Ok so learned an important lesson here which is worth chronicling:
I'm not a prop maker or anything so when I bought materials (and I wanted them to be good materials) I sorta had to buy in the volumes they come in, knowing that'd be way more than what I needed for my project. And, I'm not using them for anything else in life so I decided it would be a good idea to mold out however many I had gelcoat and resin for and then see how many came out good enough to use.
Without thinking, I then offered the extras in the FS thread imagining a real benefit of it helping me cover my material costs - but this was my mistake. Obviously others have put great work into the Qpack and that's what I've used as the foundation for my build with only minor adjustments to enable easier casting. Me molding and selling those felt innocent to me because the alternative was throwing them away, but it also was without permission from the people who did so much work on the foundation I used - the Qpack files. I didn't think that through the way I should have. Several others called this out and I reached out to Belli to apologize for my error. He was gracious enough to understand. Hoping to continue this thread focused on my own build which is slowly making progress as I clean up my shell.
I'm not a prop maker or anything so when I bought materials (and I wanted them to be good materials) I sorta had to buy in the volumes they come in, knowing that'd be way more than what I needed for my project. And, I'm not using them for anything else in life so I decided it would be a good idea to mold out however many I had gelcoat and resin for and then see how many came out good enough to use.
Without thinking, I then offered the extras in the FS thread imagining a real benefit of it helping me cover my material costs - but this was my mistake. Obviously others have put great work into the Qpack and that's what I've used as the foundation for my build with only minor adjustments to enable easier casting. Me molding and selling those felt innocent to me because the alternative was throwing them away, but it also was without permission from the people who did so much work on the foundation I used - the Qpack files. I didn't think that through the way I should have. Several others called this out and I reached out to Belli to apologize for my error. He was gracious enough to understand. Hoping to continue this thread focused on my own build which is slowly making progress as I clean up my shell.
Statistics: Posted by Tvenk — August 26th, 2025, 2:01 pm