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The rubber brow trim works fine as well!

You could have a look at the LFL archive photos until someone finds a better reference, I did a quick search and didn't find what I was looking for. -------

I believe that is sketches by TM

Happy birthday!

You look great! Just get some rubber gloves and handguards, fill those rivets, or replace them and you should be good to go for centurion.

I'm sorry to interfere, but what you just said isn't really true. Look at the first post and it's clear that you made this thread before you were in the final, as you say yourself you signed up to the costume contest the day before you created this topic.

I second what Paul says, I remember reading about this before and I think it was pretty conclusive at that time that it was from some Japanese gun, which Paul perfectly demonstrates.

Well done!

Looks killer, but is your helmet details, hand painted or decals? They look very sharp to me, and the "sharp" decals are not acceptable. Would suck if you needed to replace them!

I'm a bit too tired to do another lenghty post, so I'm just writing this to show you I've read it all and agree on some (most actually) parts and less, on others.

I would love that! Well, costuming is obviously not your thing. But I'm pretty sure there are those with the picachu suits that spend a lot of time and effort to perfect their costumes too. Sure, It's quite impossible to transform yourself as a 6 feet man into a 1 foot fantasy animal, but at least you could try to get the stripes correct, no? As a trooper I am most certain that your blaster will be looked upon even closer than when it's on your mannequin and why should it then not stand up to the same standards as a display piece. Just because you take it out of your glass cabinet once in a while does it mean that it cannot be rugged enough to stand some handling. Different garrisons have GMLs with different standards, it's impossible to get away from. But I would object if I saw a blond Leia. I'm not gonna tell them to permanently dye their hair, but they could get a wig. They should not even be approved without one anyway. And as far as body types go, sure, if you're asian and want to do Leia or Solo or any other "face character", there's not much you can do about that, so just do it. And do it as good as you can. But for some people, maybe their body type would suit them better in another costume. I don't want to crush anyones dreams here, and if they really want to do it, go for it. I'm just saying that if you take a step back and think about it, maybe you can find another costume you really like and will fit your body type better, to work *for* you instead of *against* you. I for example am far too short to be a good Vader, therefore I'm not even gonna try to. It should be fun, YES! but at least to me, building and making it look good is a part of the fun. And I do think there are more than just fanboys that notice the difference. I don't even consider myself a fanboy, I'm just a lot about details and what is "right". All in all, as Deatrin said, I guess well just agree to disagree.

Sure, this I kinda agree on. I'm not gonna tell someone at a troop to "go home or get a real blaster". What I'm looking for is a genuine feeling from the hasbro guys that they want to improve. If there were no such feeling at all, the wouldn't even have bothered to paint it black. So why stop there, why not go the extra 10 yards (hardly one mile in this example) to build a pipe kit instead? It's funny that you mention that, I'm having an all metal one made for me. So I guess I wouldn't care if you said that.

Nice job!

I think that you can't be so black and white. I do some heavy trooping with my blaster and I meet kids of all ages and I'm pretty sure that a lot of them do notice the difference between a hasbro and a pipe kit. Sure, if you want to put sound and lights into a pipe kit it can be both complicated and expensive. On the other hand, I tell the kids who want to play with my blaster that a gun is not a toy, and they respect that most of the times. At least if you have a blaster that looks like a real gun you have some leverage to claim such a thing. And I do think that guns are not suitable toys for small kids. Guns should be treated with respect. And yes I've done military service, so I know what a real gun feels like (just bringing this up so I don't get a counter argument about that later).

Well since I'm always on the receiving end when developers don't think about other users than what they themselves are using, you get a bit fed up about it after a few years. And I work closely with developers who mostly agree that if you assume that your users will do the exact same thing as you do, and develop after your own way of doing things, you're doing it wrong. As bad as it sounds, I'm not trying to criticize here. I'm looking forward to experiencing the new skin, and I know CSS can be a real pain in the an impolite person to get right.

Isn't there like a rule of thumb in webdesign since the last few years, not to think IE renders the page correctly and shouldn't be trusted?

They are made to order, so yes, they are "always" available. Dunno if you can have it in two weeks though. He does ship world wide I guess. I had no problem to get mine to Sweden.

It looks like crap in Chrome 11.0.696.68, just FYI. But I do appreciate the effort you make to give us new skins.

No, I believe there will be a change with our without my help, for the better. Just as FX helmets are becoming more rare. But I do intend to do my part to speed it up.

I feel you Karin. Take a deep breath and we'll try the best to help you through this postal mess.

People has always been fighting change, like when the fork was introduced, when earth was no longer flat, or it was the center of the universe. Evolution is •still• fought by some people. Get over it, the hasbro is not the center of the TK universe.

No people will not "drop" the other makes, just as they haven't already been dropped before when a new maker comes out. Did people stop buying TE2 when TM came out? No. Did they stop buying TE2 when ATA or CAP-W came out? No. Some people want more than one helmet, and they probably want them from different makers as well.

Well they have already said that the price will be competative to what already exists. What that really means is left to see. But I for one thinks the days of really high prices for a good helmet are numbered.

Very nice

That looks really nice! Did you do any mods to it, or does it come like that out of the box? If so, the pic on Doopydoos website must be an old one, possibly the Mk 1 version?