KS helmet build

[shdwtrpr13]

It really is depressing to know that their earlier stuff was much better. But yeah I'll get oppinions from my garrison tomorrow and see where to go from there. By the way lone thanks for you refrense pics.

[shdwtrpr13]

With great sadness I will be returning and getting a refund. The replacement part I recieve was of far less quality then the one I sent back. They have agreed to a refund upon return of the kit, as well they know my displeasure for what they gave me. At this time I will be contacting the other 2 vendors moncal and sc. And if anyone knows of others that sell helmet kits please do pm me.

 

 

 

[NegativeEleven]

This is the 4th helmet I've had in my hands in 5 months, so I'm going to make do with my KS. To be fair, one is a Rubies that I'm trying to re-sell and one is scratch built from pepakura and my own measurements that I never intend to troop with. My advice to everyone about KS is that it's a lot of work. If you don't have the patience for taking it apart and re-gluing it 5-10 times, don't bother. Also, it took 8 weeks to get it. I believe that's what they list as their turnaround time, but they told us when we ordered that it'd ship in two weeks. Then there were 5 weeks of "we'll be shipping it next week" before we actually got it.

 

Just a warning, SC is a little backed up. When you place an order, the automated email says 4-8 weeks. I contacted him before placing my armor order and he said 10 weeks is where he's at now because of some unusable ABS that he had to send back to his supplier. Jeff's been great about communication, so I expect to be happy with what I get from him.

 

All the stuff I've seen from MC looks great, but they are bad about communication and my friends' average wait for delivery from them is like 6 months.

[shdwtrpr13]

Well that explains why I haven't gotten a reply from Jeff yet and why their vs mail is at capasity. Well I'll wait on their replys. I really want to know where SC is on the dome of their helmet before I order anything.

[NegativeEleven]

actually, from what I understand, SC's only behind on white ABS orders. Silverboyd contacted him after I told him that it'd be up to 10 weeks to get my armor because he's been looking at SC's tuskan head/greebles. Black resin and black ABS got shipped out less than 2 days after payment. Maybe this applies to his shadow scout projects and I could've ordered my armor in black then painted it to get it faster. After all the time I've spent having to touch up my Fett where the paint has chipped off the original sintra/styrene/abs (often all different colors), I think I'll wait for the white. Maybe he just already had these made and only had to box em and ship. Who knows?

 

I don't know why he wouldn't be replying to messages. Maybe he takes the weekends off? He was always quick to reply to me when I was preparing to place my order 3 weeks ago

[Dearmeat]

Was going with Sc, but after reading the post, I'm taking the advice "Move along, move along". May look at another vendor. Had hoped to get into a scout kit by this fall.

[elwyn5150]

You guys do realise that Mon Cal's (MC) scout helmets are made by MLC? Two different vendors but you can get most of the non-soft parts from MC in one shipment.