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hey i bought a box of FIFTY of the old eldar Rangers about a year ago. I stripped them to find that they are all cast OUT OF RESIN!!!! not to great of resin either..... but still is it illegal to have them or what? i bought them for like .75$ each so its no biggie but still do i have to throw them away or what???

Don't worry about it at all, you'll be fine.

Just use them.

Fake miniatures...hmmm...

THAT A JOKE??? well ok tank you anyway

I DIDNT KNOW THEY WERE FAKE!!!

Paint them and glue a nickel to the bottom of your bases - nobody will ever know the difference! Fake miniatures from the earlier days of GW are pretty common.

You already bought em, no reason to throw them away.

If you somehow feel "dirty" about playing with them, just paint them real good and use them for decorative purposes.

Im starting to feel better about it thanks guys!!!

Any pictures or examples?

rather interesting.

Buying them unknowingly? No, that's not your fault.

Selling them? Definitely.

It's not illegal to own or buy recasts, you did so in good faith it's not your fault. Do what I do, keep them but remove them from circulation. I usually just shrug when I find that I've bought a recast, but I never pass them on. Well I might give them away but I would never sell.

Selling = A whole heap of bad juju.
Owning = not really a problem.
Using = Not a problem if you don't do it at GW stores.

There was something around here on one of these threads about that GW will pay you for those fakes, someplace.

I'm not sure if thats true or not. I haven't heard of anyone that got a cash in on them, but you never know, sometimes.

Is this policy still true?

Yes it is, it is on their legal page ill post the link.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&categoryId=§ion=&pIndex=2&aId=3900002&start=3

About halfway down where it states COUNTERFEIT
Hope i helped.

EagleArk.

EagleArk wrote:Yes it is, it is on their legal page ill post the link.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&categoryId=§ion=&pIndex=2&aId=3900002&start=3

About halfway down where it states COUNTERFEIT
Hope i helped.

EagleArk.

KNOWINGLY buying knockoffs is a potential legal issue, depending on country and the exact circumstances surrounding the sale.

But the OP clearly didn't know they were resin when he bought them.

I know that why are you quoting me when you say that.......

Eagleark.

He's responding to your post.

The first line in your post suggests that any purchase of counterfeit items, knowingly or otherwise, is illegal. He was responding to that statement with his own that likely, unknowingly buying knock-off's is not as illegal.

The buyer could not be prosecuted but the fake figures could be seized and destroyed.

However it is very unlikely this would happen because how are GW going to find your figures?

I was refering to the post before me that is why is posted the link soory if i confused really should of Quoted.

EagleArk.

ok so keep them but dont sell them got it!!!

Papaskittels wrote:ok so keep them but dont sell them got it!!!

Correct, do not sell them otherwise you are equally as guilty of decieving =/

perfict

As GW have said time and again, if you buy second hand, and the models turn out to be knock offs, send them to GW, and tell them which thieving little scrote sold them to you.

Where possible, they will try to replace the knock-offs with the genuine article.

1: Buy 300 knock-off beastmen for cheap cheap cheap.
2: Send to GW
3: Get 300 quality beastmen.

'TIS FOOLPROOF

My buddy gave me a huge amount of fake Resin Bases for Battletech a few months back. I knew they were fake and someone gave them to him before he found out. Me and him play casually so It isn't that big of a deal.

GW though? I sure as hell wouldn't send the minis to them. I personally have very little faith in faceless corporations with things of this nature so I would just use them. Casual only mind you but I would still play with them.

Use them, I would play against them.

Fake resin bases? How does one make a fake base?

Provided you don't say they're real, act like they're real, sell them as real, treat them like they're real... you get where I'm going with this, I don't see a problem with it.

RustyKnight wrote:Fake resin bases? How does one make a fake base?

I don't know if you play Battletech, but everything is metal. So the guy he got them from made a mold so he could have cheap bases. The guy was getting out of the hobby apparently and gave my buddy all of his stuff so, ummm, yeah.

use them to make dead bodies... then you get all kinds of cool points in a tourney when you have a bodie to mark each fallen eldar.

Some guys over here even use empty bases or improvised models. As long as the battle's not official, there should be nothing to worry about.