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Tinman wrote:As a person who has created and sold many "copies," "recreations," or "customs" of rare models and pre-production models - what I'm about to say my seem somewhat ironic: For Nic Stil to create models which are designed to deceive in every detail is just plain wrong. He's not helping collectors with low cost fillers, he's only helping himself by generating high priced fakes, which his buyers can pass off to their friends as the real deal. It's no wonder that less then honest people are easily passing these off as authentic.

I see this very talented person as a clear cut blight on the hobby and really would like to see collectors pressure put on him to engrave the base of his models, leave the rivets plainly drilled and/or other tell-tale signs of restoration. To create fakes which are impossible for all but the best to detect is just as bad as selling them without disclosure and puts Nic on my blacklist. This kind of work is truly a blight on the hobby, an outright attack on model values and embodies everything honest collectors stand for.

He's obviously a talented modeler/craftsman but I denounce his work and encourage others to do the same. I'd like to drum him out of the fake prepro business and out of the hobby unless he begins to mark his models by engraving or some other method that cannot be removed and clearly shows that the model is a fake or which clearly shows it has been tampered with. Nic Stil is a faker and a fraudster and needs to stop producing such models. Makes no difference if he claims to be upset that someone is passing them off as real ... he's designed them to be passed off as real. He's 100% as guilty as Matchboxtom or anyone else who tries to pass his models off as genuine.

jimgallegos wrote:The texture is odd as well.