Mr Laws

Wow, I'm gone for one weekend- Anyway, holy Christ Gino, WTF are you on? What's with you fascination with me and Matt copying GF crap? You really have no clue about what really happened but you are perfectly comfortable spreading your weird little theories as truth. The TE2 armor came directly from pulls that Matt took from the original molds. I only corrected the molding errors that Matt and Mike made originally. BTW, I remember spending two weeks picking the silicone out of the original face plate that you and Dave sent back to Matt. I never got the chance to thank you for that. So do you have any real questions for me? Dan

Looks that way. And you're welcome. Dan

Relax Gino, You have the first and poorly recast resin ROTJ molds that Matt and Mike made. When I made the new molds for Matt (now TE2's molds) I corrected the molding errors and compensated for the twisting and warping that occurred during the original castings Matt and Mike did. The original resin molds are incomplete and garbage. Also, the TE2 molds had nothing to do with GF my friend. I made them, you did not. And just so everyone on this board is perfectly clear, the supplemented parts from the tour suit are as follows: inside left shin box knee entire left bicep entire right forearm sniper knee The resin molds that Gino's has utilize two right biceps, two left forearms, an incorrect box knee, and an outside right shin to replace the inside left. There's your history lesson for today.

Thanks for the welcome guys, I think we can keep this discussion fair and balanced. There will undoubtedly be those who have their own opinions on this history but lets keep this focused on the facts. Jax and TK 4510 are on the right path. Matt did make molds of the ROTJ armor in 96/97 with a friend of his who's no longer involved with armor. It was this friend Mike who made a deal with Gino and Dave for the molds. These molds were extremely rough, warped resin casts taken from the real ROTJ armor Matt owned. In a separate deal, Gino acquired the face plate mold from Matt's first screen used helmet that I cast in bondo and the bumpy cap/back mold that Megatron from the RPF (Curtis) made in high density silicone. Gino and his friend Dave made copies of the two molds and eventually returned the originals to Matt. Guns now has both of the original molds which are the only two that have ever touched the inside of a real helmet. Starting around 2000 or so I started to make a new set of TK armor molds for Matt. These were to more closely resemble ANH parts and ended up being the really nice hybrid ROTJ/ANH set that Guns now uses. Matt could give you a better account of his relationship with GF but I do know that GF's old molds were sold to AP. Let me know if anyone has more questions. Thanks, Dan

Wow, so far off to a great start.

Gino, I'm the one who made the TE2 molds, why don't you ask me where they came from. Here's a hint: it wasn't GF parts. Dan