Editing Casting (section)

=== Professional Recasters (aka bootlegging) ===

'' 'In Far off Cathay you shall find what you seek' '' -A Wise Man

Some businesses in [[China]] will mass-produce recasted sprues and sell them on eBay, undercutting the original manufacturer by virtue of not having to pay sculptors for model designs. This is called bootlegging, and it is ''fucking illegal.'' (in the west!). On the other hand, fa/tg/uys who are enraged by GW's marketing bullshit and hideously overpriced models (but don't have the time, money, space, or skill to home-cast models) will turn to these sellers to get their model fix without feeding the beast, much as [[Video games|/v/irgins]] will pirate good video games that are held hostage by [[Hasbro|greedy or otherwise odious publishers.]] As a result you can expect to see some of the same [[skub]] regarding buying from "based Chinaman" as you would see regarding the ethics of pirating video games. 

Of course, given that GW has been price gouging their customers (and underpaying their artists) for decades, the whole morality argument is very, very weak (and generally advanced by professional busybodies). Most people who actually buy recasts do so because they would otherwise be priced out of the hobby entirely, and either generally operate under a "don't ask, don't tell" policy...or don't care because, you know, it's a game marketed to children.

Most people who engage in kitbashing, scratch-building, and 3rd-party part-mixing will generally regard using re-casts with disdain. It would be like going to [[/o/|an auto show]] and announcing the replica Corvette you bought was a real Corvette, as opposed to driving up in a mock-Corvette you made yourself and announcing it as such. In any case, '''1d4chan cannot provide any information regarding the purchase of recasted miniatures. Don't even think about it.'''