ShockSlayer
Probably SS
In case you couldn't tell by my avatar or my recent lack of general shenanigans, I have decided to embark on my journey of making prop Iron Man armor.
Out of trashcans.
*Can'tSayThisOnTV* yeah.
So I bought some trashcans and some red paint, I already have gold paint due to previous shenanigans. Be it the nature of the beast to make worklogs, I've at least taken pics with my cellphone(which recently gave up the ghost) and now have moved to a crappy video camera.
Well, the first place to start in my opinion is researching the subject. Take notes noobs, this is a good way to start any project worth doing. By doing so, I was able to find some basic templates for the helmet. I also read on some other forums, that if you have a cool helmet, then the rest of the armor is fairly simple in comparison. So I started with that, making a paper helmet. You can see it to the side in this picture, it's certainly a good reference point, plus it helped me get a feel for the size and what I was doing.
Anyways, you can also see me in the background with a sheet of acrylic, long story short, it got DESTROYED.
So I bought 3 trashcans. I then promptly traced, cut, and then roughly bent the plastic to get a basic shape.
And at this point from behind, it kinda looked like that one thing from halflife I think...
Moving on...the template only gave the faceplate, the front of the face, and the sides. So I more or less had to come up with my own junk for the rest of the helmet. I tried just bending a flat piece to match the sides, but it was kinda awkward looking and feeling, as seen below:
So after messing around with that for awhile, I decided the best course of action would be to lern2rivet and then cut some strips of trashcan and then just stack those. I ran out of rivets after messing up a couple bit, so I just used some screws. Otherwise everything was fitting and I was happy.
*but why not use hotglue, and then just use rivets and screws for style?*
Because my hotglue gun DIED and then I RAN OUT OF HOTGLUE.
Jesus, I actually went through withdraw, too. The fact that the screws and rivets are there does give it some style, so I like them, helps with the look.
Again, I'm not going for movie accurate here. Some of the best advice I've ever heard came from this one video on youtube by this guy who was showing how to dress up as batman, and he said something along the lines of "You don't have to be detailed and perfect movie accurate, just give the image of 'Hey, that's Batman!' so that people recognize you as the character." That's more or less what I'm aiming for.
My withdraw didn't last long though, because now I had a pretty decent looking plastic formation.
Somewhere between these two pics I taped on the circle ear pieces, they are held in place with tape right now, got to work on that and some sort of hinging thing for the faceplate.
And, the source pic for my current avatar:
Yeah, that is a duct tape glove(which was practice for later in this build) with some tent spikes conveniently arranged like wolverines claws. Oh, and to the side, you can see some of my PVC attempt to make a chestplate. I was just bored and testing out my accuracy in measuring, cutting and tweaking accurately. Nothing wrong with practice; right?
For the past couple of days, I've had the faceplate painted gold(two coats then glossed) and just yesterday I picked up red paint. Last night I painted the chin gold because a part of it is actually gold, so I was going to tape over it and then paint the helmet red. So, earlier this morning I taped the gold off and then painted the rest of the helmet red.
It didn't go too well.
In my opinion, the color red that I bought is not dark enough, I do know that the store I bought from has a darker red, but it seemed too dark at the time. Eh, I'll go pick it up later.
The other annoying problem is that the only paint that I own that is not krylon fusion is the gold spray paint. Soooo, needless to say when I pulled of the painters tape it brought the gold chin paint with it.
So it's messed up pretty bad. I didn't sand that part of the helmet(or for that matter any part) so I'm probably going to do that and then try again...yeah. That sounds good. Anyways, rambling over, pictures now:
*This is the crappy video camera picture, by the way.
Trust me on this one, the red looks much brighter in person.
On the left is the action figure I bought to more or less use as a 3d model to do the rest of the armor from. I used it here for a generic comparison of the helmet so you guys can sort of get a grip on how it's coming along.
Comments, criticisms, woship?
SS
Out of trashcans.
*Can'tSayThisOnTV* yeah.
So I bought some trashcans and some red paint, I already have gold paint due to previous shenanigans. Be it the nature of the beast to make worklogs, I've at least taken pics with my cellphone(which recently gave up the ghost) and now have moved to a crappy video camera.
Well, the first place to start in my opinion is researching the subject. Take notes noobs, this is a good way to start any project worth doing. By doing so, I was able to find some basic templates for the helmet. I also read on some other forums, that if you have a cool helmet, then the rest of the armor is fairly simple in comparison. So I started with that, making a paper helmet. You can see it to the side in this picture, it's certainly a good reference point, plus it helped me get a feel for the size and what I was doing.
Anyways, you can also see me in the background with a sheet of acrylic, long story short, it got DESTROYED.
So I bought 3 trashcans. I then promptly traced, cut, and then roughly bent the plastic to get a basic shape.
And at this point from behind, it kinda looked like that one thing from halflife I think...
Moving on...the template only gave the faceplate, the front of the face, and the sides. So I more or less had to come up with my own junk for the rest of the helmet. I tried just bending a flat piece to match the sides, but it was kinda awkward looking and feeling, as seen below:
So after messing around with that for awhile, I decided the best course of action would be to lern2rivet and then cut some strips of trashcan and then just stack those. I ran out of rivets after messing up a couple bit, so I just used some screws. Otherwise everything was fitting and I was happy.
*but why not use hotglue, and then just use rivets and screws for style?*
Because my hotglue gun DIED and then I RAN OUT OF HOTGLUE.
Jesus, I actually went through withdraw, too. The fact that the screws and rivets are there does give it some style, so I like them, helps with the look.
Again, I'm not going for movie accurate here. Some of the best advice I've ever heard came from this one video on youtube by this guy who was showing how to dress up as batman, and he said something along the lines of "You don't have to be detailed and perfect movie accurate, just give the image of 'Hey, that's Batman!' so that people recognize you as the character." That's more or less what I'm aiming for.
My withdraw didn't last long though, because now I had a pretty decent looking plastic formation.
Somewhere between these two pics I taped on the circle ear pieces, they are held in place with tape right now, got to work on that and some sort of hinging thing for the faceplate.
And, the source pic for my current avatar:
Yeah, that is a duct tape glove(which was practice for later in this build) with some tent spikes conveniently arranged like wolverines claws. Oh, and to the side, you can see some of my PVC attempt to make a chestplate. I was just bored and testing out my accuracy in measuring, cutting and tweaking accurately. Nothing wrong with practice; right?
For the past couple of days, I've had the faceplate painted gold(two coats then glossed) and just yesterday I picked up red paint. Last night I painted the chin gold because a part of it is actually gold, so I was going to tape over it and then paint the helmet red. So, earlier this morning I taped the gold off and then painted the rest of the helmet red.
It didn't go too well.
In my opinion, the color red that I bought is not dark enough, I do know that the store I bought from has a darker red, but it seemed too dark at the time. Eh, I'll go pick it up later.
The other annoying problem is that the only paint that I own that is not krylon fusion is the gold spray paint. Soooo, needless to say when I pulled of the painters tape it brought the gold chin paint with it.
So it's messed up pretty bad. I didn't sand that part of the helmet(or for that matter any part) so I'm probably going to do that and then try again...yeah. That sounds good. Anyways, rambling over, pictures now:
*This is the crappy video camera picture, by the way.
Trust me on this one, the red looks much brighter in person.
On the left is the action figure I bought to more or less use as a 3d model to do the rest of the armor from. I used it here for a generic comparison of the helmet so you guys can sort of get a grip on how it's coming along.
Comments, criticisms, woship?
SS
