A few years back I had the pleasure of meeting clonesix at the NorCal prop party along with a bunch of other RPF members. I had brought along a truckload of nifty stuff and had such a great time chatting with folks and checking out their stuff that I completely neglected to take any photos. One of the very few that I did take was this beauty:
That's one of clonesix's gorgeous Phase I clones. At the time, I was neck deep in my Ironman build which ended up looking like so:
After sharing costuming horror stories for a while, we got to talking about a project that both of us had on our bucket list: the War Machine from Ironman 2. He had a sixth-scale model that he was figuring would make a pretty good detail reference. I had a bunch of digital models that I could use to automate much of the build. Combining our skills and resources sounded like the beginning of an ideal partnership if it weren't for the fact that the two of us live an hour away from each other.
Still, this project has been festering in both of our to-do lists ever since. Back when I got excited about building Ironman helmet variants, I cranked out this guy:
You can read the details about that project in my blog here: http://protagonist4hire.blogspot.com/2017/03/building-replica-of-war-machine-helmet.html
More recently, clonesix hit me up about getting started on the rest of the armor. Finally, I figured I couldn't put it off any longer. So we've split up the workflow between the two of us. I'm going to be doing the bulk of the CNC carving and 3D printing. He's going to be doing most of the smoothing, prep work, and molding. Then we'll both end up using those molds to make suits for each of us.
This is going to be fun.
So now I've started carving out parts that come out of the Carvewright CNC machines looking like so:
Then I glue all of the parts together into assemblies like this:
And this:
And then handing them off to clonesix who is turning them into this kind of gorgeous:
And this:
Soon the moldmaking will begin as I make progress on prepping the rest of the models for carving and printing:
My current headache is splitting this nightmare into something my robots can chew on:
Hopefully clonesix will chime in here with his progress. In the meantime, stay tuned...
That's one of clonesix's gorgeous Phase I clones. At the time, I was neck deep in my Ironman build which ended up looking like so:
After sharing costuming horror stories for a while, we got to talking about a project that both of us had on our bucket list: the War Machine from Ironman 2. He had a sixth-scale model that he was figuring would make a pretty good detail reference. I had a bunch of digital models that I could use to automate much of the build. Combining our skills and resources sounded like the beginning of an ideal partnership if it weren't for the fact that the two of us live an hour away from each other.
Still, this project has been festering in both of our to-do lists ever since. Back when I got excited about building Ironman helmet variants, I cranked out this guy:
You can read the details about that project in my blog here: http://protagonist4hire.blogspot.com/2017/03/building-replica-of-war-machine-helmet.html
More recently, clonesix hit me up about getting started on the rest of the armor. Finally, I figured I couldn't put it off any longer. So we've split up the workflow between the two of us. I'm going to be doing the bulk of the CNC carving and 3D printing. He's going to be doing most of the smoothing, prep work, and molding. Then we'll both end up using those molds to make suits for each of us.
This is going to be fun.
So now I've started carving out parts that come out of the Carvewright CNC machines looking like so:
Then I glue all of the parts together into assemblies like this:
And this:
And then handing them off to clonesix who is turning them into this kind of gorgeous:
And this:
Soon the moldmaking will begin as I make progress on prepping the rest of the models for carving and printing:
My current headache is splitting this nightmare into something my robots can chew on:
Hopefully clonesix will chime in here with his progress. In the meantime, stay tuned...
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