This is the instructable that guides me to SteamPunk. :-)

I found in a Gothic shop a dragon head made of bronze. I bought it (just for further projects), put it elsewhere and forgot it.
A couple of month later I planed to build a NAS - System as a central storage for my home. I searched around for some material to build a case and then I found the dragon back.
An idea came in mind to build a desktop computer for my younger daughter (She loves dragons).
As the material for the case I decided to use copper pipes and for the case body I used beech.

Step 1: The Parts

You need:

A dragon head or something similar
A mini ITX mainboard
A hard disk
A mini ITX power supply
A push button made of brass (may be for door bells)
Some brass screws and nuts
4 red and one white ultra bright LED´s
Copper pipes and fittings
Three pieces of beech
Material to mount the main board, the power supply and the hard disk
Connector cables from the main board to the front panel
A 44 pin to 40 pin HDD adapter (if you use a 2,5 HDD)
2 component glue for metal

Step 2: The Dragon Head and the Front Panel

First I drilled two 5mm holes for the HDD LED´s as the eyes and three holes for mounting the head onto the front panel
In the mounting holes I cut windings for 3mm bolts.
Then I drilled holes for the back light LED´s for the cables and for the mounting of the head.

On a small PCB I soldered two red LED´s for the eyes. These LED´s connects to the HDD connector of the main board.
The driver on the main board is powerful enough to drive two LED´s.
Then I glued the PCB on.

I decided to have the "power on light" as a back light under need the dragon head.
I soldered three LED´s (2 red, 1 white) on an other PCB and attached this to the + 5V outlet of the power supply.
So I have a nice "corona" effect around the dragon head.

Then its mounted together and you can see the how the front panel look like on picture 7 - 9.

Bright eyes :-)

Step 3: The Inner Case

The inner case was made of beech as well.
First I mounted the main board as shown on picture 1. I used screws, washers and nuts for the mounting.
Then I mounted the HDD and the power supply, picture 2 - 4. The PS is driven by external 12V.
I used the DVD - drive only for installing the operating system, so I mounted it to the back of the computer, picture 5.

Step 4: Building the External Case From Copper Pipes and Fittings

First, I cut the tubes into the right length.
I used the inner case as a template. (Picture 4)
I used fittings for the "feet" of the case as shown on picture 5 and 6
With two component glue for metal I glued the tubes and the fitting together.
Than I glued the different parts of the top and the bottom of he case together.
As a last step I glued the tubes for the right and left "walls" of the case into the fittings.
I used tape to fasten it for the time the glue needs to become hard.