Exactly. It's a great item, but I can't look at this, in this forum, without thinking of the heated discussions about piracy and intellectual property. Does this, for example, constitute unlicensed use of a trademarked image? Another recent new item is a set of 3 WWII GIs and a Waffen-SS panzer commander, that are clearly Kelly, Big Joe, Oddball and the German Tank Commander from "Kelly's Heroes". Does that constitute unauthorized use of copyrighted images? What do you all think? What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Or at least, the question certainly can be asked.
Prost!
Brad
Brad, I personally think it is a great idea for a separated topic. [Carl, Steve, hear hear!
move our bytes to a new thread] There is so much to say about it
. To summarize my point of view, I would prefer all these miniatures to be official products: Their enduring value would always grow in time.
There is the assumption that Indie miniatures are cool, and Piracy miniatures are bad. But in many cases what separates "Indie" from "Piracy" is somehow a thin cutting edge: For example a "Mick Jagger" bust can't be labeled as so ... but a "Mad Jack Churchill" can?
See how quick sands this theme is?
A Mad Jack Churchill is easily seen as a tribute, and a tribute is cool ... but a Mick Jagger can be seen as an appropriation of a character to earn money through it, and that is bad.
Garage miniatures are very cool and through decades they lived on. But I am most positively sure if the Young miniatures Russell Crowe | Gladiator was licensed we would not see a recast hitting the stores before the original. And we would not seen re-casters claiming they can replicate what is originally a felony as well, just like a guy claimed in the Mother of Dragons bust. And all these felonies summed together just sink the figurine world a bit more ... erasing creators and newcomers from this industry because re-casters found an excuse to pursuit their activities... Nevertheless Andrea found a grail in the 90's with their Marvel and DC comics labeled as "Amazing Man" and so on ... nowadays they taste the same poison with some jerks selling their miniatures through eBay stores...
Regarding this bust, it shows the sign of times we live on in 2015: Half busts released so far are clay made ... the other half are digis. It shows where the future is heading.
Pure 80's Jagger from the times of Undercover of the Night and Tattoo You. The digiman behind the screen captured Jagger quirks superbly great! Well painted, this miniature will be a killer in competitions this year! Returning to Brad's idea - I am just imagining if this miniature was marketed with a cubic box highlighting the Stones mouth in a face, the Tattoo You album in another, Jagger playing with the Topper in another and finally Jagger signature in the last one ... how much value it would generate in time
... some miniatures should have not been Indie!
