Well now that my armor--my Iron Man armor--has been found to be bulletproof,
bomb resistant, and flight worthy, it is time for me to give it a new home and that is off of my body and
onto a
suitable and appropriate
armor stand. I need my Iron Man armor
standing at the ready like the 'Hall of Armor' that Tony Stark has.
I'm not saying I'm going to make many more suits of Iron Man armor, but I'm at least going to start with one.
So, armor stand here we come!
Now in the course of filming this,
we were hard on this suit of armor. We shot guns at it,
I wore it for a bunch of days,
and we exposed it directly to an explosion of C4 from only like three feet away.
Consequently, a lot of the things holding it together started to deteriorate.
So, in addition to getting it up on its armor stand, I also need to
fix it. So that's what I'm doing right now. I'm just going through the process of
bringing it back to a
display worthy state.
Alright, let's test fire this puppy. Oh
Wow, we really we beat the hell out of that arc reactor
Yeah, only three of our original lights still work...well, it's just gonna be what its gonna have to be.
This doesn't look weird at all!
I know it might upset you to see me abusing a beautiful Japanese saw like this, but this is my um,
this one's already suffered a lot of abuse and it is my sacrificial Japanese saw.
Just so you know...
Yeah good
All right
So right now I'm trying to get this half
torso or 3/4 torso mounted to my upright pipe,
so that I can start to hang the rest of the costume off of it.
The costume was built to hang off of my shoulders, which from what I understand from Shane and the amazing artisans at
Legacy is how the real one worked.
The actor or the stunt person wore a harness and the legs worked on suspenders off of that harness and so did the arms.
And it distributed the load across the actors body.
I'm trying to do the same thing with my fiberglass body here now. I'm just trying to see a
a hole. Yeah, so this is a really tricky
Need a longer bolt. The worst part of this equation is that the inside of the fiberglass manufacturing
of this mannequin is like sticky in a way that's really freakin disgusting.
Like
Sticks to my hands in a way that's horrendous. Feels awful.
And I tell you the worst thing about working with fiberglass
is that it itches...
But not an a like
you can scratch that itch kind of way. It itches and an abiding, 'got to go home and take off all your clothes,
shower immediately,
violate the terms of your rental lease and then put on new clothes' itchy. That kind of itchy
and
It's just started to warm up here in San Francisco
So as you can see, I'm exerting and perspiring which makes the fiberglass dust stick to you even better
I know. I know I know the cornstarch thing, but I didn't do it in the beginning so
Anyway, I'm suffering just a little bit
Well this torso is
It's totally radically different proportions than I was expecting
And the suit doesn't fit on it as well as it does on my soft
torso
So we may end up with our iron main and a little more of an action pose, but I can deal with that
So if that's the case, yeah, that's not going anywhere
then I could
Okay
Cuz these guys can live in here and hide those crimes
Yes, they can look at that. That's great
Okay, so shoulders
Comes the back
Dude. That. Wow, I'm
After all that fighting in the beginning kind of impressed with how that just went
Accurate to the real Iron Man. One can only wear this suit if one gets bolted into it. Yeah
Not for the claustrophobic
Wow, I'm not
I'm gonna. Don't film it from the back, not from the back, only from the front
everything
Every movie star has a good side and so does every suit of armor
Look at that! That is so pretty.
Yeah, he's action pose, action pose
Every now and then I look at this and it resyncs into me that it is a
Quarter of a million dollars in 3D printed titanium. Holy hell
It is a beautiful thing
Well, I may one day rebuild this armrest in but for right now
This this is great and gets him up. It gets him out
It gets him part of the cave so I can look at him and get a little gleeful every single morning
Lovely, alright, Tony until next time