ha! Yeah.. went back to look at your site.. I see that the price is well under what you were doing the suit for. Guess I shoulda' noticed that, but that was awhile ago when I saw it.
I only assumed the MS thing was as big as you made it sound while it was happening. You also aren't selling the armor anymore, apparently (or at least not openly through your site), but it's what put you guys on the map, or so I thought. Figured that was a kinda' like a roadmap suggesting you'd been nailed.
So is there an MS/Bungie/Halo armor vendor license availible then?
The rumors about the statue rip-off are pretty cool to hear. The statue is all I had for reference when we were doing the original prototypes. All I had were screengrabs from a guy that videotaped all kinds of angles of it for me. He had a statue and a ruler for scale, so I just had to do the math in the various shots. From what I understand, he said that some of the finished prototype pieces were close enough that you could almost display it on the statue.
That's high praise indeed, considering that to this day I have still never actually laid eyes on the statue in-person. The problem is.. that statue sucked as far as accuracy went, AND my part of it was rushed, leaving some areas a little rougher than I wanted to, but I didn't know that until much later. I'm no artist, I just replicate what I see.
20 years of precision metal/wood fabrication engineering does that to you.. I can't even draw a line by hand without being frustrated by the imperfections in it. I went by what I had, and nailed it.
