Bootlegging/Recasting

As long as you don't sell them, it is my firm belief that you're allowed to do as you please with your property, so no, you're dodgy but not scum.

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Casting is basically another hobby again - it's super fun and pretty rewarding.

As far as the ethical and moral issues of recasting go its pretty much just based around personal use. i.e. just don't sell them.

Myself I make miniatures and models out of all sorts of unusual things, mostly because I enjoy it, and partly because I paint like a colour blind with parkinson's.

Revived.

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I have bought plenty of recasts, and they have worked out for me. I personally have nothing against saving money, and if someone uses minis they have recasted I am fine with that. While doing so falls into a legally dubious area due to lobbyists from Hollywood throwing money at politicians as usual, no one will really care unless you are selling them to others. I imagine that if you flaunt the fact that you are using recasts in front of the store owners, they may be perturbed as they want you to buy the figures that they are selling.

What matters it that everything looks nice and that there is some clear effort put into assembling and painting your figures. What is really a crime is when some 14 year old walks in with an army that he has spray painted blue and nothing else.

I do a fair bit of recasting myself, and have even sold some recast of out of print models. Last year I did a batch of 4th edition daemonettes for a guy at my LGS, made a fair bit of dosh off it too. I don't feel bad about it in the least because they cannot be obtained through GW anymore, thus I'm not "stealing income" from the company.