I really love to support local charities and I have just recently been approached by a local childrens charity to help out. They are having a fundraising auction in May in the Portland metro area to help raise funds for a new building for their school. I am thinking that I may indeed offer them a finished stormtrooper helmet for their silent auction. That is what they want. So we shall see if anybody bids on it. Should be fun! And if anybody in the Portland, Oregon area is interested in attending the auction just to get their hands on what will probably be a highly discounted TK bucket…you can always email me and I can give you details on when and where this auction is, if you want to try to get your hands on, what I think is a pretty cool helmet. Cheers!

I have been working like a mad man trying to finish up some modifications to a new forming machine that I have. I am pretty excited about it. So I have been putting in long hours over the last couple of weeks, going to steel yards and welding supply places, getting everything that I need to do the work. Once it is up and running which should be in 2 or 3 days, it is going to be great. I cannot wait to do some test pulls!

Well for those of us who love armor and try to create fan-made armor and spend countless hours hand sculpting our treasures…it is very unfortuante when we run across a blatant recaster of our work. And this week, it appears that there may be another recaster of my work out there. This seems to be a regular occurrence and is very frustrating…especially when the recaster is trying to sell their recasted knock-offs as original handmade items. Those of us who really and truly know our armor would recognize the flaws that always become apparent with recasters. But for some people it is much more difficult to tell the difference in quality from an online photo.

So to those who have my back and alert me to the recasters who cheaply copy my work, I send you a great thanks.

And to those out there who are too lazy or not properly equipped to make your own handsculpted molds and to pull your own plastic, you will be discovered. That is a simple fact.

Luckily for me, there are many, many more good guys in this world, than bad guys and for that I am grateful.

I am getting closer to finishing up these bad boys and it is going to be an awesome feeling to have them done! I have been sculpting so much that I seem to spend almost more time at the hardware store getting replacement tools. But it is going well. Just need to fine tune several parts and do more, more, many more test pulls!