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But not because of anything Ainsworth said or did. Ainsworth LOST 243 out of 246 points brought up in court. The judgment actually stated that ANYONE could now create TK armour as it was ruled an INDUSTRIAL design and therefore the industrial copyright it would have been covered by had expired after 25 years. Ainsworth was refered to by the judge thus: "46. 'I do not accept Mr Ainsworth's evidence on this point. I think that his factual case is born of a combination of loss of recollection over time, and his propensity to claim credit for greater creativity than he in fact demonstrated. I find that Mr Muir's evidence is correct in relation to the design of the armour. That means that many man hours, over several weeks, were spent producing a design for the armour. That design was approved by Mr Lucas. Even if it could not be reproduced in-house, the fruits of the design exercise (plaster casts and fibreglass tools) were available. It is inconceivable that that would not be provided to any contractor charged with fabricating the armour. It would otherwise have represented wasted effort, and there is no reason why it would not naturally be provided. Furthermore, there were positive reasons why it would be. The whole design and appearance of the film was closely controlled and supervised by Mr Lucas. He had approved the armour as finalised by Mr Muir. Anything new would have to obtain fresh approval, and there was no point in seeking that when approved designs were to hand. The idea that Mr Mollo and others would hand over the armour project to a third party (even one with Mr Ainsworth's capabilities) and invite them to start again (albeit from drawings) strikes me as being faintly absurd. If that were done, one would have expected a series of prototypes, and a pattern of discussions, approval and modification, taking (probably) weeks. It is highly unlikely that Lucas would have just taken and approved whatever Mr Ainsworth produced. There is no evidence of any such course. Mr Ainsworth said that he had made about 14 sets of armour by 5th March. That left nothing like enough time for him to make up some sets and have the sort of discussion that the design values of the film would require. He cannot have just worked up some immediately acceptable armour from the McQuarrie paintings. He must have had some real designs to duplicate. He was unable to give a convincing description of what the extra drawing with which he said he was provided (the only descriptions he was able to give did not demonstrate it to add anything useful to the McQuarrie drawings, leaving one wondering why he would have been provided with it). I find that he was provided with the Lucas tools, or useful casts, from which he produced copies corresponding to what Mr Lucas had approved (the clay originals) and ultimately the McQuarrie drawings.' He cannot get away from the fact that he did not sculpt the armour - it was proven in court that it was sculpted by Brian Muir - the moulds were made at Elstree. Ainsworth was employed as a vacuum former and nothing else. They had all the talented artists they needed already on the production at Elstree Studios. It is only in his mind that he was part of the artistic development of the Stormtrooper armour." Additionally; there is now way in hell that back and cap are legit.

Will do.

Looking great mate. Your doing it justice thats for sure.

Yet his ad speil for 2 years ( untill he was proven to be lying) was " Original maker, original molds" Bollocks did he. He bought a kit off of a well known maker and took molds off it! ( after he tried to get in league with another armour maker who told him where to get off ). If he made the molds off the "skins" then why is his kit ROTJ based, the ab section in particular? eg: the line from crotch to belt area offset, or more to the point lack of it. I know there are none so blind as those who will not see but come on Vern, how many times do you need to be knocked over the head with the facts?

:duim:

Recasting Peadophiles no less.

For Vern etc who have made the suggestion: Grant has done the decent/polite thing and started a duplicate of this on the UKG forums. For what its worth the general concensus so far is for him going either ANH,ESB or ROTJ rather than him going for a mix.

Wear thicker socks?

You mean his rope grapple right? Welcome to the FISD Ian. As others have said, head over to : http://www.ukgarrison.co.uk/forum/ You wil get no end of help there.

Recaster. Avoid.

Cheeky.

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What Joe said. Shake for 2 mins, stir for 2 mins then use. Additionally make sure the area to be painted is grease and dirt free.

Of all the troopers in the UKG (well over 200 ) 99% of them use Rom FX. Can't get a better testimonial than that.

+1

From what I have experienced so far.... 1.5 mm moves and folds/bends just like the originals. 2mm bit more durable BUT do not leave to much return edge on parts as it will micro crack with stress ( especially the chest piece ). Having said that , I have the 2mm and could not be happier.

Ooops. My bad. Thats def not the guy in the link. Do watch out for the other guy ( in the link ) as he's all over theive bay . MLC I beliieve is Mardon Collanta(sp?) Bottom of the page: http://www.starwarshelmets.com/fan-made-droids-c-3po-r2-d2.htm

I like the sound of that!

Thats Star fortress!! AVOID The guy behind it is a wanted peadophile: http://web.archive.org/web/20091025134649/http://geocities.com/universalarmorer/scheuer_wanted.html

Look. You keep sending me abusive messages and we'll keep stephens thread clean. Sorry for the interuption Stephen mate. Look forward to seeing you over on the UKG.

Who said we need a "humorous" interjection to so many threads?

You will not regret it mate.

Were you wearing lifts in that steve mate?

Realy constructive.