Deep Sea Diving Suit For Iron Man Started WIP. Back On It Again..

Nothing exciting, I rebuilt the treads so they have proper clearance underneath and are quite a bit stronger. New parts arrived today, the Bionicle stuff from Germany, the Gatling gun works! You pump the red trigger and air rotates it and launches a projectile repeatedly, I had no idea it could do that. Some nice parts to work with like the chains, hose, spears and all the armour/joint parts but I found myself playing around with the presentation box the most LOL, typical. Waiting on the yellow ball things to make all the basic armour so building a Kotoboukiya ZOIDS Liger Zero at the moment.

Interesting work on the tracks.

More ingenuity at play, love it!

CHEERS!

I suspect something glorious is going to come out of this, not least after all the part sourcing and customizing (including what is to come).

Stryker2011 wrote:Interesting work on the tracks.

Rogerbee wrote:
More ingenuity at play, love it!

CHEERS!

Thanks guys!

GubernatorFan wrote:I suspect something glorious is going to come out of this, not least after all the part sourcing and customizing (including what is to come).

Cheers! Or it'll just be a big yellow Michelin Man!

Really like those functioning shins/sample storage units.
I agree, that yellow plastic packaging looks quite interesting!

Waitaminute... you're giving it a Gatling gun?
C'mon, this so-called deep-sea-diving-exploration-suit is just a ruse for...
"AquamanBuster"!... or is it "NamorBuster"?

rollotomasi wrote:Really like those functioning shins/sample storage units.
I agree, that yellow plastic packaging looks quite interesting!

Waitaminute... you're giving it a Gatling gun?
C'mon, this so-called deep-sea-diving-exploration-suit is just a ruse for...
"AquamanBuster"!... or is it "NamorBuster"?

LOL! It's more of a Gatling speargun! because:
1) I can!
2) Big sharks?
3) Giant Squid?
3) Er.. rogue Russian submarines?
4) Grappling lines (that one actually makes sense).
5) Okay... very expensive target practice?

Got a large heavy box from China today, thought it was the KO Thanos I'd ordered, then opened it and went WTF? I'd forgotten about all the yellow yolk balls I'd ordered for this LOL.

LOL. And now I'd love to see what you do with them. KO Thanos is good, but difficult to fit with the nicer new HT head -- see HERE.

That’s a lot of balls. Now what...?

GubernatorFan wrote:LOL. And now I'd love to see what you do with them. KO Thanos is good, but difficult to fit with the nicer new HT head -- see HERE.

Cheers for the heads up literally! I'm thinking of modding his helmet to the far nicer End Game version. I enjoyed the thread! Nice collection of characters from the film, I'm building up a final battle scene slowly with KO statues etc.. as a budget version, starting to look good but no dio or anything like that just glass tables.

Stryker2011 wrote:That’s a lot of balls. Now what...?

Lots and lots of cutting, sawing, dremmelling and gluing!

My creative mojo desrted me this last month so I've been building HMM ZOIDS kits instead, they needed doing anyway, shame to have such expensive kits just taking up room in big boxes.
Back on track for now, trying to do everything at once it seems! , backpack, armour, helmet etc..







































Lightening the backpack and saving useful parts from being wasted





Some more reference pics:

Whoa, this is coming along nicely. Like what you did with the “plates” between the knee joints. Pretty cool.

Nice to see you back and advancing with this project. The squishy yellow balls seem to be working out!

The squishy eggballs at work, nice! I just love how the human brain works when looking for 1/6 stuff.

Always blown away by your creativity and ingenuity!

Stryker2011 wrote:Whoa, this is coming along nicely. Like what you did with the “plates” between the knee joints. Pretty cool.

Cheers! The idea is the joints will be gear driven as at such depths manual movement of even the smoothest of joints would be impossible. The material is as squishy as the balls so they need reinforcing, I'm looking at getting some circle cutters next payday.

GubernatorFan wrote:Nice to see you back and advancing with this project. The squishy yellow balls seem to be working out!

LOL, thanks! Yeah, I've got to be careful as I have just enough balls by my reckoning so I can't screw any up.

Ovy wrote:The squishy eggballs at work, nice! I just love how the human brain works when looking for 1/6 stuff.

Yup it's that old saying of 'where people see garbage I see gold'.

skywalkersaga wrote:Always blown away by your creativity and ingenuity!

Thank you! It's all just trial and error, mostly trial hopefully!