You gotta love it when an old Beige box is resurrected into something like “The Beast PC” by Mark Anderson. The sacrificial case was an Inwin A500. The case enjoyed it’s peak sales during the Pentium 1 era. It’s now purring with it’s Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. Before Mark could hot-rod his A500 case, it was stripped to the chassis and modified with 2, 120mm fan holes and Mark’s “Beast” paw design. The main frame was powder coated Candy-Apple Red with Red sparkle additive.

The Motherboard tray and internal panels were chrome plated. The two tone color scheme looks awesome. Mark designed “The Beast” theme acrylic side panels and steel fan grills in Adobe Illustrator before sending them off to “Laser Cutting Service, Inc.” He sent out the finished grills to “Cal-Tron Plating Inc.” to be chrome plated. Not many people could revamp a 10 year old case like Mark did and “The Beast” is evil in a good way. You can read more about it in the The Mod Brothers Forums

Mark was kind enough to share the professional resources used for his project.

Laser Cutting Service, Inc.
803 41st Street North
Birmingham, Alabama 35212
205-595-7070 FAX 205-595-7021

http://www.lasercuttingservice.net

Cal-Tron Plating Inc.
11919 Rivera Rd.
Santa Fe Springs CA, 90670
Phone: 562.945.1181
Fax:562.945.1181

Mark recommends these business for power coating

Next Generation Powder Coating did the Candy-Apple Red with Red sparkle additive finish. Mark stated their website is down, but you can still contact them on Myspace and Facebook.
Next Generation Powder Coating
170 lockhouse road, westfield, MA 01085
p: 413 562 4700

http://www.nextgenerationpowdercoating.com

Email Next Generation Powder Coating

Mark has used Freedom Finishing for powder coating past projects with great success.

Freedom Finishing
Phone: (269) 925-3733
Fax: (269) 925-0244
Email: info@freedomfinishing.com
2755 Meadowbrook Rd. Benton Habor, MI 49022

http://www.freedomfinishing.com

- Bill Owen