Hey folks. I'm thinking of undertaking the construction of an Ironman suit for Halloween this year. So far I've considered heat forming and cutting sheets of acrylic. Connecting them with a series of small neodymium magnets, and painting them with some metallic paints. For the lighting, I figure a couple sheets of electroluminescent lighting would do the trick. Long, tedious, but could be awesome.

Bunch of smart people here. Any insights or ideas?

VEry good idea. and then you sell it for 1000 or so dollars?(Thats the rate I see master chief costumes at and I would have to say this isn't to much different.

which iron man armour suit are you doing?

i'd say use a plastic, if you went with metal, it would be heavy and/or expensive, tho make sure you have breathing holes in there so you can allow heat to get out

cleverlymadeup:
which iron man armour suit are you doing?

i'd say use a plastic, if you went with metal, it would be heavy and/or expensive, tho make sure you have breathing holes in there so you can allow heat to get out

well he could cut a hole in the back and put a window air conditioner in it. I'm going to be the G man...2 years ago I was Borat...I got sued.

Yeah, heat forming seems to the best way to go. I've seen some tutorials on how to do it and the process looks simple as long as you've got a nice mold. However, I could never make anything with heat forming since I've no talent at sculpting a decent mold due to my artistic inability. Good luck to you on this truly awesome endeavor.

That's possibly one of the most awesome Halloween costume ideas ever.

I've done a bit of heat moulding myself, making an Assassin's Creed wrist guard for last year's Halloween, which is a hefty co-incidence.

Build a nerf-gun into one of the arms.

Anarchemitis:
Build a nerf-gun into one of the arms.

yeah, and rig the chest to shoot plungers

the monopoly guy:

Anarchemitis:
Build a nerf-gun into one of the arms.

yeah, and rig the chest to shoot plungers

Or tennis balls

Bulletinmybrain:

the monopoly guy:

Anarchemitis:
Build a nerf-gun into one of the arms.

yeah, and rig the chest to shoot plungers

Or tennis balls

Oh, sure, if you want to be unoriginal. When you get hit with a tennis ball you just think "damn kids" but if youg et hit with a plunger you think "what the hell?" and make a funny face then you think "I hope that wasn't used". But tennis balls are more doable.

Landslide:

Bunch of smart people here. Any insights or ideas?

You're talking a HELL of a weight after a time. I'd personally go with a boiler suit with carrier-mat sewn onto it. Cost would be about £40.

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That sounds like an awesome idea. Though you'd have even more of my respect if you could successfully pull off an Iron Monger suit.

I'm quite tempted to dress up as the Joker this year, though I hardly imagine that's going to be an original look. If I had the techno know-how, I'd go for a proper Batman suit, but a) that would be damn expensive, and b) it'd cost goodness knows how much money. At least for the Joker I just have to raid my sister's make-up collection.

how are you going to do the head? You could get a bucket and bang it into shape, no really.

Wow, that's the best costume I've ever heard of. The time and patients would be well worth it.

We don't really celebrate Halloween so I can't say anything.

PurpleRain:
Wow, that's the best costume I've ever heard of. The time and patients would be well worth it.

We don't really celebrate Halloween so I can't say anything.

no, this is.

There are a million of the things around, enough for a chapter i hear, now that would be a cool parade

You look up from painting a space marine to see the army of the emperor outside.

*Orgasm*

the monopoly guy:

cleverlymadeup:
which iron man armour suit are you doing?

i'd say use a plastic, if you went with metal, it would be heavy and/or expensive, tho make sure you have breathing holes in there so you can allow heat to get out

well he could cut a hole in the back and put a window air conditioner in it. I'm going to be the G man...2 years ago I was Borat...I got sued.

I was Jesus three years ago, I almost got the crap beaten out of me. This year I'm gonna be a vegan zombie. I'll walk around going "graaaaaiiinnns.....GRAAAAAAIIIINNNSS......graaaiiiinnnsss." It'll be cool.

In one of the arms place a tape recorder with the song "Iron man" by black sabbath recorded on it. So if somebody asks you who you are, you can push the button and it will play "I am Iron Man".

it never says i am Iron man.... oh you mean the very beginning

Now, that would be preparation!

the monopoly guy:

Bulletinmybrain:

the monopoly guy:

Anarchemitis:
Build a nerf-gun into one of the arms.

yeah, and rig the chest to shoot plungers

Or tennis balls

Oh, sure, if you want to be unoriginal. When you get hit with a tennis ball you just think "damn kids" but if youg et hit with a plunger you think "what the hell?" and make a funny face then you think "I hope that wasn't used". But tennis balls are more doable.

You would need to figure out how to get a whole plunger + handle into the chest part, though. Unless you plan on getting impaled or something. X_X

I need to find a picture of my old Rocketeer Costume, it was truly awesome. My other best was a nearly perfect Rorschach costume.

I saw this thread after just looking at Ultrajoe's WH40K thread, and thought to myself:
"I wonder if anyone has made a Space Marine costume?"
-just as I scrolled down to see UltraJoe's post of some guy in an Ultramarine costume XD

Definitely a cool idea with the Iron Man suit, people are right about the weight - some type of plastic is going to be needed to make the suit at all comfortable.

I'm English though so making Halloween costumes isn't exactly my forte, thus my opinion does not come from personal experience.

I was actually thinking of making a costume of a Marine from Starcraft. Still have to find either a really light metal, or some kind of powered exoskeleton so I could actually move the damned thing.

Or you could always go as this:

Yea, I'm not that creative, but I would love to see how it turns out! You should post shots of what you have put together so far. One thing, use velcro instead of the magnets though.
Ok, I didn't see it untill I posted the above, but well done poster on top of me, I almost choked when I saw that! Very Funny!