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For my Halloween costume this year I decided to make an Iron Man Suit 
I love iron man, he is my idol and is why I got into Mechatronics, Hopefully the costume turns out well
I will post updates here as the build progresses but you can checkout the Flickr feed here
- Home made glue (flower and hot water) ewww
- Back drying – First Layer
The framework is made from chicken wire shaped to how it want and twisted togeather
- Front Chest – First Layer
- Muzby being a cat, mesh’s of arms and legs
Basic wire mesh layouts of the ams and legs
- Helmit drying in warm server room – First Layer
- Helmit drying in warm server room 2 – First layer
- Helmit second layer with outlines for shaping
- Chest and helmit drying -First Layer
Crate of Tui in the back for support
- added definitions
- added shoulder blades
- Helmet 3rd layer with ear pieces
- helmet 3rd layer with ear pieces Muzby being a cat
- Muzby getting into everything again
- Back First Paint layer
- Helmit First Paint layer
- Chest First Paint layer
- Arm pieces drying
- Chest and Shoulders drying after 3rd coat of paint
- Brother cameron trying out Helmit while playing Fallout 3
- Right forearm paint drying
- Left forearm paint drying
- First layer of legs
- Thys with deffinitions added
- Thys first paint with velcro elastic showing.
- Gloves with touch lights attached.
- Lower legs first paint
- Chest and Helmit with light Upgrades, flash on
- Chest and Helmit with light Upgrades, no flash
- Two ultrabright LEDs in the eyes I can use these as torches at night
- Chest Light with Ultrabright led modifications This is a $2 shop touch light I added 8 ultrabright LED’s to it to give it more of the blue look.
- Full view of thys fully painted
- Full view of thys fully painted
- Full view of legs fully painted
- Cheesy pose 1. The lights look really good in the dark.
- Cheesy Pose 3 With Mask On
Click here for more pictures of me and friends
In total It was about
- $40 worth of paint
- 2 free newspapers
- 4 cups of flower
- $15 of Chicken wire
- $6 for 3 Touch lights
- $20 for 10 ultra-bright LEDs for eyes and chest R-T mod
- 30-40 man hours
- An awesome costume
Because I was pressed for time to work on this suit within studying for exams, I had to some
things a little less to the standard that I would have liked.
I want to make the whole suit out of fiberglass and formed plastic, with built in electronics for sound effects and lights etc.
Things I would like to change for MK2
- Remove shoulder guards from chest so that i can move a little more
- make leg pieces surround my whole legs
- get some smaller gloves that fit tighter and paint them a darker red
- make the mask in two pieces so that the face piece can retract
- Make abdomen pieces that are flexible
- Attach the whole suit together so all the pieces are fastened to each other and can rotate freely.
Photos of me in action in the suit
Out in the bars I came second at Motel bar and won $100
At Boogey Wonderland I came first for the Hour and won $40
