For what it’s worth, for all the talk of RS, their own Scout helmet, and its apparent superiority as far as accuracy goes, mine is still quite imperfect. Imperfect as far as actual screen accuracy goes, not as in the inherent “wonkiness” found in the originals.
I suppose an imperfect EFX lid will pair nicely with my imperfect RS one :lol
As for the ever-present discussion of licensed versus fan-made, it seems to me that at this point there are a healthy number of knowledgeable people interested in collecting each. The common suggestion that only the most knowledgeable and well-studied collectors are interested in screen accuracy or fan-made props is not really supported by the evidence. As I’ve said before, due to the limited amount of actual information out there, researching props and screen accuracy isn’t some long-term, scholarly pursuit. There aren’t scores of thick texts filled with secret information about any of these items, as there would be for something like ancient Egypt. In the fiction realm, compare what we have to something like Tolkien- it’s not even close. What we have are a few websites scattered across the internet with at most a couple days worth of information to peruse, and a whole lot of speculation and conjecture that has changed dramatically over time (go back and read old threads where current “experts” share some very... “interesting” ideas.
) For better or worse, all that separates the “experts” from the novices is the few days’ worth of reading websites and the handful of books with small portions related to the subject.
Anyway... looking forward to seeing more pics of these in-hand, possibly taken at a distance that makes them more useful and less distorted.