Warhansa Tinker Away On New Robomech Designs
October 31, 2016 by brennon
Warhansa has been showing off some additional work going into their upcoming Robomechs. The range is pretty big now but this gives you a glimpse of what's coming in the future.
The first is looking like it's almost ready to go already! With a nice array of guns on the front of this thing, it really does embrace the Mechwarrior essence.
Following on from that we have just the top part of one of the Robomechs.
This is decidedly more 'rounded' of a creation and I actually thought it was a spaceship of some kind before I took a closer look. While I like the design of the guns the width of this particular mech it seems like you'd get blasted apart by the enemy rather easily.
Have you considered delving into their collection?
"I actually thought it was a spaceship of some kind before I took a closer look..."
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First one is clearly Mad Dog while second one is clearly Uziel.
love the new mech reminds me of the chaos dreadnought from advanced spacecrusade.
While you could make the argument that the top one is not the classic Mad Dog/Vulture due to a lack of missile racks on either of those sloped glacis style plates, there is absolutely no doubt in anyone’s mind looking at the second one that it is an Uziel.
More IP theft form this company. Hopefully IWM would get a clue that people want quality minis now a days and stop Warhansa from making more Battletech rip offs. I don’t want Warhansa completely destroyed but they are braking the law and should be dealt with accordingly.
Worse, I can imagine a situation where once IWM or Catalyst release the miniatures for the updated designs of the “unseen”, Warhansa sues THEM for those miniatures being too similar to his own sculpts.
To paraphrase the Yakov Smirnov meme: “In Soviet Union IP thief sues you!”
Going to there webpage and checking out their other mechs. All I can say is wow I haven’t see
such a blatant and obvious ripoff in a very long time. Every single mech is a very obvious copy
of battlemechs. The only thing they have changed is the name. They even have elementals that look exactly like battletech ones.
They are really juggling an IP hand grenade with this stuff and it has to go off soon. Does anyone know if they actually make quality minis or is it just a dodgey knock off?
I’ve got five of their mechs. Other than some slighlty iksome choices for gate locations resulting in flash in some areas where there is detail they are not too bad. No less fiddly than any battlemechs I’ve built over the years, and far less pinning required.
I really want one of the top pic, I have been looking for a model of the mech from the opening cinematic from Mechwarrior 4 for quiet a while and that is the closest I’ve found one in the right scale. Though I do think they really need to stop with the IP usage.
As @spacewolflord says, this is just out and out taking someone else’s IP and I don’t see how people can let it go. Yes, they’re nice looking models, but the designers that created them aren’t involved in the models’ creation. Saying ‘this is a Mech fan project’ on your website does not give you license to steal other people’s IP and profit from it. The naming conventions of their mechs (e.g. Deus for Zeus, Shrimp for Crab etc.) leave no doubt to the intent here, and I’m a bit surprised that they get featured on BoW.
I have to admit that when I discovered Warhansa’s site a few months ago, I was kind of torn between thinking “Cool!” and “Eh?! What on earth are they doing?!” Sure, I’m obviously thinking that it’s extremely uncool, nicking the designs and yes, they deserve an almighty legal butt-kicking, but if the powers that be could actually sort out the colossal clusterfeck that is the Battletech IP and make some minis, then I’d obviously get them instead. As it is, I’m pretty sure that sorting out the Battletech IP would result in one of the Seven Seals being unlocked and… Read more »
The only things that really need to happen to get good minis for Battletech is the different companies be able to talk to one another and work together. With IWM actually joining the 21st century of model making being key. Which seems like its not going to happen.