Alan-Lee

hi guys, here are the results of todays modding. the basic gladius in now in form. just need painting and decorating. first of all here you can see the original blade, then the second video shows the gladius, not yet exactly finished but getting there. and now the gladius itself, at least more or less in form. i still need to deco the grip a bit.. more to come...

have cut of the grip and will now make the guard and grip in my style required. gladiatirs didnt usually have the best armor unless they were in a big arena, they usually trained and practiced with wooden swords called a rudis if a gladiator was granted his freedom through success, then he would have been awarded something like this. i am making my gladius a mix of both designs more to come

Hi guys, here is my first update. I have recieved and unpacked the case. I have also stuck on a few of its parts like the glass windows to get an idea of size. They will however come off while I am building. The NZXT sword ornament was a gift barered against a few packets of coffee. I am only really interested in the bottom blade part. I want to make SPARTACUS`s Gladius or sword out of it with a real blad and that will make in possible after cutting it up. Fortunately its just an ornament and not folded tempered damast steel so that will work. more to come and I hope to see something from the other too soon.

a little appetizer.

hi everyone, does anyone know how to insert/embed videos from youtube here. am doing something wrong, only getting a link FORGET IT GUYS, I GOT IT....

Hey Jos, good to see you here again. So guys, the time has come to start posting something while waiting for the modding goods. I love the wild style of organic modding and wild this will be. here is a little teaser. And be warned, this is gonna be casemod rock n roll all the way. And also a tribute to Andy Whitfield, RIP ANDY SPARTACUS MOD OF THE ARENA

Hi Everyone. Its an honor to be lined up with all these fine artists here. Good luck to every one of them. Lets get ready to rumble....

wow, i just went through asll the builds and am amazed. the bar has been set very high this year again. i wish all the best to everyone. may the best mod win. i have cast my vote, which was very hard seeing as the quality level and amount of work as well as the creativity level has really been pushed up high this time. the public vote ios nice to have but does not really always do justice seeing as everyone more or less votes for theri friemd or country. so once again i am curious who makes the top 3 by jury votes and the other votes at the end. good luck to all and thanks for entertaining us. Ali Abbas. www.computer-designer.com

hey guys, looks good so far. and you seem to be the only ones really digging into it. i hope some of the other participants realize that they actually have to participate to participate. nothing much going on in some of the other threads. the dalek is coming along great, i will keep peeking in, good luck and make me proud...

thanks jos, i appreciate it. yes i cannot really decide which color i like best. am glad it can change according to wish. the thermaltake rgb strips and fans controllers are really good and the canons really are practical for changing the parameters

yes, of course, all controlled via the canon gunwhale switches in the back. in some of the previous pics, like here visible again.

hi guys here are the last pictures of the interior. i took off the glass front and made these. and here while its on

thanls barakyo029, its nice to see that you appreciate my work. yes i also see the way i mod as art. i love building themes to the extreme, delving into topics and living the idea. thanks for your nice remarks.

yeah right, that works too.

hi guys, as promised, here is a little surprise. back in 2013 i made a small project called BUCCANEER BAY. It was based upon an external HDD sata to usb case and i used the power adapter ti fire more than just an hdd. in the end it was a nice little treasure chest with an hdd, card reader, dvd-rw and a usb port, including 16 leds and a cut throat pirate knife. i even used the hdd holder to make a pen holder. this was the result. it all works with just one single USB cord and the 24 watt power adapter that was with the hdd case. in 2013 after finishing this little project i swire to make a computer one day in about the same style. with af ew differences like the skull eyes glowing instead of the whole skull and for instance the used metal scraped look etc.. The PIRACY AND PROPHECY project is the next level almost three years after. here are some pictures of the whole set together and from back then.

thanks guys, i appreciate your appreciation. by the way, tomorrow i have a little surprise for you all. will post it tomorrow.

thanks guys, its nice to see handicrafted being honored.

batch three and two videos Here is the explanation video of the exterior Here is the explanation video of the interior

batch two

just bringing the final pics back to the end for those who look here anew, som they dont have to scroll through all the pages to find them. :-) batch two.. batch three

exactly what i said, gather experience so that your dream machine will be all the more better than you can presently imagein.

hi jos, remember that state of the art hardware is nice to have, but you can make case with low end too. that way you can better your skills, improve your talents and pave the way through experience to developing your know how. its more than one casemod that will lets you know what you do best, what you like doing and what not. you always then find out too what works and what doesnt. you will also find which materials you work with best and find the limits according to to tools you use and methods you choose. so dont think you have to wiat till you have the best possible hardware, just start modding. you can always integrate the best possible hardware later too. my first more or less respectable casemod was worth 29 euros out of ebay. it was niothing compared to all ma opponents at the 2010er DCMM, but it was still successfull. so dont think you have to have the best stuff to make the best stuff. its you as an artist who have to make, goo, bad or ugly things shine like gold. i should stop preaching so much, but its my experiene. creativity and fantasy should not be hemmed and bordered in by budjets and estrictions.

i frankly think that most votes so far are more of the nationalistitic type, meaning most people turn off their personal taste and just plain vote for their country. that happens in the best big events like eurovision sc too so i m not surprised that it happens here too. i have in all fairness not voted for myself, i took corey gregory, whos mod is really good and worth my vote.

hi jos, no problem, i have quite a lot. here are some links and video links too, some are in english and some in german. many of my projects are in www.bit-tech.net in english, others in www.we-mod-it.com in mostly german but english too. here is the last tv portrait, dubbed n english https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ7gX08ALTU unfortunatly most of the the tv interviews etc.. are in german, dont know whether you will understand them here is an interview which i gave in english in 2014 at the DCMM, featuring the DARK KNIGHT CASEMOD, THE SAMURAI SACRILEGIUM SCRATCH BUILD, and the 24 hour build we made called titan task force, which used to be a wheelbarrow and we turned it into a gamecontroller within 24 hours live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W80qw5nLtl8 here are many video that i made myself. https://www.youtube.com/user/alanlee1967/videos here is a whole bunch of videos and interviews. have many more, must find them. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ali+abbas+dcmm actually all you have to do is write in google images ALI ABBAS and the casemod name, like ALI ABBAS DCMM COLOSSUS amd you get pics and video here are some names of mods to look for in google images or videos ALI ABBAS and RAGNARS REVENGE DCMM COLOSSUS THE DARK KNIGHT RENEGADE PC-REFORGED THE STRONGHOLD THE BLACK WIDOW THE 67th BRIGADE WOODEN WARLOCK AMAZING GRACE ASUS ROGUE just to mention a few