Hi rj001,

I don't post much here in the forums anymore, but I seen this post and wanted to chime in.
I have purchased models from you in the past, and have to admit that I have used them over and over many times. I'm afraid I'm a little guilty of not giving you credit everytime I use your stuff. I am a professional illustrator full time. I illustrate novels, and do tons of commission work. Now I don't know about the illustrator of the above book, but I can tell you that there are a couple of things that could be going on here you may not be aware of. First and foremost when you do an illustration for a novel that is being sold commercially the director/editor will never give credit in the authors book to a model maker. That sounds rude I know, but the cold truth is the publishing company doesn't care how the art was made as long as you are not in violation of copyright infringement. In the case where copyright infringement is in suspect, the artist wouldn't be allowed to use that object in the artwork. So the point here is the artist that used your work, probably didn't get the oppurtunity to give you credit even if they wanted to.

Secondly, someone very well could be ditributing your models as free, and taking credit for themselves illegally. In that case the artist probably isn't aware that they were yours.

I know some in the peanut gallery may disagree with me, but that's been my experience so far doing this professionally and working with several publishing companies.

I promise though, if I do use your models in a commercial piece, and it is very likely that will be the case in the very least I will pm you and let you know what it's being used for,  Most of the time I'm not allowed to post the published pieces in public galleries for a period of several months, so I'm afraid that's the best I can do.
Take care,

 

Michael