MIM at it again (recasting)
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SSRN Seaview
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Funny story about MIM from the pre-internet days of the early 1990's. MIM advertised lots of foreign kits from England and Japan in the great sci-fi mags of those days. I decided to take a chance on an advertised $150 TV version Seaview kit. I asked if it was an Oz Shop garage kit and she said that it was one that they made. I gave her my CC # and eight weeks later received a funny looking box that had been sitckered over with a MIM shipping label. Opening the box I found a Movie version Paul Lubliner kit that was too knowledge, was worth alot more than the kit I ordered. I kept the kit and later called Mr. Lubliner on a question about the kit and his studio scale models. Paul told me that the kit I received from MIM was from the owners (Terry ??) personal collection and that he was pretty upset with the stock guy who shipped it out by mistake.
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Goldenrod
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Too Much Garlic
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Rocketeer helmet: http://www.timeslipcreations.com/
Sure they do... the question is just whether to send money to someone who deals in recasting.
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Matsuo
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MIM's
Mine
I think it's pretty plain to see. Yeah they changed a few things to make it fit in an airsoft, but theres no mistaking my work, no other BSG S1 sculpt looks like or goes together like mine.
And their claim of it being the only one in the world is BS too, I've been putting airsofts in them (per request) as long as I have been making them.
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Mine
I think it's pretty plain to see. Yeah they changed a few things to make it fit in an airsoft, but theres no mistaking my work, no other BSG S1 sculpt looks like or goes together like mine.
And their claim of it being the only one in the world is BS too, I've been putting airsofts in them (per request) as long as I have been making them.
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Wow, how did they turn a work of art like yours into such a piece of crap??
TheSt.LouisKid
Sr Member
I bought one of Matsuos replicas and I am confidant that the MIM is a recast.
About a year ago I wanted to buy something from MIM. I called them to be sure the item was in stock since it was a $500 item and nobody ever answered the phone during business hours. Not the sort of thing that inspired my confidance as a buyer.
About a year ago I wanted to buy something from MIM. I called them to be sure the item was in stock since it was a $500 item and nobody ever answered the phone during business hours. Not the sort of thing that inspired my confidance as a buyer.
Wakal
Sr Member
MIM doesn't actually produce anything. They have a list of folks who "supply" stuff to them.
If you think their shipping and customer service sucks, try it from the supply side...what a bunch of asshats
They do not 'vet' any of their "products;" they accept anything from anyone that will turn a profit. Your complaints mean nothing to them; they are in the game for cold hard cash, not fanboy's outrage at being ripped off (yet again).
Which sucks.
Alex
If you think their shipping and customer service sucks, try it from the supply side...what a bunch of asshats
They do not 'vet' any of their "products;" they accept anything from anyone that will turn a profit. Your complaints mean nothing to them; they are in the game for cold hard cash, not fanboy's outrage at being ripped off (yet again).
Which sucks.
Alex
DarkKnight
Sr Member
hahahahaha, this is one of the best posts i've ever read, recaster gets what they deserve
Actually...thats not true.
They have always had a molding and casting shop.
...they are also notorious recasters.
They have always had a molding and casting shop.
...they are also notorious recasters.
MIM doesn't actually produce anything. They have a list of folks who "supply" stuff to them.
If you think their shipping and customer service sucks, try it from the supply side...what a bunch of asshats
They do not 'vet' any of their "products;" they accept anything from anyone that will turn a profit. Your complaints mean nothing to them; they are in the game for cold hard cash, not fanboy's outrage at being ripped off (yet again).
Which sucks.
Alex
well your original is a masterpiece, just like the cleric was
its the tale as old as time, they use the cheapest materials to
mold things and could care less about the finish quality of a pull
is there anything on it that shows it to be yours like a logo or name etching so you can sick the authorities on them??
this kinda thing reminds me of the grapler recasting of Bronze Armory and JMTWO. He went thru all that trouble to make an amazing piece, was offering perfect castings of it, even had his bluemoon logo etched into the safety button, and Bronze Armory to this day still offers this and claims its cast from the real deal.
I bumped into some skinny bald ******* at comicon this year that claimed he was was from BA and was trying to claim to Prop Store of London guys that he was a master sculptor and that he had sculpted all their bat stuffs.
When I countered him on the gun and bat stuffs, and that alot of people were ripped off by BA he kinda smiled and laughed it off. Had I not been there busy with the prop store guys I would have liked to showed this guy what the tread on the bottom of my shoe would look like on his throat~~
Recastors just suck on every level possible and they never even try to come up with a reason to why they did it. At best they claim that they got it from someone who worked on the set and said it was real. Never actually checking on it, or just looking the other way knowing its recast.
All about money. And they want it and who cares about you.
I'm so sorry to here that a second of your fine works has fallen into the wrong hands.
Just hope karma catches up to these ******* in the end.
Did you contact MIM and let them know they are selling your work without your permission? Or did they tell you that it doesnt look like your original so it must not be yours?
its the tale as old as time, they use the cheapest materials to
mold things and could care less about the finish quality of a pull
is there anything on it that shows it to be yours like a logo or name etching so you can sick the authorities on them??
this kinda thing reminds me of the grapler recasting of Bronze Armory and JMTWO. He went thru all that trouble to make an amazing piece, was offering perfect castings of it, even had his bluemoon logo etched into the safety button, and Bronze Armory to this day still offers this and claims its cast from the real deal.
I bumped into some skinny bald ******* at comicon this year that claimed he was was from BA and was trying to claim to Prop Store of London guys that he was a master sculptor and that he had sculpted all their bat stuffs.
When I countered him on the gun and bat stuffs, and that alot of people were ripped off by BA he kinda smiled and laughed it off. Had I not been there busy with the prop store guys I would have liked to showed this guy what the tread on the bottom of my shoe would look like on his throat~~
Recastors just suck on every level possible and they never even try to come up with a reason to why they did it. At best they claim that they got it from someone who worked on the set and said it was real. Never actually checking on it, or just looking the other way knowing its recast.
All about money. And they want it and who cares about you.
I'm so sorry to here that a second of your fine works has fallen into the wrong hands.
Just hope karma catches up to these ******* in the end.
Did you contact MIM and let them know they are selling your work without your permission? Or did they tell you that it doesnt look like your original so it must not be yours?
Aquaman
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