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Found these miniatures and were wondering who makes these? I think they are rip-offs from Warhammer 40k but not sure. Either way they are wonderful looking mini's! Would like to see what else this guy does!

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/7/unidentifiedmini.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/31/unidentifiedmini2.jpg/

I can't see your picture D:

With a name like 28 (if that is the name of the company that makes them), googling will never work to find them without some serious search-fu.

The demon is okay if a little too much like the original style.

The not-commissar just looks like a clumsy conversion of a GW model.

notprop wrote:The not-commissar just looks like a clumsy conversion of a GW model.

That's because it *is* a clumsy conversion of a GW model.

Ah then we should all agree I was right all along and never speak of this again.

Er...so...erm nice weather we are having for this time of year then?

frozenwastes wrote:With a name like 28 (if that is the name of the company that makes them), googling will never work to find them without some serious search-fu.

My google fu is strong.

http://twenty-eignt.livejournal.com/

Both are quite clearly conversions. No quote/unquote "ripoffs" at all.

There's quite a few companies that make what you are calling "rip-offs".

They are generally models that GW doesn't produce and if they do, they're so old and gross that people purchase them from other companies.

Funny thing is, since GW quite literally doesn't own any prior art on anything they make, they can't sue these companies unless they use Warhammer names.

That obliterator looks...different. The commissar is ugly though. I can't tell if I could handle the oblit or not, but definitely not the commie. It's awful.

I kind of like that oblit.

They sure can go after them if they are using GW bits (which both clearly do) for conversions then casting them as original models. Of course there's little going after them in Russia I would say.

The Commissar looks as if it was styled/made from 2nd-Edition era miniatures. I kind of like it, actually (but I'm a nostalgic fool).

This wouldn't be the first Russian company I've seen produce GW-like miniatures. I don't read (or speak) Russian, so I can't help out with the blog that was linked to.

Petre: My google fu is strong.

http://twenty-eignt.livejournal.com/

No link to an actual site selling the stuff though (my Russian is subpar) ? There seems to a few countries from Eastern Europe these days that are using direct knock offs of GW minis (ie the Cain minis where he's standing on a recast of a Carnifex's head).... =/

How the hell hasn't this been noticed before?

Avrik_Shasla wrote:How the hell hasn't this been noticed before?

It probably has.

There are dozens and dozens of these companies, this isn't exactly breaking news.

Before everyone goes around trash-talking someone's personal blog, where does it say anywhere that these things are for sale?

Absolutionis wrote:Before everyone goes around trash-talking someone's personal blog, where does it say anywhere that these things are for sale?

I see, nice to know where these things came from and what they are. When I found these they were for sale on ebay, the obliterators were 3 in a pack for £30 and the commisar was with another commisar for £20.

Ryan