111How did you go about
making the glowing adverts on the
GPU backplate?
Richi: The plate was made up for
me by Ricardo at coldzero.eu on
his UV printer, which allows semi-
transparent prints. The design is my
own, although I took some adverts
from the game and made another to
representing the fact that the GPUs
are made by Nvidia – I designed an
advert around that and adapted it to
fit the futuristic theme.That screen on the PSU
shroud! How does it work?
Richi: I love this screen – it’s hooked
up to a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650
Super card behind the motherboard
tray, as well as one of the main
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPUs. It plays
a video of advertisements from theactual game – I had to drive around
the game and screenshot all the
ultrawide adverts, then mix them
up with some video adverts from
the game (the videos were ripped
from game files). I think I overdid
it, though, as the total length of the
advert loop is seven minutes.them look worn – I sanded away
edges and complete lines of paint.
After this, I used 3,000-grit paper
with water to flatten it down, and
then used some 400-grit paper to
sand the edges of the top panel back
to silver.
One of the hardest parts was
jamming a small screwdriver into
the edges of the front I/O ports, as I
wanted though to chip off the paint
around the ports to give them the
whole worn vibe. This was then all
finished off with four coats of 2K
lacquer and compound rubbing (by
hand), and then polished.
It was a lot of work, and it’s hard to
see it all, but I know I’ve done it and
that sits right with me. The panel
paint in studio light and standard
lighting just shows up a green sort
of colour, but it changes to blue
under really bright light, with a
sparkle to it. The main painting
advice I would give is to prepare
well, and then put loads of sweat
and elbow grease into the colour
sanding, as well as the compound
rubbing-down of the finished
lacquered product.
It plays a video of adverts from the game
- I had to drive around the game and
screenshot all the ultrawide ads