Cunt of the week - Defstartrooper

The first nominee for this week's 'Cunt of the week' is Essex boy 'Defstartrooper', the self proclaimed defender of the replica prop buying public. This fuck head has posted this:

"Isn't the whole MFXversion is innacurate stuff a moot point ? the CT is innacurate too and pretty much the same price give or take a few quid.



So really it just boils down to which innacurate piece you prefer. "

Actually dickhead, it isn't a moot point. If the item is being sold on a screen accurate ticket, it should fucking well deliver. It doesn't.
 
Secondly, apart from the bits I've already pointed out as being temporary, what is inaccurate about mine? If you've seen my final production version, then I'll be amazed. Anyway, please enlighten us with your keen eye and superior knowledge of the prop? You cunt. I'm not going to be shy in bragging that mine will be identical to the prop to the micron.
 
And if you've bothered to read, it's far from being 'pretty much the same price'. The £70 or so will probably buy a good few alcopops down in Romford, innit?
 
Typical fucking Essex boy. All mouth, no trousers and no brain. I bet you drive some chavved up hot hatch too and live with your parents in some semi in Basildon.
 
Come back when you have something intelligent to point out.

Will somebody hand Daniel 'Risu' Pawlik a tissue?

Daniel 'Risu' Pawlik has a problem with my character. Check this shit out:

"An angry child with the know-how to, say, hack a person's private accounts (am I joking?) is a dangerous enemy, which I think is why nobody stands up to his shenannigans anymore.

EDIT: And as has been said before, that's what we do on the RPF, we nitpick. He took it personally for some reason and decided to threaten us. "

 

Let's get a few things straight here Danny-boy. I have never hacked anyone's account. You can choose to believe that or not but know this: I have never been anything but straight and up front in what I do, what I am and what my beliefs and principles are. You want to call me a liar? Make sure you are fucking sure of your facts, you cunt.

 

I also answer to no one and I don't need your approval or care if anyone 'stands up to my shenanigans'. I personally don't give a flying fuck one way or another if I am banned from the RPF or not.

 

There is nitpicking and there is flagrant and ignorant attacks on my work and my business reputation. There was no nitpicking, just jealous sniping, assumption and thinly veiled bashing. Nitpicking does not give you carte blanche to be a fucking wanker otherwise everyone on the RPF would be a cunt like you. Remember that Danny-boy.

 

And yes, I did take it personally because your attacks questioned my ethics and my character. How much more personal can that get than a person's own character? Read back what you wrote you semi-literate moron.

 

And finally, I have not threatened anyone. Can you point me to a threat I made? Or do you mean I am threatening your cushy ignorant existence where you can gleefully dismantle a person's reputation and character and work with impunity?

 

What a ignorant, stupid and intellectually stunted little boy you are. I bet your parents must be very, very proud of the fine specimen of sub-human they have produced.

Question about ridges and paint

It has been suggested that the difference between the ridges on the MFX replica sonic and the ridges on the prop is caused by the paint. See the comparison pic here: [prop above/MFX below]

An observation needs to be made here: the prop paint finish is thicker by several orders of magnitude to the MFX. The MFX finish, although correct in colour, is very, very thin. However, that will not account for the notion put forward that the ridge shape error on the MFX is caused by this.

Let explain why basic geometry disproves this.

The ridges are the wrong shape to start with. In order to correct the mistake, you need to REMOVE material, not add it. Paint can only add material, and not to the extent needed to change the basic profile of the ridge.

See the following diagram which illustrates the incorrect ridge profile of the MFX:

 The blue line is the plane where the correction needs to be made. Above the line material needs to be removed, below the line material needs to added. Paint can add that 0.3mm or so into the trough of the ridge where it will pool (and that will account for why the MFX ridge trough is deeper than the prop) but it cannot take away the 0.3mm material that ruins the ridge shape.

Interlude - "ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht, a-ha"

A little musical interlude from two of my little chinese compatriots:

This one is for the guy who banned me from RPF, ManfromNaboo aka Fuhrer Michael Bauers



Sieg heil mein fuhrer!

Jet Beetle bugs out

Following on from the extraordinarily laughable claims made by Jet Beetle, he's just posted the following on RPF:

"look, I never started this thread to push anyone's buttons - in fact this whole search started in a way to help a friend of mine who loves the show and has been looking for years to find the item in question. I knew a few people from work who provided me with photos and a couple of behind the scene videos (shot for their own personal enjoyment while on set) and i cannot go and put that stuff up here. this is not something I do everyday and it's not even that important to me - I enjoy the hunt but I'm too busy to put more than 5% of my time in it. Anyone who knows me off board knows everything that is on my desk now and how many deadlines I have. i came here because this is a community where I like and respect almost - almost - everyone and I knew if there was additional info it would come to me. I didn't expect it to be set on fire for it. I don't like to be called names - no one does, especially by someone who seems to have just shown up to do just that.

Seeing how this has gone down - and how I don't want to be part of 3rd grade recess again - i'm going to keep our findings to ourselves. The few of you who have PMed me about getting in on what we have discovered and the item you need to find (photos of the item will be provided) you are still in the circle."

Er...ok Paul. What this stupid, dumbass cunt seems to forget is that no one is asking for his oh-so-exclusive behind the scenes footage: it has no bearing on his claims or provides any proof anyway. We are asking for a pic of his claimed 'found item'. Even just a small section of it to verify his claim. His reluctance is based on the fact that he doesn't want others to find one and drive the price up. That is bullshit because he has already said what he claims it is: a chiropractic activator. There is only one brand in the world anyway and Dr Fuhr has already refuted it. Showing a pic is not going to change things one way or another except make him look good.

He has no pic, he has no proof and I bet that even that knob jockey Bob Mitsch must be cringing as by staying silent on the matter he's just as complicit in this bullshit as Jet Beetle is.

I hate to say it, but I told you so. Jet Beetle is a liar and a bullshitter and he's decided to take the easy way out.

Way to go douchebag....

CT Master's Ring - Why it is the best

The Master's Ring was my very first project and was what really made me realise I was good at this. When I set about creating this piece I wanted to create the best ring I could, something that was even superior to the filming prop. I believe I succeeded in capturing a level of detail and refinement that even the prop could not manage. A lot of people have asked me how I did it and how it differs from the cheaper imitation version available from Animainment.

Well, the answer is simple: I created a highly intricate die with the design on it and I used a coin machine to stamp out the design out of sheets of pure sterling silver. This is what the raw product looks like:

These were then soldered onto silver signet ring blanks:

And then infilled with enamel:

As you will see, the level of detail and finish on mine is superior in every respect to the Animainment versions. The Animainment version is highly simplified whereas my version preserves every detail of the original design.

Compare mine above, the copy below:

The Classic Sonic Screwdriver Controversy

The classic halo headed Sonic Screwdriver holds a fond place in my heart. It was the first prop that really captured my imagination and I remember those heady childhood days growing up in London and playing Doctor Who in the playground when all I ever wanted was my own sonic screwdriver. I even fashioned a makeshift substitute from an old Gillette razor handle to accessorise those little roleplays.

The story of the origins of the classic sonic screwdriver stretch all the way back to 1966 and the live action Supermarionation movie "Thunderbirds are Go!". Within the film there are closeups of real actor's hands using real props. Here are some screenshots of the original prop:

Anyway, to cut a long story short, in the early 70's, Ian Scoones who was an ex-Thunderbirds visual effects guy and then working on Doctor Who, got wind that Gerry Anderson's production company were selling off a job lot of old props. Scoones acquired this lot for the BBC and amongst the goodies was the above prop.

The prop was then adapted for use on Doctor Who and made its first appearance in Curse of the Peladon. This sonic screwdriver was handed down from Pertwee to Baker to Davison, undergoing several modifications along the way before meeting its end in The Visitation.

So where is the controversy? Well, there are some people claiming that this prop was a bought, off-the-shelf item. The sad, deluded dickhead in question, Jet Beetle on the RPF, is claiming that the sonic screwdriver was, in fact, a medical tool called a chiropractic activator. In fact, he claims to have definitive proof, but more of this sad soul's raving later.

Why would he think this? Let's look at the presented evidence.

A chiropractic activator is basically a spring loaded tool that is used apply force to a vertebra to realign it. The technique was developed during the sixties in the US by Dr Arlan Fuhr. He based this tool on a dental impaction hammer, which was essentially a spring loaded centre punch.

He founded an entire business on this tool back in 1967 and in 1974, made his Chiropractic Activator Adjusting Instrument Mk 1 (Activator 1) commercially available for the first time. This was based on his original 1967 prototype. Here's what it looks like:

Looks similar to a classic sonic doesn't it?

Well, in 1994 Dr Fuhr released the Chiropractic Activator Adjusting Instrument Mk 2 (Activator 2):

Now the similarities become more apparent.

However, there are two major problems here.

First, Ian Scoones has stated categorically that the Sonic Screwdriver prop was  scratch built  by the late Tony Dunsterville (below) and this has been confirmed by several sources including the Thunderbirds are Go! director David Lane.

Secondly, pictures of the Thunderbirds prop were sent to both Dr Arlan Fuhr and to Professor Hugh Gemmell, teacher of Activator methods at Anglo-European College of Chiropractic and the following replies were recieved:

From Professor Gemmell:

"What can I tell you about the Activator? Well, it was, and still is, a therapeutic tool, a hand-held device intended to deliver a controlled and reproducible force. It was developed by Warren Lee and Arlan Fuhr in the 1960s for chiropractic use. It looks like the Activator in the picture ‘chiropractic-activator’ is a second generation model (Activator II). It just so happens that I have one sitting on the desk in front of me now. I understand that the idea for the original Activator came from a surgical mallet designed to split impacted wisdom teeth. The Activator is widely used by chiropractors today, and a number of variations on the theme exist. ...As far as I understand it, Activator II did not exist commercially until 1994, and the first Activator did not become available commercially until the mid-1970s. These dates are too late for the Thunderbirds prop. To the best of my knowledge, Lee and Fuhr’s Activator was developed in the United States in the 1960s, and not in Britain. "

Whilst Prof Gemmell acknowledges the visual similarity between the Sonic Screwdriver and the Activator 2, he raises a serious and fundamental issue which I will deal with shortly.

Dr Arlan Fuhr:

"I do not believe it is a modified 1967 Activator. It look like a screwdriver not a center punch."

You would think that the inventor of the device on which this prop was supposedly based would recognise it immediately? It could be argued that there must be many different designs and variation on this tool however one must understand that Dr Fuhr owns the IPR to this device and anyone who produces a similar device would need his permission to use the principle. He would therefore be in a position to know about similar devices. However, that is not the case as no other company but his produces these devices!

The basic flaw in the reasoning that the classic sonic screwdriver was a Chiropractic activator is that the dates make it IMPOSSIBLE for the Thunderbirds prop to be such a device since the prop existed a year before Dr Fuhr developed the Activator 1 and a decade before this device available commercially. Even more compelling is that the Activator 2, which bears most similarity to the classic sonic, was not available until 1994, over ten years since the prop was seen on screen and 5 years since the series ended!

When combined with the knowledge that Tony Dunsterville made the original Thunderbirds prop, there is probably more chance of finding Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elvis and Michael Jackson playing strip poker on the moon than the classic Sonic Screwdriver being a found chiropractic activator.

This brings me onto the most deluded and misguided fool ever to grace an Internet message board since John Titor. 'Jet Beetle'.

This cretin has claimed, in the face of overwhelming common sense and evidence to the contrary, that he has located and found the Activator which he claims the classic Sonic is made from:

http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=59377

This stupid, ignorant fuckmunch has been ranted since March that he has evidence but between himself and that cardboard cutout cunt, Bob Mitsch, refuses to post any proof despite being called out on it. You would think that the easiest way of shutting up those, including myself, who think he is a cockspanner of the highest order, would be to post proof. Any kind of proof. Even maybe just a small section that allegedly matches the prop. But no...he stalls, he attacks others and he fudges the issue. I've even offered him $50k of my own money, my home, my watch and hell, even my porn stash. So confident am I that he is bluffing I will put up any stake into escrow to prove what a bullshitter he is. So how about it? Will Jet Beetle either piss or get the fuck off the pot? No proof will ever come because of the reasons I have stated. Jet Beetle is a liar and not a particularly convincing one either and the sooner those on the RPF who give him any kind of credence realise that the Sonic Screwdriver was a one-off custom made piece, the better.