I started by painting everything, the color scheme I planned was silver for the insides and accents, and metallic black for the exterior.

Painted Bezel

Painted drives

I painted the interior, and assembled it back up with the hardware

Next up, I planned out a window design (hexagons) and used a Black and Decker wizard (never use a cordless rotary tool, I learned this from this project, it took over a week to do the hexagon cutouts, because the thickness of the steel). Also I picked up a 3 dollar blue led fan from svc.com, couldnt resist the low price, so I used my hole saw to cut a blowhole on the top.

The results of cutting

Next up, sanded for a good long time with wet sandpaper, then primed