Bel Air (Cosmos II CM)

[alain-s]

Hello all,
This will be my first workblog here in the ROG forums. My name is Alain I live in Antwerp (Belgium) and I have bin modding cases for 2 years now. In total I completed 4 CM Project Umbrella, Black Obsession, Project White and Silencio 550 Limited Edition. This build log will be my 5th CM so let me introduce my new project Bel Air.

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For this project i will be modding the Cooler Master Cosmos II.

I won't go to much in to details of the things that will be changing of the case. That are things that u will have to find out your self, by following this project.

The hardware for this project is still undiceited. It will all depend of the budget that is left after I'm done with the case self. I might use the hardware from my previous case mod Project White.

To cool all the hardware i will go for water cooling. This time I will do a dual loop and for this i will use copper pipes again. I know it is not something new but i just like to work with it. Plus it will fit perfect with the rest of the case and all the other details.

So lets start we have all seen the Cosmos II in one piece. For this i disassembled the case and placed all the parts on my floor witch was to small because the iron body couldn't fit on the picture.







Removed the all the HDD cages + Midplate and PSU stand.



And the I/O backplate had to be removed.







Also cutted out a part out of the back of the case.

[alain-s]

That is it for the case self. The rest u will all see later if u keep following.
The next thing i have done is drawing the shape for the new air vents in the side panel. I have gotten the idea from a corvette anniversary 1978 with my own touch to it ofc.



With the sketch ready i just had to get the materials to make the design. Got my self some foam to start the modeling of the air vents.



I had several attempts with different kind of tools. First one was with a knife that didn't go well.



Then i thought of making a some kind of heath wire to cut in the foam.



That plan has failed to my 12volt adapter wasn't strong enough to heat up the wire. Then i just purchased a tool to cut with.



With the new tool in the hand a started to make the venting hole in the foam.



This gives a better idea of how it will look like but still is not good enough. After some time i decided to make every piece apart if the vent.

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One side is done now i only need to make a copy of it in mirror image.



And a picture of the garbage that was left behind.



That was it for this start post hope u all like. And stay tuned for the next update.

Alain

[Zka17]

Hey alan-s, welcome to the ROG forum!

Interesting project you started there! Those vents are like the gills of a shark... are you sure that you want to go with the project name "Bel Air"? something including the "shark" would be more interesting... I definitely will look forward for updates on this project!

[nadof1]

Great idea, can't wait to see more.

[HiVizMan]

WOW so talented, subscribed.

[alain-s]

Hey alan-s, welcome to the ROG forum!

Interesting project you started there! Those vents are like the gills of a shark... are you sure that you want to go with the project name "Bel Air"? something including the "shark" would be more interesting... I definitely will look forward for updates on this project!

Thanks Zka later u will see why the name Bel Air.

Great idea, can't wait to see more.

Thx nadof^^

WOW so talented, subscribed.

Thanks HiVizMan

[DaemonCantor]

Now you have me wondering where your going with this??? Are you going for the Style of the Bel Air Car? with it's Big Fins and Bright Red Round Tail Lights or the Beverly Hills Sort of Bel Air?

[alain-s]

I will use some details from the car Bel Air and also from other cars that where made around that time. Some details will fit more with modern cars but I want to mix it all up and make one unique design of it.

Small update about the new front grill of the case. The original design of the grill wont fit with the rest of the theme.



Removed the mesh and started to cut in the plastic housing of the grill.





After that i just had to file and sand the piece before it was ready for make over.





The 4 small pieces where placed on the rest part of the grill



This will fit perfect on the place of the old grill. And it can also be removed like the original grill by just pulling on it. The only thing that i still need to so is reenforce the frame of it.



When i recieved my parts of the grill i saw that i had made a little mistake. The curves of the grill all had angles in it. Not a big problem because i can file it round and sand it afterwards



When they where done i could start shortening and number the parts.

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After all the small works i couldn't help my self to sand 2 pieces with a 240, 600, 1000grid paper. After that was done i polished it to get the maximum shininess.



Placed all the parts on it.









I am 6 pieces short of the grill because i miss typed the number :wallbash: but will be taking care of when the rest of the parts arrive


Till next Update.