all right so it's time for our QA about
the new Captain America shield
so one of the most common questions I
saw on both the videos is how heavy is
it
and honestly I don't actually know so
let's find out a little scale here all
right fourteen point two six kilograms
or just over thirty pounds so yeah these
are pretty heavy it would be really cool
to make one out of titanium because we
could basically have the weight it would
only weigh about 15 and a half pounds
then but unfortunately titanium well I'm
not very good at a quilting yet and
titanium is pretty expensive but maybe
sometime in the future we'll try
remaking this out of titanium which
would be really cool another common
question was asking about how long did
it actually take to make because the
funny thing with videos is you can make
it look a lot more simple than it really
is
so for this project it actually took
about two weeks of design on the
computer just to design it before we
even start building it now that did
include a bit of the MDF the the
cardboard prototype that I made using
the laser cutter and then building it I
think that was about a good solid three
weeks with almost four people working
full-time so this was actually a very
extensive project and a very expensive
one too just considering the man-hours
that went into it so with that in mind
how much did it actually cost to make
well again it wasn't cheap the most
expensive cost was actually the labor
that went into it because like I said
multiple weeks of full-time labor but
that being said even the components
alone were pretty pricey so all the
components like the rails the pneumatics
the hoses the valves and all that stuff
all that by itself was over $650 u.s.
and then the laser cut steel was almost
$250 by itself so literally just the
components not including the cost of
actually putting it together was nearly
a thousand US dollars if I had to guess
I'd say the whole shield probably cost
around two to three thousand dollars
once you consider the amount of time and
labor that went into it with all the
welding the grinding powder coating a
shield like this would cost quite a few
hundred dollars because powder coating
is only cheap when you
doing it in bulk if you're doing a
single job that's a single setup luckily
my friend has a powder coating setup in
his garage so we were able to do it for
free so another question asked are there
gonna be more videos about the shield
and yes there are we've actually got two
more videos still that are going to come
out on the meter and that includes a
street fighter style video where we
destroy a car - the street fighter
soundtrack with all the music and sound
effects at it it's going to be great and
then we've got a really special video
it's actually going to be Captain
America's old shield versus the new
shield to see which one comes out on top
so quite a few people have asked if I'm
gonna release the designs to the public
so you can try building your own and to
be honest I haven't quite decided yet
because I did put a lot of time and
effort into this and like I said it
costs over a thousand dollars to make so
I can't see too many people actually
making this but that being said I might
be releasing the designs to at least my
patreon followers so is the shield
really bulletproof well nothing's
actually bulletproof but the shield is
quite bullet resistant now I did only
test it with a 9 mil which is actually a
pretty easy gun to make something bullet
resistance and I'm sure if we had a
higher caliber weapon we could actually
punch through it but like I was saying
the shield is actually really thick in
the middle it's almost an inch thick of
steel so it could actually stop quite a
big round but again I don't really want
to destroy this because it costs so much
to make and took so long and then it
wouldn't work anymore so we're not going
to be doing any more tests to see how
bulletproof it is but I'm pretty happy
that can stop a 9 mil think that's
pretty convenient so another question
was asking how much money do we spend on
all the stuff with broke and some people
thought that it was actually more than
the cost of making the shield but that's
just not true the majority of the stuff
that we break we find in the garbage on
garbage day we go out in the streets and
we see what looks cool to break that
people are already throwing out so like
that TV was already busted the car we
destroyed well we bought that but it was
only 100
because it was a parts car it was
missing almost everything it needed to
be an actual car and it wasn't worth
repairing or fixing and making an actual
street-legal car so we really don't
spend that much money on breaking stuff
we always try and reuse garbage that
looks cool to explode in slow motion so
what's my favorite Captain America's
original shield or the new one
definitely the new one the old one is
iconic and it's a lot of fun but I put
so much more time and energy into making
this one and I personally think it's way
better plus we've got that video coming
out Captain America's old shield versus
the new shield another question asked
was where did I get my awesome caption
mayor costume you mean this one we got
this costume from killer body and it's
actually a licensed Captain America
costume although we did weather it a bit
to make it look a bit more like the one
in infinity war and to do that we
actually use cosplay Chris's tutorial
there's links in the description below
if you're interested in doing the same
thing to your Captain America costume we
also did a photo shoot with new costume
changes including both our Wakanda and
shield build and caps original shield so
make sure you follow us on Instagram
where we'll be posting the final images
and to get all the latest updates as
well as some teasers on upcoming
projects at the hacks myth anyways
thanks for watching and I hope you guys
enjoyed this project it's got to be one
of my favorites and if you have any more
questions leave them in the comments
below
