Fistful of Energon Posted March 17, 2013 Posted March 17, 2013 Figured I better move from the Introduction forum and start this... The plan is get a KS helmet and SC armor, beyond that its up in the air so I will be relying on your suggestions. will be placing the order for the helmet within the next couple days. The armor will most likely be in May due to funds being tied up with some pre orders and C2E2 coming up next month. BUT, is there anything anyone recommends snagging or placing an order for before they run out? I have seen items in the trade forum that people mention are in short supply and to "get em while you can!" Since this is my first experience with costuming I will be probably be relying on purchasing finished parts of this build (except for the armor). So far i have seen Boots http://forum.bikersc...showtopic=10218 Cummerbunds http://forum.bikersc...ds&fromsearch=1 Flight Suits http://forum.bikersc...h=1
Fistful of Energon Posted March 19, 2013 Author Posted March 19, 2013 A local dude scored a hyperfirm blaster made by "syfire" for me.
Fistful of Energon Posted March 23, 2013 Author Posted March 23, 2013 Placed my order for the KS helmet! ....off to the helmet build forums
Fistful of Energon Posted March 26, 2013 Author Posted March 26, 2013 I have emailed KS with a question concerning the recent quality of helmet pulls and currently have my order on hold. Awaiting an answer... I gotta admit, this particular costume has VERY limited sources for required parts. The current glove situation looks to be a whole other headache
bwattsup Posted March 26, 2013 Posted March 26, 2013 I gotta admit, this particular costume has VERY limited sources for required parts. The current glove situation looks to be a whole other headache It seems like the resources have gotten worse in the short amount of time I've been on the boards too. Kind of scary. As for the gloves, they were the least problematic when I started. Now they're the most. I guess that's what happens with only one high quality supplier. Hopefully someone will step up to the plate.
Fistful of Energon Posted March 27, 2013 Author Posted March 27, 2013 It seems like the resources have gotten worse in the short amount of time I've been on the boards too. Kind of scary. As for the gloves, they were the least problematic when I started. Now they're the most. I guess that's what happens with only one high quality supplier. Hopefully someone will step up to the plate. I think I remember reading in the glove forum that SC was looking into getting some manufactured.
Fistful of Energon Posted April 7, 2013 Author Posted April 7, 2013 KS helmet will be here by the end of this month blaster acquired replacement snout detail and hook decal ordered Accurate bolt kit along with headband kit ordered not a bad start!
Stroker Posted April 8, 2013 Posted April 8, 2013 What did KS tell you about their helmet problems? Just curious,because that's who I plan to go with here in the next month.
Fistful of Energon Posted April 8, 2013 Author Posted April 8, 2013 What did KS tell you about their helmet problems? Just curious,because that's who I plan to go with here in the next month. This was the email that I got from them: I am unaware of any unaddressed concerns about parts we have shipped, but note that there has been some confusion about the visor edge and how it is to be cut from the form. The portion of concern is aft of the cut off point (to be discarded) and not on the finished part. In the past, we had cut straight up along the aft edge, and rounded the pivot point of the visor. Recently, implementing better reference, have elected to further emphasize the visor point like the originals, and cut down from this point. When receiving the kit format of the helmet parts, there is an indentation in the region to be cut off, and this has led to the concerns you are likely reading about. We had not realized that this would be perceived this way, and will be tooling the model so as to allay this concern, but it will not affect the models, save those who want to use a direct straight edge up past the visor pivot point in the builds.
Fistful of Energon Posted April 8, 2013 Author Posted April 8, 2013 Contacted SA about gloves just to give it a shot and it turned out that he had one small pair left with a minor flaw in one of the gloves, I totally bought them! Gloves done!
jyjellyfish77 Posted April 9, 2013 Posted April 9, 2013 Nice about the gloves. Can't wait to see some more pictures.
Fistful of Energon Posted April 9, 2013 Author Posted April 9, 2013 Nice about the gloves. Can't wait to see some more pictures. Hell, I would love to take some, but everything is either on transit or production
Fistful of Energon Posted April 18, 2013 Author Posted April 18, 2013 My replacement snout piece and hook decal came earlier this week
Fistful of Energon Posted April 18, 2013 Author Posted April 18, 2013 whoops! maybe a bit too big of a pic
Fistful of Energon Posted April 23, 2013 Author Posted April 23, 2013 I got my headband and bolt kit yesterday.
Fistful of Energon Posted April 23, 2013 Author Posted April 23, 2013 I should be getting my KS helmet by the end of the month according to them. Getting very eager to start putting things together.
Cyber Scout Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 I'am keeping an eye on ya "FOE" let me know if ya need help
Fistful of Energon Posted May 5, 2013 Author Posted May 5, 2013 I'am keeping an eye on ya "FOE" let me know if ya need help Thanks! I just got my KS kit yesterday, on May the fourth (how appropriate)
Fistful of Energon Posted May 5, 2013 Author Posted May 5, 2013 the quality is pretty good, there are a couple small imperfections but nothing like I have seen elsewhere
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