Rebo
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:thumbsupFor a man who talked the talked, he is now starting to walk the walk. Nicely done!
Now this is going to be a fun build to watch.
:thumbsupFor a man who talked the talked, he is now starting to walk the walk. Nicely done!
Wow that is approx 1.5mm thicknes. Is this a stainless build? GM
Not all of the suit is going to be that thickness of material. I used 16 gauge for the face plate so it wouldn't bend easy due to the way it is shaped; It would have been a bit flimsy. But the rest of the helmet will be made from 18gauge as well as the majority of the suit. The only areas on the suit that will have thicker material will be the parts that are load bearing or under stress while wearing it.
As for the stainless, I haven't decided yet if I want to make any of the outer shell with it because it is harder to work with and expensive. Not to mention paint doesn't stick well to stainless.
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Here you go! the very FIRST part of my suit! My Iron Man MARK VII face plate, made out of 16 gauge sheet metal with pepakura files!!!
As you can see in the pictures, I slightly modified and printed my ironman MARK VII pepakura files onto card stock for my templates. I then applied layout due to my piece of 16 gauge sheet metal from which my patterns would be cut from.
Next I used a strong magnet to hold the templates in place while in scribed the fold lines, and around the temples. By using a scribe and layout dye, the lines are very sharp and clear to see while cutting the steel. I then Cut the various parts out with a band saw and a cut off wheel and deburred all the parts.
Next, I began hammering and bending the various cut lines together until they touched at the tips and then tack welded them. Once this step was finished, I then peened the seems together on all the pieces To eliminate flat spots and keep a smooth surface. Next I tacked all the seems together on each piece, and then dry fit them to each other for a perfect before I began tacking the pieces together, using my pep helmet for A guide.
Finally, I ground all spots if weld down to a smooth finish and removed the layout dye.
The welding will be finished after the whole helmet is tacked together, to prevent warpage.
I'm very pleased with the outcome of the face plate and really look forward to finishing the rest of the helmet And suit!
***For those of you that doubted me and my abilities to do EXACTLY what I said I could do; here's the proof. I DID IT.
Quote of the day: "Haters make you famous"
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You are the ******!! Never doubted ya!!! My Dad's a custom knife maker, so I know the fun of cutting patterns for hours on the band saw. Awesome product for day one.
This, looks like it is coming together very well. Let's hope the rest of it goes this quickly, you will be armored up in no time.
The only thing that could make this go faster would be a plasma plotter/laser plotter. something to automate the pattern generation, but going from the same files/print as your test build is a way to be certain of size.
i think the people who were doubting you earlier are going to need to give you a nice apology sometime soon (; it's looking great so far, keep up the good progress bud!
hey man what you did is awesome.
you didnt just made an actual pretty good looking faceplate, but you've proven to those who did not believed in you that you can make amazing stuff !
hey if you're going to make a mark VII take a look at the pepfiles i made ! they are a little less complicated than darkside's !!!
Eager to see this come together, but that is FAR from a full suit. Just TIG spot welding a few points on a faceplate made from sheet metal. Not hating on you, but not going to get my hopes up either.