Hey thanks for the interest
I got the door to the hot swap bay figured out a long time ago. I was just being a wimp with it because I was afraid to break something :)
Yes, I will certainly rivet the case back together once I am done. I busted it down into it's component pieces mainly because I wanted to do it "right" and make sure that each piece was properly painted and had time to cure, and also because I will be using a couple of different colors.
Progress has been slow because I have been sick, and also because I have been participating in the Star Trek Online open beta. Here is what I have been up to though:
First, I decided I wanted to reverse mount my two WD Caviar Black drives. Not a lot of room in an Antec mid tower, but I think it can be done. I had to drill some additional mounting holes before painting, and here they are marked out:
Next, I finished working on that plastic bezel that holds the two front 120mm fans in place. I sanded down my handy work to a clean finish, and here is the finished piece. The paint is Krylon Fusion Textured Metallic Graphite.
The paint isn't that "glittery" in person. I just don't know how to turn off the flash on my fiancee's camera

I am pretty proud of the job I did on that piece, it cleaned up real nice.
Here it is with a couple of Coolermaster R4 blue LED fans mounted in it:
Most of the other "interior" pieces including the bottom tray, motherboard tray, inner front tray etc, are being done in the same color. They are all at work on top of my filing cabinet curing and waiting for a backside coat that I hope to put on this week sometime.
Thanks for looking!