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Author Topic: Warmachine and Ral Partha connection?  (Read 1069 times)

Offline jetengine

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Warmachine and Ral Partha connection?
« on: August 03, 2020, 09:27:18 AM »
Whilst having a look on the Ral Partha UK site I noticed this thing. Looks awfuly similar to Warmachines warjacks. Is it a similar sculptor or merely a stylistic limitation of working in metal ?

Offline Westfalia Chris

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Re: Warmachine and Ral Partha connection?
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2020, 09:57:03 AM »
It's a metal version of a Mage Knight steam golem. Those actually predate Warmachine by a couple of years, although not that much earlier.

Offline Malebolgia

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Re: Warmachine and Ral Partha connection?
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2020, 06:34:41 AM »
Wizkids used quite a lot of Ral Partha models for their plastics and the metals can still be bought from Ral Partha. Which is great as a lot of the sculpts were excellent.
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Offline jetengine

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Re: Warmachine and Ral Partha connection?
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2020, 11:28:12 AM »
It's a metal version of a Mage Knight steam golem. Those actually predate Warmachine by a couple of years, although not that much earlier.

Oh no I get that, what I'm saying though is the aesthetic similarities down to a specific sculptor or merely working in metal ?

Offline Westfalia Chris

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Re: Warmachine and Ral Partha connection?
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2020, 11:45:48 AM »
Oh no I get that, what I'm saying though is the aesthetic similarities down to a specific sculptor or merely working in metal ?

Well, I guess there aren't that many different ways you can do a steam/clockwork golem that looks suitably robust for battle. Also, as with many games from the early 2000s, I think they channeled some of the WoW aesthetics.

The initial Warmachine figures were sculpted by Mike McVey, if I am not mistaken, but I don't know for sure who sculpted the golems for MK - Jeff Wilhelm, maybe, but I cannot confirm it right now. Tim Prow also did some sculpts for the range, IIRC.

Offline Grimtuff

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Re: Warmachine and Ral Partha connection?
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2020, 08:16:44 PM »
Well, it looks so similar, when I found one on the racks in a store I frequent it got converted into a Talon for my Mercs.

 

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