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Originally Posted by clutch
Better than the Chinese getting ahold of an older ststue and recasting it.
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Some people seem to be confused about exactly what the true definition of a recast means.
A recast by definition is when someone makes their own mold off another companies statue and then sells it as their own without the permission of the original maker of the statue and I am insulted that anyone would call what I do re-casting. If I was a recaster I would be selling all of ARH studios Frazetta statues and I do not because ARH no longer holds the license to these characters and neither do I so I do not sell them. If I did then it would be a recast and trust me I have had many many people ask I could make a lot of money off those statues but I will only sell things I have permission to sell.
I am officially licensed to sell ARH products that Arahom owns the rights to and I have written permission to sell unpainted resin kits from the original molds. I do not need anyone's permission to paint any statue I want for any price I want to charge just like all of you can do.
Anyone could by a kit and then paint it and sell it for a profit! This is what is awesome about the resin kit market! It allows artists to make a living building and painting statues for people who are not artistic or do not have the time to build and paint statues themselves.
Many people within the collectible market are not satisfied with mass produced polyester resin statues painted by an assembly line of low paid Chinese labor. They want a custom one of a kind paint job that is different from everyone else and they could care less what number it is. They want the highest quality representation of art and want the best. They are in it for the art...not to just have a limited number of something that no one else can have.
ARH will continue to licence out their characters to be made into products by all kinds of companies so get used to it. Just like the action figures now being produced by TBL league. Their Arkhalla action figure is the top selling product in their line up and they now have licensed 13 statues from ARH Studios to make into action figures.
Other people are interested in creating role playing games, video games, Manga version figures, full bronze statues, and many more possibilities!
I plan on possibly re-releasing many of the famous ARH characters in a smaller scale and other companies may re-release these same characters as pre-painted statues under their own name with their own factories and painters creating their own versions of Arkhalla and Arhian and all of ARH's original characters.