Recast alert!!

[Voodoocaster]

Resinplanet aka Mike Tait is selling a recast Tie-fighter on ebay right know.
I messaged Steve Niesen about this offered tie-fighter and Steve confirms this is indeed a recast.
So be aware!!

[swpropmaker]

(04-04-2016, 01:11 AM)Voodoocaster Wrote: Resinplanet aka Mike Tait is selling a recast Tie-fighter on ebay right know.
I messaged Steve Niesen about this offered tie-fighter and Steve confirms this is indeed a recast.
So be aware!!

It's a very poor recast at that.. they assembled a few parts but the tells are there in the roof.. bow TIE pieces.. I contacted them at Ebay and he admitted they are Icons wings recast which the lack of 1/4" H beam tells me another story... Mike Tait.. build your own stuff!  Leave ours alone!  Let folks know.. the mere fact that he has to says "this is NOT a recast" is proof enough for me.

[3phase]

Is that the resinplanet one as it says item located in the US with free postage to the US and I thought Tait was down here in Australia.

[swfan78]

Sucks that people take advantage of others hard work.

Isel

[swhite228]

Tait has always been in Texas as far as I can recall.

At least he seems to have stopped creating/ copying forums to hawk his crap.

[Jessie White]

I don't know him, but I am aware of his "work" if you want to call it that. He sells horrible copies of things with all sorts of mistakes, and warpage  with broken parts, or pieces mis-molded. There have been all sorts of posts, and threads about this including one here on studioscalemodelers.

[swhite228]

Mike has been a poster child for all that is bad in this hobby, and a very busy one at that.

His bad castings are just a small part of the Tait legacy, there are the forums he has started to purchase the stuff he has recast only to shut them down when it's discovered he's running them. Oh,and then there are the forums he just copied Like the RPF, and Starship Builder. He's been sick/dyeing a couple of times which is "why he's leaving the hobby".
Lets not forget the sever post on different forums banning the use of his name after he has threatened to sue the owners for letting people post about him. He rode the 2nd chance the owners of Starship Modeler into the ground by recasting items and ripping off the folks who were ordering items from him.
Yep Mike has done it all.....except try to play nice with other folks.