Finally after an estimated 7 weeks of slow work, Iron man is finished. He stands just under 12 inches (about 1:6 scale) and is made from 13 sheets of paper. He has about 8 points of limited articulation in his shoulders, elbows, hips and knees. I modified the hips to give a little bit more poseability. He also has 2 sets of hands: fists and open palms, which can be switched out. Lastly, I included my own touch with two small LED lights inside his chest and head. This was my first time working with electrical circuits and it was not exactly as simple as I thought it would be but I got it to work in the end. This is probably one of the coolest things I have ever created, though half of the credit goes to Paper Replika designer Julius Perdana who created the template that I printed out. The iron man template and many other very cool paper models can be downloaded and printed out from the his website
http://www.paper-replika.com/. And this is only the beginning of the photo shoots!
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| The LED circuit, complete with a battery compartment and tiny slide switch |
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| It was a complex process to position everything correctly to fit inside Iron man and I was finally able to solder the two LEDs to the switch and battery holder. It only runs on one small coin cell battery which was very convenient. I will definitely be using more LEDs in the future! |
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| Part 3 complete |
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| lights off |
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| lights on! |
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13 sheets of colored paper templates, each carefully cut out using an exacto knife and then folded into iron man!
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