So here’s the map mural side after distressing the crap out of it. She likes it like this, but there’s a Horde shield I was planning on adding. (see the next pic)

Here it is with the Horde shield my buddy Rob Mrowiec made with his 3D printer. Just sanded the top surfaces and like it like this. (temporarily taped on since I lost the glue gun)

I went a little nuts with the Dremel and etched the window

Here’s the front with the Horde symbol Rob Mrowiec made with his 3D printer. Sanded the surface and thought it looked awesome just like this.

The red lit fans aren’t doing exactly what I wanted them to do, but looks a lot cooler than this pic.

Here we are all lit up – kinda hard to get the full effect with the shop lights being so bright.

I put my thumb over the camera flash and turned out the shop lights – looks pretty cool.

Top down with the blow hole fans.

I don’t know… I like it better with the Horde shield.

Finally got a chance to redo the map mural on the side panel (correctly aligned and everything). Gotta have the case done by the end of the weekend though, since Blizzard’s been so flaky with their new expansion pack release date. It gets crazy from here.

Decided to go a different direction, so here we are all masked up.

Hammered Metal Pewter for the base coat. She said, “Well… it’s gray.” Yeah, well… we got a long way to go.

Here’s the metal side panel all taped up ready for some paint.

Here’s my first run at the WoW map mural I had stuck in my head. This is just the background art for something special I have planned as the main feature. But, I screwed it up and forgot which side was ‘Up.’ (hint: the bolts on the bottom secure the panel to the back of the case, so it’s 90-degrees off)

I decided to etch the World of Warcraft logo into the window, which turned out OK… but it’s a little lonely out there by itself.

Finally got the machine fired up and loaded with Win10 and WoW. I love the red lights, and it’s actually pretty quiet, considering it’s missing its side panels at this time.

So I pretty much blew my wife’s stimulus check on the gear to build a super hot-rod gaming computer for her. I decided to make it WoW-themed and hopefully, a little over the top. Fractal Design makes awesome computer cases, and I’m hoping they’ll like it enough for their case mod gallery when I’m done.

Here’s the gear:

Fractal Design Focus mid-tower case
ASUS TUF B450-Plus AM4
AMD RYZEN 7 2700 8-core CPU
G.Skill Ripjaws V 16GBx2
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Crucial MX500 1B SATA III SSD
Thermaltake Toughpower GX1 500W power supply
Lite-On Super AllWrite 24X SATA DVD+/-RW
Rosewill RDCR-11004 Data Hub