Iron Man Mark V Transforming Briefcase Suit

From May 2010 to March 2011, I spent virtually every spare moment designing and building the worlds first Iron Man Mark V Briefcase suit of armour.

Unique in it's ability to transform from a (slightly large) briefcase into the fully detailed and fully functional suit of armour, this endeavor was inspired by the suit seen in Iron Man 2.

The Discovery Channel's Daily Planet featured me on their who on April 7th, 2011, I made the front page of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record on April 6th, 2011, and I won "Best in Show" with the debut of this costume at ComicCon 2011 in Toronto, Ontario on Saturday, March 18th, 2011.

For photos and details about the construction process, visit my profile a
thttp://www.cosplay.com/member/189634/
or watch my 4-part video series documenting the "Making Of", starting here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jAAbd...

A sincere thanks to:

Marilyn and Mike Wallbank
Jason and Josh Brooks
Dave and Wendy Wallbank
Kevin Turabian
Scott McCracken
Anne Hastings
Brennan Flickinger
Mathew Allan (Biggest Fan)

Doug Crawford and Queensmount S.P.S.
Stephen Jones and Auto Home Paints
David Hare, Brian Cox and Lakehead University
Ryan Meinerding (Concept Artwork)
Arduino and Arduino Forum
Brett Hagman (Multi-tone library source code)
Goof Off 2 (for making an incredible product that saved this project from disaster)

Marit Mitchell and The Discovery Channel

And, thanks to everyone else for listening to me talk about this non-stop for those ten months.

(The music in this video is copyright of Ramin Djawadi.)

• Category

  Science & Technology

[Ironmangirl1]

That's very good, but, I have to say you can't be the real Tony Stark. I don't know if mine can work, but, I think if I use the remains of an old car and nicely auto paint them and make it as a mark two and keep upgrading. Keep up the good work though! Everyone has their own ways of creating the Iron man suit. Also, nice arc reactor, did you build it yourself? I have been waiting to get the things for a triangle ( not Iron Man three) arc reactor of my own. As I said, keep up the good work!

[Ryan Brooks]

Thanks! And yeah, I made the arc reactor myself using sewable electronics. Check out my Mark VI arc reactor video with the self-sustaining triangular element - that one turned out pretty well! :)

[rubberchickencompany]

i think it's actually pretty awesome. who cares what these nobodies think. all they do is spend all their time on youtube

[Ryan Brooks]

Thanks! I know there's a lot of room for improvement, but I'm pretty happy with the result, all things considered. :)

[James Peacock]

Your not iron man

[Ryan Brooks]

My not?

[Ryan Brooks]

I am. I mean, it's not technically accurate. The suit's a gold-titanium alloy, but it's kind of evocative, the imagery, anyway.

[hamlet01]

I think you might have wasted your time.

[James Mcgraw]

Piece of shit!

[Arham Faraz]

Fakeeeeeee

[BPaulSoup27]

Fake he is not robert downey jr.

[OGMziSiL3nTz]

Bahaha what a piece of shit

[JanTubeHD]

Can you walk?

[labaldy]

this was awesome i like it

[labaldy]

no your not

[coolmonkey120]

im the real iron man

[mactavis1]

LOL