Dragonsreach
Super Moderator
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-39752975/inside-the-wonderful-world-of-miniatures
Recently the BBC have been getting worse in political bias (a subject for altogether another discussion)
but a failure in Fact Checking is just disgraceful so in order to give them an "Attention Obtaining Arse Kick"
I've sent them the below.
It would do the sculptors and manufacturers we rely on a service to make the BBC wake up to this inaccuracy, so please go to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/
and raise a complaint about how wrong they are.
(And that's my rant for today!)
Dear BBC;
In regard to your "News Story" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-39752975/inside-the-wonderful-world-of-miniatures perhaps you would like to retract the complete inaccuracy and do some fact checking before you waste both license payer money and bandwidth.
There are vastly more than Three Model makers worldwide, varying in scale from 28mm up to and including 150mm figures, including a very Famous British company who holds the New Line Cinema license for both The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings. (Games Workshop).
Independent British companies making miniatures include:-
Hasslefree miniatures (Sculptor Kev White)
Black Scorpion
Infamy
Empress miniatures
North Star
West Wind
Mitch's Military Models
Airfix (I suppose you might have heard of them)
And as I said those are just the British Companies I can think of off the top of my head, add in European and American companies and you can consider Freebooter, Reaper, Coolminiornot, Nuts Planet and hundreds more.
If you wish to be accurate you should look to where 'Antonio' gets his original plastics from. A company called Preiser who have been making those figures since the 60's as well as another company called Noch. So basically this guy is re-casting figures in breach of international copyright laws. (Way to go BBC, publicise an illegal act.)
If anything you owe the many sculptors working in a huge industry a deep apology, and if you think this isn't a huge industry then;
1:- look at Games Workshops annual reports
2:- look to Salute war games show in the Excel centre 2017, where there were over 6000 attendees.
Therefore on behalf of the hundreds of model sculptors, manufacturers and painters I am raising this complaint. (And just in case you think model painting is Passé, Peter Cushing was a highly regarded model painter.)
Recently the BBC have been getting worse in political bias (a subject for altogether another discussion)
but a failure in Fact Checking is just disgraceful so in order to give them an "Attention Obtaining Arse Kick"
I've sent them the below.
It would do the sculptors and manufacturers we rely on a service to make the BBC wake up to this inaccuracy, so please go to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/
and raise a complaint about how wrong they are.
(And that's my rant for today!)
Dear BBC;
In regard to your "News Story" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-39752975/inside-the-wonderful-world-of-miniatures perhaps you would like to retract the complete inaccuracy and do some fact checking before you waste both license payer money and bandwidth.
There are vastly more than Three Model makers worldwide, varying in scale from 28mm up to and including 150mm figures, including a very Famous British company who holds the New Line Cinema license for both The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings. (Games Workshop).
Independent British companies making miniatures include:-
Hasslefree miniatures (Sculptor Kev White)
Black Scorpion
Infamy
Empress miniatures
North Star
West Wind
Mitch's Military Models
Airfix (I suppose you might have heard of them)
And as I said those are just the British Companies I can think of off the top of my head, add in European and American companies and you can consider Freebooter, Reaper, Coolminiornot, Nuts Planet and hundreds more.
If you wish to be accurate you should look to where 'Antonio' gets his original plastics from. A company called Preiser who have been making those figures since the 60's as well as another company called Noch. So basically this guy is re-casting figures in breach of international copyright laws. (Way to go BBC, publicise an illegal act.)
If anything you owe the many sculptors working in a huge industry a deep apology, and if you think this isn't a huge industry then;
1:- look at Games Workshops annual reports
2:- look to Salute war games show in the Excel centre 2017, where there were over 6000 attendees.
Therefore on behalf of the hundreds of model sculptors, manufacturers and painters I am raising this complaint. (And just in case you think model painting is Passé, Peter Cushing was a highly regarded model painter.)
