Icons T2 molds and/or masters were used in EVERY incarnation of Endo product sold to this day on the market. Do you doubt this ? Here is a clue...look at the base on the Sideshow or HCG Endo Arm replica...that has been used from 2000 to 2007. That isn't the screen-used one like they thought. It was hand-made at Icons in 1996. Totally unique to Icons. Not the filmed one, like these people in denial thought. Oops !!
Here is the Icons T2 Endo Arm "Master".
Casey Losey is the man who was in charge of that replica : "Some parts on the master were metal. The
ball & socket wrist, hydraulic forearm rams is all machined aluminum by me
using dimensions off of one of the real Endo forearms. Various parts of the
hand were made from brass and aluminum. The fingers, the elbow and the forearm
shroud were castings off the original forearm & hand, that I cleaned up and
made more pristine looking".
"I personally put a lot of attention into the accuracy of this piece since I had a lot of reference, and simply because I was a major Terminator fan. I wanted the people who were going to buy this piece, to get the best..... I came close to getting fired, because I was being so anal and taking the time to make it right. LOL!"
"That was the first test casting from my
prototype. Al Z. took my prototype, took it apart carefully, then molded every
piece, and then did a test casting using a urethane plastic resin.
Then the urethane casted pieces are
cleaned, then put together, and then simply spray painted silver just to see
how it was going to look.
Production castings got chromed".
Thank you very much Casey.
Larry Taylor also adds that the weathering was made in the following manner : "we did airbrush spray on those products a water-based flat black to simulate a burnt corrosive look into the tight and recessed areas.
After that was dry, we came back and wiped it down with denatured alcohol so that would allow it to seat into the crevices and not necessarily on the top exposed pieces. Then after those steps, I'm sure it was wiped down with some sort of a chrome polish to remove all the excess".
