iron man M6 foam armor

[joshslayton]

oh great, just what this forum needs another iron man thread. well anyways back in haloween 2011 i made a warmachine costume. after getting an awesome feed back i decided to make a iron man mark 6 to mach the warmachine. but this build will be a little different Technic then what other people make their iron man suit. so heres how it will be built, first the armor will be made out of foam then coated in liquid plastic then molded and cast in plastic. so heres my progress





i first worked on the forearms







then the biceps





both arms are done time for a test fi

fits and looks good

then off the the shoulders

the shoulders will need a little heat treating or fibreglass resin to get the curv i want but thats in the future

now time for the chest and back

i cut out this piece out cuz it wasnt looking for good so ill put that detail back somehow

i added this neck flap

i also added this detail as its on the original armor

i also closed up the armor a little so so it will hide my body when im wearing it



next is the abs

i only made the back of the abs cuz the front flap wasnt getting the curve i wanted out of foam so i thought make it out of pepakura fiberglass

heres the cod peice


and heres the cod piece with the abs dud and the chest


time for a test fit i put the armor on my brother to see how it looks

this is why i need a manikin



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Well im back with some smooth cast 65d plastic to coat some armor. I started with coated some armor parts with pva glue 3 coates

Then it was off to plastic. I first coated the bicep to get a feel of what i was doing

A little runny i hope to get better

So then i started sanding and filling

Still needs some sanding and filling and detail work

Heres the helmet

Fibreglassed

First pass of bondo

While that was drying i started on the other armor peices coating them in plastic

I love watching smooth cast dry

Got both of the chest and back coated

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So as it turned out this "plasctic coating" idea turned out to be A failure

The reason being that bondo, primer etc cant stick to it well. Just a note to do t coat all your armor if your not sure it will work.

So i decided to just make the whole suit made out of plain ole eva foam with some modified pieces. I will be doing some experiments with plastic coating but in the mean time these parts go in the in the "prototype" closet

Ive rebuilt all the pieces that were ruined before

The chest was a different template so its waayy more accurate than the last one

I rebuilt the abb plate being way more accurate

Heres the neck piece

Ive made the hand plate in 2 piece so i can make it pivot on my arm

Heres some of the helmet progress pictures

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[joshslayton]

Back finally with an update been really slow with this build but got some work done and its time to update

So im done with the legs finally

All i need ti build next is the boots but to same i think ill take the war machines boots and just fix and repaint them

For the most parts ive been working on the helmet for than the armor so heres some shots of the helm

To save time i glues some petg sheets to the cheek, chin, and the ear

Then i used apoxie sculpt on the cheek, eyes, and the top of the helmet

Few passes of bondo

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[Petetx]

it's coming along great, keep it going...