Problematic Code #1, Code Style #1, #2, #3, #4
Your chests aren't instances of IHasModel, so their Item models aren't being registered.
(It's almost like IHasModel is useless because all Blocks and Items need models!)
Even if they were, you've commented out the registerModels code in the copper chest anyways, which probably wouldn't help matters.
Edit: You'll also have a rather brown-looking iron chest, since you just copied the copper chest's Json over to the iron one.