Whoa,
This is nice to wake up to on a Saturday morning... As ive said I’ll begin casting the 2nd wave of components as soon as the helmet is moulded, Were saving to be able to pay another member of staff for at least a few weeks again once we start to get through it.
If you want to see progress pics almost ALL of the other components are shown throughout this thread pretty much done so to suggest they haven’t been done is ridiculous - Most importantly the quality is exactly that of the parts you’ve received- we wouldn’t do it any other way.
Part of me says okay I’ll start casting the arms etc now to keep you couple of guys complaining happy but then as before that means time away from working on the next peoples in the run - and just like before that’s who suffers, the people who wait quietly, patiently and appreciate and understand the time that making armor that comes out of the box like this takes.
So, I have a plan and I’m sticking to it as it’s the fairest and most efficient and quickest way to complete the run.
As much as any of us want our armor and we want the run complete I can’t do anymore than work on it everyday, I’m casting, sculpting, moulding, trimming, flatting and polishing stormtrooper armor seven days a week... there are no more days, we are not a factory, these are not just pulls off a vac form table put into a box.
Theres always one person working on this, sometimes two... we are human, one of us at least has to take work to pay the bills and keep freelance contacts, we’ve already been kicked swiftly in the balls by this run earlier this year, more recently the industrial site where our workshop is has been chalked for demolition to make way for a housing development so that’s a stress, and even more recently still an immediate and VERY close member of our family at too young of an age has been diagnosed with a late stage cancer- but EVERY day I still spend working on building this by hand- it’s been a sh**ty year- all I ask is support, belief and patience and a little kindness from all as that helps us more than anything.
As soon as I begin casting the second half photos of the final parts will be posted without hesitation.