Show me your Iron man gloves.

[sandbagger]

Thanks so much gang! There are som absolutely brilliant ideas coming out here. This is proving to be a great way to look at options and gather information enough to come up with a solution.

One thing I am a little worried about is hurting someone. Especially kids in the hospitals. I have to be very careful about sharp edges and corners as well as little fingers getting crushed if they happen to touch the suit and I move without knowing there's little hands about.

Perhaps the soft option for gloves is actually the very best idea for pure safety's sake. Kids might want to high-five, bro-fist, handshake etc. I could cut them or hurt them if the gauntlets are of hard metal. Hmmm... something to think about for sure.

GM the central ring I used for my foam glove is a slice of 40mm PVC water pipe.

 

[Murdoch]

40 mm is slightly bigger than I am working with.
40 mm = 1.5781, I am going with 1.4
I'll be posting on my Facebook page with the WIP pics...GM

 

[Leylander]

I might be on to something on the gloves issue. The latest files from do3d for the MK45 included seperate lower palm pieces.

Maybe a picture is much easier to explain it:

Now, these are devildog's files (I think) The lower palm is one piece


This is how do3d did the palm:


You are able to remove/hide the inner part which gives you this


All these parts are seperate and will no doubt grant a lot more movement than the fixed lower palm.

However, these files are not for free, but maybe someone with modelling skills can create something similar.

I am going to try and do it this way. The only thing to check is where to put the wires of the repulsor. A bit of foam might do the trick here.

 

[ubcs86]

Here is my quick stab at separating Andy's hand file that I had stored in a way mentioned above. I didnt bother splitting it into just the palm, just wanted to see how cleanly i could cut it up.


I think with a little more time spent on it, it could clean up nicely. Foam underneath or even a ninjaflex sub layer would give you decent movement, and the section on the heel of the palm would still be rigid to run wiring.

 

[sandbagger]

Adding technical details after seeing Leylander's post. Thanks mate!! .


1 mm aluminium sheet, cut and shaped, then I used the end of a bolt to bash the details into the surface, followed by a nail punch in the centre. Buffed to a high-polish and contact adhesive to fix in the grooves.

I'm making the next glove slightly different. Instead of all the pepakura unfold patterns creating a lot of seams and glue-lines, I cut the glove in half, flattened it out then traced it onto fresh 2mm foam. The glove is now one-piece with the details glued on the outside, then wrapped in metallic lycra.