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Buliwif

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  1. My first username when I first got online was Thor. Turned out everybody and their uncle was using Thor, so I had to change it, but I was stubborn and stuck in a trend so I was trying to think of another Norse name... I had just recently read Eaters Of The Dead by Michael Chrichton, which was adapted into the film The 13th Warrior starring Antonio Banderas, which was really just a re-imagining of Beowulf. I loved the character of Buliwyf (pronounced Bull-Vie) and decided that would be my new user name... but I goofed when I made my Youtube channel and misspelled the name.... So from then on I was Buliwif (pronounced Bully-Whiff)
  2. The $180 helmet claims to be Anovos.... I don't know why it's on sell so cheap, but there you go....
  3. *edit* wait my bad. lol got ahead of myself... don't mind me...
  4. Hi there. I'm new here but I've been fabricating for quite some now and I have some input on this. I see quite a bit of confusion around here on what exactly counts as "recasting." In fact I've seen a couple examples here on this very thread. Recasting is, as has already been pointed out, a copying of someone else's work for the purpose of passing it off as your own. I can give you a great example of this in the "real" world: That sure ain't no He-Man riding on no Battle Cat... Back in the early 80's, during the Masters Of The Universe craze, just about every third world country managed to make copies of the figures, mold them, recast them, and sell them as knock off toys. This was a practice that ran rampant throughout the 80' and 90's. This is the definition of re-casting. If you actually, physically make molds of something someone else crafted and sell it off as your own hard work, then you are a re-caster. Making molds of someone's 3-D printed items so they can reproduce them in a sturdier resin is something else entirely, and is actually a pretty stand up thing to do for someone who isn't able to do so themselves. Also the statement about coming out with latex hand guards after someone else did as being recasting, I have to disagree with that also, especially considering the handguards in the movie were made of latex. Even if the movie hand guards weren't latex it still wouldn't be re-casting unless that person made molds off the original's work. Using techniques and materials of those that have come before us to improve our work is progress. We take what we've learned and we improve upon it. That's how the world moves forward. What it comes down to is ethics. If someone is literally stealing your work and claiming it as their own. That's exactly what it comes down to. Methods of production, materials used... all that is relative, unless it's some tightly guarded company secret that someone could only find out about by breaking into your workshop and stealing your files... Then that's pretty dirty business right there... Anyway... that's my two cents...
  5. Thanks! Now oddly enough the only helmet that doesn't fit this system is the Stormie itself. No matter how I work it, all the pieces are just too different to fit, which makes me wonder if the FO Stormie helm we are familiar with now was a redesign, that maybe it originally looked more like the tie helmet.... just without that weird flying nun looking blast shield.... I dunno... but if they follow the modular trend it'll make for some interesting new designs in the upcoming films.
  6. Hi everyone, I hope this is getting put in the right area... So I've been considering where to start with my first build and was seriously considering a TFA Snowtrooper. I was looking at all the reference material I could find and I realized something and i'm wondering if anyone else has noticed... I'm sure everyone has pointed out the similarities between the snowtrooper and flametrooper buckets, But what I've noticed is that both of those helmets (and potentially all of the first order helmets) are built from a modular design: Ok, I've color coded the parts as I see them on this flametrooper helmet... There may be more or less depending on the helmet, but here is how they lay out: The blue part is what I call the Bell, the rounded bottom edge of the helmet that contains the hose connectors/mike tips/ whatever they are... Pink is what I call the Lower Lip (the part just below the frown) the green part is the bucket, which contains the visor and covers the top of the head. And the yellow is what I call the spacer ring... These names are not official, I just call them that to keep track.... Anyway, moving on: Now we've got the Snowie Bucket. You'll see the same colors are present, except for the pink lower lip. It has been replaced by this red over-masky thing that pretty much covers the front of the bucket. If you examine other pics of the snowtrooper helm you'll see that this piece is actually separate from the helmet as a piece that is sitting on top. the upper edges don't even appear to touch the helmet itself. you'll see the same blue bell as the flametrooper, the same bucket as the flametrooper, and a little sliver of the same spacer ring as well. all topped off with a modern take on the classic snowie's dome, shown here in orange...it's the same helmet, as I'm sure most of you have guessed by now... For a while I thought the whole spacer ring was switched out until I found this one little detail is present in both helmets: And you can even see the line from the top of the spacer ring on the snowtrooper there.... but here's the real kicker... The Tie Helmet... Yep... That is the same exact Bell and the same exact lower lip. They've got what appears to be a different spacer ring (hard to tell here since it's not an actual screen helmet, so it may not be entirely accurate... and I left the rest of the bucket black because there's too many parts there to identify... but there it is, I may be completely wrong, but it all seems to add up. Actually it seems like a pretty efficient method of creating different helmets, both in story and out... Will it help with people who are making helmets? Possibly not, but I think it's going to help me a bunch.... This may be Earth shattering, and then again it may mean absolutely nothing... but it could just possibly affect the standards by which these helmets are judged.... or not.... lol...
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