indiefilmgeek
Sr Member
Heya, RPF friends!
I'm taking on a new build - and this time it's not Halloween or for the kiddos. This one is for the sheer joy of building something amazing to take to area conventions. I wanted to do something big, something mechanical, and something very recognizable. While I love nearly all big robots & mechs, many of them have been tackled by builders before - and some extremely well-done constructions can be found here on the forum.
Iron Giant was one of the least-done BIG robots I've seen. There are a couple of Iron Giant builds I've seen that look pretty good, but I wanted to go aggressively big with this one.
The sketch below is my concept drawing for a nearly 9ft tall Iron Giant costume - made mostly out of EVA foam.
I've asked a good friend to 'pilot' this beast for me and he's accepted the role of wearing hot & heavy armor with limited visibility while wearing ~18" stilts. Friends like this are keepers, folks! lol
Since both my 'pilot' and I work full-time jobs and have multiple kids, we're making a full-body cast of him so I can have a doppelganger of him in my workshop to do the bulk of the costume scaling with. This will be a pretty fast build (for me). There is an area convention in late June that I'd like to have this ready for. That's about 10 weeks from now.
So to keep us on track and while our 'pilot' cast is being created I started on the Iron Giant robot head.
Lots of pics below...
I'm taking on a new build - and this time it's not Halloween or for the kiddos. This one is for the sheer joy of building something amazing to take to area conventions. I wanted to do something big, something mechanical, and something very recognizable. While I love nearly all big robots & mechs, many of them have been tackled by builders before - and some extremely well-done constructions can be found here on the forum.
Iron Giant was one of the least-done BIG robots I've seen. There are a couple of Iron Giant builds I've seen that look pretty good, but I wanted to go aggressively big with this one.
The sketch below is my concept drawing for a nearly 9ft tall Iron Giant costume - made mostly out of EVA foam.
I've asked a good friend to 'pilot' this beast for me and he's accepted the role of wearing hot & heavy armor with limited visibility while wearing ~18" stilts. Friends like this are keepers, folks! lol
Since both my 'pilot' and I work full-time jobs and have multiple kids, we're making a full-body cast of him so I can have a doppelganger of him in my workshop to do the bulk of the costume scaling with. This will be a pretty fast build (for me). There is an area convention in late June that I'd like to have this ready for. That's about 10 weeks from now.
So to keep us on track and while our 'pilot' cast is being created I started on the Iron Giant robot head.
Lots of pics below...
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