On the 8th of July last year he was off to
his favourite platform for straight-out plagiarism - Forum Gratuit de 1:32;
although recent pontification on Stad's Stuff has involved the wholesale
copying - and some dodgy translations - of recently published Italian works,
he's been loading the Bable-fish processed material on FG1:32 just as keenly; where
he started a thread on Rojas e Malaret
with the words . . .
"I
will do small historical recount of this figures ,makers and else ." (note
the 'and
else' again, from the wholly defamatory, slanderous 'quote' of me on
Paul Stadinger's 17th December 2016 post) and "Base and extracted from various Spaniards blogs and friends from Spain
that had help me."
Wow! You might think; such an unusual
company, and this guy no one had heard of 18-months earlier is going to give us
the benefit of his wisdom - and that of his friends from Spain? Fantastic!
Except, if you've been following the Erwin saga,
you will know by now that it's not going to end well.
The alarm-bells ring as soon as you see
that he's mentioned "friends from
Spain" after the "extracted
from various Spaniards blogs", when you then realise he's not going to
credit either the extracted blogs or his friends by name - but take any praise
on his own sturdy shoulders - the scene is set for an act of the worst plagiarism
the hobby has ever seen, and I'm not being hyperbolic.
I don't know, actually - his getting away
with photographing a whole German-figure specialist-guide on the same forum
comes a close second! For another day.
No - what his post actually consists of is
the relevant information and images from ONE blog, no other blogs have
contributed, Spanish or otherwise; no other 'friends' - Spanish or otherwise -
have contributed.
He has stolen the work of Jose Ignacio
Alfonso, author of http://grandesbatallasdelmundo.blogspot.com (GBM - Great Battles of the
World), a blog which went on-line the same month I started blogging and where you
will find all-original research, presented in real time, as Mr. Alfonso
discovered it. All the connections between Rojas/GBM and Waddington's,
Elastolin and others, all the versions of all the games, all the accessory
sets, all the figure versions and variants, the boxes, rules - everything;
including the museum exhibitions mounted by Mr. Alfonso.
Don't believe me? Won't believe that Erwin
Sell would do such a thing? Or can't believe that the moderators/Administrators
of Forum
Gratuit 1:32 would let him?
Let's have a look;
Using screencaptures, which are an
acceptable reference tool vis-à-vis research, providing you credit the source -
on the left of each collage is the Erwin image taken from a locked forum so
links are pointless; they won't open! On the right is the image taken from the Blog
linked to in the previous paragraph, which I recommend you to 'bookmark' if you
have (or are likely to have) any interest in the subject.
"J'ai retrouvé ceci dans ma documentation"
says 'The Rock'! who now owes me another 10 images!
"J'ai trouvé ça sur le net"
says Th'iery B'astard!
"j'avais pourtant cette photo depuis
quelques temps"
says Grande-turd Oudure
He even copies them in the same order in
which they appear on the Blog he's stealing them from! Priceless!
Now, in Erwin's defence (WTF!???), I have
an wider point to make in this post and while he stole 27 images and all his
"small historical recount"
information from Grandes
Batallas del Mundo someone called 'GTO' (Grande-Turd Ordure?) has since stolen
another 29 and put them on the same thread! That's 56 images stolen from one
original Blog; while the 'administrators' . . . don't!
As well as the aforementioned thefts, there
are on Forum Gratuit 1:32 literally reams of stuff taken from all over
the place, from books and magazines in copyright, websites and Blogs including
my own.
One guy, wanting a bit of fame for Hong
Kong swoppets, photographed his ONE figure, then just took all the images from
all my Airfix Blog pages he could find them on! It wasn't his post; it
was my post, I just didn't know anything about it! Oh look - It's 'GTO'
again.
Another guy, in trying to escape the charge
of plagiarism, copied a Figuren Magazin
web-page into a rich-text editor, printed it out in full colour, scanned the sheet of paper
back on to his PC as a .jpg and then uploaded that image to FG1:32!
Dude; it doesn't matter how complicated you
make arriving at the final image - it's still plagiarised!
It gets worse, people connected with the
forum but having a web-presence outside of it (Mr. Frowny
In-need-of-the-little-blue-pills Hussar), take and reuse those images,
crediting not the original author, but FG1:32!
If you want to know about Rojas e Malaret? Check-out http://grandesbatallasdelmundo.blogspot.com
it was one of the first Blogs I added to my Blog link-list, and as one of the
moderators on FG1:32 was an early correspondent, there's no way they can
pretend they don't know of its existence, nor can they pretend other things are
out of copyright, or legitimately on their forum.
One has to ask why the rest of us bother with
original research, original images or original copy, if it's all going to be
stolen by the plagiarist-fuckers at Forum Gratuit?
Yet - if we didn't bother making the effort
- there'd be nothing for the plagiarist-fuckers at Forum Gratuit to steal! They are quite literally - in our dust.
