If you're a recent customer you may have noticed the "No-Recast" cards that I try to place in all of my shipments. The goal of these cards is to inform customers about the damages recasting does to small businesses such as Industria Mechnaika. (literally "garage" kits) It's not the cost of the resin that makes originals more expensive, it's the fact that we original artists and designers have all of the development costs that need paid as well. Materials, artists, etc... they all get paid for by us and we need to sell kits to make those costs back BEFORE we turn any sort of meager profit for our efforts.
Recasters simply copy our hard work and absorb none of those development costs, nor do they pay the original artists. It's theft and greed and their supporters seem to display a bewildering sense of entitlement, not caring who gets hurt, as long as they get what they want cheaply even if it means poor quality, difficult, not fun to build kits from these bootleggers. So please support small original art businesses such as ours and help spread the word. On behalf of myself and my family whom I try to support with this small business, I thank you.
--Michael "FichtenFoo" Fichtenmayer