No, I said it was lacking details. Big difference. From what I've seen it's lacking key details. Sure, it has many of the smaller ones. So does a 20th C, so does the VP.
The VP and 20th C have nothing like the details I showed on the SL above.
My argument is that it doesn't have them all. My argument is also that the TM doesn't have them all. Nor the TD. All fine helmets, but you seem determined to put yours above all else, but very few of the details you show cannot also be found on other casts.
Yes because of the paint the TD doesn't have some of those extremely fine details I showed on the SL, but I just wanted to show the extreme of what the SL has in terms of detail. I'm not putting the TD or the SL above anything, but the argument here stemmed from you wanting to make the TM an ANH casting just because it shares some details with ANH castings.
So, am I to assume you claim the SL matches this?
Yes. Exactly.
Really? An effect of lighting? That's almost amusing
I'll try to illustrate later. But for now, here's the area on the cheek at different times when Vader is facing that direction...the angles are slightly different because of that, and so too are parts of the C-scar in terms of the apparent thickness...not the best example but something I had handy.
Only the SL ANH has this
exact C-scar. (and the DJ of course)
Well, how was I to know that was the VP? I didn't see you state that.
POST #192 of this thread:
How about a little test of the knowledge of the so-called experts. What major detail is seen on the top of the left cheek of the original ANH mask and original ESB masks?
This is a VP ANH. It isn't there. I would like someone here who knows about authentic castings, a self-professed expert, to describe what the major detail is. It is a large and easily seen detail from above, and not microscopic, and it has a distinctive shape so it is easy to describe. For example, if someone else out there, anyone, has what they think is an authentic casting from ANH, and they claim it is directly from the ANH original, then they can easily tell me what that detail is, because I will be able to show them. Better yet, show me your authentic casting with that detail. And I will show you mine, both of them.
I don't even see anything resembling an upside down question mark on the picture of the original you posted.
That's because nothing you've seen has it. You know a lot about Vader and you seem to know something about details, but the point of this is that there is a heck of a lot that people still don't know until I show them.
That has nothing to do obvious details, when you can't even begin to see the shapes you see in the casts - just because you see a "question mark" doesn't mean others will associate the shapes on the cast with that shape.
They would never see it because onscreen that is all you can see of it.
You are aware of these psychological issues with sight and mental perception, right? What do you see here? An old hag or a young woman or both?
You forget that I have a Ph.D. in neuroscience and brain development. That includes a thorough knowledge of perception and sensory systems. But in answer to your question I see a young woman, looking away as they usually do if I'm around. :lol
The only thing I could remotely see resembling an upside down question mark on the picture of the original you posted is highlighted in green in the bottom middle picture. Is this the feature you are so desperately trying to trump everyone with?
I'm not desparate and I'm not trying to trump anyone. If people are so smart about details and put me down when I try to show them, then I'm giving the so-called experts an opportunity to show me something for a change. Otherwise I'll just end up showing yet again a detail that people are oblivious to. You see, I study castings and every aspect, every single detail of them and compare them to the originals as best I can. So for someone to say that what I show is pointless and that I can't put the TD ANH where it is, well then show me what you (not you in particular but everyone) know better than I about authentic Vader castings? This is just one small example. And there is even a casting out there people can find the answer from yet they haven't yet.
But anyway, you have the top part of the question mark roughly correct but you actually drew it right side up in relation to the photo of the VP I showed originally. Since we are looking straight on at the screen mask, it would be the other way around.
Or is it something else? If I can't even see what you are seeing on the picture of the original... then how am I to find what you see on anything else... especially not when you show a picture of something that doesn't even have it, making people waste their time looking for things to match what is seen in the picture. Nice form.
I teach myself every day about how to find details like that from the original ANH mask seen onscreen and you did a pretty good job at finding at least part of it and drawing a line around it. I described a large curved shape on that cheek surface. If someone has an authentic ANH casting, that would be obvious to describe and draw. I showed the screen mask to show that it is there, first, because usually I show a detail on the SL or TD and people scoff at that. So, I'm trying a different approach.
So, I'm not trying to trump people, I'm trying to make a point about authenticity, and about lineage, and about how I study castings. Everyone is so keen to put me down about that. Yet when put to the task about describing details themselves, they are incapable of doing so. So then why should they be attacking me about my ability to study details and therefore my ability to put a mask or helmet in a particular place in the lineage?
Yeah, sorry I'm not wasting my time with small details when larger details are clearly missing or softer than they should be.
Such as?
