ORIGINAL: STLPilot

Rick you think I'm trying to start trouble and I'm not. You seem to be going from one extreme to the other extreme and we can't meet in the middle. As much as you like and enjoy reproducing other manufacturers models and schemes you still have to respect their concerns as well. You don't have to quit modeling just over a simple request like asking for a plug for use of shape.

The reason that I asked you to put the FlyingThingZ URL on your mower was only because if someone else saw it and didn't know that FlyingThingZ existed ... they may like it and copy it or do something else with it. With the URL on there the chances are very unlikely. Nobody is trying to make trouble for you, only you. The digital world is changing the way things get copied, it's making it very easy to replicate and take what does not belong to you. If you modeled your mower from the AFPD mower ... then guess what ... it's modeled from the exact CADS. Capice?

If you don't like the fact that manufacturers are coming down on you for replicating their models or schemes without a simple courtesy phone call or permission it's not that you are doing something wrong, not us. We want you to use our models. Heck only 48 hours I gave Jim Bourke permission to use and OMP or FlyingThingZ plane for G3 and he was very happy about that. I only asked that he clearly plugged FTZ or OMP for the use there of.

And this crap about Fokkers, Edges, Extras and other planes I could care less Prop Nut. Those are not my models, your just being a wise guy.

But you guys might be really surprised to know that there are court battles going on from companies like Republic, American and Northrup suing diecast companies and other companies for use of the warbirds. It's getting ugly since the taxpayers were the ones that funded the planes in the first plance. But it just goes to show you that it's not always take take take. And your analogies like use of the NYC skyline is much different.