Psych007
New Member
Hey guys, I'm new to the forum and just started building this suit a 3 weeks ago. Have never done anything like it before but I can say that I'm hooked to this hobby and can see myself doing a few more suits in the future.. 
I started googling for a Iron Man suit for a costume-party this summer and stumbled upon a few tutorials that got me very interested. Studied some pep with glassfiber and bondo. (Gonna try that out later on)
And suddenly Stealth's Hero-tutorials popped up on the tube. And I got extremely impressed that you could do such a nice job making a suit by using foam!
So after alot of hours reading through alot of threads here at RPF I started out on my build.
Did some trial and error first (and still do ) but now I've got a problem that I can't find an sure answer for so I'm pleading to you guys to help me out.
I'm 180cm/5ft11 tall and weigh 75kg/165lbs so no bodybuilder.
And I've used Dancin_fool's foam templates for the build without any scaling adjusted. Since it should work for a guy 5.10-6.1 I gave it a go without scaling.
Today when I took a look at my chest/back-piece I just got scared of how big it looked all of the sudden and compared to alot of chests it does stick out alot from my thin chest. How does the size look compared to my body and what could I do to adjust the scale if that's the solution?
The back-piece is flush to my back and the chest sticks out about 10cm/3,94inches.
It doesn't look too bad from the front imo. And what about the size of the arms, still no scaling and theyr'e not flush at all to my spaghetti-arms
Here's a pic without the arms to easier see the chest sticking out.
Back-piece.
Back-piece on before flaps.
Ande here's just my first try before I read up about foam-tips and trix..
Before.
After.
I still have alot to learn and skill to be improved but it goes better and better.
Btw I've been using 12mm foam for the chest and back and 6mm for the arms. If I could find 6mm eva-foam for a normal price here in Sweden I would go with that but as there isn't much to choose from I will go with the 12mm for the bigger peices.
The 6mm I've used untill now comes in 30x46cm sheets and cost 5,5$ each which will be quite expensive in the end if I would do the whole suit in it.
Oh well that's enough blabbing for now, hope to get some advice on the chest/back-piece and size overall.
Cheers.
/Stefan
I started googling for a Iron Man suit for a costume-party this summer and stumbled upon a few tutorials that got me very interested. Studied some pep with glassfiber and bondo. (Gonna try that out later on)
And suddenly Stealth's Hero-tutorials popped up on the tube. And I got extremely impressed that you could do such a nice job making a suit by using foam!
So after alot of hours reading through alot of threads here at RPF I started out on my build.
Did some trial and error first (and still do
) but now I've got a problem that I can't find an sure answer for so I'm pleading to you guys to help me out. I'm 180cm/5ft11 tall and weigh 75kg/165lbs so no bodybuilder.
And I've used Dancin_fool's foam templates for the build without any scaling adjusted. Since it should work for a guy 5.10-6.1 I gave it a go without scaling.
Today when I took a look at my chest/back-piece I just got scared of how big it looked all of the sudden and compared to alot of chests it does stick out alot from my thin chest. How does the size look compared to my body and what could I do to adjust the scale if that's the solution?
The back-piece is flush to my back and the chest sticks out about 10cm/3,94inches.
It doesn't look too bad from the front imo. And what about the size of the arms, still no scaling and theyr'e not flush at all to my spaghetti-arms
Here's a pic without the arms to easier see the chest sticking out.
Back-piece.
Back-piece on before flaps.
Ande here's just my first try before I read up about foam-tips and trix..
Before.
After.
I still have alot to learn and skill to be improved but it goes better and better.
Btw I've been using 12mm foam for the chest and back and 6mm for the arms. If I could find 6mm eva-foam for a normal price here in Sweden I would go with that but as there isn't much to choose from I will go with the 12mm for the bigger peices.
The 6mm I've used untill now comes in 30x46cm sheets and cost 5,5$ each which will be quite expensive in the end if I would do the whole suit in it.
Oh well that's enough blabbing for now, hope to get some advice on the chest/back-piece and size overall.
Cheers.
/Stefan
