thewrongvine
The Evolved Panda Commandant
- Reaction score
- 506
Hello, as many of you should know, the Avengers is coming out soon. So, I have started creating my Iron Man costume!
I will be following a tutorial from TheHeroTutorials on Youtube, which uses a program called Pepakura to build the suit. I'll be posting my progress as I go, but it will probably be slow as it takes a lot of time.
And, the reason why I am sadly making Mark III is because I realized too late that I opened a Mark III file instead of the Mark VI and I didn't feel like starting over yet, but oh well, it's good practice.
Checkpoint 1: 4/13
Pepakura Designer 3, the Iron Man helmet piece I will be making.
29 pages of cardstock, 96 pieces, printed out.
Halfway through cutting, after like 2 days of 4 hours each...
Checkpoint 2: 4/15
Finished cutting, assembled the faceplate of the helmet.
Finished the jaw. Hopefully I didn't make the helmet too small. It's been a week since I started, but it's looking good. Except the the faceplate, there's one part that seems off compared to how it should be, but I'll worry about that later.
Checkpoint 3: 4/21
Checkpoint 4: 4/27
I kinda finished the fiberglass I think. So sharp and spiky, as you can see. I need to sand it out but I don't have all the mechanical tools so not sure if I'll be able to, since sanding by hand will take hours...
Checkpoint 5: 5/2
This is with the bondo body filler. I realized too late I put too much, so I would need so much sanding. Since I don't have time, I just rushed the sanding, and painted it. I'll post pictures tomorrow.
It'll take awhile before I finish this but ah well.
I will be following a tutorial from TheHeroTutorials on Youtube, which uses a program called Pepakura to build the suit. I'll be posting my progress as I go, but it will probably be slow as it takes a lot of time.
And, the reason why I am sadly making Mark III is because I realized too late that I opened a Mark III file instead of the Mark VI and I didn't feel like starting over yet, but oh well, it's good practice.
Checkpoint 1: 4/13
Pepakura Designer 3, the Iron Man helmet piece I will be making.
29 pages of cardstock, 96 pieces, printed out.
Halfway through cutting, after like 2 days of 4 hours each...
Checkpoint 2: 4/15
Finished cutting, assembled the faceplate of the helmet.
Finished the jaw. Hopefully I didn't make the helmet too small. It's been a week since I started, but it's looking good. Except the the faceplate, there's one part that seems off compared to how it should be, but I'll worry about that later.
Checkpoint 3: 4/21
Update. It's looking terrible! You might not be able to tell, but it's really bad. The pieces don't like fit in smoothly and tape doesn't work very well (I used tape to reinforce, the glue's the main holding force). The individual pieces look fine (faceplate, head, neck, jaw, ears) but when I put them together... ugh. Oh well, I will try to move on to the next stage tomorrow, buying fiberglass resin and whatnot.
Checkpoint 4: 4/27
I kinda finished the fiberglass I think. So sharp and spiky, as you can see. I need to sand it out but I don't have all the mechanical tools so not sure if I'll be able to, since sanding by hand will take hours...
Checkpoint 5: 5/2
This is with the bondo body filler. I realized too late I put too much, so I would need so much sanding. Since I don't have time, I just rushed the sanding, and painted it. I'll post pictures tomorrow.
It'll take awhile before I finish this but ah well.