Re: My New Iron Man Helmet 11/10First casting pics
hi Bats.
do you have any evidence od the el sheet being used? Im not saying you wrong at all, its just I have been told that they used leds?
also, thanks all for the positive comments
my evidence would be that I spent about 8 hours with one of the hero suits looking it over and talking about most of the finer details with guys that worked on it and they never mentioned LEDs to me and I didn't really ask cause I was more interested in the form of the suit. I even looked over the driver that was mounted inside both the helmet and the chest cavity
Im sure there could be LED versions of the helmet like ceric said cause all the prop shops I know do ten different things so that they get 100 different effects for the camera, but of the one I was with , it was sheet eyes
and you do not look thru the eyes, you actually look from right under them
there are eye holes that start about 1/16 of an inch below the lense eyes, it was very very well done and ingenious in its ability to be hidden when in plain sight
both the chest and eyes were sheet with a specialized reflector material plastic to reflect the light forward
so well done was it that it actually glows under normal lighting even when its off, much like road reflectors do
the eyes are not square they are angled at each end
which is a particular kind of shape which the geometry name escapes
my mind at the moment
the other way they accomplished the eyes is that they are double socket-ed
which sets them back without them looking as though they are
sadly this was removed when sideshow made the 1:1 bust, its also
slightly smaller then the original by about about 1/16 overall which is
only the shrinkage from the silicone so thats not bad compared to other
production pieces that have gotten alot smaller
the other thing they missed is the specilized finish thats on all the brass painted areas
so that it looks like real brass, the SS bust has a painted look to it, doesnt have the depth
to the finish the real one does
best way to show that is the socket bolts on the colar bones are the exact
same size as a quarter, for fun and laughs when I was messing with the suit
I laid a quarter in there do get a laugh..... lucky I got one and people didnt
think I was trying to be a dink~
I was overly impressed with how much thought and engineering went into each and every inch of the suit
and the most impressive thing is the shoulders and abdomen and spine btw
the helmet is just icing on the cake compared to the other points
of wickedness