Ankit Singh Patahnia the IRON MAN of MAAC Jaipur & winner of the Golden ticket at Comicon Munbai

Ankit winning the golden ticket to Singapore

Ankit with his team mate Vidhi Pareekh.

 It’s a moment of great pride and honour to announce that MAAC Jaipur’s Ankit Singh Pathania has won the Comicon 2013 award for his Iron Man suit. Not only the award but this is one of the first attempts in India to have made a suit of Iron Man with such perfection. He also won the best cosplayer under the comics and graphic novel category at Comicon 2013 Mumbai..

The event had multiple stalls promoting special merchandise, graphic novels, upcoming graphic websites and various food stalls. With over 85 participants, Comic Con 2013 saw a plethora of local, national and international content.Among the many exclusive book launches, was also the launch of Pulp Quarterly, a journal featuring in-depth stories, interviews, vignettes, photo-essays, critiques, profiles, and reviews on the Indian comic scene, along with original, unpublished comics by some of the most talented Indian creators.

Ankit with another participant

Posing with visitors

The biggest challenge for him was to create something which looks believably like the suit in the movie with limited budget resources and funds. Where there is will there is a way.He handpicked Foam, Hard paper, Moldable cardboard sheets and many such crafts items that are used in schools to teach in junior classes. For someone as creative as Ankit it took him 78 hours to figure out a way to construct more than 100 pieces of Hand armors / Helmet / Leg armors / Chest guards etc. After making all these accessories he also had to make them work in way so that someone could wear that suit and move around. Many pieces were broken during the process of wearing the suit and had to be re-constructed. After hours of efforts and hard work Ankit assembled all the pieces together painted it with Metallic paint and finally sorted out to put them together and created almost a look alike of the suit from the Movie Iron Man. He got a chance to display the suit at MAAC Jaipur in a students meet up where people acknowledged him as the real IRON Man and desperately wanted to get a click from him. Following are some of the image from the Event.