To see that we could become something more
So when they needed us we could fight the battles that they never could
Are you guys excited? I am and you know what that means
Well for Civil War I made Captain America's electromagnetic shield
And it's kind of my number one video on the channel so for infinity war I think it's
Time we make his new Wakandan shield
Get this man a shield
Now the tricky part with doing a project like this is until the movie
comes out we don't have that much reference material we've seen a few
glimpses of the shield and some of the trailers and other promotional material
but there's still a chance it might be a bit different in the movie
But, we're gonna use what we have and see what we can come up with so follow me and let's
start the design
Hurry up so to start the design what I've done is
I've actually taken a still from the trailer and then I've extracted the
shield, I've scaled that to approximately the right size and brought it into SolidWorks
which lets me actually draw overtop of the picture to get the right shape
So let's do that
all right so that mechanism should work but to make sure
let's make a quick cardboard prototype using the laser cutter
Alright that prototype looks pretty good and as you can see the mechanism
actually works quite well too so what we've done here is we actually
3D printed some rails of the actual part that we're going to be ordering for the
final design and the way the actual mechanism works is we've got these slots
and as you can see when the shield extends a little bit only the tip moves
but once it moves about an inch it hits the curve which then forces the wings out
This captures the design element that's shown in the trailer how the
front spike comes out at first and then the wings open and I think that's really cool
Now all we need is a way to power this and to make it look a bit more like
a real shield so let's go back to CAD
so again I'm going to be using the reference images from the trailer to
help me design the actual aesthetics to try and make it as accurate as possible to the movies
Now that, that looks pretty good but before we build it let's see what would
it actually look like on my arm come with me
I've always loved in the Iron Man movies how they show Tony Stark doing his
designs with Holograms in real life so we've actually been upgrading our
augmented and virtual reality capabilities here at Hacksmith Industries
But enough talking about it lets show you. Jarvis activate shield
pretty cool eh let's see if we can open it too
Actually can we get some sound effects too?
Jarvis: Sir, there are still terabytes of calculations needed.
Now what would be a good way to test the shield? What if some
bad guys broke into my shop?
I feel like we're going off script.
So what do you guys think? Should we make it I think the design is just about ready to go.
Just kidding the laser cutter is already cutting it
you know this would be a lot easier if you didn't steal my *@*#ing shield Tony
it's really hard to make your own
Stark: sometimes you got a run before you can walk and for gosh sake watch your language
So I'm pretty happy with the design now which means it's time to make it out of metal
now when I started this project we had no way of actually manufacturing the
shield in-house so we actually had to get the parts laser cut by a local
machine shop but halfway through we got a new piece of equipment delivered
it's a Maverick CNC plasma cutter that we got from Elite Metal Tools
Elite Metal Tools provides all kinds of industrial machinery and helped us find the perfect
plasma table for our needs if you need help choosing the industrial machine to
make something great head on over to EMT now that we have this machine let's cut
out the next set of Captain America shields
so we had a slight issue while welding the top piece of Captain America's shield
We kind of forgot it warps if you do a whole lot of welding so we need
to try and straighten this out somehow and what's the point of making a project
if you're not going to use it so I actually got Thor's hammer here which
weighs about 75 pounds
and we're gonna see if maybe we can straighten out the shield
Very scientific
all right we've got all the pieces welded for the most part now we can
actually assemble the mechanism and see if it works
I should really make a third hand like maybe like Winter Soldier but I just
have an extra arm off my ribcage cool now that'd be weird
it's okay we're putting 800 psi through it therefore it's it's just it's a whole bunch more pressure
Is it allowed to do that?
Well, it hasn't exploded yet
This is the part I haven't quite thought through yet.
well it's late Sunday night but our first prototype works
Alright, so when I first assembled it it wasn't sliding too well but we've made some
adjustments to the rails and we've lubed the whole thing and now well you'll see
not bad all right so how is it actually actuated
well what we're doing is we're actually using a 16 gram co2 cartridge as the
air source for the project and it runs through a check valve and what a check
valve means is pressure can only flow through the check valve in this
direction so when you build up pressure in here it doesn't try and escape back
over here when you press the button it goes into the extended position then we
have a four two valve over here which basically changes the direction of the
air flowing through the pneumatic cylinder which is mounted under here so
if we press press this button down and then trigger it it retracts if you press
it without pushing it it extends and it fits nicely right inside the handle
Alright so now that we know that the mechanism works well let's finish up
with a few of the detail pieces we've got a few more pieces right here that
we're actually gonna weld onto this and then we paint it and it should look just
like the one in the movie let's get started
all right so the first prototypes done and I think it works pretty good
hey anyways we've made a few design changes for the final version and we're
actually making two more shields for our ultimate test video which is coming out
really soon make sure you subscribe notifications turned on but right now
let's give you a sneak peek of the kind of destruction we're going to do with
this thing
all right for this test I'm gonna need some safety glasses
how about old versus new
all right that was just a little taste of the destruction we're gonna be doing
with these shields I know you guys are gonna want to see me go ham with these
things so make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn notifications
on this shield test is gonna be awesome plus I even got a licensed Captain
America costume for it special thanks to killer body for hooking me up with this
awesome costume let us know in the comments below what you want to see me
smash with these shields and don't forget to check out infinity war to see
how this project stacks up to the real thing thanks for watching make sure you're subscribed
Hang on, do I want to bring the arm up, after you've thrown it, or do I want to be in a position? It would look cooler if you've thrown it and I'm like WOAH but it's heavy.