No fun at all, ynsaen. Don't worry though, my competition isn't anything to worry about. I don't do "stores". :) Quite honestly first thing I did when I decided I wanted to make models was to approach the companies I was pinching ideas from. That started with the obvious gun companies and also interested in what I was doing. They were extremely helpful and very friendly people. That moved on to a couple games companies - who, while guarded were likewise okay about it, and a few others since then. I've got full permission from one medieval clothing manufacturer to make 3D representations of their clothing (if I ever manage to get my head around it). Heck I was even making a Lara landrover to go with Ironbear's Project Lara as an add-on and LandRover bent over backwards to help, sending me production photos of the vehicle they took while building it. Unfortunately that's proved to be a massive challenge and currently beyond my ability - though it's slowly progressing. This started about 4 years ago. When a very similar argument to this one erupted. Funny how things repeat all the time isn't it? At that moment I thought, well, if there's a risk. Ask, it can't hurt to ask, and if they say no, I know never to go near it. I find it quite inconceivable that most people just go off and do things without ever thinking about doing the decent thing and asking. Quite inconceivable. However, I don't make money doing this, so perhaps there's the difference. I don't have to care whether anyone will think my stuff is cool and spend bucks on it, so there's no risk if I'm told "no, you can't do that." shrug Strikes me that while people are extremely, rabidly defensive of their own things and that of friends, they hold so much else in utter contempt. That's not an attitude I can fully understand. But then, I'm weirder than you are. :)