We had some major issues with Creations N' Chrome. This is Dave's summary from our blogpost about our Daft Punk Helmets:
"After both of the helmet castings and all of the hand pieces were cleaned up and prepared for chroming, they were shipped off to Creations N Chrome in California. Right off the bat, the Thomas helmet was damaged during shipping. Something had either fallen on the box, or the box fell, but either way, the helmet was not in any condition to be chromed. A spare casting was rushed out to replace it soon after and they were able to maintain my requested due date, despite the new helmet being shipped a week after the original requested arrival date. While my overall experience with CnC was pretty good, the quality of work they returned to me did not match the quality of work I've seen on their other projects. The main problem that occurred on both helmets was pitting in the chrome finish. Guy's helmet was also damaged in-house. While they did repair it, the results were less than desirable. I've done enough ranting about it on Facebook, so I won't do it here, but I will say that I am not convinced in the least that the pitting problem was a result of anything I did on my end. Despite their defects, I am happy with the finished helmets overall. However, I cannot endorse CnC right now. If you choose to use them for your own project, it should not be done so at my recommendation. Results may vary.
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When we got the helmets in, Thomas was full of scratches and the ears were full of bubbles. We were also informed that they dropped the guy helmet, and they had to refinish the back plate (where the wires go on the non-Tron versions). When we got that helmet back the gold from the repair did not match the gold on the rest of the helmet. They worked for D*Con but were a "C" job at best.
What really annoyed us was about 3 months later, we discovered the chrome on Thomas had started to bubble off! The chrome job looks so bad now we can't even use it.
We've contacted "Coat of Chrome" and they seem alot more promising and significatly cheeper. I've seen Creations do go work, but for us they were a nightmare.