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Score and snap. It's easier than it looks. Just use a very sharp blade with a good point and make sure you wear cut resistant gloves. <br>

Well said.

In one ear and out the other.

This exactly. ^^Don't know about anyone else but I'm getting very bored with receiving notices to this thread of people constantly banging on and speculating, assuming, guessing, bitching about delivery of this armour. It will be here as soon as Anovos ready to ship. Be patient. Unless you are Anovos or have direct communication with Anovos stating fact it's all pointless conjecture. Spend your time researching assembly and finding all the other parts you'll need to complete it when it does arrive. I bet most people receiving these are newbies and will be starting threads as soon as it arrives asking how to put these together! .

PM me your email address for more info on good ROTJ armour and helmets.....

Never mind. If you read my post again you might understand it. I Do what I'm talking about. You are misunderstanding my point. What I was trying to say is that you had given examples of makers that have totally reworked their moulds to look ANH. Some of which recast other armour and agian reworked those moulds so...... They cannot be used as an example of soft ROTJ derived armour. Once something is recast, retooled, sharpened up and reverse engineered to be something else it is no longer what it came from. AP armour derives from a Esb mkii if I'm not mistaken and all the others you mentioned are recasts of retooled reverse engineered armour.

I think you are forgetting that CAP, MTK etc are all recasts of ROTJ derived armour Not second generation casts of actual screen used armour. I have not forgotten what screen used armour looked like. There's sharp and there's overly sharp. Two different things. I'm not saying the originals didn't want to be this sharp and I'm sure if they had used cnc'd aluminium moulds and had modern power vacuum formers the originals would have looked like this. But they didn't and that's my point. Are you sure AP moulds are machines aluminium and not cold cast aluminium filled epoxy? I use aluminium filled epoxy as I just would not be able to afford machined tools. They are incredibly expensive and not usually viable unless doing commercial factory volume Vac forming.

Again all speculation.

I think we are stepping a little into the unknown here. All this is negative conjecture.

There is no copyright on the OT props. Sds proved that. Not in the EU anyway. LFL did not put any artistic copyright on them so all Disney can do now is copyright the new stuff. You cannot enforce a copyright if there isn't one. I don't think the 501st or "underground " vendors are slagging Anovos off as such but you cannot blame us for criticising it. It is from what we can see on the pics posted far too sharp. We all speak out when something is too soft. It's the same but different. Hahahaha

No offence taken.

Thanks. I am well aware what original stunt helmets look like. I'm afraid you are trying to teach a granny to suck eggs. I have a whole page dedicated to the armour and helmets I have released on starwarshelmets. I have moulds of 7 original helmets 2 x ANH, 1 x ESB MKii and 4 x ROTJ. I own an ESB tour Vader helmet and have moulds taken from an ESB stunt Vader armour. I love the originals and all their asymmetry. I'm not trying to show off, just giving you a bit of my background. I worked in a prop company making props for the movies, Star Wars included. I'm not saying Anovos aren't producing a great product just overly sharp in my opinion. In fact razor sharp. Their moulds are cnc'd aluminium made from scans not cast from original helmets. This technology wasn't around when Star Wars was made. There is no lineage as such. My comments were that as Rob says that this forum used to be all about screen accuracy but with Anovos and EFX etc bringing out sharp cleaned up idealised albeit asymmetrical helmets the foundation of this place is beginning to change. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course but we all spent many years here trying to replicate Stormtrooper armour to be exactly like the originals. Which incidentally was as rough as F***.

Looking good so far mate. <br><br> Thanks for your kind words. You were great to deal with too. <br><br> Any advice you know where I am. <br><br>

I thought the whole idea of this hobby was to replicate what we all saw on screen? JFYI the original prop makers had no say in what things looked like as such. It's all down to the art directors and producers etc. Prop guys just do as they are told. Believe me I've been one of those prop guys.

I've come to the right place. Plenty of "OLD" timers here to help me I thinks.

I'm really worried this armour isn't going to be as comfy as my favorate pair of slippers or that I'm going to have to try and put it on without opening the box and it just assembling itself around my body shape. A little like an iron man suit only white and plastic. With any luck it will be totally tailored to me with Anovos not knowing what my measurements were before shipping it.

They were injection moulded

Oh yeah, I'm an original canon guy so thought you meant original TK.

Send fhem to me. I'll do them for $1500

A man walks into the doctors with a pair of cellophane pants on. <br> The doctor says , I can clearly see your nuts.

I've been meaning to do this for years too as they are also Rotj. I have a screen and vinyl just need to learn the rest. Lol

YAWN......... Come on guys this is a thread about a plastic costume. Not a matter of life and death. <br><br> Chill pills all round. Or a nice wee dram of single malt.

Q: What did the d**k say to the balls?<br> A: "You guys hang around here while I go inside

Well if you're Australian winter 2015 would have been summer 2015 in the northern hemisphere. So not all seasons line up the same. Lol.