This gives off an amazing aged look to the case, as if it’s spent the last 10 years outside and neglected. I applied a very even coat of silver to the majority of the outside of the case, and then took it back down by both removing color from the edges of the case, and using a black acrylic paint wash to add grime in the corners. It’s a wax material that just rubs with a soft cloth on and gives a very metallic finish. I used Rub ‘n Buff for all of the color in this mod. Making a worn-steel finish is actually a simple process. The case needed to be a steel box, but worn-down and crudely assembled. I wanted to capture the darker, grungier side of things. The world is a disparity of styles, with the haves living in luxury homes drinking Cidre de Gristol… the other 99% live in a hastily put together city. While there are plenty of gauges, steam, and elegant costumes, there’s also a dingy, worn, and crudely-built element as well.

It’s easy to call the world of Dishonored ‘steampunk’ inspired, but to me there’s more to it than that. I wanted to get the detail set on the outside of the case first.

The hard drive tray in the Fractal Design Define R6 would become my canvas for this, and it was easy to see a lot of cutting in my future.Ĭutting into the internals would come later in the process though. The basic premise of the mod is a PC powered by whale oil, the main power source in the game. Lucky for me, there is no shortage of material in Dishonored. Working off of the mask, as well as concept art from the game, I determined very early on I wanted to create a PC that looks like it belongs in the game world. The hard part would be taking the image in my head and putting it into steel, aluminum and silicon. Starting with a physical, licensed prop from the game provided design queues and a color palette to work with. First, I played Dishonored for around 10 hours (not a difficult task), and I picked up a Corvo mask from one of the Dishonored 2 Collector’s Edition sets. I did two things to draw inspiration at the beginning of the project. The props and environments in the game are absolutely beautiful and truly unique. As the theme this year was Bethesda/id, I was immediately drawn to Dishonored.

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