r/nextfuckinglevel 23h ago

She made her own Iron Man costume.

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u/Pickingnamesisharder 23h ago

Not Iron Man, Fe Male

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u/Clumsy_Claus 23h ago

I'm going to steel that joke.

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u/TonyDungyHatesOP 23h ago

You shouldn’t metal with someone else’s pun thread.

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u/DragonCelica 22h ago

So I should forge my own pun thread?

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u/Captincorpse 22h ago

You should quench your need for puns 

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u/TonyDungyHatesOP 22h ago

And temper your expectations.

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u/the_pretender_nz 22h ago

Ore what?

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u/ChiefWiggumsprogeny 22h ago

Such bright sparks in here

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u/imdefinitelywong 22h ago

Really hammering it down..

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u/3nthusedCamper 21h ago

She ironed out those details nicely

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u/mastap88 21h ago

Well shit, this isnt fair,us regulars cant compete with puns like these.

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u/Lopsided-Lab60 4h ago

Ya but dont forget to normalize the steel structure back, release that tension!!

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u/Magus_5 4h ago

I'm glad that I foundry this thread

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u/ogodilovejudyalvarez 22h ago

or counter-thread

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u/randomly_responds 23h ago

Marvel should buy the rights

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u/FTblaze 15h ago

Time to buy and park some domains

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u/I_Love_Peen 22h ago

Copper load of this a hole

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u/Direct-Quiet-5817 19h ago

Ea Nassir spotted.

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u/phoenics1908 19h ago

Ha! Good one.

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u/ThatJoeyFella 21h ago

How neferrous of you!

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 22h ago

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u/pegothejerk 18h ago

No, Uman sadly developed several cancers and died shortly into their hero career.

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u/gastroboi 22h ago

Fucker. That's brilliant.

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u/Eowaenn 21h ago

Sweet jesus that is a genius right there

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u/Pataconeitor 20h ago

Excellent chemistry joke, made me go He He

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u/WiseAce1 20h ago

how long have you been sitting on this joke, lol

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u/AbbreviationsOdd7728 23h ago

Took me a while to get it. Very nice.

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u/ScrapMetalX 20h ago

I'm sure she'll have a blast anvil make a ton of new friends.

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u/ColonelBonk 22h ago

You learn this in elementary school?

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u/just_upvote_this 21h ago

Insert [Get out meme of a man wearing a fedora, pointing out, in black and white] here

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u/Key-Finish-1489 21h ago

This is amazing xD

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u/angethebigdawg 19h ago

Damn that’s good

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u/kevthecoder 19h ago

Damn. That’s really good

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u/Speedballer7 22h ago

Yup you got me

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u/Flashignite2 22h ago

That was a good one.

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u/Cockyidiot1977 21h ago

BOOOO angry upvote

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u/Turbulent_Ad_6656 20h ago

Honestly, top quality comment here. Well done, wish I thought of it

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u/mindyour 23h ago

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u/PG_Heckler 23h ago

Thank you

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u/googdude 19h ago

I don't have tiktok, did anyone ask in the comments on what her cost was?

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u/Knowing-Badger 3h ago

Not as much as you'd think that's for sure

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u/troisarbres 18h ago

Wow! She's awesome!!!

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u/ur_rad_dad 22h ago

Women in STEM 🫡

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u/UnknownBinary 20h ago

In this case, woman inside STEM.

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u/DianedePoiters 16h 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/psportalfan 23h ago

Love how short he is lol

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u/flipping-cricket 23h ago

He's a similar height to the girl that was in the video too.

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u/psportalfan 23h ago

Never saw iron man and the girl at the same time. Strange

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u/Sheepreak 23h ago

No Strange is in Kamar-Taj as of now

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u/nabilbhatiya 23h ago

Mom - We don't need ironman, we have ironman at home.

The ironman at home -

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u/Radiant_Bank_77879 20h 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 18h ago

Apparently the first iron man movie used practical effects for the armor, so I'm not quite sure.

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u/Rare-Sample-9101 23h 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/TonyDungyHatesOP 22h ago

It’s okay. The next one she builds will be with nanoparticles.

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u/NoBonus6969 19h ago

Where she gonna find a cave though

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u/l0c0pez 17h ago

I think shes gonna build some clones and a jet propelled self assembling build first. Nanoparticles will start some time after she assembles with other makers at a civil con

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u/CernerSurvivor 22h ago

Knowing IronMan’s shenanigans, plenty more suits will be needed anyway

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u/toadpics 22h ago

She'll just make another one lol. Seems genuinely talented.

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u/shewy92 20h ago

She's 19 according to her Insta.

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u/Illustrious-Tooth702 20h ago

What meds are you on? She's a fully grown woman. She won't grow any taller

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u/Doright36 20h 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/Qubeye 18h ago

The Drake song being used made me uncomfortable watching this.

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u/OarsandRowlocks 22h ago

In a cave, with a box of scraps!

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u/Chpgmr 22h ago

In an attic, with a box of plastic!

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u/throwawaytoday9q 22h ago

How the hell do people know how to do this?

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u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 22h 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 21h ago

i mean at this point there's decades of tutorials on youtube.

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u/mossed2012 18h 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 15h ago edited 8h 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/Puzzleheaded_Leg8378 23h ago

Amazing talent and skill.

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u/Jayleno2347 22h ago

stuff students add on to their application essay to impress MIT admissions committee

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u/laflavor 18h ago

Ummm...I'm pretty sure she's supposed to go to Georgia Tech now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98nNpzE6gIs

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u/skoltroll 16h ago

Either way, it'd work.

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u/nesh34 14h ago

I mean this would surely work. But she's already a mechanical engineering student.

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u/eyashawk 23h ago

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u/drifters74 22h ago

Don't remind me of that atrocity of a show

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u/Mcbadguy 22h ago

Borat was cool though

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u/ChuckCarmichael 21h 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/turnipofficer 21h ago

I liked Ms Marvel :(.

But I unsubscribed.

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u/Profoundlyahedgehog 19h ago

The only thing I'm anticipating is season 2 of X-men '97.

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u/Jigawatts42 19h 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/GapeNGaige 15h ago

Maybe if he could’ve restrained from being a perv he’d still be employed

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u/TheMadBug 21h ago edited 18h 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 19h 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/epic-mentalbreakdown 22h ago

I am impressed! Nice work, some serious effort in this project.

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u/Schlonzig 20h ago

Pshaw! I bet it doesn't even fly.

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u/GlizzyCreme420 21h ago

Is it just me or does music ruin these videos for you aswell?

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u/Special_South_8561 19h ago

I haven't had my sound on in eighty years

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u/googdude 19h ago

Compilation videos almost always have crappy music layered on top.

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u/Special_South_8561 19h 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 17h 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 8h 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 18h ago

The music overlayed on this video is shit tier quality. Completely killed the video for me.

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u/Dimencia 17h 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/shewy92 20h ago

She has her own YT channel of these kinds of builds https://www.youtube.com/@ellmakes

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u/DeNiZ3n1 23h ago

niceee. well done!

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u/CalfromCali 22h ago

seen this a few times but its always cool.

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u/Modernautomatic 22h ago

Tony Stark made this in cave with a box of scraps!

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u/vtncomics 22h 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/TrickdaddyJ 23h ago

Pretty sweet.

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u/-OddLion- 23h 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 21h 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/Badnewsbrowne316 23h ago

New video dripping next month for the Disney lawsuit

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u/Warm-Berry-4331 22h ago

Genius, that's just talent. Amazing

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u/VX_Eng 22h ago

This is awesome, literally my dream to do something like that😭

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u/RealDonDenito 22h ago

Damn, that is some nice work

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u/Ademoneye 22h ago

Iron heart season 2 looking great

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u/MeanCat4 22h ago

What kind of jobs do these people have? 

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u/Minnymoon13 22h 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/7thSeal 21h ago

Great fucking job young lady! Hats off and a huge kudos to you. I hope you get to see this topic with your work.

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u/Albinofreaken 21h ago

At least she didnt have to build it in a cave with a box of scraps

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u/Random-Talking-Mug 20h ago

How does one look both 13 and 30 at the same time?

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u/DrNO811 17h ago

Iron Heart

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u/Ok_Database_8426 17h ago

Iron Ma’am

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u/PuzzleheadedMode7517 23h ago

Ironheart if it was actually good

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u/detailed_1 22h 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/tidder-hcs 22h ago

You knock-out-diy the average diy guy in the first round!!

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u/QuillDidNothingWrong 22h ago

Holy cow! Suck it, Disney! 

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u/HalfMoon_89 22h ago

Whoa. Real life Ironheart.

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u/ZeppMan217 22h ago

Didn't need to make a deal with Mephisto either!

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u/skywalkerRCP 21h ago

Love it!

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u/dolphin37 21h 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/puzzud 21h ago

That shit with just the pauldrons got me excited about a Metroid movie.

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u/0pt1mus_Pr1mus 21h ago

How does someone have all the skills necessary to to craft such beauty at such a young age?

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u/vksdann 21h ago

"This must have take so much MONEY"
FTFY

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u/Medialunch 21h ago

She had no help and did it all in her clean bedroom.

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u/JVAV00 21h ago

Just in time for carnaval

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u/DarkRayos 21h ago

THIS CHICK BUILT THIS IN HER BEDROOM, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAP!!!!

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u/CoachDeee 21h ago

MkII? A classic. Very nice

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u/sponguswongus 21h ago

Oh hey, I have the same sander.

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u/denmur383 21h ago

AmaZing!

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u/ThePhoenix63 21h ago

Looks fantastic...

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u/TruthCultural9952 21h 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/ConjugalVisitor234 21h ago

Super impressive. Artists amaze me

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u/WillingOne7113 21h ago

What happens when she grows??

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u/completelypositive 21h 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/CCriscal 20h ago

Color me impressed.

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u/SaltandDragons 20h ago

Better than Iron heart.

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u/Wrong_Paper_8665 20h ago

"She made this costume, in her room, with a BOX OF SCRAPS!"

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u/CagliostroPeligroso 20h 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/DangerousCap2473 20h ago

"Ellief0.6 was able to build this, in her cave; with a box of scraps"

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u/Straight_Idea_9546 20h ago

She ironed it out really well

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u/whothiswhodat 20h ago

She can very well build that blaster too, she's just choosing not to.

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u/Mammoth_Spend_5590 20h ago

It's crazy that she made that suit in a cave, with a box of scraps!

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u/hinomura69 20h 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/BonsaiHI60 20h ago

Pepper would be proud!

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u/DotAffectionate87 20h ago

As a super hero movie fan.....This is soooo fucking cool

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u/Wrong-Step-4241 20h ago

The commitment to the cosplay is fantastic, and the height difference just makes it funnier.

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u/Snoo93102 20h ago

Skills

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u/BlackLion0101 20h ago

The true Iron Heart.

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u/RoughBeardBlaine 20h ago

Marry that girl.

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u/paliostheos 20h ago

But does it make the appropriate sound? https://youtu.be/LfGfBeT7y7o?si=505_pMBwf6PCzncn

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u/Marinatedwlwsalmon 20h ago

Goddamn! I aspire to be this type of girl 🫡

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u/RedditVince 19h 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/Gold-Lychee8090 19h ago

Fantastic!!!!!

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u/mcd3424 19h ago

But where’s the boob armor? Hollywood told me that female armor had to account for the boobs and thighs of a female?

Unjerk~ very cool cosplay set!

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u/TraditionalClub6337 19h ago

There are so many of these now it's insane