Hello Friends :) Having recently looked at a thread relating to offering scans of Micromodels WWII tanks (and an awful lot of copyright info to boot) I was wondering how it relates to my own little sideline of 're-working' old Micromodels, something I do purely for my own pleasure.
I love those old models to bits, but some of them just don't fit together well enough for me, and the printing can be poor. Anyway, I've built quite a few steam locomotives and coaches now, and in the case of the Southern Railways Battle of Britain loco here, it's been redesigned as well as redrawn, which also applies in varying degrees to all the Micromodels I have built. I really enjoy doing all that detail work!
In the pic you can see the original Micromodel B.o.B pieces as they fit together, and below is my rendition. I've also added a couple of pics of the finished model.
My renditions still look like their originals, and to a casual observer they might be considered identical; I aim to make them as faithful to the originals as I can, without the fit/scale/print register/colour etc issues that the originals often possess, and my renditions utilise lots of bits and pieces of the originals, cut and pasted, to keep the 'flavour'; for example, I will use pieces of a railway coach widow frame to make a set of nice even and consistent frames, or swatches of colour lifted off the originals to keep the 'hand inked' textures.
Now, the thing is, if I ever offered any of them as kits (not using the Micromodel name, of course) would this still be construed as piracy? bearing in mind that as far as I know all the models are still 'owned' by someone? Or am I better off just doing my own designs even though they will end up looking just like a Micromodel?!? I realise this might have been discussed elsewhere but some fresh insight would be helpful to me.
Plumdragon
I love those old models to bits, but some of them just don't fit together well enough for me, and the printing can be poor. Anyway, I've built quite a few steam locomotives and coaches now, and in the case of the Southern Railways Battle of Britain loco here, it's been redesigned as well as redrawn, which also applies in varying degrees to all the Micromodels I have built. I really enjoy doing all that detail work!
In the pic you can see the original Micromodel B.o.B pieces as they fit together, and below is my rendition. I've also added a couple of pics of the finished model.
My renditions still look like their originals, and to a casual observer they might be considered identical; I aim to make them as faithful to the originals as I can, without the fit/scale/print register/colour etc issues that the originals often possess, and my renditions utilise lots of bits and pieces of the originals, cut and pasted, to keep the 'flavour'; for example, I will use pieces of a railway coach widow frame to make a set of nice even and consistent frames, or swatches of colour lifted off the originals to keep the 'hand inked' textures.
Now, the thing is, if I ever offered any of them as kits (not using the Micromodel name, of course) would this still be construed as piracy? bearing in mind that as far as I know all the models are still 'owned' by someone? Or am I better off just doing my own designs even though they will end up looking just like a Micromodel?!? I realise this might have been discussed elsewhere but some fresh insight would be helpful to me.
Plumdragon
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