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The new Cygnar warcaster preview is up on the PP site.

Captain Kara Sloan goes to war as a one-woman rifle brigade. When focused on the destruction of her foe, every warjack she commands becomes linked to the pull of her rifle’s trigger to unleash a barrage of unparalleled accuracy and power simultaneously. Armed with her custom magelock rifle, she walks into the most vicious of firefights without hesitation and always emerges the victor.

Looks nice, I can see myself buying that one. Gonna see some trouble transporting her though. The fluff about synergy with ranged jacks sound intriguing.

Ride the Lightening -_-

I don't think it would be harder than the banner bearers etc. Just need to lie her down.

Nice mini. I hope I get a cygnar faction one day.

mm, I would have preferred the gun lying in both hands, instead of up in the sky. The pose is quite unrealistic now...

The mini looks cool, but the gun like that made it nothing to special IMHO...

Is the arm a separate bit? Maybe you could swap it out . I definitely like the rest of the mini!

I like the mini, except for the way she's holding the rifle. Why anyone would ever hold a rifle like that is beyond me. Ignoring the fact that it would serve no role on the battlefield, it would be uncomfortable as hell to hold that way.

She's just trying to show of her bulging biceps.

BAWTRM wrote:She's just trying to show of her bulging biceps.

So... you're saying she's giving away free tickets to the gun show?

Badow!

Here is Walton's concept art of her. He also admits to be the one to blame for the pose.

Well, Cygnar gets both a new female caster and a long gunner caster to boot.

Glad I picked up a cygnar army.

Not a bad model all round, the rifle arm is almost definitely a seperate piece, so something could be done about it.

That's a Magelock rifle, she's a Gun Mage Warcaster.

Well it looks like Caine has a hot new date.

i'm sorry i've always hate the wierd starved look of a huge number of WM's figures. there is somthign that can be said for the ajcks and i rember loving th erussian themed factions (i can;t remember wha thtey are called).

DISCALMER!: Not bringing up a GW vs PP

Starved? That's funny, because a local player calls WM the game of the sausage arms.

Cool stuff. Yeah, I'm wondering how a Sloane, Caine, Siege throwdown would end.

Siege cracking everyone open?

Caine gatecrashing on their faces?

Sloan doing...whatever she does?

I'm not a big fan of WM minis, but this one is great.

Looks awesome! She could be swinging the rifle around for some reason. Either way, love it!

I really like the model, except for that silly right arm. I have never understood why, if your job is to draw or otherwise represent people who carry and use guns, you wouldn't take some time to get a gun, and learn to carry and use it. One could avoid a great deal of trouble and frankly silly models that way.

Right arm is a bit naff in terms of posing, and the head seems incongrous to the rest of the sculpt with a distinctly cartoony look.

Otherwise pretty nice!

Head might be the paint job mind.

She is a warcaster.

As such she wears warcaster armor which boosts the strength of the wearer.

Holding the rifle that way would not be taxing...

I like it, despite the pose. It seems too like PP is big on the Iosan hair for their ladies now.

That would also be a great base for an Ashlynn. Just swap out those arms and you're done.

shes firing it up into the air mexican bandito style ariba ariba....

usernamesareannoying wrote:shes firing it up into the air mexican bandito style ariba ariba....

It's "Arriba arriba"

Really like the sculpt (I think they're improving and I like the slightly cartoony style I gotta say), except for that stupid gun. PP ridiculous pose disorder strikes again...

Overall, very nice model!

Da Boss wrote:Really like the sculpt (I think they're improving and I like the slightly cartoony style I gotta say), except for that stupid gun. PP ridiculous pose disorder strikes again...

This.

I love the model, and don't even mind her holding the gun up like that. The gun is simply ridiculous. And that model should store in a tray really easily...

CT GAMER wrote:She is a warcaster.

As such she wears warcaster armor which boosts the strength of the wearer.

Holding the rifle that way would not be taxing...

Taxing is only partially the issue. What is she doing with her gun there?
Signaling with it? If so, it could be higher with an out stretched arm.
Resting or ignoring it? If so, it would be closer to her hip, her elbow or the butt resting there. Alternately, it could be resting on her shoulder (which would look 10,000% better I think.)

The other issue is that human wrists do not twist like that comfortably while gripping something and holding it in place. If the gun were supported at another end one would assume that any twist in her wrist and forearm was countered by the pressure on the other end of the gun, but twisting like that and holding the position by virtue of that twist is a bit of an ergonomic nightmare. She is going to have some repetitive use issues if she keeps that up

And also, isometric workouts like holding a gun in a wierd ass position like that are super taxing compared to normal strength activities. Holding a 5 pound weight at the end of an outstretched arm gets to be really hard after a minute. That is why you so rarely see humans maintaining odd positions, and indeed what marks those positions as "odd".

I like the pose and the detailing but that massive rifle has got to go ...

I can see it replaced with a better scaled rifle, a pistol, a lance or a standard ...

If one wanted to keep the rifle, it could be lowered to rest the butt on the ground while she holds the end of the barrel.

Rotate that arm about 140 degrees so the gun barrel is resting on the ground (or maybe 90 and a tripod) and it will look sharp.

I don't like the idea of the gun barrel resting on the ground because you'd never do that unless lying completely prone. Otherwise you're just asking to get your barrel clogged with mud.
A tripod would be incongruous with the rest of her pose. If you could model it so she was resting the gun on her shoulder, that'd be the best compromise. Or so she had the butt on the ground and was holding the barrel, maybe.