Now with working airflow!

This is exciting – it’s actually doing the job! It’ll only get better once everything is properly fitted, but I really need the airbag itself done before I can…

Swag for a scepter

Two other bits of note for the day. First, I had the opportunity to go back into NYC’s garment district, and this time I went there with the mission…

Printed fittings and pulled forms!

The printed right-angle pipe fitting seems to have worked out pretty well, all things considered!

I need to sand it a bit, glue the parts together, then XTC-3D the whole…

Hose fittings for moving air

While I was waiting for some things to dry and some other things to print, I took a crack at modeling up the back fixture to connect the hose…

Hydrocal arms and air filter intakes

Molds were made up for the arm bucks using Smooth-On’s Rebound 25 mold rubber and backed with some old Onyx Fast resin I had that I had to get…

Replacement hose connectors

Here’s a problem and a solution all in one post!

The screen-accurate gas mask hose that connects from the air bladder behind his head to his mask is actually a…

Improving the master casts

We spent a good bit of time last night lengthening the master copies of each of these things out with monster clay to fit my apparently-freakishly-long arms.

Figured it’d be…

Engineering airflow

I took some time today while we were working on the rest of the project to design up what I think will be a workable fixture for the air…

Pomp and Ceremony

It’s only a little step… but it’s a satisfying one. Got all the medals and chains attached up. They’re all pinned or nailed through the chestpiece so they have a…

Early Arm Prototyping

Overall results look good so far. We did a little experiment today – I made a rubber mold of one of the arms, then made a hydrocal copy of…

Forearms for arms!

One of the things we’ve been working on in the background is the rest of the armor that has to be heat-formed. The bicep armor looks pretty straightforward, as…

Dust Devil to the Rescue!

Truth be told, I was not satisfied with the K&N filters I had just due to their squat profile. I ended up rereading the other Immortan Joe thread on…

The Slippery Slope

Thanks to Logan74k at TheRPF.com, I’ve been alerted to the fact that the rivet arrangement is actually mirrored across both shoulders, despite the fact that the bottlecaps are only…

Bottlecaps and big ideas

I decided to make my life easy again by manufacturing a quick little guide to help me drill the holes at a fixed distance and orientation:

Works like a charm!

With…

Grimace in Chrome

And then there’s the mask. Got the plugs for the gas mask hoses painted up and attached, bent a bit of thick-gauge copper wiring up and into the jaw,…