A definite recaster.
I saw this guy at the Farpoint Con in Hunt Valley Maryland.
I didn't confront him because I was there for a fun day and I knew there would be no fun if I pissed myself off.
But I was tempted to ask him how he justifies buying someone elses work, copying it, and then selling it.
To note; his stolen Jayne pistol was originally from an RPF'er's prototype that had the sight rail on backwards.
He recasted it backwards, couldn't sell them and had to change them.
His River pistol is cast from an eBayer's version that has since been updated. The updated version has extremely incorrect grips, but is still better than the version this guy sells.
His Mal pistol is taken from an early fan casting that is extremely inaccurate.
"Coolmodels" has had Nathan Fillion sign one of his Mal pistols and
Summer Glau sign one of his River pistols.
As of last I heard, they had not sold.
To my eyes, they are just so grossly inaccurate, even the sigs don't make people want to put them in their collections.
I bought one of his Blue Hand Guys Death Device kits before I knew his rep.
It is the biggest piece of garbage; totally un-useable.
His Jayne Serenity auto-pistol is truly bad.
Not just inaccurate, but it doesn't even really look like the movie pistol.
I have seen his castings and they are decent if he stole them from someone else, but his Jayne Serenity auto-pistol and the Death Device are just incredibly crude on their surfaces, like a 1930's era Russian iron casting.
So basically, all his Firefly/Serenity stuff is trash.
Avoid as a consumer, even if the whole recaster thing doesn't bother you.
Arsenal Models (Vintage models and toys)
Edward A. Felinski and Jeannine M. Lewis /Hummelstown, PA
Edward Felinski Title Postdoctoral Scholar
College
College of Medicine
Campuses
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Department
C&M Physiology
Graduate ProgramsEmail
eaf129@psu.edu
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I don't know if this is the same Edward A. Felinski, but it seems odd that two guys would have the same first name, middle initial, and last name and live in the same area.
Hummelstown is pretty close to Hershey, PA.
And this from Jmtwo
Here's how the Jack#$% responded to me:
"Hi there, Thanks for your email. We bought this piece from a guy at sci-fi show here on the East Coast who told us it was a pull from a screen used prop mold. That was several months ago. It was a little crude, but he had no problem with us making kits of the piece as he had only a few of them left. So I really don’t know if this is related to your item or not. I do know I did not buy it from you. Also, if it was a cast of your item, it was this guy who did it originally and sold it to us. It was a very poor cast and it took months to fix the bubbles, warps etc in the kit. Anyway, I had no way of knowing this guy was lying or not or if this is made from your item, I have never seen another one of these kits for sale. But, it is a fan produced item and there is really no way to know where it came from. Also, I must say that after all of the fixing and re-sculpting I had to do, it is surely altered the requisite 15 percent now from its original state. If you are in fact licensed by Warner Entertainment to produce an item similar to this, please send me the documentation for review. Thanks."
Typical recaster BS - "Not sure where we got it, might have been from screenused, you don't have a license so screw you."
The other thread is:
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=25393&highlight=Arsenal+Models
