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So I won't be as happy as all the previous members.
I am here to warn you about Neil Ward aka "Venky" regarding his activity.
Venky / Neil Ward is not only a member of gbfans, but also runs a website called "nawardconceptions.com" where you can contact him and purchase various stuff. I contacted him a couple of months ago for an 1:4 scale full body of the Alien Queen. At the beginning, everything was fine. Answering quickly and in a nice way.
In the same time, I was collecting info about him, his product and wanted to have feedback of previous buyers or partners, before spending my money for nothing.
On sideshowcollectors forum, there is a thread regarding Neil Ward and this Alien Queen kit. Amongst other things, someone posted in June or July 2012, that he purchased a kit from Neil Ward/ Venky on nawardconceptions.com. To have feedback and see if he is happy with the results, I contacted him, in private message.
Below, his answer : A little worried, I tried and collect more info. So I get in touch with the owner of ModeleMagic (Kurt Kuhn) who used to work with Neil Ward and announced this Alien Queen Kit on his website. Plus, Modelemagic is still offering other products of Neil Ward / Venky on his website. So, as he is a professional apparently working on a regular basis with Neil Ward / Venky, I sent an email to him, to have more info about Neil Ward.
Big surprise, Kurt Kuhn answered me BUT added Neil Ward in copy to his answer. He said Neil was a top notch vendor/kit maker and so on. Since this moment, no answer anymore from Neil Ward / Venky. I tried to get in touch many times again with him, but nothing.
I then asked a friend of mine to get in touch with him via his website and try and purchase that 1:4 full body Alien Queen kit.
Big surprise, this time Neil Ward / Venky is alive again and is answering to my friend. His first mail is the same mail that he sent me couple of weeks before with detailed description of the kit, some links for the pics and so on. Only the name after the "Hello" changed.
So my friend kept going and asked him questions about it. He answered quite the same thing but changed the number of Queen kit available. For me, there were no questions of limitations or stock issue. I was garranteed to have my Queen as he would probably keep going and making it until February, just before another new alien related project...if I remember well.
But for my friend, only 3 left. And suddenly, only 2.
In his previous mails, Neil Ward / Venky explained that he would take him up to 4 weeks to make one kit. So my friend thought about something. If there is only 2 left, it just means that he sold one, but that he has now to produce it. As it takes him 4 weeks to make, he can't have done it in 2 days. So this kit is currently in production.
So my friend asked for WIP pictures of the current process. Saying that it would be interesting to see the process and would help to take a descision.
Since this email, no news and no answers again... until this morning.
Below, the first mail of this morning, with the name of the pics he joined to his answer (I put black to hide parts that doesn't matter and to hide the email of my friend for example):
Then the next exchange between my friend and Neil Ward / Venky.
Please read in that order 1, 2 and then finally 3 and I highlighted in red what was important:
So to sum up, he is saying that the Alien Queen pics of the Queen, that he sent this morning to my friend, the ones with black resin, ARE pics he took recently while currently working on making the Alien Queen kit. A kit he is working on NOW. We are in December 2012. Soon in 2013. Right?
Then, please Neil Ward / Venky, can you explain this to me???:ALL THE BLACK RESIN PICS you sent this morning and that you mentionned to be recent and fresh pics taken from your CURRENT work in progress are... pics from May 2011 and April 2012. I just don't understand your behavior.
Can you explain me why your are doing this???
Have you ever had this Alien Queen kit in your hands?
I just need answers. You know who I am I guess. You can contact me here in PM, reply to this post or use my email.