Custom Painted Noctua Meshlicious

This was a fun project. I scored Asus Noctua 3070 few weeks ago so decided to do a custom paint job on Meshlicious which was the smallest case I could find that fits this 4.3 slot beast.

Stock mesh panels it came with probably provided great airflow but it wasn't gonna give enough visibility for the beautiful card design, so I had to copy Jakeface Custom's idea of creating a clear panel with hole pattern with a laser cutter. Not the most perfect especially around the brown frame with vinyl stickers when looking at it up close, but it turned out pretty good.

I also found a post someone posted on r/Noctua that showed a Rustoleum spray can that had almost 99% identical color match to the beige, so most challenging color matching problem of the project was easily bypassed. Painting was pretty straight forward. Sanded the powder coat lightly to roughen up the surface and did the colors, then finished off with clear satin top coat. It's not nearly as strong as the original powder coat, but it'll sit on my desk so I'm hoping it should be more than ok.

With it all done, I can't stop looking at it. Overall very satisfying turnout, and hoping to enjoy the heck out of this build.