After doing a bit o' CAD work on that facade, i needed to make sure I could actually print at the level of detail I was designing.
Since the front panel serves as an air intake, I wanted to try and allows as much airflow through as possible. All of the small red bricks on the facade are actually undercut with an angled intake. From the front or above, it looks nearly solid, from below you can see the venting going through.
Coupled with some venting through the windows, and some intake on the sides of the front panel, it should have at least as much intake as the current case front panel, and possibly more.
Sometimes you just need to go old school first too:
And what would the front of the firehouse be without the illuminated sign? Back into software, knocked out the Ghostbuster sign, and gave it a quick test print:
The plan is to have this affixed to the front of the case just like on the actual firehouse (sticking out on rods, some chains keeping it vertical), and have the illumination tied to system power. That would all end up being pretty fragile, so in the interest in making it removable for taking to LANs, I did a quick test with a couple tiny neodymium magnets, some wire, and an LED.
SUCCESS! I'll be able to have a detachable LED sign now!
