I'm going to make this thread here in the Camouflage & Coatings forum. It is off topic, but the same forum was used to attack me so it belongs in the same spot.
Recently the owner of this forum, Timothy Dike, a moderator, Olaf Held, and some other users have a lot of fun running a smear campaign against me. I would have thought this forum was about ship models. But I guess I was wrong.
When I'm the victim of false accusations and having my integrity questioned I have a right to defend myself.
It was very clever of Olaf Held to close down the thread to prevent me from defending myself. Well done, Olaf. I can see how much you enjoy your power in here. I guess it compensates from something else.
And now to you Timothy Dike, the owner who feel so fine about what his forum is used for, so he even contribute himself. Without having any technical understanding or background information he is instantly able to send accusations against me.
Mr. Dike, I'm sad nobody has ever taught you that a person is innocent until he is proven guilty. In other words, I don't have to prove that I'm innocent.
But since you don't understand that I will do an exception. You don't believe I have made my own drawings.
I have made drawings of ships for my website in the last 14 years. The drawings below was made 13 years ago by me. The images are screen dumps from the program I use to make the drawings.
Here are some samples of some of my drawings.
Here I have twisted the lines. I challenge you to try to do that with the drawings you accused me for stealing.
Here the drawings are active. I again challenge you to try to do that with the drawings you accused me for stealing.
A side view and a top view of my drawings together. Also here I challenge you to try to do that with the drawings you accused me for stealing.
Try it, you can just take the drawings from the internet and have a go. You can't. So simple is it. So how dare you accuse me for stealing drawings? Fact is you have no understanding of how this works.
So I believe you owe me a big apology and I demand that you remove my drawings from your forum.
You got your documentation now and I have nothing further to say to you. As a owner of a forum you have no credibility in my eyes. You lack fundamental skills in how to run a forum and treat other people, and you clearly have a dubious moderator in your staff. Shame on you.
Now some words to you, Jose Rico:
First of all I apologize if I wrongly accused you for being MpgL62. I apparently got wrong information.
You have made accusations against me too. I think it is about time we set some things straight here.
Manuel P. González López have made the drawings on your website as you correctly pointed out. About 12 years ago he kindly offerered me to use them too. I didn't want to for two obvious reasons. First of all I didn't want to use drawings that you have and also out of respect to you. It serves no purpose of having the same. Secondly I made my own drawings which I prefered to use. That way I can get them the way I want.
I think it is about time you stop your accusations against me. A lot of what you have on your website is not proprietary as it originates from documents and other sources. I don't think you or your helpers has been running around on Bismarck measuring things and taking notes. So you have this from various sources. I have a vast archive I work from. In this archive I belive I have pretty much copies of all existing drawings of Bismarck. So I don't need any third party inferior drawings to do what I do.
In contrary to you I sit on my butt and make my own drawings. I have done that for many years. I don't get it served on a silver plate like you. I have no interest in "your" drawings whatsoever.
Have you seen the Bismarck? I have.
Have you ever seen any of the service boats used on German warships? I have, several.
I hate to break it to you, but Bismarck is not blue and the service boats are not orange like in "your" drawings. Now you learned that.
And I don't think I should start a tour down memory lane telling about what you have done over the years.
When you saw me having dark grey turret tops on Bismarck. Suddenly you got the same as you had never realised that.
Or when I made stripes that went all the way down in the waterline. Suddenly you got the same on "your" drawings.
Remember when you used your forum's swear word filter to prevent the users from writing my website address as a reference? Yes, the list is long. Captions under the drawings like me. Or when I made my crew list. I bought the list in Bundesarchiv. You could not live with that I had the crew list and you didn't. So you wrote to Malte Gaack and asked him to send you his list asap, so you could put it up on your website to match mine. I could go on and on, but bottom line is, I have never attacked you for all this. Bottom line is also that you have to live with that I and others deal with Bismarck too. I know you wont accept it, but there is plently of room for us all.
So I ask you to mind your little souvenir shop and leave me alone. I have no interest in you or your website. I have tonnes of material to work from myself.
John