Steve's bodyguard (and spy) is da place ! Yay !
Steve has taken the SS hobby to heights you could only dream about. Have you sat in the Lucasfilm archives and measured,photographed,touched, held, or taken apart the real Star Wars filming miniatures? Have you produced licensed replicas? Have you ever worked for the largest film studio ever? Yea lol... you sure haven't.
Taken apart ? Did you mean "broken apart" ?
No seriously, I like Steve very much, and I believe you guys when you say you had access to the original movie props (got the photoshot of the TIE Interceptor taken outside the Archives from Steve, thanks man ! Too bad they are a bit out of focus and distorded
). However getting access to the original filming miniatures is one thing, knowing how to use calipers is another !
You've been arguing you had access to an original TIE cockpit ball (which is right), that your TIE cockpit ball was the correct diameter etc... You were rude with me (and this thread), told me I was wrong, that I did not have access to the original etc...
However Steve admitted to me some months ago that I was right and John C built the new Vader's TIE Fighter with a cokpit ball the correct diameter, same as I always said it should be.
Of course you guys have never been honest enough to admit publicly that I was right from the beginning. I know it's hard for you to admit that Jamie. You've been fighting against me for year about that.
So yeah the Nice-N TIE and eFX TIE are
NOT studio scale, they are
UNDERSCALED.
Period.
Go sit in the corner and shut your negative pie-hole. You're not in nor will you ever will play in this sandbox. "GET OVER IT" indeed.
I do agree with you for once Jamie, Steve and Guy don't play in the same sandbox. Guy is playing in the high end sandbox, trying to make the most accurate models. Yes there are one-off, but they're not 3D grown with 3D grown parts like the eFX stuff.
Regarding Steve's business I have nothing to say against him regarding the delivery. The only kit I have ever ordered from hit my door one week after I paid him. So I was pretty happy about that. However I could not say the same about the quality of the kit, the mold making was rushed, big blobs of clay to fill all of the undercuts of the not-even-accurate-kit-parts, molding lines not at the best place but right into the details, uneven thickness of the parts etc... After staring at it for 1 hour and thinking how I could fix it, I said bye bye to my $500 and threw the kit in the trash bin, and decided to build it myself.
However I do understand Steve is just the manager -and sometimes mold maker- but I want to say that the TRUE artist is John C and that he's not enough credited for his work (modelmaking and part ID) and Dan L for part ID.