Well it wont fly............yet !
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My initial plan was to not reveal this till the movie premier, but I allready posted up some pictures on a few other forums so thought I would do that here as well. The armor I am building will never be as awe inspiring as our fantastic armor builder " Timeless movie props" Would that my feeble efforsts ever get 30% close I will be content.
Anyway, when building my armor I wanted to see if I could leave enough space in the fore arm to incorporate some electronics. I was able to do that and this is what I am working on fitting into the arm itself. If you see the movie trailer you will note when Iron Man fires off a missle at a tank. Well I cant fire it off but I do have a missle that lifts up into place. The electronics are not to complex but crowded to say the least, I am sure there was an other way of being able to do this but this system I knew how to build. The arm structure you see is all of about $50.oo in parts, about 1/3rd of that is battery costs.
If you have ever looked at a model rail road and the electronics that make te tracks swith over, this is very similar.
I have a power button on the botton part of my hand, under the center light. This activates a small motor the unclips the missle platform and raises it up the forearm into what will look like a launch positions. Note the positioning of my arm in the pictures is to show off the palm light and the missile itself. The missile part will be on the back of my arm not as I have it picture here. Before firing I just push down on the back of the forearm unlatching the fiberglass, then when I push the button, the missle raises up and pushes the fiberglass section over to one side. The forearm is set up with a hing on the inside of the armor.
The only thing I cant get this to do is to close by itself. I have to close the fiberglass section down, once I do that the lacthc for the missle reconnects holding it in place. I did not have the room or power to make the missle lower down. This would have requiered more juice from my central battery and also 1 more moter running in reverse of the one I have now, and a seperate switch / button to lower down. As is in the arm, just for the light and switch, are 3 AAA batterys, and 6 AA, the rest of the jucie comes from my central battery that will be the power scource as well for my Voice Amp, chest light and eye lights. From experimenting I have around 6 hours of juice before it starts to dim down a lot. The arm structure will be fitted itno the fiberglass arm after the suit has been all painted.
The left arm is only going to have the palm, light . Also, the red rings on my arm are what I am using to cover over any open areas on my suit, under the arms and legs ect. The color you see is the same as wha tthe suit will be painted up in. The silver power cord will be hidden under my arm so will only be visable that way. Each side of the suit under the arm will have what looks to be 3 power cable, only the one on the right arm will go down to the forearm and be functional, the rest are for show only. Last note, the central battery and light will be mounted into the chest, they are only hanging from my shoulders to keep everything in line for testing.
And yes my wife thinks I am a bit over the edge Note the pictures of the arm and the movie stills .
Thanks again for all the nice comments
