Below will be a basic timeline of events leading up to my Wasted Fett/ Lane Creative commission.. all supported by message feed that I videoed/photographed... but it is extensive and would be a lot for this page.
**some might be approximated as it is a lot of messages to review***
February -March of 2018 -1st Message to Lane Creative after he was recommended by Wasted Fett. Basically introduction and that I want a full commission of helmet, jetpack, gauntlets, the armor of ESB Fett- also asked Wasted Fett to be put on the list for those items.
April 2018 paid Wasted Fett $1400 for the full kit.. at that time Alex is living with him so the items are supposedly just there with him. All ietms were supposedly in stock except the jetpack that he would be pulling the next week.
August 2018... I was not notified but Alex moved out of Wasted Fetts and is now back in Michigan. Alex has non of my paid for items.
August 16, 2018- Alex gets my Helmet in
August 20 Wasted for some reason ships my armor to me so I have to ship it to Alex
August 30, 2018, still no jetpack or gauntlets
(during this period or before when I am communicating with Wasted he basically blames someone else for the fact my bought and paid for items are no longer available to me at that time... states I can get a refund if I am not happy... but that basically puts me back at the beginning or now going to someone else- which I should have !!)
10/01/2018 Jetpack shipped... still no gauntlets- also this month I start shipping direct from Machine Craft an extensive list of parts for jetpack, gaunts, and the FPH2 aluminum ears when they get in stock)
October 2018- Alex stated he will be prepping my helmet soon
end of October 2018 still no gauntlets so Alex goes to Vegas to get them while he is there with Wasted
January 2019- as far as I can tell all of my Machine Craft Parts and Wasted Fett parts are there with Alex now
January 12th, 2019 asks for my deposit of 300$ for the helmet and it's immediately paid
March 1st I ask for a deadline of a July 2019 Con and he says he can meet that "easy"
April 30th, 2019 states he will soon give me a "large update"
June 2019:
some helmet pics of work done - initial stages
mid-July 2019- acknowledged that the deadline will not be met
July 2019 send armor prepping pics
August 20th- says everything else ready to ship except shoulder knees and jetpack (which he now tells me was damaged?)
August 24th- says mid-September is ETA on shipping it all- new deadline he says is realistic is prep time before Halloween
September 25th says that Halloween deadline is still realistic
September 28th send me a finished armor pic and a base layer on gaunts pic
I pay him 300$ for armor as its "done"
Starting October 4th-16th numerous messages sent to him via Facebook and TDH with no response
October 17th- deadline is going to be missed
very bad communication in the next few days
will no longer provide a deadline
I asked we communicate via telephone to resolve my concerns and he states he will not call me even though I offer for him to call me on a blocked number
Basically gets to the point to where he no longer wants to do the project and offers it up to ONLY Wasted Fett approved commissioners
He will not ship it to anyone of my choosing.
So we agree to have him ship back the Machine Craft parts, gauntlets, jetpack unfinished to me- so I can then pay this extra money to ship to someone Wasted Fett does not approve of....
We agree to have him finish the helmet as he seems to be fairly close and we agree on the end of November deadline.
I get the armor- it does meet my expectations
Nov. 15th I ask he ship back my jetpack gaunts machine craft ASAP so I can move along to the next commission
Nov. 26th he is out of town and hasn't shipped my stuff back
Nov. 27th says my helmet is done but doesn't give updated pics... just tells me to see via his social media
329$ paid to finish the helmet...
Dec 2nd I get the helmet and box with jetpack and Machine Craft... no gauntlets
The helmet is unfinished as he didn't weather the ears and stalk and goofed on some of the details like the decals...
Dec 3rd he advises he is sending a new gaunt kit from Vegas..
He admits to missing those details on the ears/ stalk and says I can send them back.
My hopes/purpose in posting this information is for the noobs like I was in late 2017 in early 2018 when I first started researching.
It is a warning to what you potentially are getting yourself into....