Too Much Garlic
Master Member
The confusion regarding the 3D scan may stem from my 1:6 scaled project that does indeed include scans of your pieces. My project isn't connected to the 1:1 pieces being offered now.
Potentially yes, but the question is: do you want casts off original in the future? If you say yes, why should they risk damaging original props if you do not in some way protect them from others copying their work. That is why that kind of copying is "protected" by the community and the other kind of recasting isn't. We have lost out on getting numerous cast off original pieces made available and it is why these casts are usually kept out of easy access, because it is simply not worth the trouble, time and money to do it, if some joker then comes along later, who did not buy an original piece, figured out how to mold it without damaging it, getting high end materials to mold and cast it - again, to not damage it - and just dumps it in silicone to sell casts, not even caring about quality most of the time, undercutting the original producer. You will only hurt yourself from getting access to more cast off originals.
Not everyone takes the CFO and RS Props approach of doing runs that are open to everyone. Do I like the secrecy? No. Do I like the hoarding of information? No. Do I love what CFO and RS Props has done to the hobby to make these available to everyone. Yes. It has broken some very old and built in barriers that kept these things hidden and was harming the hobby in certain ways. But I understand that the reason it became like that is partly because of recasters and scammers just copying what other people were bringing to the hobby, or adding details to their own casts to try to bolster their claims and scamming people who haven't spent years studying the ins and out of these details.
