So my 5 year old and I are watching Ironman 2 and he looks over to me and says the magic words "Daddy, wouldn't it be cool to be war machine for Halloween? And like any good father I say"I thought you wanted to be a cowboy."
So here is the costume I cooked up for him this year. I tried to work with scaling, but I didnt want to spend a whole lot of time doing the pepakura print, cut, transfer to foam cut, glue lots of pieces deal. I figure its the whole weighing the spend a lot of time for 1 night of trick or treating thing. I did a foam Ironman suit and spent 2 weeks last year making a suit and that helped alot in this build. Like Stealth says on his video, " foam equals fast and fun".
This suit took me about 5 days to complete, about and hour or two in front of the TV each night. I knew I couldnt count on keeping a 5 year old in place for any length of time (If you look up naughty on wikipedia you'll see my son's picture there), so I made a duct tape mannequin to help out.
I started with spirals so he could slip in and out of each segment then built up features using a 4 inch figure as a guide.
What was extremely helpful was have a scaled head to work with so you can have a helmet that wasn't giant size. 5 year olds already have a bigger head so I wanted to keep this down to a minimum
So here is the costume I cooked up for him this year. I tried to work with scaling, but I didnt want to spend a whole lot of time doing the pepakura print, cut, transfer to foam cut, glue lots of pieces deal. I figure its the whole weighing the spend a lot of time for 1 night of trick or treating thing. I did a foam Ironman suit and spent 2 weeks last year making a suit and that helped alot in this build. Like Stealth says on his video, " foam equals fast and fun".
This suit took me about 5 days to complete, about and hour or two in front of the TV each night. I knew I couldnt count on keeping a 5 year old in place for any length of time (If you look up naughty on wikipedia you'll see my son's picture there), so I made a duct tape mannequin to help out.
I started with spirals so he could slip in and out of each segment then built up features using a 4 inch figure as a guide.
What was extremely helpful was have a scaled head to work with so you can have a helmet that wasn't giant size. 5 year olds already have a bigger head so I wanted to keep this down to a minimum
