Blake Hall
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or a hard place, you’ve become familiar with the technology that is 3D printing (perhaps that very rock was printed from a 3D printer?). In just a few years of existence, it’s produced cars, office buildings, Van Gogh’s missing ear, guns, mowers and even castles.
Perhaps the following creation, however, tops all of the aforementioned. For it put a flashy, cartoon hero suit on a real-life one — it dressed a disabled military combat veteran in a dazzling, famous outfit, down to the very last detail.
Tony Stark fans, meet Tim O’Sullivan.
Iron Man.
Oh, that’s also him in the photograph above with United States Army veteran and comic book icon Stan Lee.
This from 3DPRINT.COM:
After getting wounded in combat, O’Sullivan needed a therapeutic task to help escape from the pangs of military service. So he decided to purchase the 3D files for a full-body Iron Man suit from Do3D.com and 3D print them with his newly acquired Robo3D R1+, a desktop 3D printer equipped with a heated bed and auto-leveling, as well as a build size of 10″ x 9″ x 8″.
This was O’Sullivan’s first time truly experimenting with 3D printing technology, and the project took him approximately eight months to complete. After the 3D printed components were produced, they were finished using a variety of automotive body techniques, including glazing putty and Bondo auto body filler. Robo3D’s high-end 3D printer was ideal for a project of this kind, as the San Diego-based 3D printing company is known for constructing and supporting 3D printable model kits.
Pretty uncanny resemblance to the one worn by Robert Downey, Jr., eh?
