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Re: Ironman suit summer promo 500$ Still waiting on Thor pics :)

Re: Ironman suit summer promo 500$ Any pics of your Thor stuff?

Cosmoline comes in all flavors of nasty, especially on milsurp firearms. I usually end up using brake cleaner because lol at boiling a mosin-nagant.

I have to ask, did you scale up the size of the fins/bottom ring as a stylistic choice? Yours are nearly twice the size they should be in relation to the rest of the model. See here: The ring is roughly the same width as the main section, and fins are maybe 60% smaller than what you have...

What's up fellow UI buddy? :cool Generally speaking, instead of buying expensive props I buy quality tools that allow me to quickly make whatever I'm into. For example, when I built a Master Chief suit last year I bought a CraftRobo that allowed me to pep the entire thing a few hours a night in...

Scuffing the metal with really rough sandpaper (60 grit or so) is plenty. Think of it as priming a piece before you paint it - the grittier the surface is, the better the paint (or in this case, epoxy) will hold. To put the strength of this stuff in perspective, several of us have used it to...

Why not just make or buy brackets for the back of the shield and attach them with jb weld? Your drywall screws will fail waaaay before that stuff does.

It's a modified version of Helvetica Condensed Black. In Photoshop, start there and click on the Faux Bold and Faux Italic buttons, then rasterize the type and start merging the letters. If you have a copy of Illustrator, it's about a million times easier as you can convert the type to...

Nice job so far :thumbsup I'm not sure about the rescue helmet, but his normal helmet in the movie is Helvetica Bold.

I've been working on this for a few months, but until the last 2 weeks I wasn't making much progress. Anyway, let's start with the cowl. I bought this from another RPF'er and for the life of me couldn't make it fit, so I did what any man would do: I broke out the power tools and cut it in...

I'm just reading it off the box of the toy I bought my nephew for his birthday. He's also obsessed with him, so I'm having to make him a movie-hawkeye halloween costume with an animated series mask (he's 7, so every costume has to have a mask). Maybe I'm just bitter about the whole character and...

Magical arrows. Also, Hawkeye mostly sucks - at one point he was replaced by Bullseye and nobody even noticed :lol

No need to scare him off :) This is the $150, done in 3 weeks version made from pep/rondo I did for my nephew last year: If I had another 3 weeks I could have rounded out all of those hard angles with bondo and gotten a much closer look to what thefreeman has. Halloween wasn't going to wait...

My nephew and I are wrapping up a CA:TFA suit for myself and a movie Hawkeye costume for him for Halloween. If you don't mind a few non-ultimates I'm sure he'll be happy to shoot you with rubber arrows for awhile :D

LOL point taken :lol