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That's true, but it's work, and if I have to do a job on the helmet so it is better to me I'm going to buy a kit.
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The price is not bad for a ready to wear helmet, since it is also hand-painted. But there are some visibile assembling mistakes, such as eye-trimming, as already said.
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I think the point is we all should be 180cm tall to be movie accurate. So I agree with the ones who say that the armor must be built to fit their body as best as possibile. Infact, if the movie accurate style gives at the whole armor a bad look because the man under it is too small, it naturally becames movie inaccurate to my sight. But.. there's one thing I don't understand, sincerly... Someone spoke about the drop boxes placed there to cover black spaces... but what about the sandtroopers? They don't have the drop boxes; shouldn't they have the same problem?
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Sorry for OT. It's C to me.
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Perfectly. Do not misunderstand me, we come from the same place. But if we would live on a desert isle, we would take care of the armor just for display, just like when you put it on a mannequin at home. You create a replica for youself pleasure. But when you troop out you do it also for the people, to be pictured as well. I'm not saying we have to go back trooping with FX helmet, but to create an armor for trooping. Last I like to see how the members personalize their armors, it is movie accurate too, since the stormtroopers were not all identical. I dream to have a perfect movie accurate armor, but I would display it, not use it (I'm afraid to ruin that and also I want an armor for trooping, when I troop, I'm not an actor with pauses and no ownership interst to the armor he wears).
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I do 100% agree with you. But it is also true that we cannot replicate all so perfect if we want to use armor for trooping. For example, if I use black boots white painted they're movie accurate, but 90% of the people who see me will think "what a crap, didn't he have the money to buy white boots?". So I think it depends on the use.
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Finally, I finshed my Vader
lightside replied to lightside's topic in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance
Since some pieces are not hand-made, it became an hybrid ESB-ROTJ. One thing is clear: it is not ANH. -
Strange armor details
lightside replied to lightside's topic in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance
I know that it is a promo shot, but the armor should be original. I don't think they made a copy for promo. The details are all where they have to stay. It might be they used rivets on those plates they were unable to fix with glue. Maybe some repairing after a stunt, etc... I also was looking at the inner thigh, it seems to be hand-cut. This means that there were different armors with small different details. So it is impossible to create the perfect replica, but choose one and replicate its style. My 2 cents of course. -
Strange armor details
lightside replied to lightside's topic in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance
I don't remember who, but in some topics, around here, it had been said that the knee plates were glued and not fastened with rivets. But looking closely at the ANH trooper in the visual disctionary () a rivet is quite visible on the right knee to fasten the plate (it is hard to see in the picture, because I had to switch off the flash. Do not get close to the screen with your eyes trying to see it, move far instead. -
Is it me, or has someone got the sticker on back to front!
lightside replied to Discharged_Mindriot's topic in eBay Armor
You don't understand the art... -
My ESB TM armour build[*TM]
lightside replied to firebladejedi's topic in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance
I know they're movie accurate, but... can I say that those dish-gloves are horrible? -
Si, non mi ha cagato nessuno, ahahah
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Strange armor details
lightside replied to lightside's topic in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance
Yes. My english vocabulary is not very wide. Anyway, first happy birthday; second, the picture shows the troopers were neither clones nor twins. Seriously: take a look at the first trooper sitting on the down-left. His chest armour doesn't flex, it goes down, so it seems it wasn't be fixed. -
Strange armor details
lightside replied to lightside's topic in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance
I'm not a mod here, you have to apologize to them, non to me. In any case, if a discussion brings pictures as the one you posted... wow, just keep on. . Just a curiosity on that picture: take a look at the inside of the helmet in the hand of the trooper standing on the right. Where are the inner black laces? -
STORMTROOPER BOOTS
lightside replied to RogueTrooper's topic in Boots, Soft Parts, and other Accessories
I wear TK boots too. Dale's job is always superb, I also have a pair of Vader's shins in ABS from him. Behind the TK boots there are years of experience in trooping on field. Infact, the maker of TKboots had been one of the first trooper in the 501st. -
Strange armor details
lightside replied to lightside's topic in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance
In any case, I'm satisfied about the flexibility of my armor material. (sorry, I took the pic with my cell-phone camera) -
TM Replica ANH suit.
lightside replied to stukatrooper's topic in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance
Woah!!! This is.... (I can't find the words). If you would make this five years ago you could tell to people you had a real screen-used armor in you hands, and I'm pretty sure they would believe you. -
I was working to it for years. I took the first steps, in early 2003, by following Vadermaker's advices, but due to financial problems I had to stop and restart my job several times. I made a undersuit that I did not like, but I've never had time and money to make another one, so my Vader had been reviewed on Starwarshelmets.com with an awful undersuit ( ). Now I've found a Rubies Supreme Undersuit at a very good price (I think it is the only good piece of the costume "as is") and I have to say it fits very well my costume, so I can consider it finished at all. The helmet is a Rubies Supreme, and I am very proud on the job I've done around the eyes and the nose to give the helmet a better movie-accurate cut.
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TM Replica ANH suit.
lightside replied to stukatrooper's topic in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance
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Ho visto che c'è il pulsante "start a new topic", ma cliccando su "presidium Italica" mi manda direttamente qui dentro in questo topic, quindi avevo paura di fare qualche casino se l'avessi premuto. Magari mi si apre un topic in tutta la sezione e non qui in quella italiana. Edit: no, ok, ora ci sono arrivato, cliccavo dalla parte sbagliata, eheh. Purtroppo ho grossi problemi alla testa e ogni tanto o perdo la memoria o me ne vado nel pallone.
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Mi spiace solo che questa sezione sia più che altro una chat tra me e te, al momento. Del resto, a parte te e TKDUEUNO non passa più nessuno di qui. Tentare di mantenere anche le aspettative della sezione, ossia di mettere traduzioni di tutorials, etc... è cmq arduo, avendo un solo topic a disposizione.
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La mia era una FX originale. Cioè fui uno dei pochi fortunati a riuscire a prenderla ancora dal suo creatore originale Galaxy Trading prima che chidesse i battenti. Non sono a conoscenza di differenza dei caschi in ambito FX, me ne sbarazzai quasi subito tanto ero imbarazzato ed imbarazzante con quella pentola in testa. Qui si nota bene: http://portal.501italica.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=44886&t=1281723790153 Sono ovviamente lo storm a destra, quello basso. La differenza poi col casco AP è più che evidente, come in questa foto fatta a San Siro (sono il primo a sinistra). http://portal.501italica.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=46694&t=1281726354401
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Ho provato a chidere, su un forum di perfetti profani, se, secondo loro, una replica di un elmo come quello da stormtrooper, pieno di imperfezioni, sarebbe stato meglio farla tenendo conto delle imperfezioni oppure no. Non ti dico il putiferio che è venuto fuori: metà diceva di si, che era meglio tenerle altrimenti non si poteva calcolare come replica (cosa su cui concordiamo quasi tutti qui), ma altri la pensavano in maniera diversa, sostenendo che se, all'epoca, avessero avuto la possibilità di non fare errori di stampaggio (perchè alla fine quello sono) per il poco tempo e budget a disposizione, gli elmetti sarebbero stai dritti e quindi vanno fatti dritti. Effettivamente, il secondo discorso ha cmq una sua logica, ma resto dell'idea che se fai una replica devi fare una replica, difetti compresi, che sono poi quelli che rendono la tua replica precisa, poichè sono anche quelli che danno la particolarità e la distinzione al pezzo. La simmetrìa quindi, nel nostro caso, rende il casco inaccurato e anche brutto, per chi ha l'occhio abituato a vedere uno storm movie accurate. Diciamo che il casco MR replica rende l'armatura FX totalmente e interamente simmetrica, quindi può anche avere un suo perchè sul costume, volendo. Ma d'altrocanto le fa mantenere quel 100% di inaccuratezza che il suo casco d'origine non contribuiva di certo a toglierli, anzi... Però ti devo fare i complimenti per l'accuratezza di colore dei tasti sul pezzo addominale. Un dettaglio che nemmeno in 501 era stato contemplato fino a qualche anno fa.
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Apetta... ma l'MRCE è il Master Replicas, giusto? CE per cosa sta? Non seguo molto i prodotti MR, eccetto le vecchie Lightsabers (adesso in mano alla Hasbro mi pare). Edit: che pirla, ci potevo arrivare anche da solo che stava per Collector's Edition. Purtroppo le edizioni collector hanno sempre sofferto in dimensioni (più grandi o più piccole, più larghe o più strette), senza contare ovviamente i dettagli. L'unica collector buona imho è quella della Royal Guard della Don Post (ormai fuori produzione). Ma poi, quella simmetrìa li... <_<
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Si, ma non avevo capito che era quella. Pensavo ne avresti postata un'altra dopo cena col casco MR, perchè dalla foto, presa così, il casco mi sembrava un FX. Quando infatti prendi le foto dal basso l'FX tende a ridimensionarsi. Puoi vederlo qui: http://portal.501italica.com/image/image_gallery?img_id=44432&t=1281723788712 Quello nella foto sono io al mio primo evento, nel 2003, con ancora in testa l'FX. Se calcoli che sono alto 170cm, potrai capire come, l'FX, fosse sproporzionato sulla mia testa. Eppure, in questa foto ripresa così, sembra quasi proprorzionato. Non hai una foto più ravvicinata?