One thing we love is over-the-top custom PC cases. The bigger the better, and the more ridiculous the better. This week, we're taking a look at an amazing case by Thresh_Keller, who used the Wardcliff Coil from Destiny 2 as inspiration for this one. thresh_Keller is a mostly self-taught sci-fi toy maker, making replicas of Blade Runner and Star Wars props, and all sorts of interesting junk. and all sorts of interesting junk.

I was able to get in touch with Thresh_Keller and ask him about this tribute to Coil. I asked about Thresh's background and how this wild build came about: He said: "Ever since I was a kid I've been taking things apart and reassembling them. Destroying, reusing, and reconstructing things has always been interesting to me. I get inspiration from found objects and junk that other people would consider useless."

The lore of the Wardcliff Coil reflects this concept to some extent, and it has inspired my production. Make something out of nothing. Use what you have on hand. If it works, great. If not, it will be one hell of an explosion."

The Wardcliff Coil is an exotic rocket launcher that fires small rockets in unpredictable patterns. Here is the flavor text of the item description of the Wardcliff Coil that Thresh mentions:

LORE ALERT

Ingenuity. Despair. A haphazard archetype of terrible power. Such were the factors in the Wardcliff case.

"Hamit's Journal"... The Fallen is tracking me... I swear to Ghost, there are 100 people out there. Cornered in the lab, out of ammo at Shanks, war cultists, arm yourselves. This rustic device was once an experimental axion emitter that injected strange particles to light up the cosmic underbelly. Here, this emitter is connected to a catacanic quark-gluon coil. I cook the pain there, the microcosm collapses, and the result comes out here. If it doesn't work, you can name the crater after me."

Turns out Thresh had someone special in mind when he made the coil:

"I'm playing a game with my daughter. She's 10 and we've been playing Destiny together since she was 6. We played the entire campaign together up to D2. We also have guns like the Thorn, Wish Ender, and Python with us. I decided to get her a Coil as her first gaming PC. That's one of the reasons I put so much effort into this build. I wanted it to be something she would be proud of and look forward to using."

Thresh_Keller also described the build process, which required a large amount of elbow iron and drywall anchors:

"The whole project was one big kitbash. The whole project was one big kitbash. It was very easy to fit the mobo. I thought it would be difficult. I made a template out of paper and drilled holes in the case. I had to cut a Bic pen and rubber grommets to make standoffs so that the mobo's circuitry and mounting screws would not touch the aluminum frame and arc. The radiator heater skins were mounted using drywall anchors and random screws, since the supplied brackets didn't fit my processor. Many bolts had to be cut off by hand using a Dremel tool."

Thresh explained where the real headache of the project lay. The veteran custom PC builder is well aware of this conflict between aesthetics and functionality:

"I wanted only certain things to be visible for aesthetics, so finding places to hide all the wiring was also a challenge. We wanted it to be like an old chopper, where you could see the functional parts, hear them working together, and nothing was hidden under the plastic panels. The PC turned out better than I expected, so I decided to paint the mouse, keyboard, monitor, and the articulated swing arm mounted on the wall accordingly. The weathering process is the most fun for me, not just for this, but for anything I build. It's literally destroying what I've painstakingly built."

What I really like about this PC is that it feels like a hodgepodge of dangerous space junk from the inventory of Destiny 2. It definitely looks dangerous and wild, like a backup generator for the Millennium Falcon that Han would have to kick a couple of times to get it to work.

Finally, I asked Thresh if he had any other fun projects in the works, and he did not disappoint. He doesn't know that he's about to inherit the Intel Inside monstrosity. So if he sees this before it's finished.... Surprise, surprise. You get Dell. Ha ha ha.