Smitty

Well for starters the 2 closest helmets to the screen are TE's and Gino's. Both claim to be descendants of 2 original screen used helmets. You can't find a better pedigree than that. TE made his helmets readily available and Gino didnt. I believe that accounts for the difference in price. Metaphor time A man makes a renowned superb sportscar and releases 1000 of them in the color red for $250,000. He also makes a single one in black. The black one sells for $500,000 because of its uniqueness.

Thats the first thing that went thru my head when I saw the one on ebay.

Excellent work Paul. You are truly a master at what you do!

OK that was the coolest thing Ive seen on ebay until this. Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?

He also has listed a smooth stunt and a hero helmet. They look really nice too. (view sellers other items)

Thats what I thought too. If you read all the fine print though he has done his best to discourage recasting such as coating the inside of the helmet with a reasonably thick layer of clear epoxy and welded the nuts and bolts in to prevent disassembly. Pretty smart if you ask me. I put it in my watch list. I'm very interested to know what this thing moves for. He even made it possible for RPF members to arrange 2 payments...guess he doesn't like us as much

Absolutely the last thing I would have guessed to pop up on ebay. Gino V2 Anybody got a stack I can borrow? Looks legit to boot.

Yeah, I'm definitely gonna be camped out here for a while.

Sorry there wont be any pics of my progress tonight as I havent made any. Jobs been keeping me busy tonight plus Ive been wrapped up in my new little voice changer discovery. Not forgotten tho.

Most fortunate for me indeed. Guns just pulled my helmet the other day. I'll prolly have it in a couple weeks. If you dont mind I'm just gonna bring my pillow, blanket and porta-keg and camp out in this thread.

Would it work to just swap out the FX shoulder bells with swooped bells that are crawling around on ebay from time to time? I had considered doing that once I got my FX armor.

Those are excellent pics man, I believe I may actually be able to pull this off. I'll start working on the prototype at work tomorrow night. I know that I have everything I need at work except for maybe the spring, but I'm bound to find something. With any luck it may be possible when I'm done to swing across a gap with a princess in tow. I should be home around midnight 30 eastern time with pics of what I come up with.

Hate to dig up an old thread like this but heres a pic from another thread about cutting the kidney/butt plate that clearly shows the grappling hook. This looks like an interesting project. Hey Trooper master, whats the situation on your white ABS boxes that store the grappling line on the belt you mentioned earlier in this thread?

Nice repair job buddy! Excellent work indeed, looks great.

Great idea! I can get acetone all day long at work. Remember boys and girls no smoking while applying your new repair paste as acetone is extremely flammable. We arent even allowed to use our comm radios at work in the acetone room (that whole fear of generating a spark)

I always thought they were blaster bolt magnets...no wait, thats the chest plate.

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By this you are referring to the "new FX" helmet? I hope I do a better job assembling my TE2 when I get it. I would seriously cry myself to sleep for the rest of my life if my helmet turns out like that. "Fears of a noob"

That new pic makes it look like a cross between a stromtrooper helmet and the mask from the scream movies. I seriosly hope no one spends any money on one of those. I would rather have a don post tack welded to my face before I would even try one of those on. Wow maybe we should rename this thread "Official New FX flame thread"

I think the SDS helmets look pretty good....my only problem with them is....drum roll please...that outrageous price. Another thing on the VSF helmet is that the eyes look more narrow than usual and the frown looks too small. You could prolly gouge out its eyeballs a bit, drop the brow some and get a pretty decent hero helmet.

This is good looking interior! Is that skullworx? I was thinking skullworx for my dome but I ended up prepaying for a TCI cuz static burst rox my sox. What are you using for static burst? Im prolly going trikstik for helmet numero dos.

Well the"new fx helmet" looks just wrong for some reason. Either the dome is too high on it or the face is too small, or something. I cant quite put my finger on it....does anyone else see what Im talking about? The VSF helmet has a decent shape to it, the pull looks a little weak but it looks better than the "new fx helmet"

food for thought: Asymmetrical beings are better suited for adaptation and survival than symmetrical beings. Humans are asymmetrical-I read that somewhere....dont remember where but its one of those things that you run across by chance and it just becomes a mental note.

thanks bro, I was afraid that the texture would show through on the outside. This confirms my worries. Im looking at a 6HP shopvac at the pawn shop. Willing to give it a go anyway tho. But much later down the line. I have to get my own suit together first. I want to try to modify the FX body armor into Dark Trooper armor as featured in the Battlefront game. That is such a pimp trooper.

I believe this question sorta falls under this category. Im tossing around the idea of building a vac-table and have question about the ABS sheets. The stuff I have found so far is gloss white, slick on one side and a slight texture on the other. I was hoping to find slick on both sides, but haven't so far. If thats all there is out there, would I just have to make sure that the textured side is the side that actually touches my molds, leaving the slick side as my visible exterior? I'm assuming in that situation the texture would flatten against my mold and become slick. Anyone...anyone...Beuler?