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I'll be honest, the project name of AntiSFF came up some time after completion, and in reference to the multitude of Small Form Factor cases that showed up to LAN's.
I decided on the Brushed Aluminium flavour of case, and went for solid side panels as I wanted to do my own thing.
After much debating and drawing on panels I came up with the base of a design I liked (that had fans in the right places). It was quickly hacked out and smoothed off (jigsaw/dremel), then clear perspex cut and fixed inside.
A willing Power supply was found and rapidly hacked up to remove all but the 12 volt feed. This was to power the multitude of fans, pumps and lighting, and take some stress off of the main PSU.
A plate was made, and it was mounted on the right hand side under the HDD cage.
With this number of fans/pumps/drives etc, I decided to do what I could to save on extra wire blocking airflow. Just about everything was rewired with the right length of wire to save on cable management.
Same trick with the inverters for the cold cathodes (of which there were 8, four blue and four ultraviolet).
Radiators mounted in the case, the PA120.1 for the CPU loop, with the PA120.3 on the GPU's.
With the work on the case near completion, heatinks were ripped off of hardware (after a little testing) and the water blocks added.
Filling/leak testing. PSU beside the case for rapid power removal if the worst happened.
And there it was done. Some tampering went on throughout its life, the loops changed slightly as did the hardware, but still one of my favourite PCs to look at, and a real eye-catcher on the LAN circuit.
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