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Yes, Shakespearean passions!:-)
Well, after the latest remarks, what has happened in actuality? No emotions, FACTS only.
Back in January this guy presented himself as a new aftermarket producer but with a slightly modified DMold logo as his own. We claimed that on appearances at least, he was cloning the DMold product line and the DMold logo. At the start of this thread and in order quickly to present himself just as prey, he tried to replace the concept of actual "copying the product line" phrase for a completely different idea. As a reply for this phrase he started to explain that "all his products are really original and are not illegal copies of someone's else" even though there was not such question at the board in principle.
And the people? Yes, some people were really misled with this manipulation. Since an idea of pirating is more known and clear for most of the people shortly after his comments, I was denounced in an attack for this 'innocent and honest guy'. This is exactly what he wanted to achieve. In my post in January I had tried to explain this confusion and mess but without success. In order to exclude any further misunderstanding I published a special notice at my web-site about this guy, and at this board I have made him a 'business-offer'. He jumps off from the DMold trademark and I remove this notice from my web-site. The thread was virtually closed. In a about a month (or so) I saw that he had finally stopped using my logo and created his own. I immediately removed the notice from my web-site and NEVER came back to this question again, I simply forgot about the existence of this company and NO mentions about it were published at the DMold web-site since that time.
I visited his web-site just now, on the link published in latest here. But what did see there? All the same mentions about the 'old' and new name but in a tangled and vague manner now. At his web-site he has permanently published a number of slanderous statements and another absolutely far-fetched and false accusations directly against the company he was trying to imitate. Should I not pay attention to these egregious facts and allow them to work as he wants?? Certainly NOT! This is why I was compelled to return to this thread back again and point out these false statements and those methods this person continues to use.
These are facts, a complete story and my only demand for him is as before, - to remove all these false statements from his web-site as well as all these tangled and vague mentions about 'old, new names'.
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Now dmold, I'm quite happy to admit I messed up - but you obviously aren't. You commented on part of my post but ignored the bit about 2/3rds of XMMs product line being either completely unrelated to, or pre-dating, yours. Making it pretty much impossible for his products to be copys of yours.
You have jumped onto a thread (now at least twice) that has nothing to do with you, simply to throw around completely unproven allegations that someone has illegally copied your products, when the evidence shows that that's pretty much impossible. So either put up some actual evidence (instead of baseless allegations which, until evidence is provided, equate to lies designed solely to hurt a competitor) or pull your head in. As far as i can see it's immoral and highly dodgy conduct which is probably legally defined as slander or defamation.
I'm actually not sure why i've bitten here and bought into this but it is probably because I really dislike the way in which you have consciously tried to damage someone's business through the use of completely unsubstantiated comments and slanderous accusations. Knowing you can;t fight with facts so making baseless allegations as loud and as often as possible is a very common tactic used by the worst sort of shysters, frauds and politicians. Put up or shut up.
To those who are now doubting XMM's business practices please think about what has actually happened in this thread. Baseless accusations that, IMHO, XMM had no choice but to respond to. Where he did respond he at least tried to be respectful. And after the thread died a natural death dmold brought it back from the dead purely to run the same baseless accusations, start the fight and try to manipulate customers again. I really can;t see how XMM can be blamed for that.
& to the mods, considering how quickly some things get shut down here (generally for good reason), why has dmold's behaviour in this thread been allowed? If he wants to start a thread to discuss his own products, go for it but trolling, hijacking and trying to start a fight on a competitor's thread...
Now what has been written in the official letter by DMold to exclude any mess with original and false trademarks (shortened version, full text is at the page3)
"I am sorry to see that this producer has not found a better solution but to create a clone of the DMold company. Brand cloning is a distinctive phenomenon in the international trading practice. Clones do not copy but simulate products of well-known producers. These clones try to compensate for the lack of quality of their products by an external commonality to well-known producers. They also may produce their own products but under the same, slightly modified trademark of a well-known company. This 'new producer' on all appearances has obviously come exactly the same way."
Under a pressure of this thread (and ONLY under this pressure!) this guy has ultimately changed the logo for his own.
But WERE did you see any unsubstantiated comments and slanderous accusations for this person in illegal copying of any products?? POINT please. But just these statements published at the present XMM web-site are really a new problem with this company which should be resolved now. And you have written a long post but boorish and inane.
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But apparently pride is getting in the way of good business sense
Bill
This is about so, but not quite.
I do not really care about his products and do not consider him a competitor. I do not expect any greater products from him other than a simplest to mold (and absolutely useless for the look of the model in my view) latest Jak-38 intake ducts. But the 'About us' section of his web-site is filled with lies, offensive to the company he was trying to clone and my only demand is for him to remove all this false statements from his web-site. All explanations concerning his lies are presented in the large post at the previous page of this thread.
For now, while the DMold company is absolutely open about his ideas and activities this secondary company has continued to bring tons of lies even here, on this board, trying to keep his status-quo. That is all, in principle.
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So now you're posting pictures of YOUR products in a thread announcing a competitors product? Who is using "dirty" business practices again? Pretty bad form.
Bill
To publish comparison photos is a bad form? What is "dirty" in it? You stay at a strange position, Bill (all are your older ideas from the first page here yet), and you try to make a vector of the discussion really diverted.
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By the way, I see serious flaws in the DMold set, but I will not specifically indicate its to praise my products. This is a task for the consumer
Yes, indeed. This is why comments by billb should be appreciated.
Also, how do you explain this difference between the picture by billb and the latest of yours?
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My first ever attempt at resin intakes and i'm glad I went with XMM
http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=267944
Concerning the quality of the F-4B set, - not all is clear with the external fit of these XMM parts you seem to be so pleased with.
Billb, you write that the fit of the XMM parts you used is OK but a pretty strange dent along the joint line between the lower wing and the intake part is clearly seen in your picture. It means that you had reached certain problems trying to fit these parts and then you used some filler (clearly seen at the picture) and heavy sanding trying to level the surface. The result is a pretty deep dent you have gotten at the end along this joint. But maybe an appearence of this dent is just a distortion from the camera and you did not use any filler and heavy sanding in this area in reality, I do not know. In any way, compare how this joint line looks using the DMold set, - no filler or sanding is virtually needed anywhere (right picture)
The DMold set again
So, if you could be so kind, please clarify the origin of this dent in your picture (and maybe help the group to get a better idea with some clearer pictures). Thanks!
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As you can see there were no alleagations of this person in DIRECT copying of the DMold products. Folowing my earlier business-offer at this thread this person has ultimately jumped off from the DMold trademark all the same, and changed his logo. But he has replaced it by the dirty and false new comments on his web-site now, already without a participation of anyone else. It seems he can never stop using all those dirty methods in his practice and it is tоо bad that this young company begins his activity from so false statements being permanently addressed at his web-site now. So, I am compelled to teach this person again and advise him to remove all this dirt and lies from his web-site to avoid any further questions. He is XMM now, it is OK. But all comments coming along at his web-site in 'About us' section are just his effort to besmirch the DMold company which he considers as a competitor.
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In principle, this is all what is required from this person and all facts are presented here.
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And my personal opinion. Dmitry because of his behavior had lost respect for Russian modelers , and now he repeats this way here at ARC Forum.
Sincerely,
Alexander
I nothing lost and nothing repeat anywere. If you have different facts bring them us in details.
An interesting note if there are some doubts concerning actual activity of this person yet.
A range of the DMold products was never limited with the intakes only but the word 'profiled' was introduced only and exceptionally by me to describe these items in a more appropriate way (since I never liked the word 'seamless'). And the same word has recently appeared beside some items at the web-site of this person. In other words, he continues to copy the DMold experience even in smallest details like this although he obviously never knew an origin of this word previously.
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ahhhh, the dribbler is back.
Looks to me like......
Back, not back but he has to remove all this dirt and lies from his web-site since he has been using all these durty methods, from the very first steps in the business, and finishing with the present decoration of the "About us" section of his web-site, and not me, billb, not me at all.
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I'm sorry I just looked at the pictures and I dont see the copying.....
Unfortunately, I feel compelled to be back to this topic since this person has systematically continued to bring false and distorted statements trying to inflict damage to the image of the company he was trying to copy. Look at comments on how he describes his origin at his web-site at the present time. He particularly writes now: "At the beginning of our efforts to enter the market for international sales the other aftermarket manufacturer with a similar name was trying to damage our reputation by unsubstantiated allegations of direct copying of his products and then of copying of the full range."
It may seem from these comments that he was denigrated without any reason. But compare the original DMold Modelworks logo (at left) and then a logo which this person had initially used for his 'independent' company (right).
As for a second part of statements from his web-site concerning "unsubstantiated allegations of direct copying of his products", - this is a public lies all over again as well! He was never denounced in direct copying of my products. Here is a text which was published at the DMold web-site back in January to clarify all the problematic points with this producer origin (full version):
Some time ago a new producer from Russia a new line of intake sets. If you were to take a look at the product line, presented there it would not be difficult to notice that this line basically copies the DMold line. Their trademark is also a copy of the DMold trademark with only one, minor change: the letter 'D' has been replaced by 'X' keeping even the same font style. I am sorry to see that this producer has not found a better solution but to create a clone of the DMold company. Brand cloning is a distinctive phenomenon in the international trading practice. Clones do not copy but simulate products of well-known producers and an appearance of clones like this is dange rous for any private company. These clones try to compensate for the lack of quality of their products by an external commonality to well-known producers. Or in other words, they are virtual parasites living off well-known, popular trademarks and try to get their profit from it. Since their abilities are limited they seldom copy the whole production line of a company they try to simulate. They also may produce their own products but under the same, slightly modified trademark of a well-known company.
First and the most obvious sigh of these clones is their certain external commonality with some of well-known companies. SFIKO instead SEIKO or Pavasonic instead Panasonic are typical examples which come to mind. Real value of all these PaVasonics was not great but some people were confused with all these trademarks and bought these virtually fake products instead of the original. These items are usable as well but their quality is always far away from original products. This is a common example. This 'new producer' on all appearances has obviously come exactly the same way. In fact, the clones like this never appeared in the modeling industry previously, so if you see products like these somewhere anytime later don't be confused please! XMold is not DMold!
As you can see there were no alleagations of this person in DIRECT copying of the DMold products. Folowing my earlier business-offer at this thread this person has ultimately jumped off from the DMold trademark all the same, and changed his logo. But he has replaced it by the dirty and false new comments on his web-site now, already without a participation of anyone else. It seems he can never stop using all those dirty methods in his practice and it is tоо bad that this young company begins his activity from so false statements being permanently addressed at his web-site now. So, I am compelled to teach this person again and advise him to remove all this dirt and lies from his web-site to avoid any further questions. He is XMM now, it is OK. But all comments coming along at his web-site in 'About us' section are just his effort to besmirch the DMold company which he considers as a competitor.
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I understand, you see what you see and probably it is difficult for you to understand where the problem is. Well.
On the right hand side of the picture is the original intake by DMold and the same DMold part is at the left side of the picture but after some work with a file along the upper edge
and intake lip. The only difference of the latter part from the part on your picture now is that the part modified by me does not have an etched plate in front of the intake lip.
The idea to use the etched part was obviously taken by him from HERE
Overall, the major part of any intake set is a profiled duct ONLY. Making the ducts is the major and hardest work in creating these sets. Once you do have a set like this you can then make as many changes externally as you want and therefore there is no sence to try to compare exteriors of the parts. This fake F-18 set which is simply mutilated DMold set is a typical example.
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"Rhino" is a person whose real name is Paul Miller.
About three years ago this person was selling direct fake copies of various intake sets by DMold. Then, when the truth became known via a board on this forum, ads by this person disappeared from eBay. But not for a long time. In a couple of months after that a'new' producer, "Rhino Modelworks" has appeared with his ads on eBay again. These ads included a 1/32nd F-18 intake set in particular again but different from the original set by DMold these parts were entirely casted and were wider in the rear end to fit an engine face part there. From the first sight there was no obvious commonality with the set by DMold and initially nobody knew who was this "new" producer. But thanks to regular visitors of ARC forum, his name became ultimately known. This was the same Paul Miller character again. Now there is 100% guaranty that this F-18 intake set is a fake copy of the set by DMold with the only difference that the parts were just glued together and heavily puttied around the seams before making the molds. Then it was exposed under steam for a couple of minutes and the rear end of the ducts was made wider to use the turbine face. He had to add this turbine face as an extra part to the set and voila! A "new" F-18 intake set appeared on the market.
Overall in fact, there is not a single one truly original set made by this person and the list of the 'Rhino' sets and their origin is listed below:
1/32 scale.
F-4 - assembled from the kit parts.
F-15 - assembled from the kit parts.
F-8 - assembled from the kit parts.
F-18E - assembled from the kit parts.
F-18C - slightly modified fake copy of DMold set.
F-18C nozzles - a fake copy of an older Korean producer.
1/48
A-7 - a mix of a fake copy of older Seamless Suckers duct and Aires nose wheel well.
F-8 - a fake copy of Cutting Edge set.
F-4E/E - a fake copy of an older Seamless Suckers set.
F-4J - a fake copy of DMold set.
S-3 intakes - a fake copy of Cobra Company set.
F-18E - assembled from the kit parts.
This is preliminary information only (99% accurate) and some corrections on one or two estimates are possible.
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There is an update from DMold Modelworks.
As it was announced previously a set of corrected radomes for 1/72 EC-121 kit by Heller is completed and in the stock now.
Basic shape of the radomes is shown here
and more info on this and another L-1049, EC-121 releases may be found at the DMold web-site.
Thanks and regards,
Dmitri
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Note, the radome set by DMold Modelworks is on the way to go as well and it will be in stock in about three days.
Three kinds of the corrected forward fuselage: short and long nose for civilian version as well as a military version, will be in actual stock in about a week.
So, now you have a real choice, gentlemen.
Regards,
Dmitri
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You are correct. The second release of the RKA-3B was very nice for a resin kit. I never did get the money gathered to purchase one. The Trump kit will be a bargain compared to the price of the CA kit. My pictures are of the first release, and your description of it is spot on!
By the way, recently there was an interesting comparison between the late version of the Collect-Aire and Trumpeter kits on HS forum. Author of the post confirmed that fuselage by Trumpeter was covering the C-A fuselage 'like a glove'.
It looks like Trumpeter made a scan of external outlines of the C-A fuselage and then using CAD has added plastic walls already over these outlines. Or in other words, the kit by Trumpeter appears to be just a slightly enlarged copy of the C-A kit, on the fuselage and wings at least. But this is just a guess only and more close look is needed in order to evalute all correctly.
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Here's what the Trumpy kit will be replacing. This is the old CA kit with the rear gun area from the B-66 and a reshaped nose.
Darren, maybe you are not advised but there were two versions of the Skywarrior kit released under Collect-Aire label. It seems your conversion is based on an early version of the kit dated back to ealy 90's. This kit was pretty rough, simple and very heavy since it even did have a solid (not hollow) fuselage.
Another kit was released in late 90's. This was a completely new release having no commonality with the early release and out-of-box it looks like
So, Trumpeter kit will be replacing rather the latter C-A kit.
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Very nice, Dimitri. Will need to get one. When will you have some available (it shows 'out of stock' on your site)?
Have you considered a set of corrected engine nacelles, since Kinetic totally buggered the nacelles in the kit? You did such a nice job on the nacelles in the Collect AIre kit.
Master for Collect-Aire,...yes, making this one was so long time ago, over 15 years ago or so...
As for today's projects, - there were plans to creat new engine nacelles for this Kinetic kit as well but the work on the forward fuselage took so much time and efforts (much more than it was expected initially) that I feel I am not ready to start a work on the engine nacelles for this one just now. Also there is a number of large projects which await for a completion for ages (1/72 Connie correction sets and 1/48 F-101C and F4H-1 conversions first of all), so making of these nacelles is postponed at least now. Although in fact, maybe there is actually a point to be back to this work few time later, along with the mentioned projects.
As for availability of the forward fuselage sets, - they will be restocked in several days, just I get some number of clear canopies completed again.
Dmitri
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This is a note to clarify that the text is reworked now to avoid any misunderstanding or misinterpretation.
http://www.dmold-modelworks.com
It is also a business offer to this producer. This notice will be deleted if mr.dinozavr will be kind enough to jump off from the DMold trademark, design his original name and logo and become a truly independent producer as he presented himself here initially.
Maker, I wish you good luck to purchase these items. I hope you will the first who bring us your impressions (via ebay maybe?)
Bye for now,
Dmitri
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I read the messages in this thread from the start including those deleted or edited, and I second Maker that dinosavr started the thread promoting his products and mentioned Rhino and Dmold, but in no way did he attack dmold.
Yes, you are right, the fact of his attack is not seen in his initial post and this fact is unprovable.
Nevertheless, since I know this person very well I maintain my opinion and I needed to defended my entire business and not just a couple of my products, even if this defense occasionally resembled aggression. You may have any different opinion.
That's all for now. Too much time was spent on this subject and I would rather be more effective and spend the rest of the time working on projects currently in the works.
Best everybody,
Dmitri
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From your website "If you were to take a look at the product line, presented there it would not be difficult to notice that this line basically copies the DMold line." (as Niart has already pointed out above)
Will you be selling outside of Russia soon?
Is Paypal changing their rules to allow Russian sellers?
Dear Maker, you are basically correct. But you have come to the wrong conclusion in two important things.
What should be highlighted here is not the single 'copies' but that Xmold tries to copy the DMold line! Copying the product line and copying of the individual products are different things and therefore I am not making any accusation of pirating my actual product. So, all is accurately told on the DMold web-site.
As for second question, - no, he will NOT be selling worldwide now or soon. This is a major idea of this thread here. Probably, he will await for some reseller to accept this stuff. In other words, he has nothing to lose by attacking the DMold company even if he has no success with any retailers. This is an absolutely dirty line of conduct considering the true story of how this producer has come to exist. He does not bring to market anything new other than a clone of the DMold line. These products are confidently not better or much cheaper than the same products by DMold and there is no doubt that the major goal of this thread is to attack directly the DMold company. This is the reason he even used a slightly modified DMold logo. Don't ask me why he does it! This is an old story and I had many problems from him in the past and he keeps creating trouble for me now.
Dmitri
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Earlier he has stunk by his grumpiness Russian forum, now the same thing going on here.
Not considering your usual boorish tone I am not sure I am clear with this your statement. Give a link to this forum please.
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For goodness' sake at least finish your own product before accusing others of copying it?? And there is no 1/48 F-18C intakes in the Dmold product line? The product lines are bound to be similar as there are only so many popular jet kits without full length intakes.
As for DMold's assortment politics and particularly the 1/48 F-18 intakes, - I built a couple of these kits for many years ago and during these builds I had not seen a real necessity in creating intake parts for this kit. The intake lips are accurate and the fit of the parts is good and they look quite nicely out of the box. All you need is to paint them inside in black and blur a board between colors using airbrush. The same story is true with the Skyray intake ducts. After I created the basic parts for this accessory I looked through the intakes and I did not see much of an effect from using this part. This is the reason why this old project has never gone into production.
The 1/48 F-104 or Mirage intakes; - it would be possible to make these parts for these kits but the cross sections of these intakes are so small that effect from these parts would be minimal. In other words, these kits don't really need these extra parts. I have never had the goal to grow my line up with as many items as possible and I try to introduce into my assortment only the items that are really necessary in order to considerably improve a model. 1/48 F-4, Rafale and F-111 kits - yes, intakes for these aircraft are pretty large and aftermarket intake ducts are really useful for these models. But there are not so many aircraft kits beside these which really need items like these. That's why I don't grow my assortment in this direction too actively. Prior works for now are complex correction and conversion sets for various kits and the start of a new line of accessories for Formula 1 car kits. The latter was always my second favorite theme in modeling.
Regards,
Dmitri
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But when he finally stops to stink, bubbled of hypertrophied boasting, because of which he turns over the all in his head?!!!
What kind of professional secrets is he saying?!!! The forming of the the heated plastic by shaped wooden punch?! That was used by many modelers thirty years ago, including me?! That is all !!!! His professional secrets are only good ability to use tools, a good eye and a good observation!
Models, which were design for different companies, were made after my leaving the common apartment, and I did not watch the process of making!
Oh, God, how it all sick of it !!! Earlier he has stunk by his grumpiness Russian forum, now the same thing going on here.
:)/> :)/> :)/> :)/> :)/> Great reply for the question above!
once again of the air intakes for the jet modeling
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No, Alexandr, you was never accused in direct copying any products. Yes, I was shocked, I was injured at first by the fact how you used my experience, and a couple of my posts were just about it. But they were actually too emotional and of too personal character and this is only reason why these posts were removed by mods. But you WAS NEVER accused in ordinary pirating. This is 100% fact. And your rhetorical question as above only confirms all over again how dirty your character are. And facts without emotions are all as above and my demand is all the same.