(Update - Situation Resolved) Info regarding my Punisher head

[MikeTek]

This may not be the proper place to air this grievance. I just want to get the info out there.

I commissioned a sculptor to sculpt what I felt was the definitive Punisher. I think the sculptor delivered and I was very happy with the result. Upon release Tony Mei commented that it should be smaller as he preferred a smaller more "comic" scaled version. My vision was that he would be realistic proportioned and I was happy with it and offered it as is.

Tony is now offering this same sculpt in a smaller scale and is calling it his "Punisher 2.0" version.

Yes, I know this was a unlicensed offering. People like to take the stance that when these type of sculpts are offered, people think there should be no honor among thieves and there is no inherent right to ownership.

I want to make it very clear, I am not insinuating that Tony ripped me off. He went to the sculptor and paid the sculptor make a smaller copy that Tony is now offering for sale. I am discussing that with the sculptor now as we do have an ongoing relationship for projects.

It's just that I feel slighted in the fact that if Tony wanted to offer his vision for the Punisher, it should have been a new/differnt sculpt. I have been part of the 1/6 community for over 15 years and hoped that there would be more kinship/brotherhood in the community.

There are people out there that outright rip people off and again Tony DID NOT do this, that being said I think there there was an imaginary boundary line crossed. Just my thoughts, wanted to get it off my chest.

I am not as active as I would like to be, but my intent is to keep delivering high quality content to the community. When things like this happen, it just makes me not want to continue putting time and effort into projects.

Thanks for listening.

 

[TheWhatWhatNow]

Re: Info regarding my Punisher head that Tony Mei is now offering

Definitely doesn't seem right. I don't think most Sculptors would re-release a paid for commissioned sculpt to a different seller by shrinking it a little and then consider it a new commission?
If the roles were reversed I don't think Tony would like you doing that to one of his Batman commissions.
Hope you get it all sorted out.

 

[galactiboy]

Re: Info regarding my Punisher head that Tony Mei is now offering

I was curious about this project and what was going on as it was clearly the Bergholtz sculpt you offered years ago, but smaller.

 

[MikeTek]

Re: Info regarding my Punisher head that Tony Mei is now offering

I just wanted to amend this post.

Tony reached out to me and is a stand up guy. He made an attempt to reach out to me prior to starting this project, however my real life has been very busy and it went unseen by me.

We discussed it in a very amicable way and all has been worked out. No hard feelings on my end, just was quick to do some venting originally.

 

[Jbeltram4]

Re: (Update - Situation Resolved) Info regarding my Punisher head\

Glad you guys hashed it out. Having not been around when you had your head cast, I bought the V2 sculpt and after reading first post, felt bad about it. Tony has always struck me as a straight up guy. Def don't think he meant any malice.