Lego Iron Man Flash Drive

Ok, so several year ago I bought this lego minifig flash drive keychain. It is a 8gb flash drive so it is still a decent size, not too big but still usable. The only minifig flash drives that you can buy it seems are the generic, minifigs, like a man, a woman, or a police man. Mine is a fireman, because, well, I am a fireman. Well anyhow the keychain is all worn out, the hands have fallen off, and it is all scratched up and needs to be taken off of the keychain. I thought instead of tossing it I could dissect it and transplant the usable parts to a cooler character, like batman. But alas, I don't have a batman minifig. But, I do have a Iron Man Minifig, so I will make that.

Here is a list of all of the parts and materials I used in this Project

Lego Man Flash Drive

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Glossy Modge Podge

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Super Glue

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I wanted to take the flash drive part of the old keychain off and reuse it in the new one. I also wanted to used the nail part that goes through the hat, head, and into the chest area. It was a little difficult to get the flash drive part off of the old one. I had to use pliers to get it all taken apart so I could get to the flash drive part. Once I got it out I cleaned up all of the old superglue off of it with a scalpel.

The nail that holds the hat and head on just took some elbowgrease with a pliers to pull out. I also needed to reuse the legs from the original keychain.

I wanted to paint the legs to match the iron man so I painted the legs red with some plastic krylon paint. The flash drive part also had his belt on it so I painted the belt red using some red acylic paint.

Next I prepared the iron man minifig by drilling a small hole into the helmet, head and neck. I also glued the hands into the arms using superglue so that they would not fall out. I applied a generous amount of superglue to the flash drive part and attached it to the chest area.

The studded nail with the loop in the top was probibly the hardest to install, I heated it up using a torch and pushed it into the helmet and head, it cooled off quickly so I used a nail set to finish the job. It will hold the whole thing together as a keychain.

I wanted the whole thing to be coated in something that would protect the keychain and help the paint last a lot longer. So I covered the whole thing in glosssy modge podge and hung it up to dry.

I like the way it turned out. I took an old worn out broken keychain and renewed it with a different character. It turned out very cool. Thanks for taking a look.