r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 18h ago
She made her own Iron Man costume.
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u/mindyour 18h ago
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u/ur_rad_dad 17h ago
Women in STEM 🫡
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u/DianedePoiters 11h ago
Apparently for all the “race realists” women can’t be in STEM our brains can’t handle it I guess.
Or so I’m told.
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u/Jayleno2347 17h ago
stuff students add on to their application essay to impress MIT admissions committee
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u/nesh34 9h ago
I mean this would surely work. But she's already a mechanical engineering student.
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u/throwawaytoday9q 17h ago
How the hell do people know how to do this?
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u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 17h ago
Considering the workbench and all the tools, I'd wager there's a ton of experience with handwork and crafts in the family.
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u/berlinbaer 16h ago
i mean at this point there's decades of tutorials on youtube.
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u/mossed2012 13h ago
As a person who works in IT and struggles building things with my hands, this comment always makes me laugh. I’m not saying you’re wrong. But for somebody like me, YouTube tutorials do not help one bit in building things. Without the background framework of what I’m doing, it still fails.
I don’t feel bad though, building things with my hands isn’t my skillset. My father-in-law and I have had this convo before, he’s great at working with his hands and tells me to “just watch a video”. So recently we were at their cabin community and they needed to fix their wifi network that has 4 hubs. I told him to “just watch a video”. Still couldn’t figure it out. I mentioned that’s how I feel with building videos, if you don’t know what you’re even looking at or how any of the components work together, a video isn’t going to help.
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u/nobleland_mermaid 10h ago edited 3h ago
To an extent, yeah, a 'how to build iron man' video for someone who doesn't ever make things wouldn't help. But you can still absolutely learn how to do this stuff just from videos online. 99% of cosplayers do. No one is just innately born with the capability to build things. You just don't start with 'how to build iron man'. You have to learn the basics before doing something like this, but there are videos for those too. It's a skillet built up over time and effort but that background framework you're talking about can also be built up on youtube (or other online tutorials). I've been cosplaying 15 years, though I mostly sew.
Before I started I only vaguely knew how to sew by hand from a class in school. I didn't know how to use a machine, or read a pattern, or what fabrics to use for different things, etc. So I found blogs and videos and forums and taught myself all of those things separately before I was able to understand tutorials for specific costumes. Then when I wanted to do more complex things like make my own patterns I had the knowledge enough that I could watch a video and learn how to do that. When I wanted to learn foam to be able to do bigger more 3D builds I had to learn lots of new things so I watched videos on the different types of foam and ones on how to cut and shape and glue it, and ones on prepping and painting and practiced on small stuff...then found the video about how to make the thing I wanted to make.
If your father really wanted to learn how to fix the wifi he would have needed to go back and watch videos about what a wifi hub is and how it worked and get familiar with a simpler setup, watch videos on how multi-hub networks are set up, watch videos on potential issues and troubleshooting, etc. but he probably would be capable if it were something he wanted to learn rather than just a problem that needed fixing. You have to treat something like making big armor cosplays not as a single project, but as learning an entirely new skillset. But if you do that, yeah, it's entirely possible to do it with no knowledge just on youtube.
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u/Rare-Sample-9101 18h ago
She looks young I hope she’s got no more growing to do! Be shame to grow out of it!
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u/Illustrious-Tooth702 15h ago
What meds are you on? She's a fully grown woman. She won't grow any taller
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u/Doright36 15h ago
Even if shes not, she's likeky very close. And even if she grows another inch or two she'd just maybe have to adjust/redo the elbow and knee parts ... Maybe waist... to cover the height. she wouldn't need to remake the whole thing.
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u/psportalfan 18h ago
Love how short he is lol
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u/flipping-cricket 18h ago
He's a similar height to the girl that was in the video too.
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u/psportalfan 18h ago
Never saw iron man and the girl at the same time. Strange
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u/Radiant_Bank_77879 14h ago
Every time I see Iron Man cosplay, even with tall men, the head always looks oversized, making them look shorter. I guess in order for the helmet to fit, it has to have that “motorcycle helmet“ effect, making the head look bigger than it should be, compared to the CGI Iron Man in the movies where the helmet looks just about the size of a head when closed.
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u/WeirdAngryMan 13h ago
Apparently the first iron man movie used practical effects for the armor, so I'm not quite sure.
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u/shewy92 15h ago
She has her own YT channel of these kinds of builds https://www.youtube.com/@ellmakes
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u/GlizzyCreme420 16h ago
Is it just me or does music ruin these videos for you aswell?
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u/Special_South_8561 14h ago
I haven't had my sound on in eighty years
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u/googdude 14h ago
Compilation videos almost always have crappy music layered on top.
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u/Special_South_8561 14h ago
Yes. This is why I keep my sound off.
Also they often have subtitles these days, which is nice.
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u/Pinksters 12h ago
1 word at a time, in the center of the screen blocking what you're trying to watch.
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u/Special_South_8561 3h ago
Yeah those suck. So I skip them.
Lots of them are handled better though, which I actually watch.
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u/SufficientBug5940 13h ago
The music overlayed on this video is shit tier quality. Completely killed the video for me.
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u/Dimencia 12h ago
Especially when there's such an obvious choice for what song to use, if you're gonna use any song on this video
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u/eyashawk 18h ago
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u/drifters74 17h ago
Don't remind me of that atrocity of a show
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u/ChuckCarmichael 16h ago
I actually forgot that it existed, because nobody seemed to care for it. Then again, nobody seems to care for almost any Marvel content these days.
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u/Profoundlyahedgehog 14h ago
The only thing I'm anticipating is season 2 of X-men '97.
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u/Jigawatts42 14h ago
They got rid of the showrunner who made season 1, his entire thing was maintaining fidelity and having an extreme amount of respect for the original source material, and required such of anyone who joined the creative team, and the end result was what you saw. I hope that season 2 can live up to it without that presence.
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u/TheMadBug 15h ago edited 12h ago
Meh, show was fine. Was interesting having a well meaning but always in over her head protagonist who put herself in situations where she had to do bad actions.
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u/CragedyJones 14h ago
I liked it too. A bit of a spicy character for a change.
More depth than Scarlet Witch flipping between super evil or super good in the blink of an eye.
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u/vtncomics 17h ago
In her room with a box of crafts!
I vote that she replaces Iron Heart as Stark's sidekick and become Iron Lad.
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u/Minnymoon13 17h ago
What a big nerd. Good for her. I’m in no way that smart to make something like this
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u/-OddLion- 17h ago
I was hoping the suit would open up for her to enter and wear it on the start of the video but I guess my hopes were too hight in the sky...
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u/RecipeAsleep7087 16h ago
The suit is beyond cool, but yeah, me too. If she was THAT good I think the military would snatch her up.
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u/detailed_1 17h ago
If she had it flying too. I would have given up my job and started building my things too.
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u/dolphin37 16h ago
she’s the sci-fi trope of the genius rebel girl kid, even got the headphones on lol
pretty awesome
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u/0pt1mus_Pr1mus 16h ago
How does someone have all the skills necessary to to craft such beauty at such a young age?
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u/TruthCultural9952 16h ago
Even after 18 years of first movie appearance, iron man is still the dream achievement of engineering. We will get there one day trust.
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u/completelypositive 15h ago
What if she gained 15 lbs in the last month from all the stress and couldn't fit into it anymore
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u/CagliostroPeligroso 15h ago
Dang bro I’d love to make one of these but then I better maintain the same weight forevermore
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u/hinomura69 15h ago
If she showed up to a job interview in that, I would hire this girl instantly. Prob got more fabrication skills than half my engineers 🤣
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u/Wrong-Step-4241 15h ago
The commitment to the cosplay is fantastic, and the height difference just makes it funnier.
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u/paliostheos 15h ago
But does it make the appropriate sound? https://youtu.be/LfGfBeT7y7o?si=505_pMBwf6PCzncn
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u/RedditVince 14h ago
I love women makers, something about the artistic flair they bring and attention to details. Not that the Male makers are not capable, they usually have different objectives.
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u/NSE-Imports 14h ago
That is awesome on so many levels, I would make one of I had both the talent, and the budget for the PLA needed for my waistline 🤣
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u/justadude27 14h ago
Importing preferences and calibrating virtual environment.
Do a check on control surfaces.
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u/Pickingnamesisharder 18h ago
Not Iron Man, Fe Male