In hand pics and review over here.

First, Efranks, I call bull **** on you.  You said you read the thread on Bantha Skull?  Are you a member there?  That's the only way you could have seen said thread.  It's in a private area for members only.  How do I know this?  DarthDre758, creator and Admin  of Bantha Skull at your service. 

Second, I'd like to clear up a few things.

From what I gathered, Banthaskull was making a concerted effort to derail, screw up, and generally mess with the boards there through sock accounts and whatnot.

Wrong.  We never used sock accounts.  We aren't afraid to show our faces.  We would post what we did, where we did with our own screen names.  We didn't get together and decide what thread to screw up that day.  Stupid redundent threads would pop up usually made by noobs that would start off by saying, 'I know this is in the wrong spot but...' and we just got tired of it.  We didn't mean harm, and we actually had rules.  #1 being meaningful threads are left alone.

When I started the web boards for the fighting 365th, it was so we could have a place to hang out with out being reprimanded for talking about things that weren't on topic.  It was our own place.  And we felt we could take it to the next level.  Bantha Skull was born.  Thread derailing was at the bottom of the bag at that point.  We got on board with the Hasbro Q&A, and started regular weekly articles.

I also want it to be known that we NEVER would advertize for our web site on Rebel Scum, Jedi Defender (I think I'm the only BS member on here) Galactic Hunter or any other web board in threads.  It's not right, and we don't condone it at all. 

You got the general story about what happened.  It doesn't all surround Devo, but it does have a lot to do with the member Grak.  He joined our site under a different name, converterlurker, and quickly had his identity outed.  He admited on Bantha Skull to trolling and baiting Rebelscum members, specifically our members who were still active at the time on there.  After being told where to go by Bantha Skull members, he went back to RS and told Dustin Roberts his side of the story.  Dustin shorly there after joined Bantha Skull.  45 minutes later, 10-12 Bantha Skull members were banned from Rebelscum, with no explanation.  Even when emails were sent to Dustin, questioning as to why we were banned, there was no response.  When emails were sent to Phillip Wise, the same cut and paste response was sent to each inquiring member.  When it was questioned as to why members were removed from the boards at Rebel Scum, every trace was deleted.  Three threads worth.

We at Bantha Skull see it as one of the best things that has happened to us.  Our membership is up(31 members since 8/8/08) and continuing to rise as I write this.  We have cut ties with Rebel Scum, and have become our own entity, relying on our own sources for information.

I'm not digging for sympathy.  No, no.  What I'm attempting to do is get ALL the information out to the posting public.  Something Phillip Wise seems to avoid doing on his site.

Thanks for reading.


Dre

Very small update today.


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Bumped for brand new-ness...


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Bump with more haves

Updated with a condition change to the UGH Vader.



Dre

These are all semi-momc.  I can shoot a picture to you if you have a question.



$6 each, plus shipping.

TAC

#10 Rebel Honor Guard x2
#13 Death Star Trooper
#21 McChewie x2
#24 Animated Boba Fett
#31 Roron Corob
#33 Anakin w/Tattoos
#38 Han Solo w/Torture rack
#39 Lando Calrissian in smugglin' gear
#40 General McQuarrie
#41 4-LOM
#50 Hawkbat Clone  Kinda opened...my young'in got a hold of him
#55 Clone Trooper w/removable armor

Saga Legends

Nazi Poster boy Imp Officer (blonde hair blue eyes)
ROTS Clean Clone x2

Comic Packs $10 each

A'Sharad Hett and Dark Woman
Bultar Swan and the Mr T lookin' guy


Saga2
Tank Gunner Clone
Clone War Kit Fisto
Chewie w/C-3PO pieces

Vintage (not real vintage) $9 each
Biker Scout
Han in Endor stuffs
Greedo



Dre

So I've been complaining to some people that I've gotten all this fodder, and can't think of anything to do with it.  So tonight I made myself sit down and come up with something.  This first is a what I'm calling a special op's ARC, or spec-op for short.

Rarely used, and if so under highly classified circumstances, the Spec-ops are lightly armed, yet extremely deadly.  This particular Spec-op, Parvo(yes after the animal sickness, its the first thing I could think of) is one of three that actually survived through the entire Clone War era.  As the spec-ops don't have a long life expectancy, they have usually been disavowed by the GAR.






Simplistic repaint.  Neyo body and head.  Commander kama, and a Marine pauldron.

These next two are part of my ever growing squad, the 1205th.  One is quite comeplete, the other is still awaiting a few more bits.

The left is a jet trooper, the right is the squads comm man.




Close up of the jet pack I made.  As you can see it's nothing more than a bunch of left over Scorch parts and some other odds and ends I had in my fodder box.


Both need weathering and the comm man is going to get Neyo's pauldron soon enough.  Paint needs to be cleaned up, and second and third coats applied.  I've been sitting on these guys for quite some time, just haven't had the umph to get them up.

So, yeah...you know what to do...comments, questions, gripes...throw them at me.

Thanks

Dre