As for whether or not somebody has made MKV MJOLNIR out of metal, the answer is 1 other person has. His name is Moz, and
this is his rebuild thread where he uses metal.
Eeyup, I mentioned that the only other person I'd heard of using metal was Moz earlier. His one under armor suit harness video has been an incredible asset over the years, from making Megatron, to the Chief, to Solid Snake. However, reading the thread, I see that he used metal plus fiberglass and matte board. I'm making the whole shabang out of metal. Every part that's olive drab, that's gonna be metal. And lots of parts that are black. Really, I'm just using foam to pad out myself and the armor. The armor will be armor
Checking in. Your work looks really good. are you using any weld techniques or just rivets? What kind of rivets do you use?
I might solder some, but it's just pop rivets pretty much all the way. Lots and lots of pop rivets.
Sweet! I've been working with metal my whole life, all different types of commercial welding/fabricating jobs. I'd happily answer any questions or help out anyway I can if you need it.
Looks awesome so far! Looks like you have the shaping down and you're just using pop rivets right?
One tip I might provide is when you pop rivet a lot of layers of metal together, like a whole suits worth, the rivets will relax over time and the suit will "squeak" when you move. I helped out a renaissance fair a couple of years ago and they said their armor was really creaky. I suggested using caulking (regular acrylic is fine) between the sheets and where you rivet. It makes for a more solid piece imo.
Looks great!
Thanks! Really, this is my first major metal working project. I'm glad to know it at least looks like I'm doin' it right. I'll be sure to ask ya if anything comes to mind, and thanks a bunch for that tip.
Wow...I can understand being a huge fan and all, and not liking anything about a rival game, but jesus christ some people take it WAY too far. I would've totally had your back man, couldn't give two if I got hauled out of there by authorities (I'm not big on CoD either). But really this gets me heated just reading about it.
I wish people would just respect others. Jeers and condescending remarks are one thing, but direct, personal insults and physical violence are over the line.
I believe similarly, as do my
. Hence why I didn't just up'n kick his ass. If a solution can be reached through peaceful means, it is the preferable option. If it cannot, violence is not the correct answer. Instead of gettin' into it with who I found out later was both a jackass and a minor, I just let it go and decided to make a real suit of steel armor. I doubt he'll try it again with a six and a half foot tall fully armored spartan, black ops or no. Peaceful solution = win.
To all: No progress for a while, I've started on the helmet and that's gonna take time. Also, it was my bro's b-day the other day, so I had to take time away to be a big-brother-best-friend-forever. Made his cake myself
http://fav.me/d5lcb8m though no one had the heart to cut it 'til near the end of the day. But by the power of Greyskull, it was good. Spent the entire dang night playin' Halo 4 with him. He got the special edition XBox and everything XD I've also got a huge plush that I've been payed great sums of money for that I've gotta get done, so that's going to take priority. And my classwork. I won't suffer my GPA for the sake of kickass armor, no matter how much I'd like to. Besides, it'll give my visor and foam padding time to arrive and my hands time to heal.
As a side note, anyone know what happened to Moz? Forum shows his last activity as two years ago... Did he just drift away from the forums like I did?
