Protect The Objective With Hugo From KLUKVA Miniatures
March 16, 2017 by brennon
KLUKVA Miniatures has a new release for their range of Sci-Fi heroes. This latest project, Hugo, has come together to produce a familiar looking Engineer who loves tinkering with his turret.
This fellow looks like he's having a lot of fun! The turret itself looks great and could almost be used separately if you really wanted to. It has a nice clean and sleek design to fit into any game. Hugo on the back of course really could only be used with this miniature but now you clearly have to put together some kind of Overwatch...oops, I said it...game.
Additional characters based on the franchise are also available including the Mech-Monk, Samuel and Silent Sniper.
What do you think of these themed characters?
"This latest project, Hugo, has come together to produce a familiar looking Engineer who loves tinkering with his turret..."
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How is this legal? It can’t be ok to sculpt miniatures identical to Overwatch and sell them from profit?!
Companies are doing inspiration pieces like this all the time (just look a Vikings and GW clone models). It’s a fine line we’ve discussed before…and there’s no real good answer I guess other than, yes it’s blatant but is it doing much harm?
Thank you for supporting me in this question. I see really lot of companies, even huge like CMON, who make miniatures “inspired” by popular games, movies and etc. And no one care, we by new seasons of Zombicide, support Hasslefree, Tale of War, Scale 75 and etc.
Ultimately the onus is on the company which owns the IP to try and stop the production of such models. If they want to employ lawyers to submit a cease and desist letter to the company in question. Should they continue the IP owning company would need to proceed with legal action. It might be more costly and time consuming to try and stop them. The best thing these companies can do is sign an agreement with a miniature company to produce “official” miniatures. Note – I personally don’t agree with the stealing of IP and I won’t support it… Read more »
@brennon The determination of harm to any given IP can only be answered by the IP owner.
Of course aye.
I have issues with this also….. Blizzard may be a big company but it employs the designers who came up with the concept of this character, the people who spent hours and hours of time creating the initial concept get nothing back from this (not even from the minor kickback of the continued job security that a licensed product would provide) It is intellectual theft. I have no problems with material where the original creators allowed it to be open use, (Lovecraft) or the creator is dead and didn’t want the IP to provide securitiy for children . (Howard) or… Read more »
Ooo nice love the gun
Russian company? Yep. What even are copyrights in Russia lol
I mean, there’s no subtlety here with regards to where the idea for this miniature comes from; it is Overwatch’s Torbjörn, just like if you click on that link, you can see models for Zenyetta, Widowmaker, and Reaper (and also Doom Guy). You can’t argue otherwise, so I guess it depends on whether Blizzard care enough to go after them. I do find it a real shame that the only real merchandise you can get when it comes to Overwatch’s characters, is the Pop! Vinyl ones. Blizzard had a bunch of life sized action models made, and set-up in various… Read more »
FWIW: I have a bottle of Red under me belt so… If Big companies want to shut down IP theft or blatant copy: they can. Simple. They have the money, they have the lawyers. Look at GW,,, not as big as Blizzard, did it for years. Everyone hated them for it. Yes or no? I’m not advocating “ripping off” or making money from someone else’s damn hard sweat but bemoaning it the fact that it happens doesnt change sh*t. Roll with it or don’t buy it. Simple. I have never played and am not interested in the aforementioned IP. I… Read more »
Ok this is cool The thing with licensed IP is that the value of sed IP is often to expensive to support smaller productions such as the “bespoke” miniature market, cost v return is what drives much (but not all) the “alike” production, be that garage kits or small min runs. Some company’s go for the cease and desist instantly to show that they will protect the brand others are more “we didn’t see that” the latter tends to be in places that have little to no value to them. It all comes down to the £ $ €. If… Read more »