Houdiniguy Plasma Rifle ... possible origins???

[xstoys]

Ok, I've been doing some research about Houdiniguy's Terminator Plasma Rifle origins. I have a theory, but they're just my own hunches.

Houdiniguy claims this is from a friend's screen used Terminator Plasma Rifle. In doing my own side by side comparisons with Plasma Rifles I already have in possession... it's an exact duplicate of the Sideshow 1:1 Plasma Rifle; imperfections and all.

Reasons for my conclusions:

1. Houdiniguy's Plasma Rifle is broken in specific places into several pieces to be molded. If you look at his ebay auction to sell the molds, you can see the separate molds & where it is specifically separated. Here is the auction #. (see it before it disappears from ebay)

item 110511969768

2. Just recently another completed ebay auction from seller "cylonbuilder" that sells a "broken" SS 1:1 Plasma Rifle. If you look carefully at the pics in the auction, you'll notice that the rifle is broken in all the same places. I don't mean cracked, I mean CUT. (see it before it disappears from ebay)

item 160420952230

3. At the time that Houdiniguy started sending out his castings, I saw another ebay auction for a recast of another 1:1 Terminator Plasma Rifle on ebay. It was BIN for slightly less than Houdiniguy's kit; $225 I believe. I thought about buying that one, but I had already ordered Houdiniguy's kit & it was already coming. I thought it odd that it looked just like the Houdiniguy Plasma Rifle; same breaks in the kit. Ok, so he wanted to sell an extra one... no big deal right? As I recall it did not sell for the BIN. It was a very short auction. I can't find the auction anymore, ebay is no longer listing it in completed items.

Now, back to the detective work. There is already another thread about the identity of "cylonbuilder" ... yes, you know it, it's Mike Tait!

Ahhh, now things start to make some sense.

Bad casting = Mike Tait

Just my own 2 bits. What do you guys think?


To to reiterate something: HOUDINIGUY IS NOT MIKE TAIT! I am only saying that Houdiniguy's version of this kit looks to be molded from THE broken SS 1:1 offered on ebay!

 

[Zombie Killer]

Are you trying to implying Houdini is Tait or Sideshows rifle is not cast from screen used or Houdini cast sideshows rilfe or tait cast sideshows rifle?

 

[DocTony]

So you are calling out a member with a hell of a lot more post than you or I because...you doubt it??

 

[EvilRocketeer]

So you are calling out a member with a hell of a lot more post than you or I because...you doubt it??

Posts counts have nothing to do with what is brought to hand, so using post count to disclaim his beliefs/doubts is ridiculous..Members with over 1,000s of posts have been banned for selling misrepresented items


On a personal note, I done business with houdiniguy in the past, and he is a great guy

 

[DocTony]

Posts counts have nothing to do with what is brought to hand, so using post count to disclaim his beliefs/doubts is ridiculous..Members with over 1,000s of posts have been banned for selling misrepresented items


What I meant is that If I had only 35 post under my belt I would not go around accusing someone of something on just a hunch, or my own doubt that a sideshow product is not cast from a screen used piece, which unless I am reading his post wrong is all he has.

This is only my opinion.

 

[EvilRocketeer]

Im not fully sure what he means either..Either he is claiming mike tait is houdiniguy or houdiniguy recasted a sideshow gun or an ebay item that was built by mike tait

 

[Zombie Killer]

Tait is from Texas, Houdini is in Oregon. Sideshows is cast off a screen used piece. Houdini's is cast off a screenused piece. Both probably from guns in T2-3D. They will both have the same defects because both their parents are from the same molds.

 

[Grey]

Houdiniguy claims this is from a friend's screen used Terminator Plasma Rifle. In doing my own side by side comparisons with Plasma Rifles I already have in possession... it's an exact duplicate of the Sideshow 1:1 Plasma Rifle; imperfections and all. Yes, I know the SS website claims that theirs is from a screen used prop. I doubt it =P

That's probably the dumbest statement i've heard all week.

"I took two guns that both claim to have been cast from the same screen used props, and was suprised to find that they are the same."

So, rather than taking the logical assumption that both parties are being truthful in thier claims of casting from a screenused piece, since evidence of matching molds support this theory...

you conclude that Sideshow is infact lieing and falsely advertising this weapon as Screenused, when you know for a fact that.. oh, wait, you don't know that for a fact...

oh, you "doubt" that Sideshow is telling the truth. Right... Just like i'm doubting your sanity... "Outing people" without ever contacting the involved parties is certainly turning into an RPF tradition.

 

[xstoys]

Woah... everyone calm down. I am merely bringing up circumstances that have occurred recently.

I have dealt with Tom as well on several occasions. He is a good guy. I did not dispute this.

I am only stating my own speculation on the possible origin of this cast. Did Tom say he personally cast this piece with his own hands, I don't recall this... He told me the original belonged to someone he knew.

Is it possible it was contracted out to someone else to cast??? Couldn't someone else have made the items & then delivered them to Tom???

I am stating that the completed auctions show very similar pieces and look to be of the same origin due to specific details of the cuts.

I did not say Houdiniguy was Mike Tait! That much even I know is a fact! I said it's an unusual coincidence that all these "screen used" pieces are turning up recently on ebay. Could this broken SS 1:1 Plasma Rifle be the one that was cut up to be casted?

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Everything Sideshow got came from LFS. I'm very certain he molded the originals. So, case closed on the Sideshow piece being what it is.

Mike Tait sells all the time. You just notice more plasma rifles because a run was going on... then you see all these other people coming out of their holes and trying to sell theirs. Coincidence or intended to cash in on someone else's efforts. Like when the movies are in the theaters... you see LOTS of movie specific junk being sold everywhere.

If one is cut the same was as another - doesn't always mean they are recasts off each other... they could simply be brothers from the same source. And honestly... there are only so many places you can make the cuts on this thing... surely that has some say as well as to how similar they are cut.

Sure, I can understand the need and interest in learning more about the origin of a piece... but this was imo in poor taste and can only be assumed to be spurred on by the perhaps rather crappy castings and the previous lack of communication to sour things up. If the casts had been perfect and no issues... would you have made the same post? I rather doubt it.

 

[CTF]

Wow, I'm disturbed by this thread... I mean, who says recasted?

 

[Toni Plutonij]

For those who still don't get it.....I'll make it a lot more clear what xstoys is trying to say.
Tom did this plasma rifle cooperating with somebody else. He didn't molded or casted the piece.
xstoys is trying to say (if I got it right), that person Tom dealt with is in fact "cylonbuilder" ie. Mike Tait. That's the reason why casting is bad, because most of us know how Tait is with casting, and also, that would bring the origin of the rifle in question, because once again, most of us know how Tait works.

That's all.

 

[Zombie Killer]

The problem is Tait also doesn't know how to mold worth a crap. Anyone who is familliar with Taits molding skillz and has seen these molds would know they are not his. Also you guys are confusing bad casting with air bubbles. There is nothing wrong with the casts Houdini provided other than the bubbles. This is not from bad molds but it is from poor execution by the caster. Seem lines were pretty good. Taits castings are crap from A to Z.
IIRC Paul did indeed mold SS's and the rifle was from Winston studios.