1st of all, this is not a attack on Grusderk, its a review of the mask i have here, if i sound pissed off, youll see why as you read on.
I have never wrote a review on anyones items like this as i think most people are honest and upfront about items, and do their best to give good value.
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT THE CASE HERE.
I traded this with a member here who was upset at the mas.....thing he got sent to him, i was pre informed the jaw system did not work correctly, and it needed some work. I was asked if i would trade and maybe fix it up and paint it.
let me say this here and now.
NO WAY ON EARTH I AM FIXING THIS AND PAINTING IT, MY CONCIENCE WOULD NOT SIT WELL WITH ME, IF PEOPLE MISSUNDERSTOOD AND THOUGHT THATS HOW THE MASKS CAME, so i will NOT be PIMPING THIS ***** !
With that out of the way , here is the review.
1st i took several pictures TRYING to get a good picture of it. here is the best i could get.
Now thats the GOOD out of the way.
Bad things, hmm where to start. I put my hand inside to try the so worshipped JAW system, this was followed by a sharp pain on my index finger, upon taking my hand out, i felt the warm trickle of blood down my index finger, GOD KNOWS what would have happend if i had put my head inside the mask, i may be on the way to hospital, only being able to see out of one eye, and i dred to think what may have happend had my kids tried to put this on.
There are SHARDS of fibreglass all over the place, and many sections are like razors, just waiting to slice and dice you.
I have marked several places on this picture to show the edges etc. the one by the eye was actually BIGGER, so i broke it off, ( this was before i decided i write this )
seriously ******* annoyed to begin with.
I can happily SWEAR ON MY KIDS LIFE, i have not done anything adverse to this, this is how it arrived.
With the undermask showing i thought id see how well the mask stands up on its own,( the sign of a decent thickness is the mask holding or nearly holding its shape when NOTHING is inside, it shows the maker has not skimped on latex in my opinion. )
i do not need to say this really, but i will anyway, this is the thinest mask i have ever seen, it is PAPER thin, so thin in many places it is actually falling apart.
anyway here is how it looks sitting on its own.
It just collapses on itself.
Now, with the skin back on, lets eventually see the mouth open. i had to wedge it open as one hand was not enough.
If you look under the jaw you can see that when the mouth is opend, the latex is that thin it is starting to rip.
no comment.
Quality control ( or lack of it )
Next onto the seems, 1st thing that strikes me is the size of them, and the mess that is the seems, the airbubbles are not a issue in my eyes and its extremely hard not to get ANY. but the seems !!!! well you have a look.
Left side.
well ok , maybe the right side is better eh.
WRONG ! ! ! !
You will also notice, the lower mandibles are just peices of FOAM painted with latex, WHAT THE **** YOU LAZY *&*^*.
You can see the other seem line going over the top mandibles in this picture, it also show the lack of dred holes, there is a suggestion of dred holes, but none there in actual fact. I had to hold the latex as its that thin i could not photo it withouth supporting it.
back of the head, more dred hole SUGGESTIONS.
I got some pale coloured dreds with this which to be fair are the best part of this mask by a long ******* way.
the dredrings are some sort of epoxy pushed into dredring shapes ROUGHLY. HUGE seem lines on dredrings. if you can even call them that.
The teeth are not worth mentioning.
Now the fact that this heap of steaming horse **** drew blood from me, is annoying enough, the thought that people pay $460 + post for these raw, is frankly plain ******* stupid.
And to be honest im ******* offended by this whole experience, i was once going to get one of these mas,,,, sorry LATEX LUMPS to paint, DODGED A ******* BULLET THERE Lee!
i do not know what else to say about this, i guess the pictures are self explanitory.
Oh by the way, do not PM me saying how much you trust Grus and he does this because he loves us, i couldnt give a rats ass.
I was concidering giving it away, but frankly i now consider that as cruelty. Once i have calmed down i may talk to Andrew or someone about maybe finding someone who could use this ( do not pm me about it, i will ignore any begging pm's )
BUT I may actually burn this, as feel it does not belong to this earth, and deserves to be sent back from where it came , HELL !!!!!!
EDIT. I have rewrote this several times, trying to just state the facts. I may put this is a box and one day try to fix it. But then again i may also win the lottery one day.
and incase anyone does not get the drift, THIS MASK IS A PEICE OF ****.
If this is what you have to suffer to get a NEARLY moving mouth system, you can stick it squarely up your arse !
I have never wrote a review on anyones items like this as i think most people are honest and upfront about items, and do their best to give good value.
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT THE CASE HERE.
I traded this with a member here who was upset at the mas.....thing he got sent to him, i was pre informed the jaw system did not work correctly, and it needed some work. I was asked if i would trade and maybe fix it up and paint it.
let me say this here and now.
NO WAY ON EARTH I AM FIXING THIS AND PAINTING IT, MY CONCIENCE WOULD NOT SIT WELL WITH ME, IF PEOPLE MISSUNDERSTOOD AND THOUGHT THATS HOW THE MASKS CAME, so i will NOT be PIMPING THIS ***** !
With that out of the way , here is the review.
1st i took several pictures TRYING to get a good picture of it. here is the best i could get.
Now thats the GOOD out of the way.
Bad things, hmm where to start. I put my hand inside to try the so worshipped JAW system, this was followed by a sharp pain on my index finger, upon taking my hand out, i felt the warm trickle of blood down my index finger, GOD KNOWS what would have happend if i had put my head inside the mask, i may be on the way to hospital, only being able to see out of one eye, and i dred to think what may have happend had my kids tried to put this on.
There are SHARDS of fibreglass all over the place, and many sections are like razors, just waiting to slice and dice you.
I have marked several places on this picture to show the edges etc. the one by the eye was actually BIGGER, so i broke it off, ( this was before i decided i write this )
seriously ******* annoyed to begin with.
I can happily SWEAR ON MY KIDS LIFE, i have not done anything adverse to this, this is how it arrived.
With the undermask showing i thought id see how well the mask stands up on its own,( the sign of a decent thickness is the mask holding or nearly holding its shape when NOTHING is inside, it shows the maker has not skimped on latex in my opinion. )
i do not need to say this really, but i will anyway, this is the thinest mask i have ever seen, it is PAPER thin, so thin in many places it is actually falling apart.
anyway here is how it looks sitting on its own.
It just collapses on itself.
Now, with the skin back on, lets eventually see the mouth open. i had to wedge it open as one hand was not enough.
If you look under the jaw you can see that when the mouth is opend, the latex is that thin it is starting to rip.
no comment.
Quality control ( or lack of it )
Next onto the seems, 1st thing that strikes me is the size of them, and the mess that is the seems, the airbubbles are not a issue in my eyes and its extremely hard not to get ANY. but the seems !!!! well you have a look.
Left side.
well ok , maybe the right side is better eh.
WRONG ! ! ! !
You will also notice, the lower mandibles are just peices of FOAM painted with latex, WHAT THE **** YOU LAZY *&*^*.
You can see the other seem line going over the top mandibles in this picture, it also show the lack of dred holes, there is a suggestion of dred holes, but none there in actual fact. I had to hold the latex as its that thin i could not photo it withouth supporting it.
back of the head, more dred hole SUGGESTIONS.
I got some pale coloured dreds with this which to be fair are the best part of this mask by a long ******* way.
the dredrings are some sort of epoxy pushed into dredring shapes ROUGHLY. HUGE seem lines on dredrings. if you can even call them that.
The teeth are not worth mentioning.
Now the fact that this heap of steaming horse **** drew blood from me, is annoying enough, the thought that people pay $460 + post for these raw, is frankly plain ******* stupid.
And to be honest im ******* offended by this whole experience, i was once going to get one of these mas,,,, sorry LATEX LUMPS to paint, DODGED A ******* BULLET THERE Lee!
i do not know what else to say about this, i guess the pictures are self explanitory.
Oh by the way, do not PM me saying how much you trust Grus and he does this because he loves us, i couldnt give a rats ass.
I was concidering giving it away, but frankly i now consider that as cruelty. Once i have calmed down i may talk to Andrew or someone about maybe finding someone who could use this ( do not pm me about it, i will ignore any begging pm's )
BUT I may actually burn this, as feel it does not belong to this earth, and deserves to be sent back from where it came , HELL !!!!!!
EDIT. I have rewrote this several times, trying to just state the facts. I may put this is a box and one day try to fix it. But then again i may also win the lottery one day.
and incase anyone does not get the drift, THIS MASK IS A PEICE OF ****.
If this is what you have to suffer to get a NEARLY moving mouth system, you can stick it squarely up your arse !
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