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Over the past 24 hours I have had a number of pictures pass through my Facebook news feed about a certain person from Dark Forge Studios who has used an image from another website and tried to pass it off as his own work which has resulted in the studio gaining work. This person first posted the picture in January this year and labelled the picture as a personal project, I have saved this image that was first posted into my newsfeed.



This image was later found on a website called Area 52 and as you can see from the link below was first posted in 2008

http://www.area52.com.au/galleries/ttg/golden_demon/GD08Gallery.html

Last night the offending person from Dark Forge Studios attacked a rival commission painter who he blamed for spreading this over Facebook which I know that they did not as this was first posted by someone in the gaming community in Belfast who is not a commission painter or rival of Dark Forge Studios. The offending person from Dark Forge Studio then claimed he had sold the model on but he could then get proof that he did in fact paint the model that was been claimed that he had not painted. Here is the photo he posted claiming to be his proof.



As you can see they are not the same model and are not even painted to the same standard as each other. Yet the person could not explain why the picture he first posted on Dark Forge Studios Facebook page was first used in 2008. To help show that they are in fact completely different models this photo was posted to show this.



As you can see they are not the same models and this person who I believe is the owner of Dark Forge Studios has tried to pass off someone else’s work from 2008 as his own when you can clearly see that he cannot paint to that standard.

I wanted to bring this to the attention of the war gaming community in case they try and get a commission from this painting studio that are based in Belfast Northern Ireland.

Hey, this was brought to my attention last night. I used to work in GW Belfast and know very well, all of the men in question.

I have been helping to sort it within the community here. The person who posted those photos is called Thomas Walker and his actions have been despicable and highly unprofessional.

He bought the company from its founder Samuel Hegarty; who has just bought it back within the last couple of weeks. Sammy, has fired Thomas and apologises for what has happened. He is doing his best to do damage control now. Sammy is a good painter and hopefully it will all be sorted soon.

The rival commission painter is The Hairy Painter and Tom's attack on his company has annoyed many in the community here. We hope it won't put any of the international community off checking out commission painters here. Definitely check out The Hairy Painter.