BOSS: FX57 by TechDaddy

Bits & Bobs

With the power supply mounted, I've got a good starting spot for cable planning. I already had a good idea on what I was going to do with it (was thinking spark plugs/ignition cables) but how I was going to pull it off was going to be the uber problem. Timelines suck when you start realizing that the corners you are going to have to cut in the name of hitting the deadline... but then, that is another aspect of the contest, the ability to manage time and your mod! Here was one of the cable routing experiments that I tried, and I almost kept it:

I needed to mull over my cable quagmire. Best way for me to do that is to work on another section of the mod! This lets my brain get on to another task and have success on it, while mulling over the issue in the back of my head. So, I went back to my front bezel. I knew the paint had cured on it now, and I then covered my center stripe with painters tape and completed the outer edge of the front bezel using the OSHA orange from the side panels. My goal was to create a look and feel like the hood line of an old 'Stang with the racing stripe up the middle of the hood.

Now, on some BOSS cars, the entire hood was blacked out. For me to do something similar would require me repainting the entire top of the case, and I did not want to do that. Added to that, continuing the centre stripe from the front over the top of the scoop would have made for an odd stripe that did not work wit hthe scoop. As such, I did not pursue that "historical accuracy" attempt. My design, my style!

After painting the stripe, I realized that a piece of tape was just a smidgen too far over off of the stripe, and after removal of the tape, my stripe had a white highlight to the side that just would not do!

So, I taped it back up, and hit it again to even up the colours. In the immortal words of the hardest working man in games, Duke Nukem - "Ahhhh... much bettter!"

A custom case needs custom feet! I took 4 acrylic cues and bored a hole about half way into the acrylic, then inserted a screw that was just a little bit larger. Then mounted that screw into my drill press and turned on the motor. I then held a file to the acrylic to smooth out the corners and make them more round, but not loosing their squareness completely!

I will have 2 different meteor lights installed into this unit (2 on the bottom and 1 more hidden in a wall = 2 controllers), and I'll tell you that the baby blue of those controllers absolutely suck! So, what is a modder to do when colors dont work? Take it apart and make it the colour you want! I dont need any pansy ass blue in here!

Vinyl dye on these plastics works wonders!