![]() ![]() Not only is this affecting the designers, it is affecting the whole community because those bastards simply cause some designers to stop designing and leave the hobby behind. But still they violate the creator's copyrights, because the designer didn't give them permission to sell the printed version. They themselves think it's all right, they don't see any copyright infringement because they are selling the models in print. Not only Eriks stuff is found there, hundreds of model kits, created by numerous other designers, all their designed cars, planes, spacecraft, ships, planes, all models you can get (often for free) at the websites of the makers themselves, are being exploited by these Chinese criminals. They take downloads of free models and sell these kits in their pirate webshop as printed packs for big prices. Reason: his freely available stuff was sold on the Chinese pirate website Alice papermodels. One of the best Dutch space model designers, Erik te Groen has permanently shut down his website. ![]() In his emails he often told about how he spent his time as a retiree in his community, Having fun with school children playing with his stomp rockets, donating his models to local museums and lovingly calling his wife "she who has to be obeyed", which I always found funny, him being a retired USAF colonel. We often emailed in those days and I considered him a friend, although he was living far away and I knwe almost nothing about his life and we would never meet. I have helped him test building four or five of his designs and I improved some of them with detail sets. They were well-designed and were easy to build. In the time I started out in this hobby, I often made his models. He shared them with the community and many of his models are still available for free at Jonathan Leslies Lower Hudson Paper Model Gift Shop. John was a prolific paper model designer but remained very modest about his creations. Jogerst, known to the paper model community as Yogi or Retired_for_now, was the person who welcomed me abord when I logged in for the first time on, the forum I joined ten years or so ago. Today, I was saddened by the news that one of my paper modeling friends passed away on April 11. So many, that it has not even degraded to a regular SF drama but to just plain unrealistic, in spite of all the detail and realism in all the props and sets. After making a couple of well-placed jumps in time, they got stuck in 1974, with an absurd amount of huge disastrous events piling up on one another. It had good characters, the set dressing was meticulous and superb in its attention for contemporary details. They focused on the somewhat clumsy efforts NASA took to get something done, some personal drama here and there, but they followed that history line. I was prepared to put all of those incorrect things aside to just enjoy a different point of view, with some ficticious names and storylines. I didn't bother to elaborate on them, it is after all a work of fiction, just starting out at a point in real time. Okay, I realised they took a lot of liberties and immediately there were discussions online on whether it was realistic enough with all the initial deviations from our timeline. ![]() I really was looking forward to the first episode. ![]() When I read Apple had made an original alternative history series about NASA and the space race with the Soviets, I was over the moon (pun intended). ![]()
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