Hi Alfred,

I can see what you are saying, the mock up doesn't look very ocnvincing to me but then I know nothing about casting moulds although what you say makes sense.

Is it possible both manufacturers were working from the same original picture or is the damage on the first bunker something that was unique to it and not referenced? If so that would be a very strange!!

Al

Hello Al,

I've been making mould masters for over 30 years. What MK35 portrayed in their photo reply is a complete fraud, that's the only way I can put it. It was hurriedly hashed together to Cover their hindquarters, and no casting can be made from a taped together bunch of cardboard and balsa. It isn't a functional master, it's backwards.
Their reverse moulding the earlier product isn't really illegal, but it does show a certain lack of Credibility to continue denying what they did, as if they were President Bush, or another crooked politician.

NO WAY that battle-damage is a designed in feature from photographs. The placement is too exact. The only difference is the turret hatch, and perhaps the entire turret.
This makes what they did legal in the copyright sense. They only needed to change their COPY 10% to avoid copyright infringement. Why they didn't fill in the original damage and create their own, only THEY can answer, but that would require "wasting" more of their valuable time to reply, yeah, right. I don't trust "Snotty" people.

Why in the world they printed their "CopyrightMK35 " on their joke photos is beyond understanding. It's like catching a child (or politician) with their hand in the cookie jar, they will insist on their innocense to their dying breath, even though they can't remove their hand from the jar because it's full of cookies they won't drop!

It's kind of a Tempest in a teapot really, or "Much ado about nothing". Although MK35 has proved they have NO credibility as far as I'm concerned.

Al

To MK35,

I believe in Father Christmas. But not MK35. No excuses can cover the EXACT placement of the portrayed battle-damage being on BOTH the earlier kit and the MK35 copy.

Next case please.

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