Building Badass Biceps
Been super busy lately with work, but I did get the chance to make my biceps up. I actually had to try a couple iterations of it to get something ...
Vacuum-formed Vambraces
We did the arm armor up, and since we might be offering pulls of the things up for sale to folks who are interested I figured I’d do a very ...
Regal Robes, Refined
The robes got addressed earlier this morning, since I needed them done in order to figure out how the belt will sit over them. The fabric I went with is ...
Buckle Up!
In the interest of making quicker progress, I banged together my buckles and straps on the base part of the waist belt. If I can share a few observations… I think ...
Holsters and Shin Pads
Mostly done with one of the shin pads, just playing around with things a bit. I weathered the emblems with some black oil paint diluted in mineral spirits, which took ...
Automotive Detailing
Most of today was spent getting some of the details on my shin pads done, since I like jumping around between parts of this project like crazy. The links were ...
Belt Adjustments and Trim
I spent a bit of time taking measurements this morning and doing some rough designing of the belt. I think this is about right to fit my close-to-38″ waist, although it’s got ...
Shin Straps and Buckles!
Had a bit of a prototype run with the airbag, and I’m still not happy with it just yet. It’s quite a challenge to figure out ways to sew the ...
Clasps and Connections
Spent a bit of time refining how the front and back halves of the torso join up and I think I’ve got something workable here. I look ridiculous, but whatever. ...
Feel the Breeze!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyZS-yTdllk 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
I had the opportunity to go back into NYC’s garment district, and this time I went there with the mission of finding fun odds and ends for Joe’s scepter. I ...
Printed Fittings, 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 Airflow
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 and ...
Hydrocal and Air Filters
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 rid ...
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 ...
Lending the Arms a Hand
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 filters. The ...
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 the ...
Forearms to Form 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 it’s ...
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 TheRPF ...