here we go, after receiving of the gigabyte motherboard (GA-MA78G-S2H) and other stuff.
First of all , I've "minimized" a regular backplate from a tower and assembled it on a 1,5mm thick alloy groundplate.
After fitting of the mobo by means of some plastic spacers I layed out the parts to find out the definite measurements.
I'll come up with next steps the following weekend. Then I'll have finished an auxiliary frontplate holding the vfd-display and the hd-dvd-drive.
ground plate
layout....
cu next weekend.