HomeBrew Iron Man Airsoft Mask

[Azriel_Strife]

Hey guys, I just went to Zellers today and I saw the IronMan toy masks with the repulsor gauntlet and I thought to myself, "That would make a great Airsoft mask with some work, and be original to boot."

So I bought it for $29 and change and took it home. Upon looking at it, it was fairly comfortable, and made of a flexible and quite durable rubbery soft plastic. It stops a BB from my KWA M4A1 no sweat from 5 inches.

Now that I had safety concerns out of the way, I decided to make it a bit more useable by opening up the lines with some ventalation. The mouthpeice only had the bottom part actually open, so I took out the Dremel and opened up the entire jawline so it was just like in the movie. Then I opened up the vent in the forehead as it was actually closed off. After this was surface prep, so I started sanding away that the shiny stock surface.

After sanding I gave it 3 coats of krylon ultra flat black as a base. It looked great all black, but I wanted to throw some green in there just for a bit better camo, and to add some definition to the features of the mask. I masked off the bits I didn't want to be green and let fly with the olive green krylon, 3 coats of green had a nice even covrage of the center portion and facial lines.

The finished product is below, all I need to do now is get some lenses from an old pair of safety glasses with a similar shape and glue them into the slots behind the mask. It's actually made quite easy to put them in, since the inside of the mask has a rubber form fitting inside thing that goes between your face and the actual mask (see the last pic). I'll just have to Dremel them to size and use epoxy or some other strong/flexible glue to hold them in.

Let me know what you all think!

[Bissa]

Originally Posted by Azriel_Strife

The finished product is below, all I need to do now is get some lenses from an old pair of safety glasses with a similar shape and glue them into the slots behind the mask. It's actually made quite easy to put them in, since the inside of the mask has a rubber form fitting inside thing that goes between your face and the actual mask (see the last pic). I'll just have to Dremel them to size and use epoxy or some other strong/flexible glue to hold them in.

I still wouldent trust that to stay in, If I were you I would just get some low profile ballistic glasses to wear underneath the mask, because if one of those lenses were to pop out your eyes would probably be just as bad as if you diddent have lenses.

but otherwise it is a very nice mask.

[Shirley]

Sweet find!

I don't think any goggles will fit over that flat face though.

[SDS_ShooterMcGavin]

I think its time to change your garbage :P

[McKay]

One of the guys used one of those back in our Spring FNG day, I think I have a picture somewhere of it.

[ShelledPants]

Pics of it being worn?

How's the field of vision?

[gerbalfarm]

I'm actually working on the same thing. I've had to modify mine to extend the chin lower to cover my chin. I used the lower jaw from my first attempt to lengthen the mask and yesterday I armaguarded to whole thing at work. The things pretty much bullet proof now. for lenses I'm taking the lense out of a pair of JT paintball goggles, cutting it to fit as one peice beneath the rubber eye seal. than I'm going to silicon it in to make sure it stays in place and remains sealed. One of the guys in edmonton did this earlier in the year and said he did have trouble with fogging though so you may want to put some venting in the rubber seal to help with that.
Your paint job looks pretty cool as well. Let me know how it works for you once you've gamed with it, as i'm refining my mask as I go with input from others who have tried it already. I'm on mkIII right now lol

[The Saint]

That's no Iron Man, that's War Machine.

[baker_Jeff]

Hehe nice. There is a guy here that runs around with an Iron Man mask/helmet. I haven't played with him yet but I've heard it is scary!

[Darklen]

That's Kadoogan. He installed ballistic glasses lenses inside, quite well too. He painted his OD. It's really, really creepy to see him play in that thing. Don't know if he still uses it though.

[Azathoth]

Someone in town in Edmonton has already done it, the inside of the mask fits the polycarb inserts for the ESS landstrikers.

[Donster]

i like it. it looks cool IMHO.

[Flatlander]

Originally Posted by Azathoth

Someone in town in Edmonton has already done it, the inside of the mask fits the polycarb inserts for the ESS landstrikers.

Yeah that's Kadoogan that Darklen posted a picture of. And I'm pretty sure they're bodyspec lenses that he popped out and they fit in nicely. Those ESS landstrikers are much to big I think.

It's very weird when you're standing around in a group with him and you don't know who he's looking at. He's quit the inventive guy. He's made his own multi chanber grenade (m203) launcher, to his own pulse rifle.

[-Trooper-]

Looks pretty awesome

[audible]

Originally Posted by Darklen

That's Kadoogan. He installed ballistic glasses lenses inside, quite well too. He painted his OD. It's really, really creepy to see him play in that thing. Don't know if he still uses it though.

Woah, that's actually looks pretty good. lol Can you imagine a team of iron mans playing airsoft