Real Iron Man Expandable Briefcase Suit - FULL METAL Iron Man Mark 5 Armor

Ooh, cold in here. Yup, that's right. Limited edition Jay Lazer hoodies, get them now. Sign everyone. Nice plug, nice plug. Shirts too. So last time we made this thing. Fully expandable Iron Man helmet that gets put on your head automatically. It's got a heads up display in the eye. Augmented reality with an AI voice assistant. Just like Iron Man. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't yet. But, I was reading your comments on that video and I guess it's just not good enough for ya. No, no, no. All right. I'm almost afraid to ask this now, but comment down below what you want me to make in my next video. Cause clearly, if enough of you want it, I'll make it happen, or at least try to. And if you do end up liking this, please drop a like and subscribe if you want, cause we put some work into this one. All right, let's run the clips. So in Iron Man 2, one of the first scenes was him fighting Whiplash, where he debuts this Mark V armor. The suit starts out as a sleek metal briefcase, which gets tossed to Tony. Which, by the way, would weigh way more than he... Would weigh... By the way, would... It's a tongue twister. Would weigh way more than she made it seem. But, that's just the tip of the iceberg for the seemingly impossible. Anyways, Tony steps on the suit and it pops open to reveal about a million moving parts. I do gotta give credit to the animation team at Marvel just for all the detail they put in this scene. I've probably watched this scene about a hundred times now, way more than anyone should. And every time I notice new things. So first, some handles pop out that were originally the handles for the briefcase. He grabs them and then pushes down into what look like become the arms of the suit. And he then lifts the suit up onto his body and places it onto his chest. By now, the suit's unfolded so you can see the chest and the shoulders, which all are sliding into place. He then opens up his arms and the pieces wrap around to attach. I mean, they did kinda use some motion blur to hide what was actually happening, but it's all good. And the shoulders fold back and the abs drop into place. Then it cuts into the arc reactor firing up. And again, it really just shows the intricacy of this suit. Like, look at all those tiny pieces on the side, all moving like perfectly together. Also, I never understood why he would put like the main power source so openly exposed on his chest. Like, that's clearly the part you would aim for if you're trying to fight him. Literally a big, glowing, shiny target that powers the suit. It just looks too cool, though. Anyways, then it cuts back out to the arms where all the armor, ha, armor, slides out to cover up the arms and the repulsors light up. Then it pans down to the legs, where again, you can see the extremely complex mechanism expanding. Again, they used a bit more motion blur to hide exactly what's happening. But in simplest form, it looks like it's just pieces sliding out from one another. Then, of course, the helmet pops out from the back, kinda out of nowhere, and folds over his face like we made in the last video. So that all happens in like 20 seconds. And overall, I think the animation team did a great job with this. Like, all the movements and mechanics are based in what seems like physically possible mechanisms. And where things aren't quite possible, they do a great job hiding it. Altogether, this makes for an amazing scene that really shows off Tony Stark's engineering ability. And it's gonna be nearly impossible to replicate this. Like, the more parts, the more complexity, the more things that are gonna break, just a fact of life. I don't think they could've fit any more parts into this suit, to be honest. So we're gonna have to get a little creative. Basically, I'll be happy if we can get the entire suit to fit in a briefcase, suitcase-type thing. Have it go on seamlessly-ish. Like, we pick it up, put it on our body, and it just somehow goes on. That'd be great. And I'm gonna try and mimic the movie as much as possible, you know, stay true to how he did it. Like, I think we can make the abs pretty close, maybe the arms and legs. And if we also make it full metal, that's another thing I wanna try. Maybe we throw in some lights and lasers, too, for good measure. I mean, that's what we do here. But overall, this project's definitely one of those that lies well outside my comfort zone. Like, I'm not into cosplay. I've never built, like, a full suit of armor or anything. So, you know, taking on a project of this size, I just really wanna do it justice. So I started with some research. You know, just see if anyone's done anything like this before. And I found this one guy, Ryan Brooks, who made something similar to this. Looks really complex and pretty impressive, but it's not quite as smooth as I want it. Like, it doesn't just go on you, and it doesn't look like it's made of metal, either. Actually, I couldn't even find any regular Iron Man suits that were actually handmade, made of metal. Like, I found one 3D-printed titanium one that, like, Adam Savage did, but none that actually fold down into a briefcase. Yeah, so at this point, I realized I was in pretty deep. Like, the closest thing I found was this, like, ninja armor, tatami, Japanese folding armor, which isn't gonna be much help. So I thought maybe I could start at the other end, take an existing model of the Mark V, and then just make it fold. So I bought a full 3D digital model of the Mark V that was actually already sliced up so you can print it out and make a full foam cosplay armor out of this. I thought maybe I could just modify the template somehow so we can, like, make it out of metal and have all the parts slide together, and then unfold when we want the suit. So I started with the legs, and I made a cardboard model, cut it out just like how you'd make a regular cosplay armor piece, put it together, and I found out this is actually gonna be way more work than I thought. And I already thought it was gonna be a lot. First of all, because it's supposed to be made of foam, they're including bends that just are impossible with metal or cardboard even, metal especially. Then we also have to make it slide together, and I also realized I have no idea how to actually edit these files. So I think it's gonna be a little bit more trouble than it's worth. After several days of just, you know, spinning my wheels, I realized we're not gonna be able to take the easy way out with this project. See, with a lot of my projects, I've figured out that if I, you know, spend enough time, you know, do enough research, I usually come up with, like, a creative, clever solution for the project that's pretty easy to do. I could yondu arrow, I just used a drone, Spider-Man shrink suit, found the night and all stuff that shrinks when you put current through it. But this project's a little different. See, as it turns out, there's no easy way to make a fully expanding metal Iron Man suit without actually making a fully expanding metal Iron Man suit. I can't find anything like this that exists. Guess we're gonna have to be doing this one from scratch. First, start it with the legs. Like, they're just fancy tubes, right? So we can kind of use, like, a telescoping mechanism, I thought. They collapse into themselves, we can store it in a case. Couple issues, though, right off the bat. First, Iron Man's legs have some sort of weird curve to them. Like, the shin goes backwards for whatever reason, they kind of get narrower around the knee. There's the knee joint we gotta worry about. So all the parts won't, like, slide into each other. Also, the biggest issue, how the hell are we gonna fabricate this? Like, I want it to be metal, but I've never done anything like this to this scale or with metal. So I had to up my game a bit with the help of this machine right here. This is a Crossfire Pro CNC plasma cutter from Langmuir. It's just an awesome piece of equipment, and this project wouldn't be possible without it. Basically, it's gonna take all the hassle out of cutting metal. You just gotta export your 2D files, plug in the plasma cutter, hit a button. Boom, cuts any part up to about a half inch thick steel, I think. So with this machine, we'll hopefully be able to get super intricate details that would be impossible otherwise. Hopefully this way, we'll be able to do the suit justice, like the one in the movie. So I'm thinking I can design the suit on SolidWorks, then use their sheet metal function to convert my 3D shapes to 2D sketches. Then we can then send the plasma cutter, cut some out, and then we can bend them back into the 3D models. That way, we can design everything on the computer first, you know, make sure it all fits. Plasma cutter it out, spot weld it all together, and we should have our suit. Obviously, easier said than done, but you know, it's the best plan I got. So for the legs, I ended up doing a two-stage collapse mechanism. Basically, the shin collapses into themselves, and then the upper leg collapses in. That way, we keep the knee joint separate so it can get a little smaller around there, and also bend. That way, it'll look more natural. The goal here is to strike a nice balance between fitting in a case and looking like Iron Man. So I figured we can do both legs like this, and the hip piece can slide down around the legs and connect them. So altogether, this piece has a dimension of about 16 inches by 16 by 12 deep. It's not bad, but you know, we still gotta fit in the whole chest, the arms, the stomach, and the back. So I cut out and bent the leg pieces from some 16-gauge cold-rolled steel, and I put them together to see if my plan would work. Definitely took a little bit of finessing, but I mean, everything seemed to fit together. Just gonna be a matter of being as precise as possible with my bending to make sure everything slides all right. And I used some kind of thick steel because I didn't want this thing to be flimsy. We can't have it break in when we're putting it on and off. And it's also way cooler that I can stop, like, blades. All right, hit me. Okay, harder. Are you okay? It worked! Fire. Give me a little pop. Yup, yup, another pop. Yup. Just show me, we're proving a point here. All right, get the gun. Anyways, to connect the segments, I used some nylon straps positioned in such a way that the leg could still slide in and out of each other. And thankfully, the actual suit in the movies features a lot of these leg breaks because it folds up as well. You know, we're actually getting the design somewhat right. So I think if we make the other leg, you know, attach it to the hip piece, then the hip piece can fold around everything, then we can kind of step into it and slide them on like pants. That way we won't need any fancy motors or any other complications that are, you know, just gonna potentially break. Even still though, there's hundreds of pieces we're gonna have to plasma cut, bend, and attach to make the suit. Yeah, this part is what took a while. We're about two weeks into this project probably. Hours of cutting today. Cut some parts out, but honestly, it feels like I'm hardly even making a dent. I way underestimated the scale of this project. It's about 2 a.m. now. Ooh, yeah. Also, because there's gonna be a few small cracks in the suit that the metal doesn't quite cover, I got some shiny pants to hopefully make it look a little bit better. May I present to you, the shiny pants. Look at the dexterity. Then I realized maybe we could even use chain mail. Yeah, look at that. I don't know, it kind of looks cool and that way if we wear this underneath, it'd really be cut resistant. I don't know, we'll see. Anyways, for the abs, I really like how he puts on that center piece, spreads out his arms, abs fall down, arms go into place. I think if we cut a bunch of metal sheets and stack them one on top of each other, they should be able to sit behind each other and then slide out when we need them. We can even cut and bend some hooks into them so they all latch onto each other and they can just fall out using gravity. Again, pretty simple. So once again, I modeled everything on SolidWorks, making sure to leave space to fit some detailed plates because there was a lot of detail on the abs in the movies. We do have the plasma cutter, so you know might as well. And I mean digitally, it all slides together well, but I mean the real world is another story. So again, I cut everything out and started putting it together. I spot welded the detailed plates using a Stark spot welder, which I thought was pretty funny. And I bent the little hooks into place, but it wasn't quite working as well as I wanted. Like sometimes it would work, but other times it would go at a weird angle. You know how metal works. If it gets caught, it really doesn't want to give. And I just knew the more links we added to these abs, the worse the problem was going to get. So then I remembered my old friend, magnets. Two magnets. This works way better. Way simpler than the thing I originally made, which kind of sucks because I spent an entire day just trying to get everything to line up right on SolidWorks so it would actually slide properly. Actually ended up using some more nylon straps just to take kind of the weight off the magnets because they're good at keeping everything in line, but not so good with the weight. So I just kind of used them as a guide. And now we go from one ab to an entire plate, just like the movies. So for the side plates, I'm using a similar technique of having the panels slide out from each other. Then we can attach them with more nylon straps, you know, do what we just did before. And we can paint them red, you know, add a little bit of detail to match the movie. All right, day, I don't even know what it is. Another grinder, but making progress. We got all the legs, more legs over there. Arms, chops a mess, but you know, at least we got a nice sunset to look at. Let's talk arms. These are gonna be a bit tricky, you know, surprise, surprise, because I really just want to be able to, you know, put the chest piece on, slide my arms out, and have everything, you know, do its thing. And they also got to fit in the briefcase somehow. So if we actually throw it back to the movie scene again, we see that he actually puts his hand into what looks like the beginning of the arms, which is great, because that way we can just have the glove inside there as well. Slide our hand in, and we have the first part of the arm already made, which is great because, you know, making a whole metal glove that's retractable is gonna be nearly impossible. Caught a break there. So at least now all we got to do is figure out the upper arm and bicep area. And I think we can borrow a similar design from the legs, you know, just have the forearm compact, and then the bicep compact, and then have it all just, you know, extend out on the arm. I also added some detail from the movies. I like little spikes on the arm links, just to try and make it more realistic, because again, we got that plasma cutter, and we can paint it too, to really make it look like the movies. So just little things we can do to really spruce this thing up. But speaking of that, let's get cutting. You know, I thought I might ease into the whole plasma cutting metal workshop thing. Maybe cut like one or two parts for a project, you know. Nope, full suit. So for the hands, we already have some full metal Iron Man hands left over from my last project. We just gotta paint them red. And we actually gave a pair of these away in my last video. We'll pick a winner for that, and that is right here. Congratulations. And before that, we gave away some custom Black Panther shoes I made to the guy right here, Sammy. All right, so for this video's giveaway, I asked you guys what you wanted on Instagram. And a lot of you said 3D printers, which I think is just an amazing idea. It's just such a good tool for creation. And I've always tried to inspire, encourage you guys to make stuff. So something like a 3D printer will definitely elevate your guys' game. So if you wanna win this Ender 3, which is arguably the best beginner 3D printer on the market, just drop a like and subscribe, obviously, then pop on over to our Instagram. Like the post for this video, and then follow us over there. And now, here's some projects that you guys actually made yourselves and then sent to me. Check them out. Love to see these build guides. Sorry I forgot to segment it in the last video, but I'm definitely bringing it back. Because again, it's just super inspirational and fun to see what you guys come up with. So again, if you've made anything cool that you're proud of, that you wanna share, definitely send it my way, at Jayler's video on Instagram or email as well. All right, so now we got the arms done, as well as the side pieces and abs. We should be able to just step into the legs, slide our hands into the arms, and lift the chest piece right up onto our body. Extend our arms and then break some motors, pull the arm pieces to extend over our arm. But speaking of that chest piece, we gotta make that too. Now this part actually doesn't have to expand or anything, which is a relief, because we're just gonna pick it up and put it on. But we do have to add lights for the arc reactor, motors for the arms, and batteries to power everything. So I modeled the plate for the arc reactor using references for the Mark V suit. Then I also modeled the intricate upper chest part that kinda looks like a leaf from the suit as well. It's really just a matter of getting everything to fit together and look good. Definitely took some finessing, but I think I got it. Then for the motor that pulls in the arm, I used a geared DC motor, along with a little pulley I 3D printed. And all that's attached to an RC relay switch that I can control with a remote, so we can go forward and backward. That way I can control the arms from my hand. You know, no messy wires to get in the way of all the sliding parts. So to actually get the arc reactor to light up, I used a mini ring light, along with a piece of plastic I sanded to give it a nice diffused look. Then I 3D printed a piece to hold it up. Then we took that top piece I plasma cut, gave it a nice polish, and then put it on top. Almost got the whole body. I think we're up to our shoulders and neck now. So for the neck, I just modeled a part on SolidWorks again. You know, it just goes around my shoulders, leaving room for my neck. Plasma cut it out and bent it into shape. Then for the shoulders, kinda did the same thing. These were honestly one of the trickier parts to this suit, because we don't have a way to make things round yet. We just have a way to make like series of little bends. Cut out three different sections for each shoulder. You know, bend them into shape. Connected them up as best I could. Again, we're using some more nylon straps. But after attaching all those pieces to the suit, we finally have all the parts. Which we then had to paint and polish. But this part was honestly super satisfying. Just seeing it all come together. It was just a matter of sanding each part over and over with finer grains, adding some polishing compound, until we got that nice shine. Oh yeah, then we also had to throw a little hot rod red in there as well. I actually used two different colors for this. One color is like a darker cranberry red. Then I finished it off with some red metallic car paint. Which gives it that classic red shimmer, but a little bit darker, just like the Iron Man suit. I mean, just pulling off that tape and seeing the nice contrast between the polished metal and the red paint, oh ho ho. You know, I've worked with a ton of other materials. And I have to say, nothing quite compares to the quality of some nicely finished, well-crafted metal. Which is why this video is sponsored by Ridge Wallet. Like if Iron Man were to have a wallet, it'd be this one. 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Just go to ridge.com slash jlaser. Again, ridge.com slash jlaser. And you can use the code jlaser for your 10% off. Link's below. All right, all right, all right. So we're almost done. But you might be asking, what about the back of the suit and also the helmet? So right now, basically we just have a bundle of compact parts. But we still gotta make it into a case. So I used a bit more sheet metal to form sort of a shell around them, give it a slightly better aesthetic. I also added a handle so we can pick it up. Then that shell can actually unfold and we can use some magnets and stuff to clip it onto our back. But the better way to go is to use our metal backpack we made in the last video, which has the helmet attached to it. That automatically puts it on our head. So finally, after hundreds of hours, thousands of dollars spent on this project, the suit is ready. Oh yeah, we also added lasers and fire too. So definitely drop that like if you enjoy it. And subscribe. Okay, enjoy. So looking back on this project, obviously I'm extremely proud of what we did. Just the sheer detail of all this stuff, coming from hardly ever working with metal, I feel like I know a lot more now. Obviously there's things I would change. It wouldn't be fair to you if I didn't tell you guys some of the troubles we had with the suit. First off, I found out why no one's made metal suits before. They're heavy as ****. By the end of filming, I almost passed out from wearing this thing. They're just so big and bulky and it's hard to move. It's not super easy to put on. It didn't quite go as smoothly as we made it look. But nonetheless, it still was a first version and it's still what I think is the only metal Iron Man suit that fits in a briefcase. So I'm gonna still call that a win. So thank you guys very much for watching this video. If you've actually made it this far, you're a real one and it really means a lot to me. So comment what you want me to make next and we'll see you in the next video. Peace.