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Marc that is one clean looking guinea pig

Pablo and Steve you guys are in. One thing I should mention is that the decals are semetrical and do not have the hand painted look. More or less like the AP decals or SDS style. If you are still interested PM me your address. I still need one more guinea um... volunteer Remember it must be a TM helmet. Pablo those pics are great and exactly what I am after Mike

I need a willing participant to try my new TM decals out. Ideally this person would have a completed TM helmet that just needs decals. The deal is..I need great pics for my website and need the decals to be final fitted. I am 99.99% sure that the decals will fit fine. The person I was working with on this has not put their helmet together yet. I also sent a set to TM in the hopes that he would try them for me as well, but not so mush as an email yet...You get a free set of decals for your bucket. I get a nice set of pics from you and verification that the decals fit fine. All pics must be taken from at least 6 ft away and zoomed in to fit frame. Good lighting and a helmet stand or paper towel holder are a plus. I would prefer a person with veteran building skills so the lid is represented well I will take the first 3 individuals who volunteer If you dont have a TROOPERMASTER helmet DO NOT even bother as it will not be helpful Thanks for your time Mike

Stay safe Tony.

Home link at top left of page goes to some weird site....Just thought I'd let you know...

I dunno....Troopermaster is VERY illusive and hard to find... He could be in the same thread and YOU wouldnt know it...LOL...

The TM helmets like other makers have a slightly different shape in the tears and traps. Up till now my decals looked OK, but didnt quite look right in some areas. So I have a whole set just for TM's

Soon, very soon I will be offering TM (Troopermaster) decals on my website in standard, hand painted and sandtrooper styles. We are in the final stages of development and I hope to have pics soon. Mike

LOL!!

On second thought.... I think I was wrong. I dont know if thats an RT-Mod or not. Looks like a different maker but same style and decals as RT. The ears are totally different than RT after visiting his website and SWhelmets... I dont know dude... Weird.

Early RT-MODs were softer like this one. The decals are definitely RT-MOD style. Your right about the ears though... havent seen that before. Maybe Jez's website would have pics?

100% sure its RT-MOD

I have to agree with you there Nate. Colts may win. Saints fans deserve this though

I make hero lenses by heating the plastic with a heating gun and pressing them into the eye sockets of the faceplate. The trick is to keep rubbing the hot lens (with a glove) until it cools and also to make both sides match. Vacuum formed lenses that I have seen are very blurry to see through. Also I asked AA if the originals were vacuum formed along time ago and he said yes, but today they use injection molding on his hero lids as they are nice and sharp.

Favre blew it!!! SAINTS WIN!!!

KICK an impolite person BOYS LETS DO THIS THING!!!!!!

Sorry Paul. I think Sandpaper explains what happened and over zealous clean up. Thats it.

Silicone doesn't stick to anything and Matt would lie to his Mom....So I dunno.

LOL, Gino???

Hmm. I do seem to remember that.... But the color on those looks to be ESB..

That is a sweet set of armor though

Not that its a bad thing because they are "similar"...But those are my ESB decals not my ROTJ decals.

Gino has always liked controversy. In a way it adds to the mystique of the lineage. I kinda liked all the drama for a while there I could never afford his helmets either. Once I found out that they were formed from .060 styrene I was shocked. Definitely not for wearing and milk jug thin I believe he used such thin plastic because he would be able to catch the most detail from the moulds without loosing detail and without having to modify the moulds to get better detail. I think the tubes reshaping and behind the ears extra material were a necessary evil that had to be done as the originals were short trimmed and somewhat deformed during assembly. So they must have had to make some assumptions there... There is no way that any helmet faceplate or cap n back mould can be untouched... If it was then the finished product would look like crap and have even less detail than the faceplate or cap n back it was cast from. I do think Gino probably has the least F'd with faceplate and cap n back molds. The one in the pic above is OLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDD and is full of repairs and modifications. That is THE TE2 which is still pretty close to the real deal. The one to the left is the SFS in resin form. Where did you guys get that pic?? I bet somewhere there is a casting that is completely untouched. Possibly a master mould. Someone has it. Hopefully they will never touch it.

Never mind...Unsubscribing to this thread now.

The cuts are a littlw shallow like you are saying, but I think its a great option for our troops in Mexico. Looks great!