[ScottH]

Unreal!!

I've now seen 2 of the 3 Iron Man movies, thanks to Cathay Pacific.
So I can relate to this thread a bit more.

Fantastic work. Are you sure your name is Barry, and not Tony??

[Barry]

Unreal!!

I've now seen 2 of the 3 Iron Man movies, thanks to Cathay Pacific.
So I can relate to this thread a bit more.

Fantastic work. Are you sure your name is Barry, and not Tony??

Should I change it now or remain incognito...?


Faceplate finally automated!! YAY!

[Barry]

Here's tonight's work.

Eyes AGAIN. I acquired a sheet of thick perspex in opaque white so I cut the eye shapes and put them in the oven until they were soft enough to bend and contour inside the helmet.

Next, I found some hex-pattern steel mesh on the front of some old speakers. I cut them to shape for the eyes too. The vision through them is pretty good. If I do use the perspex I will glue them in with a gap at the bottom to see through. Otherwise I might find some good LED's to put in there on their own instead.

Glued them in with hot glue, taped them up and painted the whole helmet in the shiny gold acrylic. Once that's dry, I'll mask off the faceplate and lip then paint the rest of the helmet the anodised red over the gold. Should come up pretty stunning.

[Barry]

Wow!!! brilliant but scary ..

Less scary now?

Got a bit of painting and detailing done today.

[Barry]

Just for fun...

[Barry]

I've been working my dodgy electrical skills for a couple of days getting in these 180 Lumen LEDs behind some opaque perspex. Vision is limited, but I can still see what's in front of me.

The lights have kill switches inside the helmet, as well as contacts on the faceplate to cheek that activate the eyes once the faceplate is down.

Still having problems with the faceplate mechanism stripping the plastic gear on the servo though. I feel some superglue is needed....

I'm ready for the padding now.

[Barry]

I've been working on one of the shoulder bells this week.

1. First coat of filler to bulk it out.

2. Starting to shape and smooth as layers are applied and sanded.

3. Spray putty and a sand for the finer holes.

4. Primer filler and a sand in preparation for the final coats.

5. Undercoat of metallic gold.

6. Final coat of anodised red over the gold. Sweet!

[Barry]

Uh Oh I think someone has run away with Bazzas Iron Man suit >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Oh you are kidding.....!!! !



Shoulder bell fitted. This thing is starting to scare me.....

[Barry]

I've really been putting in the hard yards with the chest and back piece lately. Up until today it was one piece and impossible to get onto the tape-dummy or onto my own body. I've been dreading this bit.

So today I installed some heavy plastic buckles on the inside, fibreglassed them in position then cut the pieces apart right on the join of the buckles.

1. Male buckle installed on the back piece at rib-level

2. Female buckle installed on chest piece at rib-level





3. Preparing for painting!


Today I started on filling the hip pods with car-filler and finally started painting the chest and back.

[Barry]

1. Another test-fit before final coats on the chest piece. Nothing is secured where it should be properly yet, hence the displaced shoulder bell.
2. Chest and back painted. Arc reactor fitted and powered up.
3. The top half of the suit so far. Lots to start fixing together now, padding out the inside and adding all the attachment points to lock it all together.

[Barry]

1. Problem with cavities in the papercraft solved by cutting away some paper and filling with resin.
2. Going to work on the arms.

[Barry]

Hip pods done. Working on an arm now.

[Barry]

Masking off the bicep for painting.

Upper arm and bicep painted.

Articulating the elbow joint.


Testing for fit and range of motion.

A couple for fun.

[Barry]

Today I did my best to complete the articulation of the right arm. The aluminium is screwed into the shell on the inside then covered with fibreglass mat.

As I had leftover resin I started hardening the left arm on the mannequin.

[Barry]

1. Getting the final fitting done on a half-finished suit and preparing for it's first night out in public!



2. Only a week to go before the suit goes out in public. Cleaned the shed, organised the benches, got all the fibreglass and bog, paint, sandpaper, files, hot-glue and more, ready to get into some serious overtime this week to get as much done as possible. I at least want to have the whole upper-body finished. No time for the legs. Oh well, at least I'll be able to sit down at the party.