War Machine, working on more parts now, pic way heavy :)

[electraflier]

Re: War Machine, update 6/5/13

Me the f#%^ too!:cry there's never enough time, money or good reference pictures!:lol

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, update 6/5/13

Looking better, and less putty, fun thing is, this was a bad cast, and with a lil work turned like this

Very close to finish it, after the putty i will proceed to motorize the faceplate wich is another project for me, and then when everything is in place ill paint it, to then proceed with the rest of the armor

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, update 6/5/13

At last
Now i will install hinges

Cool eyes i got from projectearth

And this is a random pic

Enjoy

 

[Don Juan]

Re: War Machine, update 6/27/13

can you see through eyes?

 

[spartanbat13]

Re: War Machine, update 6/27/13

Absolutely incredible work. The WIP pics are great!

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, update 6/27/13

Thrught the eyes not
Im gonna leave a small gap under them to see

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, update 6/27/13

Not much but its something
Finished the left boot, need to finish the left shin and left thigh, as well as another calf thruster and boot cover
But that will be tommorow

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, update 6/27/13

Thigh

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, finished pep all the parts

Finished pepping everything at last, i just need to fiberglass them tommorrow and its ready for bodyfiller

Hammerhead and shotgun helmet got a spot there

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, finished pep all the parts

Im on it again, this time im serious

Ive been working all day on it

Boot guard fiberglassed

Boots fiberglassed and reinforced

Shins with resin, 3 coats, need to be reinforced

And they look big

Thats all for today, i started to bondo theleft forearm , was doing great until i hear a cracking sound when sandin.... And a cracking sound only means one thing...........it cracked..... So stopped the bonde to add extra fiberglass where it looked thin, and left drying until tommorow, so i guess next update will be on monday, later

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, finished pep all the parts

Monday.....update as promised
I worked some more on the helmet today

Took away some resin with the dremel and a carbide bit

Making it flat surface as you see
Modify mockle templates and came up with this

Mockle hinges were meant for an iron man helmet
Then used dremel to do a little hole for the bolt

Glued it in place with superglue to start reinforcing it

Fiberglass mat, careful not to soak the bolt thread with resin

Repeat process with the faceplate

Instead of fiberglass i used kwik steel epoxy
Test everything, adjust, tweak etc

The backplate magnets

I used .060 styrene sheet to make the magnet base, then drilled a hole the magnet size and superglue it with another piece of styrene as backing

Funny how the kwick steel epoxy react to the magnet

Its the first time i try the helmet with all the pieces

Still needs some tweaks but its there
Heres a video


Hope you like

 

[Mockle]

Re: War Machine, faceplate hinges update

perfect, well done you did a great job mounting them...

 

[InCOGnito B2TE]

Re: War Machine, faceplate hinges update

This is awesome, nice work dude. I read somewhere the other day that someone had trouble with magnets when they painted their helmet as it pulled all the metallic particles in the paint towards the magnets causing bright circles in the finish. Hope his doesn't cause you the same issue :unsure

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, faceplate hinges update

This is awesome, nice work dude. I read somewhere the other day that someone had trouble with magnets when they painted their helmet as it pulled all the metallic particles in the paint towards the magnets causing bright circles in the finish. Hope his doesn't cause you the same issue :unsure

Hope not, its the first time i heard of that, ill use duplicolor rattle cans i dont know if they have real metal flakes on them

Im in the process of motorizing the faceplate, just went tru 7sinzz ttutorial, some good info there, then when i have everything in place ill proceed to paint

 

[made007]

Re: War Machine, faceplate hinges update

Well, i got stuck at motorizing the faceplate, because i need to order a different linkage setup, i already ordered a few things from servocity, and while i wait i started to work on other parts
But first pics of what i was doing with the helmet
Built the eye socket from styrene sheet

I used some plexiglass sheet 1/8" to make the eye lens then give it like 6 coats of this

Looks good to me

Just 1 led per eye

I like it

Heres a lil progress on the servo mounts i did from styrene also
Here you can see the bad quality of the resin , thats why i switched to smooth ons

I hope the work on that place and position, it looked like the best place to mount them, if not then ill do other setup , no prob

On to what ive been working on next
Elbow
Started this one today

Allright let me explain this.....

If you dont have power tools dont do the above^ thats dried bodyfiller, if you do that mess and plan to sand by hand it will take forever to get the shape
Ok heres another nearly finished part

And.......next to the right gauntlet that is still in resin as this one was when i started, i likehow it looks

Well thats all for now, any questions let me know

 

[Don Juan]

Hey looks great...the eyes look a little small i think but i like the way you build it...hey i forgot what scale you used for helmet?

 

[made007]

Hey looks great...the eyes look a little small i think but i like the way you build it...hey i forgot what scale you used for helmet?

Default scale
The eyes are the same measure as projectearths eyes wich i have a set also

 

[STEALTH]

Awesome progress man!

 

[made007]

Awesome progress man!

Thanks bro

With masked rider, steve hird and your war machine as inspiration i cant fail

 

[made007]

Turned back to fix the handplates, made some mods to it, now i like them better

Found theese at home depot

Hope you like