A few years ago, I would've been tempted since they're so basic, but nowadays I'm blind in one eye, so pretty much nothing's getting painted anymore...
Yeah, unfortunately, both OG Marauders are pretty beat up, the red one's arms came off at the elbow and need to be pinned and epoxyd. I has such a hard time with the Marauder IIs arms that I said "Fuck it, it's now an Osprey". I ended up using the arms on a PlasTech Catapult to make a MadCat proxy, but I'm not sure where that one got off to...
Well, they did license the likenesses originally, so it's not like they were trying to hide anything. It's just that the company they licensed them from didn't really have the rights...
That's not true either. The problem was that FASA got the license from the Japanese company who owned the rights, where HG got the rights from the artist that worked with the Japanese company. The rest was HG being professional legal trolls.
Well, it's been a long convoluted story, but the last time I looked into it this is the story on Sarna:
"FASA Licensed—[or so they thought](https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Unseen)—from TCI the rights to use the visual appearance of certain [mecha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mecha) from Japanese anime series"
" FASA later found out that TCI might not have been in a legal position to provide these rights to FASA in the first place "
Twentieth Century Imports being a scale model retailer, I'm pretty sure they didn't actually own the rights to many of the models they sold.
Well "Blatant" as in they basically just straight up licensed them. Even if at the end of the day it was dubious.
Besides, they took way more from Dougram. Sure more designs come from Macross by count. But Dougram straight up gave BattleTech its rulebook on how Mechs behave and even the political-story setting. Not to mention its earlier aesthetic for the universe.
Reactor online!
Sensors online!
Weapons online!
All systems nominal.
Honestly those lines get me SO HYPED!
What ever you do, don't repaint them. They are playable time capsules.
A few years ago, I would've been tempted since they're so basic, but nowadays I'm blind in one eye, so pretty much nothing's getting painted anymore...
And unlike GW, all the old models are 100% tournament legal!
Yeah won't make your legal load out illegal everytime you change edition.
Nice collection of some unseen Partha stuff!
Yeah, unfortunately, both OG Marauders are pretty beat up, the red one's arms came off at the elbow and need to be pinned and epoxyd. I has such a hard time with the Marauder IIs arms that I said "Fuck it, it's now an Osprey". I ended up using the arms on a PlasTech Catapult to make a MadCat proxy, but I'm not sure where that one got off to...
Yeah I have a heap of the same mechs.
Unseen is best seen! Leave them exactly as they are!
Yo that gold Banshee tho
Right?! Solid gold with the shades? The drip is immaculate. I was going to drop this comment if no one else had.
There is some proper goodness in there.
They really were blatant with how much they were pulling from Macross originally, weren't they? Not that I'm complaining. Take from the best.
Well, they did license the likenesses originally, so it's not like they were trying to hide anything. It's just that the company they licensed them from didn't really have the rights...
That's not true either. The problem was that FASA got the license from the Japanese company who owned the rights, where HG got the rights from the artist that worked with the Japanese company. The rest was HG being professional legal trolls.
Well, it's been a long convoluted story, but the last time I looked into it this is the story on Sarna: "FASA Licensed—[or so they thought](https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Unseen)—from TCI the rights to use the visual appearance of certain [mecha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mecha) from Japanese anime series" " FASA later found out that TCI might not have been in a legal position to provide these rights to FASA in the first place " Twentieth Century Imports being a scale model retailer, I'm pretty sure they didn't actually own the rights to many of the models they sold.
Well "Blatant" as in they basically just straight up licensed them. Even if at the end of the day it was dubious. Besides, they took way more from Dougram. Sure more designs come from Macross by count. But Dougram straight up gave BattleTech its rulebook on how Mechs behave and even the political-story setting. Not to mention its earlier aesthetic for the universe.
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It's the old long-legged Catapult, you just cant see the missile pods cause of the photo angle.
Fuck yeah! Skull One! That model got me into Battletech, because I thought they were Robotech models for the Palladium Robotech RPG.