Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

[Barry]

Today I cut the guts out of the front plate and fabricated my own from a piece of pipe and some flat steel strips welded and bent.



Tonight, drawing up a paper template to mark holes to be drilled around the circumference of the front ring. The movie accurate one has elongated slots, but I only have a drill, not a mill so my holes will simply be round.

[Barry]

Arc reactor front ring punched and ready for drilling. Sometimes I wish I had some decent machinery to do all this, but it's kind of cool to see how well I can do with hand tools and hand-held power tools.



Holes drilled. A bit of polishing and some socket heads and it's ready to go on the front of the reactor.



Trying to remain constructive at work after everyone else has gone home. Lots of waiting for the public to leave the park before locking up. Sure beats wasting time watching the idiot box. Got another hand plate, the second boot and part of a collar plate cut out. Using aviation snips buckles the sheet steel no end, but I'll planish it back out on the anvil.



Assembly nearly complete. Still to go: drill out the bottom of the reactor and install power and lighting. I think I'm going to re-do the little square transformers around the outside before I wrap them in copper wire.

[Barry]

Making progress on the second boot.



Cut the bottom out of the body to allow for the bight and power going in later, then lined the inside of the reactor with a metal tape specially designed to reflect spectrum in laboratories. Good to know people in the game. You can see already what the tape is doing to the sunlight hitting it. Once I have lighting in there, it should bounce around like a bastard.



Making the little transformers for the particle accelerator on the front of the arc reactor.



Starting to fit transformers on the reactor.

[Barry]

Assembling the parts for the particle accelerator on the front of the reactor.



Assembly complete and ready for lighting.



What do you think of THIS for a nuclear power source?

[bornfree]

beautiful! looks like with the right fuel, it could generate enough power to drive a car millions of kilometers..

[Barry]

beautiful! looks like with the right fuel, it could generate enough power to drive a car millions of kilometers..

Or power something really big for fifteen minutes...


The collection grows! Very soon some of it will be wearable!

Apparently as I can't get any palladium or unobtanium, I have to come up with my own new element to power my Arc Reactor. Bazidium is currently being looked into....

[Airconvent]

Bazidium is currently being looked into....

Bazidium - Reactive element responsible for intense interest in the Universe and Inexplicable tendency to mold iron-carbon allowy and aluminium matter into articles of attire....

Barry, if you could mass produce the arc reactor and put it into a glass case with a name plate "Proof that Baz has a Heart", you would have a good business running there!...assuming Sony's lawyers does not know on your door..haha

[Barry]

Bazidium is currently being looked into....

Bazidium - Reactive element responsible for intense interest in the Universe and Inexplicable tendency to mold iron-carbon allowy and aluminium matter into articles of attire....

Barry, if you could mass produce the arc reactor and put it into a glass case with a name plate "Proof that Baz has a Heart", you would have a good business running there!...assuming Sony's lawyers does not know on your door..haha

LOL! I had a good giggle over this! Thanks!

Today I worked on the abdominal armour. This is the aluminium I cut a while ago, not steel. I thought I'd at least try to put it together and shape it. If it works, I may be able to use it. If it looks too ugly, then it will be a good first run before I go to steel.

[Barry]

Arc reactor powered up.

[bornfree]

looks beautiful! does it have a glowing effect?