here's the latest update finishing up staining the case and painting what I needed to.
the side panels were completely done but I had used heavy duty double sided carpet tape to hold the acrylic panel on, it didn't hold though and when I went to epoxy it on I acidentaly got epoxy on the middle of the panel so have to get another one now.
here's the motherboard tray painted, as well as the pump. the pictures unfortunatly don't show the paint detail well, it looks like hammered metal.
and here's the back panel, I bought a cheapo case to cut up for it and the motherboard tray and I epoxyed it on and then bondoed it so it didn't look like two panels stuck together.