How to make a PC look purdy
The current Chameleon incarnation uses heat-reactive paint that starts off black and gets the appearance of an oily film with temperature. Be fully aware that it's not likely to look like that in the final incarnation. Scan are instead likely to go with something with a bit more visual impact as the heat rises. Regardless, I present you with some sneaky pictures of the current Chameleon, based around a Silverstone TJ-06 faux-BTX chassis.
You can see the colour change as a heat-gun is lovingly waved at the Chameleon's laser-cut side panel.
The colour change in almost full effect, blue being the final colour in the transition the paint can make. Inside the current system is the installed water-cooling hardware and almost obligatory UV cathode.
Pump and res can be seen on the left, feeding CPU block and dual GPU blocks on the right. The radiator mounted outside of the chassis on a custom, yet-to-be-finalised bracket is something I'm keeping you guessing on for the time being, since the final spec doesn't feature on the prototype.
And that's your lot. We'll reveal more pictures of the Chameleon as time goes by, as it gets closer to completion. We'll also hopefully run an article on how it was painted professionally by Scan's man with the paint can. The small details on the Chameleon are all that are left to finalise before we can show you it properly.
What I can't convey in pictures is what the heat-changing effect looks like in real-time, up close. The subtle bands of colour move around the hot spot on the chassis, moving back inwards as the temperature returns to normal. With an even more dramatic contrast between the black and the heat-changed colour, the Chameleon has the ability to look even better than it does today with the prototype.
I mentioned previously that the Chameleon paint is a £1000 option, and option is the key word. Scan will offer the systems unpainted if the user requires, but still with the laser-cut logo on the right side panel.
The devil is in the details though. Keep an eye out for further pictures that show off the system's neater touches. There's the glow effect through the logo, the mounting hardware used for the reservoir, UV reactive chassis coating on the inside and loads of other little bits and pieces that'll have you smiling in admiration (hopefully, if this kind of case modification is your thing).
And paired with the looks, love them or loathe them, is performance you certainly can't have any issue with.
