Oh man this looks amazing. Have any info on the strapping system?
datachomper Haha, I met you at Dragon Con. Didn't know you were the guy that I had talked to a long time ago on this thread. I was the guy that chatted with you after the Avengers meet up that told you I was the other War Machine, and that I couldn't wear my suit that day. I kept getting asked if I was you lol. Your 3D printed suit was quite the chatter lol. Ive been slacking on posting updates and completion pictures on here
But I met you at Dragon Con so everything seemed to mostly have worked out I guess. Anyway, Im going to post how I did my strapping system anyway in case anyone else is interested how I did it.
So in this quick diagram I drew up to this attached image on the post, Yellow indicates that black strapping material I referenced last post. The Red circles indicate connected male and female buckles I referenced last post. And the Purple circles indicate Chicago bolts I used to secure pieces together to bend at those locations.
So starting with the first figure on the left, you can see I attached the shoulder pieces directly to the top side area of the chest piece. This is also indicated on the figure to the right. I used to buckles per shoulder piece to attach them. I used Chicago bolts to fasten the biceps and forearms together, as to make them one whole unit that I slide my arm into. Then on the inside of the outer edge of the biceps I used straps and buckles to attach the whole arm to the outer center of the shoulder piece. This helped keep the shoulders down as well, so they didn't flop about and expose my morph suit underneath. I also put a quick strap with no bucklers from the forearms to the hand plate armor. This allowed it to flex up and down when I angled my hands up and down for repulsor shot photos or something. As you can see there are 3 sections to the abs. When I was making my abs I didn't glue or attach that top 1st section to the rest of the abs assembly. I did this to create the look idea that the top section of abs could flex up and down as my torso flexed. I did this by simply attaching 3 separate straps to the inside are of that ab portion to the inside front of the chest piece. I attached the abs to the chest piece by attaching a strap and buckle from the front inside of the abs seen in the left figure, and by attaching a strap and buckle to the rear inside of the abs sort of seen in the right figure.Next I attached my Cod piece to my chest as well, the straps for this hid nicely underneath my abs. The straps and buckler were glued to the inner sides of my cod and to the inner sides of my chest piece. Then I attached quads to my cod piece by attaching the straps and buckles behind the hip pod flexor circle things. It hides behind them pretty good anyway. And lastly, I just used Chicago bolts on both sides of my ankles as shown in the diagram to attach my shins to my boots. I never did attach my shins to my quads, and personally it didn't appear that I needed to. The quads stayed held up by my cod piece, and the cod piece held up by the chest piece. So the shins were left alone to flex as they would need to in any weird side to side movement while walking.
Anyway! My suit at the time of this post has been completed for a couple months now. Sorry I haven't posted any completion pics yet. I'll get hot on that after this post and monitor this thread for any future War Machine MK1 suit questions!!
