Review: Apollo Viking Unbox, Setup and on the DeskPost Date: 2015-04-21 |
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armyslowrdr ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 18 Mar 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 74 |
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So after about a month she's here. Of course it took only 3 days freight shipping. Apollo Viking is a beaut, and is well built.
I ultimately don't think I can knock any points down. Sure on higher end builds the markup is phenomenal, but having built the last four, I was willing to spend to escape the time penalty and headaches. While building can be fun, and I had even read up on sys-prepping, I am glad I went this route. There will be 10 to 20 photos followed by 2 videos if I can figure out how to embed them. Once again, although I had some concern after the order and until arrival, I see my fears were unfounded, and Digital Storm PC performed in a stellar manner. I give them an unreserved high recommendation. Awaiting arrival: ![]() Arrival: ![]() Really well protected...not a scratch nor a leak ! ![]() Led lighting needs a pressure hold and assist back in place: ![]() DS sends along all the unused parts: ![]() Right after first boot---I took the better part of an evening just scoping things out before even turning AV on ! ![]() There were about two days/evenings spent installing and configuring dozens of programs and transferring files. Here are Spinerval downloads transferring. ![]() There she sits, finally all in her rightful place as the new mistress of the cave ;) ![]() Overall view: ![]() First video render---Final photo: ![]() The videos rendered better than 1:1 or real time with minimum effects, titles, voice track and at 720p. So here are the 2 videos. The 1st is the tour of 1st arrival. The 2d is after she;s in place. There is a blooper mid way maybe in the 2d one where I forgot to delete off the timeline the end title of the 1st vid...lol. Highly satisfied ! Thanks DS !! <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/125643175" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe https://vimeo.com/125643175 https://vimeo.com/125643176 Edit...LOLOL I forgot to do the audio tracks right---audio is only in right chan ! Edited by armyslowrdr - 21 Apr 2015 at 8:51pm |
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ArkansasWoman777 ![]() DS Veteran ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4314 |
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"Captain Sirius Black"
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Snaike ![]() Moderator Group ![]() Just a dude trying to keep the spam away ![]() Joined: 23 Jan 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9462 |
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Brilliant review and set up...
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Alex ![]() Admin Group ![]() Digital Storm Supervisor ![]() Joined: 04 Jun 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16314 |
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Wow, that looks really good!
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bprat22 ![]() DS ELITE ![]() DigitalStorm East -- (Unofficially!) ![]() Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20391 |
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Very nice setup.
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Tidgxor ![]() DS ELITE ![]() The Kokopelli kid ![]() Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13000 |
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Nice! And Congrats!
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My Two Digital Storm Rigs: Mr. Bojangles (HAF-X, 2010) & Mrs. Bojingles (Bolt I, 2013).
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armyslowrdr ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 18 Mar 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 74 |
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Thanks all..and today while I was out riding the 75 mile Ft Hood to Waco Ride 2 Recovery segment a custom blue tempered thick sheet of glass came to cover the knicked up white Ikea tabletop !
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Apollo "Viking"
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oldlady RPGer ![]() DS Veteran ![]() One of the cool kids ![]() Joined: 09 Sep 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1080 |
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THAT is one awesome rig!!!!!!!! I love the yellow and white!!!
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Me sitting my ECMO in PICU. Now you know why I like LC. ;)
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ggo4th ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 Apr 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 65 |
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Wow! Great rig!
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armyslowrdr ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 18 Mar 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 74 |
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Thanks again :)
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Apollo "Viking"
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