(Hand-held test shot.)

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How old is this custom ?

It is a brand new paint job to me.

I have his other one which is over the translucent black body. Shape really brought it to life again!

Ike

Gebora RULES!!!!

These couldn't POSSIBLY be put into a single Shapeshifta custom thread...

This has been said like what... 20 times ? Nice custom btw.

Because Geo has like what... 20 different photo threads that could be consolidated into a single thread so he doesn't monopolize the forum bumping other people's threads off?

At his worst, he was regularly owning 13 out of the 15 visible threads on the first page of the Show your Collection forum. If anyone else posted their collection shots, they immediately got buried to the second or third pages under more and more Geo threads.

His history is that he does this to piss off the S7 crew whom he has personal issues with. He has been asked on more than one occasion to no longer post here, but he ignores that. He continues to do this passive aggressive garbage to just be annoying to the people who provide us with this board.

You're relatively new here. Geo has EARNED the animosity a LOT of us feel towards him, and there's a reason why he's been banned from so many toy message boards that he was forced to create his own site to show off his heavily photoshop filtered pictures of arms and legs.

I'm not saying he CAN'T post billions of threads that feature 1 or 2 pictures, but the courteous thing would be to create a single thread that would be bumped up to the top every time he added a new shot... but he could care less about being courteous.

hmmm...you gave me an idea loco

But you didn't answer my question, is this a new custom or old one ??

It says 2007 on the foot. That's about when I bought it. Lee recently reworked it for me - I got it back from him a couple of weeks ago. You can see what it looked like before on Lee's flickr page, if you are interested.

Why do you ask?

Test shot 2.

damn that's totally sick...!!!

I'm officially jealous...

this is just downright rude. Putting all of his custom photos in one thread would still allow people to see all of his cool stuff, and also allow other people to show what they have...it's just common courtesy.

I saw where Geo just wrote about how he doesn't give a shit about the "anal" rules here...so then why should anyone care about his posts? all that's needed is some respect for your fellow collectors and everything would be fine.

Make one thread called "My Killer Custom Collection Photos" and update that with your stuff...it will probably end up always being visible all the time anyway as people will make comments all in that thread...

can't a Mod enforce this?

He's already been banned from this board once before. And, he's created at least two other IDs so he could post again in the forum that Geo himself has sworn he would never post in again.

He's like a swarm of cockroaches... you can stomp on them all you want, but he's just going to keep posting his photo threads. Ban Geotaro, and he'll just make up another name. Sometimes the periods of time he spends away from the board are longer than others, but He can't help himself. He'll always come back, and he always reverts back to his old behaviors... like I said: He can't help himself.

The biggest question is WHY he persists posting here though... nobody here likes him, nor does anyone here have any respect for him. His attitude is pretty much adversarial, and he's outright hostile towards the S7 staff. And since he already has his own dedicated photo blog site, it's pretty clear that he posts here mostly out of spite than any other possible motivation.

Historically, there's been a pattern with Geo and message boards... Aside from this board, he's gotten himself banned from other toy message boards as well, so you'd think he'd take some time to do some introspection to think whether or not any of his own behavior might be part of the common denominator.

It breaks down to this: He's a passive aggressive old guy with a camera, a lot of toys, no people skills, and he craves any attention he can get - even if it's negative.

Pretty sad.

Curious, can't they just ban his IP or is there a way around it?

Personally I enjoy Geo's pics but I also believe in keeping things organized and consolidated like customs belonging in the 'Custom Toys and Fan Art' section. Just standard practice for being part of an online community.

There are ways around it. But you'd imagine that after having your first ID banned, and after having members of S7 specifically ask him to no longer participate on the board, he'd get the hint...

That is a beautiful picture! What camera do you use?

photoshop

Here is the relevant info on the 2nd shot, regarding camera, lens, settings and software, for anybody interested:

Nikon D80
VR 18-200m F/3.5-5.6 G
FL 135mm
F/5.6
1/15s
ISO 400

Raw file processed using Capture NX 2