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1:1 life-size wearable War Machine Mark I (1) suit costume

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The War Machine Armor was first built by Tony Stark and then rebuilt from the original Mark armor II by the Hammer Industries. The War Machine Armor has a dark metallic and silver color plating on its overall armor design. Since it was formerly the Mark II, only transformed by being weaponized and customized, it retains all the signature features of the Iron Man armor and is only bulkier and heavier in appearance. The armor is equipped with a bunch of powerful weapons, including its iconic M134 mini-gun attached to the left, two large shoulder packs carrying an Ex-wife missile inside of them, and bulky forearm packs each mounted with a machine gun. The armor has a pair of large jet backpacks to give enhanced flying power to complement the significantly increased weight of the armor and weapons.

The War Machine Armor made its debut in the movie Iron Man 2 when it was presented at the Stark Expo, piloted by Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, as a part of a new military team held for the U.S. Military along with the Hammer Drones.

 

History

(cited from Wikia)

During the night at Tony's Birthday Party, he goes drunk while wearing the Mark IV Iron Man armor, which enrages his best friend Rhodey. When Pepper fails to stop Tony from being reckless in his drunken state, Rhodey, knowing that there was no other choice, heads down to the garage and dons the Mark II from the Hall of Armors. Tony and Rhodey battle to a stalemate when they fire their repulsors at each other, creating a massive explosion. Disgusted, Rhodey delivers the Mark II to the military and it is rebuilt by Hammer Industries into the War Machine.

The War Machine, with Rhodey still as its pilot, is unveiled at the Stark Expo along with the Hammer Drones. Tony arrives in the new Mark VI armor and tries to warn Rhodey, but he is uninterested until Vanko takes control of the drones and the War Machine armor and uses them to attack. War Machine and Iron Man battle each other while Tony tries to stop the drones at the same time. Eventually, Natasha Romanoff restored control of War Machine to Rhodey and together he and Tony took out the remaining Hammer Drones. They then had to face Vanko himself in a powerful suit of armor and were unable to defeat him even working together. Remembering their earlier fight, Tony has Rhodey fire the War Machine's repulsor at the Mark VI at the same time Tony fires at him, causing an explosion in front of Vanko, destroying his suit and defeating him. Vanko self-destructs himself and his drones, but both Iron Man and War Machine escape. Rhodey later finds Tony and Pepper kissing and Tony demands the return of the armor but Rhodey refuses, citing that his car was destroyed in the battle. Rhodey then flies off in War Machine.

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While we are working on the new War Machine Mark I armor costume suit project, we never forget the EXO-7 Falcon suit project though three years have passed since we launched this project.

At first, we planned to build the EXO-7 Falcon suit according to the one debuted in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. As you can see in the photo we shot in Comiket 92 (2017, Tokyo Big Sight), we completed the prototype. The visual presentation is awesome.

However, that falcon suit's wings were too heavy and only allowed up and down status change. My team and I unanimously agreed that it did not meet our standard of production. Therefore, we decided to temporarily put this project on hold and do some massive redesign in the future.

During the past three years, several new movies were released in which Sam Wilson piloted at least two versions of Falcon suits. We finally decided to build the Falcon suit in Ant-man and Captain America: Civil War. The suits in both films are almost exactly the same.

Our engineering team redesigned the key structure of the wing framework after they delivered the new War Machine Mark I design to our prototype team. The new structure is significantly lighter and sophisticated than the old prototype and allows more exciting features including forward and backward status change, and motorized or manual joint lock. These new features allow the wearer to realize some very awesome pose in the movies, e.g. holding the wings in front of the body to protect the wearer.

We spent around 4 months' effort on the leg structure of the New War Machine Mark I Armor Costume Suit and are delighted to see that the outcome is satisfying. The lower part of an Iron Man armor costume always has the most number of articulated structures and joints - waist armor pieces, connections between crotch and thighs, knee joints, and connections between lower legs and shoe armors. The ambition to build the best armor costumes pushes us to conquer each and every challenge we met during the process of designing these joints and connections. We aim to make each joint with a smooth and wide range of movement, and meanwhile, we must not sacrifice the armor coverage. I mean, after all, we are building a wearable full body armor, not some separated parts for displaying.

Some special movable structure was designed to realize the above vision.

• thigh front slide armor
• articuated knee joint armor
• articuated hip joint armor
• sliding back hip armor

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We upgrade the design of the Master Chief Mark VI armor costume in Halo 5 last year. Basically all the parts were remodeled and refined. More details and new components were added to the armor to push it even more realistic. But we just didn't have time to take decent photos of the new design until recently we upgraded the Master Chief armor costume's painting. Thanks to our experience in building the Iron Man Mark 46 and Mark 47, the Master Chief armor now looks much more like built by metal.

We shot some photos of the new Master Chief armor on crates and will shoot more photos and videos of a model wearing it :) Stay tuned!