Sorry for not replying for a while with any updates, I've been busy starting a new job that has taken most all the free time I have. When starting this armor I was fortunately and unfortunately unemployed and had lots of time to work on the armor and drive around town finding parts for the armor.
At this point it is obvious I won't have this armor done for the Halloween party this Saturday, nor will I prolly have it done for Halloween night. I will however be trying to get as much of it done as possible before Saturday, and get as many parts together for the suit.
First new thing is a glove covering, I finally found a method that works for making Iron Man gloves, and I got most of my help from a Freddy Kreuger glove teplate. Using "For Sale" signs as material, I have the left glove nearly complete, only thing left to do other than paint it is to find a device to use as the palm light, and lock down the palm plate. I found this perfect little round LED lights, that used twist tops which would be easy to turn on and off in the costume, but I didn't realize till I got them home that they are "disposable" and you cannot replace the batteries. Considering that would make the palm lights pretty crappy once they ran out of juice I am still looking for affordable small disc-type LED lights for the palms.
I got a lower leg done, which has the shin, a padded kneepad inside to strap the piece to your leg, and the large kneecap piece present on the movie armor, a picture will be below.
For the Torso, I attached a plate to the back to more closely resemble the back on the movie armor, and also setup a shoulder strap system using comfy gel-padded straps so the main torso piece goes on like a bullet proof vest (the armor however is NOT bullet proof
). For the chest, I made a piece to go accross the front, a sort of V-shaped plate to resemble that of the V-shaped piece on the movie armor chest going over the cheat uni-beam. The chest uni-beam consists of two thin clear plastic plates stuck together, one I sprayed with a Transparent Blue paint, and the other I rubbed down with sand paper until it became opaque. So with the chest uni-beam light turned off, all you see is a opaque white disc, but when the light comes on, it glows blue.
Pictures of all of this work is as follows: 1st the Glove, 2nd the left leg with Red/Black hidden Kneepad showing, 3rd Torso Back w/New Plate, 4rth Inner Torso with Shoulder Strap hooks attached, 5th Me wearing the Torso with V-shaped chest plate and Chest Uni-Beam Lense installed and the backing light just kinda sitting back there not installed yet.