I'm concerned about you actually being able to wear this. Steel is an extremely heavy metal and even though it will be thin sheets, I feel you are underestimating the weight of your materials. Even a costume made of aluminum would be cumbersome. Imagine how much metal is in a bicycle frame and the comparable weight of said bike.
Don't let that stop you because I would be very impressed to see a metal ironman suit, just keep that in mind
screw the weight! try getting into the bars!
***** you guys... what a posting frenzy. None of you think I can do it eh? I have many projects like this that I've completed before, for WAY less than it should've cost.
Guess you'll all just have to stay tuned to see if I can do it.
well i will have to point out a few pros and cons here...
even with actuators and such, that is even MORE weight added to the suit. secondly, with available tech today, you MIGHT beable to get a really good looking MK1 suit going, but even the production team had a prob getting some one 1) into it and 2) mobile enough - most of the actuall scenes where the MK1 was roaming the caves were CG and the ones where he was standing still were due to the immobility of the suit.
pros here would be you MIGHT be able to do it for $150 IF you can
- Break into a scrap yard afterhours without getting caught
- Strip your neighbors car without getting caught
- Drive behind a scrap truck and hope something falls off
- Raid a college Tool and Die scrap bin without getting caught
then all the rest is just servos that will almost definately break down due to the stress, actuators that wont be able to aide movement because there wont be enough power to them. Notice the line on that military power suit? thats coming from the powersource to run it.
not saying it CANT be done, just saying that 150 will probably make it about as fesable as Doughnut rain tomorrow morning