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looks much better! mostly just because of the proper ab part Just need you a new knee plate and you'll be lookin sharp.

I wear a medium fedora (Indiana Jones hat). i'd say you'd be fine with one of the smaller ones then. FX is kind of a last option. I still have a few fx parts but the first thing I ditched was the helmet I still have my thighs (those have fit the best being a girl and all) and I still have my shirt mod, but I wanna ditch it soon too for something more accurate.

something else to think about is how big is your head?? because if you if you have a normal sized head fitting into a TE or RT or various other proper sized helmet takes some work. especially if you put electronics in it. so if you have a head that you might consider bigger.. maybe size 8+ hat or so, you might wanna get the fx. I know some guys who just cant fit into anything else. Though I would try to talk him down at least 50.

fixed the one made to show our combined costumes and affiliations... and woke up that lazy drunk pilot (in other words, bought more tape lol)

Michael's had a 40% off sale on shadow boxes today, so while going after a few small ones for some fossils I bought on a whim today at the museum we went to this morning (to put up next to Chad's awesome drawing of a skeletal T-Rex in our living room...) I bought a bunch for action figures. So most of the afternoon I spent making them... and one is on topic of Rebel Pilots. So happy early birthday, Chad I nearly opened my Porkins and stuck him in there, but decided to keep it all his figures and patches... with a space left for the incoming Warhawk coin lol I made a few for myself though: My favorite of course: Bounty Hunters: And one of all our costume designations together, its missing Chad's fleet trooper because he hasnt submitted it yet and I ran out of double sided tape, hense the reason there are figures leaning over in it lol

Holy cow. thats nearly 60.00usd lol Nice, but waaaay out of my range for a shirt...

My BF (the TB) and I helped out a friend of ours at an impromptu troop the other day, to help some 5th graders with get car wash donations for their trip to Busch Gardens here are a couple of pics from the event. I wore my e-11 to have something to hand to the kiddies instead of my bfg lol. sweaty troops... the Mexican restaurant benefited a little from us being in their parking lot and gave us plenty of water in thanks. also use of their A/C lol Happy to report that not only did they reach their goal of enough $$ to take the class to Busch Gardens, when we left, they still had a line of cars and the money they were collecting at that point was for them to have spending and food money!!

X-posted a play on Blastech would be cooll... PlasTech lol though they arent exactly plastic lol, but it would be almost canon and that would be sweet . So my list: PlasTech DuraTech DethProof SafeTech (for being bouncy instead of breakable) ImpTech ImpGuard StompTech StompGuard

order placed....

i'll be ordering Friday

you still have your ab buttons... and your ear caps arent painted, but your armor looks much better than when it was really really dirty. I like a lot of dirt too, but dang lol the colors of your dirt are kinda cool too.

same here, seems I requested a long time ago, but I do not see anything anymore... td8269

We walked Saturday the 15th for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. It was an absolutely amazingly perfect day for it as well. The beach was gorgeous. (except for near the half way / turn around point there were lots of dead sea urchins ) Two sandies made it out into our element And I am reasonably sure we met if not beat our 1000.00 team goal (the team goal site wasnt counting the individual totals towards it for some reason) I know I beat my 100.00 goal and made 220 in online and 15 in off line donations. Here are some pictures of the event! (some day I will have a backpack and be fully deployed ) I have the black pauldron on for this one. Sorry about the places my hair came out, lost the hair tie during a helmet removal somewhere near the end of the walk lol. aftermath!! (my bf is the scout in the middle of the front row) entire album is here: http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/akan...ch%2015%202008/

no, emailed someone in malaysia... maybe I will look into blas-tech...

I've been knocking around with this thing for a while... I have FX stuff mostly, with a proper Sandtrooper Ab plate upgrade, and I lost the desire to keep the bucket after seeing so many awesome ones at ToRP... So I bought a TE, it was a little over priced for what I ended up getting since the tubes were a bit warped and extra holes drilled in for installing the ear pieces... I was waiting to work on it until I was sent the freebee trim pieces to make up for the holes. But since they never came (grr) I just gave up and got to work. I used appliance paint for the white. it was nice and shiny and thick. and it flicks off nicely for making those TD paint scrapes. As mentioned, it sat this way for a while waiting for parts. So I gave up and bought some myself, and got some hovi-mic tips to go with the speakers I had been saving. I had painted the grill wrong the first time... so that ticked me off enough to stall work for a week or two. Lol, so I xactoed off the grey and it eventually went to this: The clear coat made the grey on the tears and such turn out a little darker than I wanted, but meh, I'm not doing it again lol. Installed some screen for the grill and dark green lenses. Wired up the fans and hid the speaker wires a little bit Then I took the badboy outside and threw dirt all over it. Still need some foam or a hat liner in there, then it will be done! I've been TD for a while, but havent gotten deployed yet, I have my MG34 about 80%, I ran out of fins for the barrel and have a lead on some accurate plastic ones that I am going for, but I may just finish with the wipers first lol I also have a backpack still being built for me and as soon as that gets done I can finally be MEPD deployed lol. maybe it will be by Megacon, *fingers crossed*

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I don't know. How do you put a price tag on 8 years of your life devoted to research and development? Not to mention the enormous price tag of the original molds. I think it shows in my pieces. If you cannot tell my helmet's worth, then you either don't know that much about what a real helmet should look like, or you don't care that much about authenticity/pedigree/accuracy/etc.. well, I cant tell your helmets worth because it looks VERY similar to TEs which cost way less. Yours are painted up well... but TE claims your molds were his... if you bought them from him at a huge price, that really sucks. but we dont know the truth with all of this, so its hard for a lot of us to warrent spending that much on something. MR's helmets are 500. or so, and are licensed, I just would like to know why this is so much more than everything else. There is a chance some of us do have the money but dont see/understand. And yeah a lot of us dont have the time to spend 8 years following something like that. I spent 3 years working on x-wing and endor cloth parts. But I never put a price higher than a 30% profit on anything I've ever made for any costume of any type I have made. Generally, I have always wanted more accurate looking people around Rebel wise, so if someone steals my patterns, and sells parts for the same price as me, I dont care, but most people try to charge more since I dont make much when I make things anyway. The problem is we see a lot of fighting and cant tell who lies about what and when two people claiming they have something similar with hugely different prices is a hard call. We can take to PM if you like, I really would like to understand, I just cant seem to wrap my brain around it. So many people see you as wanting money more than caring... since most of us care more about having made something and want as many people to have it as possible, so its made affordable , and its done because we like prop making

sorry, Seth. 'our' meaning 501st in general, not claiming this board specifically as 'mine'. to me, there is no reason for someone who dislikes the 501st and has no want to join, other than for $ to be here. He has never seemed like he was here to help. every where I post he just talks down about members. and he devalues the work of you and other members on this board specifically in these posts or I would ignore it like i've done every where else. someone who wants to learn and make costumes and the like, should never feel unwelcome on a 501st board. people that only like us for potential money and spying purposes need to find something better to do. ruddy vultures. Edit: and that isnt just for gino's sake... if the Chris guy isnt here for any reason then to sell us stuff, then he's out of place too.

Gladly, if you'd all get off mine. Actually, not really. Also, the reason I register at YOUR boards is two fold. Some people there actually want to know things about the armor you wear that no one else can answer. The other reason is to watch out for ****** bag recasters and who is friends with them. according to TE you use his molds anyway, so yours are second gen anyway? Regardless we're all 501st or aspiring 501st here, so you really are going to kill a lot of people's respect anyway, and a lot of 501st people are in other places, and some of them have money and influence, and you're pushing them away from all angles, if you believe it or not. one of the two of you or TE is lying anyway, so pretty much, as said before everyone is a thief anyway. But I dont support stealing and recasting... but I dont support price gouging either. But there are a lot of people with money they want to spend to look good, that will buy from TE and Chris because they cant afford the 2000. price tag. and selling to anyone is going to open you up to a recast. more so from non-members since most of us have more heart than to do it. (buying it always seems to be another story) if someone spends 2000 on a helmet, a good chunk of them probably want to make money back off it. there arent many people who would spend that just to let it sit on a table. Are you willing to disclose seriously how much money you've invested in your product to warrent the price tag? and what cost what? it might help a lot of us understand why you think we should pay that much?

THEN GET OFF OUR BOARDS. or drop your prices. at least 501st members who make things set them at reasonable prices. We're a huge potential source for income and you know it, thats why you register at every one of our boards that lets you...

We would like to look nicer, yes, but not for 2000.00 for an f'ing helmet. If you hate the way we believe, go peddle your wears back on RPF. Quit talking down to us because we dont want to give you 2000.00 and because we care more about charity work than someone recasting your helmet. Why do you avoid answering why you wont drop your price to gain respect / loyalty? Heck, I think you should be banned from 501st sites because you dont do anything worth a dang for us except complain. Why should you have access to our boards other than to rape us for every penny you can get from somewhere?

and with that last statement there Gino, my side has switched as well. I am now completely 100% sure you're a bit of a jerk. How did you spend more time and work recasting someone elses work, than Seth did scratch building something to make a mold from? and they dont charge over 1500.00 for their 'work' either. At least its their work. If you wanted more respect from people you would charge less for your helmets. I'm sure you'd have an easier time making the "money" you spent aquiring these items back if you sold them for 500.00 each. But instead your are creating your own frakkin' problem by selling them for so much. By selling them for so much, you are opening yourself up to being recasted. If you sold them at an affordable price, you might gain yourself some loyalty. If you charged a reasonable price, people would go to bat for you more, and feel like there is something to protect. But there isnt because most of us wont buy your helmet so there isnt something we feel we should protect. Your stuff is unobtainable. I own a TE helmet. It was shottily assembled, but its nicer looking than my FX was. He was gonna repay me for the drilling extra holes in it by sending me some parts , but he didnt, so the both of you can forget recommendations for various reasons. As for would I buy a Chris helmet? maybe. Mostly now because I dont respect you anymore. I want to look good, but I cant afford everything perfect, and why should I suffer because you want to line your gorram pockets? welcome to the wonderful world of capitolism. Microsoft ripped off Apple, heck and just patented the spin dial Ipod uses cause Apple forgot to. Maybe you should take this sign to start being compeditive. I'm in this for the kids I make smile and the fun I have doing it. Screw paying 2 grand, maybe you should donate some of your profits to something worth some salt and gain some of this "community" you keep talking about's respect. When was the last time you trooped something ?

i had a post here about that somewhere. i'll shoot you an email, i have plenty, just asking for a bit to cover shipping and packaging materials.

nice. let me know if you guys ever have a half off sale though lol.