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Metal Ground Effect for unique feel

Written by Chris Tangora

Sunday, 13 July 2008

There is a simple, yet unique way to turn your case into a unique case. An effect called Ground Metal painting, sometimes called etched metal painting. Usually found around hot-rods or custom cruisers, the ground metal effect can easily transfer to a computer case mod.

The idea is simple. Get some stainless steel that you will be using for the case. Take an angle grinder and make looping or unique patterns in the metal. Come back with a clear or translucent

paint on top of it, and continue with airbrushing a design on top of it. The end result looks really cool. Even with clear paint the details and pattern alone are enough to draw some attention to your mod. Add in the color to the paint and you can achiever great details and textures not available on plain sheets of metal.

There are DVD's for sale on how to do this, or you could just experiment yourself and see where it takes you. The Case Mod Blog is doing it as a workbench, and plenty of modern artist use it as a medium.

Case Mod Blog's Ground Metal Workbench (in progress)

Mark Remling

Comments (1)

	21-07-2008 15:29
	For further reading look up the late work of David Smith, often considered the most important American sculptor of the last century. This is essentially what he was doing with his Cubi series in the sixties. Guest

vaguely_clear

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