today's work

[Subculture]

They’re keeping you busy, Dave!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

They’re keeping you busy, Dave!

Better busy.

[redboat219]

How about this as a follow on to the Italian CB.

Scott Terrey (HardRock) made a diminutive albeit excellent Russian Project 865 Losos (NATO Code Name Piranha ) in 1/96 scale with a 1.25 " SD.

build thread: https://forum.rc-sub.com/forum/i-d-t...ject-what-am-i

How about one in 1/32 scale?

[gantu]

Hello I do have an hull in 1/32 scale. Accessories and rudder missing would offer the hull as a basis to make a mold ?

[redboat219]

would offer the hull as a basis to make a mold

Pretty sure David would NOT approve of that due to moral and legal reasons...

[gantu]

The company that manufactured the model no longer exists. Therefore, I don't think there are any legal concerns.

[redboat219]

Sharing an email I got from David when I asked about making a GRP copy of the Revell Type VII

"If you're suggesting taking a commercially available kit (presently available or currently not in production) and reproducing it without the express permission of the property owner, then NO, I don't steal other peoples property."

David

[JHapprich]

Cool, gantu! That looks like the british kit from early 2000 though it states made in ger-rus.odd. They had a fancy diveplane mechanism for the fwd planes,too. Madness in brass

[gantu]

Baymo München hatten diesen Bausatz vertrieben.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

The company that manufactured the model no longer exists. Therefore, I don't think there are any legal concerns.

Do you know definitively that the rights of ownership have not been transferred to another party? That property might still have an owner unknown to you unless you make the inquiries.

Ellie and I, on more than one occasion, had our work copied by others (thieves, to use the vernacular) who assumed -- simply because our product was out of production for a few years -- that they had clearance to profit from our good works. Such conduct -- by uncaring, untalented, thieves -- is most frustrating to we who have the talent, resources, and dedication to originate good works. Such thievery puts a damper on further product development and production by the Creators.

David Merriman lll
D&E Miniatures

[gantu]

Thank you David i will check this and look what happen.

gantu

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Thank you David i will check this and look what happen.

gantu

Much appreciated, Gantu. Your presentation of the most interesting stuff over the years has been an aid to my and others work in this field. I'm also relieved to see that you took my pointed comments constructively, and not as a personal slight. My objective with that post was to simply state the fact that this business (and for the longest time, model building had been a business to us) can sometimes degenerate to a dog-eat-dog slug-fest between participants. Those participants who create. And those participants who freeload by stealing the work of others (Read, Fountainhead).

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

FAULT ISOLATION, CORRECTION, AND EXECUTION

[gantu]

Hello David,
I've contacted the rights holder and will have to wait.

Gantu

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Hello David,
I've contacted the rights holder and will have to wait.

Gantu

Examining the flange/flash lines on that GRP hull, I must say: that is one hell of a well-engineered tool that produced those kit parts. Hardshell of maybe as many as eight sections; all achieving near perfect indexing to one another. A very well thought out and executed tool is in evidence here.