Can any of you Star Wars fans identify this as a GINO v.1?

[Trek920]

I've been trying to identify this kit I've had since early 2001 or so.

You can find pics in my weathering thread. but heres some pics of the helmet.

I bought it in Hong Kong back in 2001. Put the helmet together the next fall and than put the kit together in about late 2007 or 2008.

I have one part still on the sheet with the sellers handwriting on it if that would help.

I'm pretty sure this is a Gino V1.

any help?

i dont think its a SDS or AA or AS kit. its way before AP or TE... and its not a GF or RF... i've been mystified. about 2 years ago i thought it might be an AP, until i stood next to one, and there were far too many differences... they guy I bought it from said it was from a ROTJ mold, but i doubt that.

 

[Mr. No Stripes]

have pictures of the lower back?

 

[Trek920]

yup.

 

[Mr. No Stripes]

It looks like an AP, but the weathering kinda throws me off.

what were the differences you found from the AP?

 

[Contec]

May i ask how you do that kind of weathering?

 

[Mr. No Stripes]

BTW the AP's linage comes from a ROTJ suit...

The TE and AP came from GF's molds... I'm pretty sure Gino's suit came from that mold as well... I think they were just modified differently.

Gino's suits now have the correct lip on lower back, but I'm not sure if the V.1 had the lip or not.

 

[Trek920]

weathering was acrylic and spray paint mixed. its different now. went over board in those pics. the big differences were the ab plate. even though they were both the sandtrooper version, they were different. the forearms are far different. the boxes indented on the forearms are small and narrow as opposed to the awesomeness of the gfx forearms.

EDIT: i found some pics of the parts still on the sheet.... maybe this helps.

 

[Mr. No Stripes]

do you have a picture of the forearm... that's another good indicator.

 

[Mr. No Stripes]

Also, if it's ABS... its not a Gino. Pretty sure Gino only used styrene

 

[Trek920]

no. ill go take one now though... i missed up the left one, so i trashed it and used my GFX ones, which i like better anyway. i still have one, uncut on sheet.

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EDIT:

and here it is next to my GFX forearm to show differences and scale

lame questions, but can you tell the difference after all these years? i have sheets of styrene in teh garage, but they are .4mil. this stuff is maybe .06 or .08 mil and white. its not brittle or anything.
its def. an early something....

 

[Trek920]

ok. GINO tells me its NOT one of his....

any other guesses?

 

[Mr. No Stripes]

For the AP, the little indentations in the forearm increase in size from the front to back... I can't quite tell from the pics, but it looks as if all of those indentaions on yours are the same size.

Also, the buttons on the button boxes seems to be a bit more raised than an AP.

GF and TE suits have indentations are like yours though.

I'm thinking its a GF

 

[Trek920]

what are the "tells" from a GF kit?

 

[Mr. No Stripes]

Well, basically there are only a few accurate suits available, and all of them are derived from GF's molds... unless you count TM armor... but his is sculpted and looks a lot different.

these are the TE, the TE2, the AP, and Gino... the AA SDS was probably a recast of a GF suit, and comes signed and pre-assembled.

I'm not as familiar with the TE suits, but I believe they were exactly the same as the GF, only a different helmet, and a different type of plastic (painting required)

TE2 also requires painting, and yours does not appear to require paint. And the TE2 has the accurate lip on the lower back (not sure if the original TE has this or not)

The AP has several different modifications to it from the GF... AP corrected the AB center detail, extended the vertical fin above the center belly detail, also redid the button plates, deepened and corrected all the little squares on the forearms as they were too uniform instead of starting small to big, also corrected a few areas all around the armor parts.

Gino said its not one of his... so its not one of his

that leaves only one suit... you did say it was an "early" something... which means its probably a GF. The plastic looks like thicker plastic, because there is less detail present. This makes me think it is ABS (since people usually use thinner plastic if its not ABS), and really only GF and AP use the thicker ABS... (FX armor also uses ABS... GF was the original maker of FX armor).

The only issue is that most GF suits were signed in the helmet (not sure if he signed the armor). If yours was not signed anywhere, your helmet could be from somewhere else, or somehow you ended up with one that wasn't signed.

The other option is that its a recast, which you don't want to hope for.

 

[Trek920]

Re: Can any of you Star Wars fans identify this as a Fallano kit?

ok, so i hear this is a Fallano kit. (GF)

anyone confirm?

 

[Smitty]

My GF armor is signed inside the chest plate.

 

[Mr. No Stripes]

My GF armor is signed inside the chest plate.

ah yes, thanks for confirmation... that's what I thought.

do you know, are they all like this?

GF is a member here... maybe you could ask him, Trek.

EDIT: from his status, it looks like he is about to reply to this thread

 

[GF]

That brings up memories, yes this is one of my suits from back in the days, I usually signed inside of helmets and the chest plate.


Exactly what MR. NO STRIPES explained, the AP has improved many areas to match the ANH version and comes with a accurate stunt helmet.

GFollano

 

[Mr. No Stripes]

peace :lol

case closed

thanks GF

 

[Trek920]

where is it signed? i don't see anything.

just trying to uberr confirm it. its the 2nd set i ever bought, after i got the old CO from Carolina garrisons GFX kit; Sean G. Is it signed in armor, or is there somethign in the plastic?