Filling the loop once again

So yesterday I was sleeving the switch 810 front I/O cables & I used up most of the sata sleeving which was meant only for the sata cable. Sadly its enough to sleeve 1 sata cable only so now I got to order more. 

I am using MDPC sleeving btw and the quality is top notch. Applied a little super glue to the sleeving & cable so that it will not come out no matter how hard I pull it. I had bad experience with previous sleeving I did on 24pin cables so this time I will be adding super glue to give that stronger hold.

Time to start filling up the loop.

I plan to go for blood red colour to match the ROG theme.

Just experimenting with how much dye I need.

I only added 1 drop red & 1 drop blue but the liquid turned straight away to dark purple. This means the red ratio must be more than blue.

Sadly I was too confident & added lots of red & 1-3 drops of blue straight away into the loop. It straight away turned to purple. Now I got to drain the whole liquid & flush it with distilled water & get the ratio right. Learned my lesson lol, then I mixed the dye in a seprate 1.5 bottle first & started filling the loop from the bottle.

I got the colour that I need, the ratio I used was around 20drops of red & half a drop of blue. I drop the blue into a small glass of distilled water & slowly fill the water into the 20drops of red water. Used around half a glass so approximately only half a drop of blue is required.

Upper part red looks fantastic but the luminous panel kinda make the red looks yellow/orange at the bottom part.

Ignore the cable mess, I am playing around with leds. Apperantly the 3mm & 5mm leds I bought was wrong, they are not giving constant light. The led is have the "pulse effect" blinks & dims, blinks & dims etc. This may be nice for some people but I dont really like it so I got to find the correct ones now haha.

So do you like my reservoir? I hope the tiny bubble stays hahaha it gives a really nice effect to it, but unfortunately there are few scratches on the res. Oh well, people are not going to stare at it too long anyways right? :P

maximus hero is here

psu cover 100% completed

Got my vinyl from [@kray_keigo] today. Serious good high quality stuff :thumbs:  

As you can see from the picture, my previous cut with the dremel wasn't that perfect. Shaky hands :P so a quick fix with eproxy & you won't even notice it hehehe

My touch & go card definitely helped me in applying the sticker without bubbles :D

I am quite satisfied with the psu cover considering this was my first attempt, not so satisfied with the luminous panel yet as you all know but since this isn't a sponsored build or what sort, just my personal rig so who gives a fark :P I can perfect the luminous panel but that would mean me taking apart the panel, unscrewing lots of fittings here & there that took me quite some time to get it in place with such a low clearance plus I might need to spend probably another RM50-100 to get the material, laser cutting etc so I think i'll pass.

In case if there is a leak during the leak test somewhere under the psu cover & I couldn't fix it without taking apart then I might consider getting the luminous panel perfected. Lets just hope no leaks ya :P

Still deciding to go cover this 5.25" bay with acrylic + matte black sticker or acrylic + ROG logo. I think better to leave this as the last item to mod, let me get my motherboard first & fan controller.

It's either bending the metal or cutting it off with a dremel. Went with the lazy method lol otherwise the acrylic panel wont be able to sit nicely over here.

80% complete

The side cover is a little high so I will need to trim it a little bit. 

My design is to put another acrylic at this angle to help the airflow from the radiator.

Due to short acrylic panel, I had to glue another acrylic to it :P I am going to cover it with matte black sticker so the colour dosen't matter. Most importantly is to make good use of the resources you have! Don't waste it :D

Done with the whole cover but I had to make a hole & attach a screw to keep the acrylic panel touching the luminous panel otherwise there will be a gap :(

Easy to remove too, so cable management from the psu shouldn't be a problem. Just pop it out & plug in hehehe

I know the side panel is not straight but this is probably the best I can do with a dremel. Once I put the sticker I think it wont be noticeable.

Now I need your suggestion, should I cover this part like below? Full cover or partial?

If I cover it fully then the 5.25" drive bay part also I will need to cover...

Or should I just cover the top part, meaning the radiator & sp120 fans will be visible. I plan to make an ROG logo ...still thinking which to go for since full acrylic cover is very common & everyone done that already. I am thinking of doing something different.