Metal Suit of Armor

[Warmachine655]

I am starting to make my own custom suit of armor, its not armor from anything in particular, just my own design, i have all the steel ordered , and soon ill be forming, welding,riveting, and such, I wanted to know in particular if anybody had any tips on making a motorized faceplate that opens and shuts with a button push, so if anybody has any information on that or other electronic advice because after i am done putting the suit together ill be putting LED's in it, also im figuring that the suit is going to be pretty heavy so ill be articulating the elbows with hydraulic springs, the kind you find on your cars trunk that help to lift the trunk open,
thats pretty much it
hopefully i will start posting pics soon we will see how it goes

 

[box o crayons]

wow well good luck sounds like you have your work cut out for you, and for the motorized faceplate look on youtube some guy made one for a iron man helmet so you might be able to ask him what he used and adapt it for yours

 

[Combust]

I am starting to make my own custom suit of armor, its not armor from anything in particular, just my own design, i have all the steel ordered , and soon ill be forming, welding,riveting, and such, I wanted to know in particular if anybody had any tips on making a motorized faceplate that opens and shuts with a button push, so if anybody has any information on that or other electronic advice because after i am done putting the suit together ill be putting LED's in it, also im figuring that the suit is going to be pretty heavy so ill be articulating the elbows with hydraulic springs, the kind you find on your cars trunk that help to lift the trunk open,
thats pretty much it
hopefully i will start posting pics soon we will see how it goes

Ooo cant wait to check this out! Have you seen the guy who built a metal MC suit?

As for a motorised faceplate, if you check out the Ironman faceplate mechanism (not sure of where but there are multiple forums that should have it), it should serve well. If there is too much weight, add another servo and/or increase the servo torque and it should be fine.

Cheers.

 

[Warmachine655]

This shouldn't be too much work as I work as a metalworker and a welder well more specifically a foundry-man, so its just normal stuff. and yeah I saw the guys videos on youtube with the ironman helmet i messaged him and he didn't reply to me. ill def look around on various forums though, thanks for the advice. I managed to salvage a shield from a commercial soup kettle and i welded some brackets onto it, hopefully ill have pictures up soon, my camera is currently down. my steel still hasnt arrived,

 

[TheCollector]

sounds cool but would it be practical to walk around in? Is that even what you're planning to do with it? Also yeah there's that guy who did the motorised face plate for his iron man suit. Practically the best suit i've ever seen

 

[gingersnapples]

ask moz. he has made a metal set of mkv

 

[BlueSol]

You should wear kevlar for the undersuit and then you could actually withstand (some) gunfire haha. Good luck looking forward to seeing more on this one.

 

[MacKnight]

I am starting to make my own custom suit of armor, its not armor from anything in particular, just my own design, i have all the steel ordered , and soon ill be forming, welding,riveting, and such, I wanted to know in particular if anybody had any tips on making a motorized faceplate that opens and shuts with a button push, so if anybody has any information on that or other electronic advice because after i am done putting the suit together ill be putting LED's in it, also im figuring that the suit is going to be pretty heavy so ill be articulating the elbows with hydraulic springs, the kind you find on your cars trunk that help to lift the trunk open,
thats pretty much it
hopefully i will start posting pics soon we will see how it goes

May I aks what armor you will build?

 

[Warmachine655]

May I aks what armor you will build?

the armor i am building is not anything in particular, jsut a design i made, its steampunk inspired kninda sorta, but if this turns out well i am probably going to build some halo armor at a later date, probably Emiles

 

[Warmachine655]

sounds cool but would it be practical to walk around in? Is that even what you're planning to do with it? Also yeah there's that guy who did the motorised face plate for his iron man suit. Practically the best suit i've ever seen

If my design works it should be practical to walk around in, i am going to use hydraulic springs at the joints to make it easier to move in because they should take some of the weight while bending knees , elbows, etc. and yeah i have seen his armor its pretty ridiculous

 

[Warmachine655]

You should wear kevlar for the undersuit and then you could actually withstand (some) gunfire haha. Good luck looking forward to seeing more on this one.

that actualy could be feasable beacuse i know some people through my work that can stitch kevlar

 

[kkid4life]

hope this metal suit comes out looking as a really epic piece of awesomeness

 

[Warmachine655]

yeah my steel is backordered so right now i am just working on the shield and collection of random parts, when my camera is up and running again ill share some pics

 

[kkid4life]

sweet cant wait wait to see some progress, o and if your welding it what r u using? mig, oxy, etc

 

[Warmachine655]

o and if your welding it what r u using? mig, oxy, etc

i am using TIG

 

[Coroidan]

I might have missed it in a post somewhere, but what type of metal are you using for this? Are you picking up metal sheeting from somewhere? or just using scraps of whatever you can get your hands on?

 

[Warmachine655]

I am using sheet steel (mild, cold rolled) that i ordered from a small shop, unfortunatley this guy is backed up with orders right now so it might be a while ( like a weekish) unstil i get my sheet, and i am going to be using a variety of gauges from 22-14, but i am also using scraps mainly for embelishments and such . so the bulk of the armor will be sheet but i am using odds and ends that i salvaged. I found a commercial soup kettle that has some pretty neat parts on it and its all nice pretty stainless

 

[Warmachine655]

ill probably have the shield all polished up and the arm brackets on tomorrow ill see if i can use the camera at work

 

[Coroidan]

Sounds pretty awesome, I'm really looking forward to seeing this come together.

 

[sildeo]

im very interested to see what you come up with