NoHumorMan wrote me once and asked me why on earth I was getting all this crap.
At the time, I told him it wasn't my fault. One vendor, ArmorMask, boasted, "the cast are so clean, very thick and strong cast. very little clean up work " and this is of course very subjective language; I have had to put a lot of work into it, and then anyone who could care less about accuracy could have just bypassed the work and shot it with gloss black and have been done with it in 5 minutes. After bad luck with "Darth Ugly" I sought for a lightweight alternative to my original Don Post Deluxe. I figured that Golden Armor's kit needing "some trimming, some sanding" (approximate wording) sounded reasonable. Yet that turned into a nightmare.
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Golden Armor listened to my concerns regarding the Vader. I won't re-iterate the issues so I encourage you to visit the above links.
I had asked for a refund but he offered me a helmet of my choice. Hey, no-one can resist Boba Fett. His was based on a Don Post but he modified it to look a little more like the SgtFang "Mystery" helmet which captures the width and proportions of the screen-used helmet of TESB.
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Well it arrived, with another helmet, so it was a pleasant surprise to see two helmets in the parcel. Unfortunately the other one -- an Ep. 2 Clone Trooper helmet -- was broken.
So here is Fett. To answer NoHumorMan's question, "Why'd you get all this crap?" pre-emptively: I didn't buy this. This was
given to me.
Then I'm sure his follow-up question is, "Why do you let people punish you like that?"
Now I don't see fiberglass sheeting here. He has primarily used the same kind of "parmesean cheese" (like the twig shaped stuff you get at Costco). This is the same stuff as the one in my Vader. The only aesthetic difference is that instead of the clumpy "cottage cheese" look, this looks more like a smear.
Unfortunately it's not flat nor of consistent thickness which means any area can have both thick and thin and very uneven applications.