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That helmet is simply awesome!! I never caught sight of a 6 tooth ESB before. Which scene does it show up in? Man, the last few days I've really felt like a detail dunce

It could be worse. I was 18 when Top Gun came out and it was the greatest movie ever. Then I watched it with one of the RIO's who was in the squadron filmed and he pointed out every flub, and there were tons of them. At some point you just have to let go...

Wow - you are going full boat on this - way beyond what is called for but I believe you'll be creating a new bar for this version of the costume. big

Holster, neckseal, and some helmet fans (bucketworx) all went out late last week.

Only have two so far, at least showing the hand plates: Pix 1 Pix 2 Yes, I forgot my thermal detonator so that's the grappling hook on my belt. Worked a treat and was a neat prop to take out and pretend that I'm throwing.

Fascinating - I didn't know MonCal made TK helmets. He makes many other things, but I haven't ever seen him hawk TK lids that I recall.

Also, I'm wondering when a latex version of the alternate will ever show up ;-)

Holy handplates, Batman! Learn something new every day. Is there nothing you don't know, Paul? Any idea how two hand plates came to be?

IIRC there are two types of TD hand plates. One is the normal TK, the other is what appears to just be gaffer's tap rather than a purpose made design.

Felt better today so I trooped a parade. Was near 100% ESB (in TE2) but forgot my thermal det, so ended up using my grappling hook instead. Yeah, not EIB but it was easily 501st acceptable at least. Will post pix when I get 'em.

7545 to my eyes as well. Thanks for the post Billy!

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It's a series of circumstances but it may never come back. I'll have final word from Mike soon.

I agree with Stefan - this is armor porn. It's absolutely amazing and shows what an incredible artist you are, and also as Billy says innovative.

I'm getting over the flu. Doing a 3 day weekend being sick, with a sick wife and one sick kid, while the weather is 80+ and sunny. Not fun, hopefully we'll all be feeling better tomorrow.

WOW!! This is going to be an amazing project. Only one other person before has ever done an ROTJ Expert Infantryman (Bernard, some years ago). It's not for the faint of heart, but it looks like you are already on the right track. Man, this is one thread I'll be watching with determination.

This is what I love about TK's - there's something for everyone

Funny that it's an EU costume that is causing some fuss over ROTJ details. Personally I'm not a big fan of ROTJ troopers, but the TK commander is actually pretty cool, IMHO.

Whomever is in the market to get such goods. EDIT: actually this is partially true. There are sub-groups of this too. There are places in this hobby where no one cares about recasting, and ones where it's strictly watched and forbidden.

To be clear Joey, I'm not excusing anything. My post was an attempt to explain the behavior I see, nothing more.

How else do you explain the phenomenon then? This is my interpretation of the behavior I see.

Totally. Actually I'm a bit abashed from the praise as I didn't post this as a reference to me or about me. There are many leaders here on FISD, some formally and some informal. I personally am inspired daily by the members of this community.

Recasting is a process whereby someone takes a prop that has already been made and makes a copy of it. Props are sometimes 100% fan created, sometimes are found items (e.g. a henglster counter that they bought), or from a private collector prop such as a screen used helmet that someone bought at auction. The whole argument against recasting is to protect prop makers that we depend on for our hobby, pure and simple. Let's take the case of a fan made item such as TM's armor. He put an awful lot of labor in to making this and by selling copies does the rest of us a favor, as creating your own fan sculpted armor is out of reach for most folks. By recasting his work it is a dis-incentive for him and others who do fan made props to offer anything up for sale. No fan made props heavily curtails our ability to enjoy our hobby. So member of this community go out of their way to protect this person's art work as we'd like to be recipients of his labors. The same holds true for someone who buys a prop at auction. They own the item, and if they cast and sell it the community protects their interests in exchange for him selling them to us. On the other hand, some people don't care about being recasted. As has been noted recast items tend to be of inferior quality, so it's up to people to decide what they want to buy. Also, some people kind of opt out of the community and lose the protection of the community. Some retire, some sell their work, and some just make such an an impolite person of themselves in terms of integrity that they are – for lack of a better word – excommunicated. In the end it’s about reciprocity. The community protects folks who add value to our hobby, and by value I mean not just the goods but also the service we receive. Recasting TE or CAP is pretty acceptable because TE has pretty much pissed off everyone and has thus “exited” our community. CAP because he just doesn’t care, and also that he recasted someone who is not “in the community”. If CAP had recasted TM then I can assure you people would not be favorable of people recasting CAP either. People bring up the whole LFL angle but their assumptions are not correct. The 501st in a way does pay a “royalty” for the props we consume from the non-licensed community. We have to make no profit or take payment for anything we do, and have to abide by a code of conduct. This is the implicit “contract” that allows us to do what we do.

Saw this on someone's Facebook and thought I'd share:

That's the rumor anyway...did anyone ever ask him?