Too Much Garlic

That analogy is bust. You can't substitute the codes of conduct from one "community" to another. The electronics business had a copyrighted stereo for sale and no matter whether it was pricey or now discontinued, both person A and person B should not make copies, as they are infringing on a company's copyright. Those rules are governed by International Law. The model kit community is pure black and white when it comes to recasting. There are the officially licensed products and there are the garage kits. Neither are condoned recast in the model kit community. However, the garage kit sculptors are infringing on a copyright they don't own, but they are sculpting a unique piece that no company has offered. According to International Law, they are law breakers, but are still protected by the community - even at times respected by the companies and sometimes gets imployed at the companies to sculpt licensed works. The prop community is yet another animal, with three separate sections. The officially licensed, but lesser accurate replica offerings by companies (some say they are free game for re-casting, I disagree for the most part). Then there are the (similar to garage kit sculptors) scratch-builders, who infringe on a copyright to bring possibly more accurate replicas to those who want it. The third section is the cast from screen used people, offering stuff directly from the screen used - the height of accuracy, you could say (again, some say they are free game for re-casting as they are in a sense re-casters themselves, again I disagree for the most part). Yes, they made copies of an existing item and is technically a re-caster of said item, but the difference with this one and the next re-caster in line is that he is not cutting into someone's profits or offerings - he spent lots of money on getting the original and have it cast. Without this person NO ONE would have accurate armor, as an example, but would be stuck with FX. Since LFL or an officially licensed company is offering wares at this level of accuracy to the originals, then that person BECOMES the "official" source for those items - without him they would never have been made available. Yes, it could probably have been more favorable to have LFL or some licensed company to make these, but they don't. That's the whole deal with cast from screen used - NO ONE IS OFFICIALLY OFFERING THOSE. But if there is no protection for the people who take it upon themselves to make that first generation copy from the screen used, then we won't see any more cast from screen used offered ever again out in the open and possibly also not in private either. No one can stop people from buying what they want, but we CAN educate as best we can. Giving re-casters a free-pass will send a wrong signal and what will be the point of banning them on other forums for re-casting if they can just come to a 501st controlled forum and continue their business, influence others and still have access to buying new stuff to re-cast? That's one heck of an insult to throw at the whole community and all other forums trying to keep these people's access to a minimum.

I'm totally with GINO on this one - 501st charter or not. If you buy the re-cast, you are doing exactly the same as the guy who buys the expensive stereo for cheap from some guy's trunk, because you don't want to spent what it costs to get it "legally". Stolen goods, nothing more. So, anyone recasting option 1 and 2 listed in this topic will go free - both from fan-made and from "cast from screen used"! Is THAT how it should be understood? That the 501st takes no stance what-so-ever on any re-casters, regardless? That's how it is written, so I guess that is how it should be understood. You want the wares, but takes no responsibility towards how you get them. That's low. If that is the official position of the 501st, then I will never recommend anyone from this group to anyone offering "cast from screen used" items and I will be very reluctant to sell anything to them, as the 501st charter doesn't protect that item from being re-cast. Not taking an official stance against this is equal to condoning it. There is no way around it. Tell me what the difference between TE2 and TE is? Both are "cast from screen used"... **** the TE2 IS the former TE molds. What's the difference? I don't see any. If a strong stance against re-casters and the exclusions of those from the community and any forum, 501st or not, isn't taken... then it can be assured that people will think twice about wanting to offer anything accurate ever again. That is 100% for certain. Who would risk spending several hundred or thousands of dollars on getting the original, spending large amounts of money and risk destroying that original to make copies for interested people... if they don't have the protection of the community and the 501st to secure them from being re-cast. The 501st risks to be excluded from future sales of accurate stuff if no security or protection from recasters is part of their rules. And I feel this is an issue that I will have to further discuss with my staff at my own forum.

I didn't know Altmanns made armor. Looks pretty decent to me. Much better than the FX. And the black frown... well... you could call it a Special Edition Sandy!

Those are some cool drawings. Gotta admit... I like the line drawings better than the colored one... but that's just me. Lovely!

Insane petite armor. Hope all is going well!?

Thanks. That's a real nice and shiny hero!

Looking forward to that. If you get a frontal shot made, may I use it on my Trooper Helmet List on my own forum? Cheers.

I can spot more than a few structural and sculptural differences between the two. I like them both. Very well done TM, very nice Hero helmet.

Really looks weird without the belt on, but great armor!

Its all good .Cool, thanks. Very nice suit you got there!

Hey, may I be allowed to use this picture on my Stormtrooper helmet list? I'm in need of a good TrooperMaster picture. Cheers.

Thanks. That's a super cool image... exactly what I had hoped for!

Know this is a trooper forum... but any pictures of the burnt Vader, please?

That's a nice looking sandtrooper suit!

Well, wasn't asking for public info... you can pm me, if you got any info to share!? I've bought from AP before, but not sure my info is up to date, nor my contact info.

FISD? And thanks for the info... need to update the info on my forum now to reflect what is actually being offered by AP. Would it be possible to get some info on current pricing too... as my contact seems to have vanished off the face of the Earth. Thanks in advance.

So, the new armor shown in this thread is NOT being offered after all? AP's New Armor.

That's definitely not half bad looking. Pretty sweet rework on those lids!

Wish there was something I could do to help, but I don't know webpage stuff very well... and ain't got many props... and mostly only deal with Vader. Though, I think it's great the site is being updated!

That's looking very good GZ... I like it!

From what I know... the mold will be created from the inside of the helmet... thus making the vac-formed cast and exact duplicate of the original. The reason the RotJ helmets were so soft is that they vac-formed on top of an actual ESB suit... not on top of a mold. If this is wrong... please let me know. I'd definitely be interested in one of these... def in ABS and most likely in kit form... and would love some additional info! Though... the price would definitely be a factor to consider for me, though...

Last I heard the CE line is dead and they are only doing 1 Stormtrooper helmet - wonky and in fiberglass. They completely dropped the symmetrical version.

Really impressed! Is this from who I think it is?

Pictures are gone again. With IMDB.com you can also open the image, open "View" and "Page Source", copy the link of the picture into another browser and then save it from there. It takes a little while... but well worth it as you get the high-res picture. Any way of sending those pictures my way too, please? no.humor.man@webspeed.dk Thanks

Absolutely impressive pieces. Think I have seen the pictures before, but am unsure whether I commented on them... can't imagine giving anything less than a huge