piece because i want to rivet into the i don't want to rip it into the holes because i don't know if it shows up on camera those dipped down they're not flush if i rip it there it'll just it'll bow the piece in like that and it'll look dumb so i just didn't think about that i always want to work with styrene watching adam savages you know one day builds he's a styrene all the time that should be better yeah that overlaps the edges nicely now remember i talked about those seams and stuff whoops that look really good so what i'm going to do on this one now i'll leave that there it didn't turn out as good on the other piece as i wanted where is it oh still in here this one didn't turn out as well as i would have hoped oh jeez that's on there tight mostly because of the fact that i did it after the fact right see that one's crooked but i'm justifying how that's all i melted that on purpose to look like damage that came from the explosion i think it's okay if panels are a little crooked on this side i i think it's fair to say some metal shifted if i decide the shape i'll show you a neat way to do this so if i was to take this you're like boom right so when i cut these and i break them apart and i just do a slight gap just then you'll have that seam that i wanted but they'll line up and meet up perfectly because of the fact that they are from the same piece if that makes sense so now see what i mean not even if i put them back together exactly as they were i've got that seam there but i like i think a little gap would look good like that see what i mean normally there what i mean on me so that's the other thing too is if i just sort of round this is the edge still on this side yeah i was like why's it standing weird okay jay noob so here's what we'll do we'll cut so that we're not wasting your guys's time i'm going to get this all mounted up riveted in and then painted then we'll start putting greebles on it all right so there's the way that the panels look like on there you can see the holes that i pre-made in there so i can do the damage effect of it going in so i'm going to start by drilling a hole a small hole and then i'm going to melt said hole to look something sort of like we had on the other system there so i'm going to sort of just lightly sort of sketch how i want this this one here that kind of a tear shape to your drop shape because i want to kind of look like it came in at an angle right so so what i like to do for that start by drilling my hole and then turning so this is just a step bit so of course it's really rough but you can see now it's coming at an angle like that so same thing with this one here drill my hole and then put an angle that's all i need to get so what i'm going to do now is get my torch now and just sort of start shaping my hole there inward it actually looks like it just got shot doesn't it some damage on here that looks cool because once it's all painted obviously push that plastic down my fingers my fingers are impervious to heat i don't remember what the condition is called i know it's not poor circulation there that's a cool looking hole right there oh that looks sick dude that's freaking cool yeah how do you like the way those panels turned out yeah yeah way better on this side yeah and then you see the grading to the background so i've got this motherboard it's x299 socket and i kind of want to use the socket so let me see if i can get this off if not at the very least the retention plate on the back would make a neat looking green that's cool i like it it could be there could go there could go there there actually i think that fits like right there pretty nicely you could always do something with those take the little guys at least fit in the middle that okay so while this piece is drying over here and i know the sunlight is kind of screwing with the camera and stuff but you can see with the first coat of primer on there once all the colors come together i just took a heatsink off of a stock amd cooler that's another heatsink off a power supply you can or a motherboard you can see the impact damage now looks really cool you remember this is all just blank canvas i'll be airbrushing a lot of details on here resistance logos this right here is like glancing blows that didn't make it through and i'll i'll be playing with that some more um but i need to see it all uniform in one color before i can start to really kind of see how i want the overall you know thing to look in my head on canvas but i have another idea i thought of the other day that i kind of want to do and that's the fact that this hole right here that's blown out the side of our quote unquote ship should have some stuff poking through so i'm gonna use this one here's a cooler master v650 i've lost the modular cables for it it's really kind of got no purpose for us anymore 80 plus gold it's not a bad power supply but unfortunately something's got to be sacrificed for this and i don't have any bad power supplies or anything but i want some wires sort of poking through this hole and i want them to be ketchup and mustard i want the colors for this i don't want an all black one but we need them to look damaged right so different links on some of these when i do airbrush light airbrushing of black on these to dirty them up and to make them look like they were in the explosion right because there would be so or something it's funny a lot of people ask me how do you come up with how do you know these techniques like i just sort of come up with it it's like these techniques are anything special you see it's damage is easy it's the super clean builds people do that are like oh my goodness like in the mods and stuff so one of the nice things about the zip ties they're gonna give me something to sort of glue onto here i can't tell you guys how many times i've glued my fingers to stuff because of that thing i came out earlier with heat oh is it see see what i was saying i don't even feel it i don't even oh my god that's so cool it's just super glued or uh hot glued no if we if we go like that if you can't tell i sort of not just explode computers like this but the workspace too i'm not exactly what you would call a tidy worker when it comes to this sort of stuff nice so all four sides are now back on so you can see here our explosive damage hole which i'll still do some work on these wires but this is just an early the idea there was a wire conduit there and it blew up right our impact holes here some glancing blows that i have a lot of work to do on random heatsink thing and gribbles right our fan is on top and mounted which is so cool looking on top now what we got to do is on the graphics card side which is which side this side right here and we're not gonna do this today because it's time to start wrapping this up we'll be mounting this and the intake fans obviously i just want to hold it up there now so i can start to sort of see how it's coming together here oh that's gonna be so cool like i don't even need to do this on this side i just want to i'll figure out let's figure out something to do on this side too but anyway as you can see the star wars build is coming together we're getting awfully close to doing my favorite part which is the airbrushing techniques so there you go like i said i can't remember your name who said this i apologize you know who you are though someone had suggested making the some impact holes on this side i mean i think i'd imagine something a lot bigger but i already have a giant explosion on this side so i want to do it again on this side but there's our impacts and i cannot wait to see how this turns out when we start painting it all and get it all wired up thanks for watching guys hope you guys are enjoying the build series for the custom case stuff we'll see you in the next one\n"