Well to get started I’m just gonna say the images that follow this message are copyright their respective owners/creators and I do not claim ownership or creation of any of said images nor will I be held liable for any copyright infringement. There now that thats said Lets Move along….the following images are some template images for what Im going to be doing with this mod.

Oky for the logo I plan on cutting 1 of those 2 out of the left side panel…havin trouble on deciding which one…kinda leaning toward logo #2. A for the Ship I plan on cutting a detailed version of it out of the right hand side panel of the case its not really a matter of choosing on that one since they are all the same ship…so moving onto the final piece which would be the Klingond Ritual blade depicted in the last image, that is gonna be my design for the top window of the case…I was gonna use a standard Klingon dagger but it seemed way to plain so I browsed through the selection of blades and the Kutluch ritual blade stood out the most with its intricate design. I gotta say this is the easiest I think Ive seen mod wise for getting all the necessary images for templates not to mention inspiration that Ive ever seen.

(Note Reason why Im calling it the Ritual Bird of Prey is cause the Ritual blade and ship ….I would have added Klingon to the name but I figured it was a tad bit long )

Here is Logo Selection #1

Logo Selection #2

Now Onto The Bird of Prey Selection

Ah Now for the Weapon Selection

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k here come the case Pics….its a standard plain Legacy beige box…I still have the legacy parts for it around some where but this is gonna be the case for my X2 3800+

Front View

Left View

Back View

Right View

Top View

Left View Open

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lol wow TGS did his paradise lost mod with the same case, faceless105 had the same case, em3bilko had the same case and Stuv is using the near identical case. lol talk about a popular legacy design.. also noticed mine made front page on fusionmods to lol shweet …my plan aside from cutting out those designs are, getting a Dangerden water cooling setup so no fans(other then the rad), Im gonna be using som modder’s mesh on the front of the case for the one design and Im also going to be getting 5 cathode style bubble LED’s for the lighting, 3 red and 2 green…gonna place 1 red at the top on the side above the bird of prey on the right, gonna stick another red on the left side at the top, third one is gonna go on bottom left side…for the green ones Im gonna get a 4″ if I can and stick it in the front panel and the other full size one in the bottom right side under the bird of prey. as for the paint Im gonna try my best to match the actual color of the bird of prey, once I get the case painted I plan on taking an airbrush and doing a rust pattern in diff spots around the case and designs…also thinking about stealthing the drives, if I can figure it out that is. Oh yea before I forget Im also gonna paint the chasis chrome red.

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Well I got some new pics to post on this work in progress….I didn’t get very far in this mod as my dad was in the same room and wouldn’t shut the F*** up about how Im killing myself with plastic fumes cutting this. <_ < but anyway heres what I was able to get before I had to leave the room.

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finally they went out to the store so I was able to cut the last 2 pieces out here are a couple more pics.

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Well I did some painstaking work at refining the edges of the front panel cut out….and since I didn’t have the money to go out and buy a set of files I improvised and used a nail file, art kit exacto knife and a round diamond coated grinder bit(by hand of course) lol I also removed as much of the excess marker outline as I could using antibacterial hand sanitizer and kleenix.

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well I’m finally back at it, heres the pic of the initial trace I did for the top panel. I figured I would cut the top design out tomorrow, or as much of it as I can anyway.

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well I made some very small progress today, I thought I had more of those crappy fiber sort of cutting discs then I did but only had 3 left so I wasn’t able to get much done before they kinda exploded on me.

I’m gonna have to go out to princess auto monday and grab some of those diamond coated metal cutters, but until then heres what I did manage to get done.

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well heres a small update, I would have gotten more done but I think my flex shaft may be melting cause it was like it just lost all power for cutting and was stopping in it’s track at the slightest pressure.

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wooo thread revival just thought I would do a small update on this mod, albeit I haven’t had time to work on it I really hope I will cause I would like to finishe it very much…..anyway ramble/rant aside heres the lighting I recently purchased and just received today for the mod, tis 5 red LED bubble lights and I managed to get them for $1.99 each and with shipping it cost me $20 (sorry for crappy image quality I used my laptops 1.3mp web cam for the pic lol).

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well I know it’s been a while since I posted anything really new in this thread but heres a small update, I would have finished cutting the last bit out of the top panel but the screw holding my cutting disc in the dremel snapped off and I need to find one of my spare bit. anyway heres what I managed to get done.

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well I had managed to find my other cutter bit however the screw on that one snapped mid cut to so I gotta go out and buy one tomorrow so hopefully I can post more of an update this coming weekend. other then that here’s the char LCD I just bought off of ebay for this thing, it’s just to bad it’s not red back lit but oh well blue will work fine enough to oh yea as for the price it was $10.37 with shipping.

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I am hoping I will be able to further update this mod worklog over the weekend once I can get a couple new cutter bits and possible get into starting one of the side panels.

~BCModder

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Yay first update in over a year, it’s not much but I finally did the trace job for the design I plan on cutting out of the left panel, I still have yet to decide on how I’m gonna cut the window out around it but that will hopefully be coming soon. =3

~BCModder

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