Ebay recaster bay12replicas

Yes, that's a recast of the Harrison Ford bust that Joy and Tom Snyder sculpted. It's been HEAVILY rubbed down to remove the skin texture details and eyebrows etc, but the shapes / proportions match exactly.
That sculpt has been recast so many times I just don't have the interest to try and fight it any more.

Chris
 
I've yet to see any proof of recasting, just people saying 'he done it' so it must be true.
I've also seen more than one seller of arnie busts so there all recasts of yours? as for the part one, thats a lot of sculpting to make a totally different bust, the face also looks narower on the part one from the pics i've seen.
 
As already stated, if you can show me without a shadow of doubt that my helmet comes from yours, then I'll stand corrected and stop making it.

Well you actually said: "If someone can provide concrete proof that my Predator 2 pattern is derived from Keiths helmet - complete with tells, then I will consider stopping production of it"

Anyway Steve, this is not a witch hunt. Stop being such a martyr and trying to get people to feel sorry for you. If other people find stuff that they have sold to you being copied and sold by you on ebay under one of your ebay names and make a post about it in this thread, thats between you and them and nothing to do with me.

Here are some photos showing the tells on my helmet:

The rim around the bottom of the eye was made like this by me. It was much thinner before and chipped away. I built it up and made it thicker and clean like this.
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These lines were cut in and made sharp like this by me:
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These last two holes were drilled in by me. Nothing more than faint marks on the original.
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This bottom to the chin was made by me. It the first time i ever used fiberglass. I glued some metal mesh into the bottom of the helmet, fiberglassed over it, filled it and then sculpted the texture into it before drilling the air holes. Like i said before, this was a mistake, as it turns out the stunt never had the bottom to the chin, only the hero helmet did.
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This is how it looked before:
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You have not posted a picture of the bottom of your helmet though.

Steve, i couldn't care less if you are banned, not banned, leave, don't leave, or even become a moderator on the rpf.

Can you please let me know if you agree with what i am going to say. If you don't agree with any of it, can you say which bit.

Around three years ago you bought a helmet from me then you asked for an unpainted one and bought that from me.
A short while after, you sold both of them, you then bought a job lot of helmets (with the same tells i put in) to paint up and sell on. You then bought a mold and started casting them yourself and selling those (casts also have my tells that i put in).
Is the above correct?

So after you bought a painted helmet from me you then asked for an unpainted helmet from me. A short while later you sold both the painted and unpainted helmets i sold you, but i noticed that you continued to sell more and more of the helmets with my tells on them on ebay.
When i asked you why you recast the helmet and are selling them on ebay, you said that i got the wrong end of the stick and that you bought a bunch of helmets cheap to paint up and sell. When i told you they were recasts as they have the tells i put in, you said you wouldnt buy and sell anymore of them. I let it go and didn't post anything about it on any boards.
Around two years later, I find that you are still selling them under yet another ebay name, but you now say that you bought the mold off a source and didn't mold it yourself. It just so happens that both the bunch of helmets you bought cheap to sell on and the mold you bought both have my tells that i put in.

If other people are selling the helmets with the tells i put in, it probably has something to do with the fact that you have been selling them on ebay under at least three different ebay names for the last three years.

As for all the other stuff like the trooper helmets and T2 busts, i don't believe any of it, but that just my opinion.

I don't know why you have at least three ebay accounts. The ones i know of are: eddiebrock1, serafina_kiki and bay12replicas.

Anyway, i don't have anymore time for this crap. I've got better things to do.

Thanks wackychimp for hosting,

Keith.
 
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Any proof of the original helmet??? It's been 4 days now.


I've yet to see any proof of recasting, just people saying 'he done it' so it must be true.
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If this isn't recasting I don't know what it is.

Before someone says 'it is irrelevant TE is a banned member', the molds for the ROTJ helmet replica ARE owned by a member of this forum, I'm not his spokesman so I'll let him chim in if he wants to
but it is public knowledge really.

I've invested a lot of money in my trooper collection and I'm not really interested in seing fakes being passed on as 1st gen castings.

I've already stated that I have had access to things you know nothing about (the ROTJ background lid for instance

http://p085.ezboard.com/ROTJ-Helmet...kproppartyfrm2.showMessage?topicID=1454.topic

http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=23476


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How many sets of TE molds are there now? There is a list started on another forum. Sorry I do not want to turn this into a picture fest of helmets but there are so many lids out there now that it is not funny. I have seen many pics of were helmets have gone from trash to looking like a movie helmet. How would this decrease your investment? It is an unfinshed helmet that is not as sharp. Pics can be posted for days at different angles and contrasts.

I still would like to see the Indy.

Keith I am sorry to tell you if only you made all those changes then you were being recast for 3+ years now. As I stated earlier I owned one and there was a thread on the Lair talking about it.

I do not see the issue with the Arnold busts. The PH is available for more than one source and the T1 has major sculpting performed to it.

Thanks!

Greg
 
Keith I am sorry to tell you if only you made all those changes then you were being recast for 3+ years now. As I stated earlier I owned one and there was a thread on the Lair talking about it.

I think i have already said that he has been selling recasts for around 3 years.

Anyway, people ony have to read this thread to see what a con man helmetman is:
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=23476
He's not just recast another helmet, he is telling everyone a pack of lies about it being molded (by him) from an original ROTJ helmet.

I'm just glad he has been found out before he took any money off you guys.

Thanks for your post HDPE.

Keith.
 
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As already stated, if you can show me without a shadow of doubt that my helmet comes from yours, then I'll stand corrected and stop making it. Until then nothing changes.

Still at it i see:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Predator-2-Br...ryZ60361QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Where are the photos of the bottom of the chin on the helmet you make Steve?
Also, do you not have anything to say about the so called ORIGINAL ROTJ trooper helmet you have molded?

Maybe its best to sort problems with recasters out in person, face to face.

Keith.
 
i had to laugh when i saw his auction of the 3po head. i cant remember which ebay alias he used but it goes something like... its not a zorg, nothing to do with a zorg honest lol

it clearly is, i can tell by the mouth (top lip)

z
 
Actually one point that puzzles me on this whole thing.

Helmetman said he had access to a ROTJ stormtrooper helmet and seemed incredibly happy with that fact. Enough so to inform the whole forum of this big deal http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=23476 . Nothing suspicious in that if I had the chance to access and cast a ROTJ helmet I would do the same.

So why no big thread on the ANH stormtrooper helmet. Like it or not ANH helmets are held in a higher esteem than ROTJ but nothing at all was mentioned.

Having a new sourced ANH stormtrooper helmet on this forum is a big deal.

If both the ROTJ and ANH helmets are new sourced helmets I would genuinely buy a copy of both and so would a hell of a lot of people on this forum.

Helmetman if you do not want to publicly divulge your sources then possibly privately telling your sources to forum moderator would go a long way to keeping your name clean.

Cheers Chris.
 
The ANH helmet:
Looking at the cap/back of helmetman's ANH helmet, its clear it has come from the Brian R (TE1) helmet. Its probably off a Meatsock.
Helmetman has never said anything about this helmet here before i started this thread and he only sells them on ebay under his different ebay names (never put any up for sale here).

The ROTJ:
TE face helmetman bought off ebay:
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Face built into a finished replica helmet:
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Cast from his friends "original" ROTJ helmet. (His friend let him pour what? at least 10KGs of silicone on an orignal helmet with cracks, bits hanging off and original decals):
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The frown cut outs all match too.

Thanks wackychimp for hosting,

Keith.
 
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Just for the record (not that it matters) but that ROTJ faceplate came from me and I got it from a member on here.

Point of interest, my helmet was damaged during the moulding process, the weight of the material made the existing cracks in the plastic worse. If the helmet was badly damaged making a copy would have been very risky....
 
i was begining to lose faith in this place but now i see the word banned under helmetmans name im a lot happier. this place will be a better place without him.

just glad the mods did the right thing.


now let see if we can work out his sockpuppet account(s):lol

thank you mods

z
 
After going through this whole thread for the first time - I too am curious what the "official" reason for his banning is... not that he shouldnt be, just curious...
 
As was mentioned before, I believe that he asked the mods to ban his user name (it's a tactic that has been used before as a "dramatic" way of leaving the forum). :rolleyes
 
As was mentioned before, I believe that he asked the mods to ban his user name (it's a tactic that has been used before as a "dramatic" way of leaving the forum). :rolleyes


Glad helmetman is gone, he's not the only one on a "cause I can!!!" tear.
 
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