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**Azazelx**

Looks great, and also good to see that they've bumped the size to make them compatable with "other ranges". Now if only they'd done that with the previous Vestals and Mantis Warriors...

**Kroothawk**

scipio.au wrote:Received my Blood Vestals today (1 box of troops, 1 of command). Expensive for what you get, but very nice sculpts. I do have to say, though - they are tiny!

scipio.au wrote:If they're like the Witch Elves, the girls are also tiny.

scipio.au wrote:Yeah, they're very nice figures, but very small.

scipio.au wrote:As with the previous Witch Elves release, they're beautiful models, but just a tad smaller than what will allow them to fit in nicely to a WFB/40k force seamlessly.
(...)
Blood Mistress above looks good, she will be too small.

scipio.au wrote:Looks great, and also good to see that they've bumped the size to make them compatable with "other ranges". Now if only they'd done that with the previous Vestals and Mantis Warriors...

Guess you made your point

**RiTides**

Even better, good to see that Raging Heroes listened to the feedback. The blood vestals ARE too small to blend into most fantasy armies, but they said these are bigger (and they even look it a bit to me), so that should help their sales long-term by a LOT.

**Azazelx**

Kroothawk wrote:
scipio.au wrote:Received my Blood Vestals today (1 box of troops, 1 of command). Expensive for what you get, but very nice sculpts. I do have to say, though - they are tiny!

scipio.au wrote:If they're like the Witch Elves, the girls are also tiny.

scipio.au wrote:Yeah, they're very nice figures, but very small.

scipio.au wrote:As with the previous Witch Elves release, they're beautiful models, but just a tad smaller than what will allow them to fit in nicely to a WFB/40k force seamlessly.
(...)
Blood Mistress above looks good, she will be too small.

scipio.au wrote:Looks great, and also good to see that they've bumped the size to make them compatable with "other ranges". Now if only they'd done that with the previous Vestals and Mantis Warriors...

Guess you made your point

Pot. Kettle. German Orks.

**Scottywan82**

scipio.au wrote:
Kroothawk wrote:
Guess you made your point

Pot. Kettle. German Orks.

**kendoka**

Quote: "They will be available in the next 24 hours or so. Promise!"
Posted Tuesday morning. Released on Friday.
The French is not to be trusted when it comes to time - but they make excellent miniatures:

I ordered 6 boxes (3 of each).

Off topic:
Really sad/pathetic that RH (to please Americans with nipple phobia?) decided to censor the pics...
Cannot understand how anybody could become upset (or aroused?) by three-four grayish pixels.

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Here they are without silly stickers:

Even more beautiful.

**Kroothawk**

Raging heroes wrote:Ivanka's younger sister (WIP and contest)

posted September 27, 2012

Did you know that Kapitan Ivanka Kurganova had a sister?
And would you believe it, she's nothing but trouble…

We're nearly ready to send her to print, but first thing first: we want your take on her before we're done.
Do you like her? Would you want her? How would you use her?
Any changes you recommend or things you want us to keep?
And would you like some specific weapon options?
Please share your comments below.

Furthermore, this young lady does not have a name yet…
Since the Kurganova sisters are of Slavic descent, we're asking our Eastern European friends to name her and to give here her motto, which will be in Cyrillic characters at the bottom of her coat.
Please fill out the contest form below to send us your suggestions. The winner gets the first cast of the miniature!
(Not from a Slavic country? Don't worry, we'll have other minis for you to name in the near future…)

PS/ Oh, and guess who would break it up when Ivanka and her sister would fight…?

Raging Heroes wrote:Help! Ivanka's sister needs a name and a motto!

Please suggest a name and a motto for Ivanka's sister.
The motto should be in Cyrillic characters, with an English translation.

If we select your entry, you will receive the miniature of Ivanka's sister as a gift.

To be eligible for the gift mini, you should have a mailing address in a Slavic country: Belarussia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia or Ukraine.

Contest entry here: http://www.ragingheroes.com/blogs/news/6639744

**BobtheInquisitor**

Why is she wearing a onesie?

**RyanA**

That looks cool :d I'd quite like a gasmask head though and some kind of massive battleaxe instead of that poncy sword o_o

**BrookM**

Nothing a bit of GS or creative painting can fix. Lovely model, thankfully without the clumsy scabbard as found on her sister. The gun will need to be swapped as well, but other than that, can't wait to see her released.

**bubber**

love the gun, love the sword, love the boots, love the bodice, love the eye patch & the hat, love the tongue.
I want this mini.

**jah-joshua**

i love everything about Ivanka, except for her tongue sticking out...
if she was inviting someone in to sword range, OK,but for shooting someone her expression is just not angry enough...

that is the only thing that will keep me from buying this mini, unless, of course, she comes with a gas mask head...

the Blood Vestals command set looks incredible!!!

cheers
jah

**Godless-Mimicry**

As they say in my country, she'd get it.

**Construct**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:Why is she wearing a onesie?

That was my first thought too.

BrookM wrote:Nothing a bit of GS or creative painting can fix.

Inadvertently correct.

It's not just the legholes. The buttoned bib is adding to the effect, and fixing that is going to be a lot of work. Her face also looks a little man-ish. Otherwise, the sculpt's fine.

Is it wrong that I, a dude who can plait his own back hair, should want a pair of those boots?

**Azreal13**

Is the sword hand/handle intentionally suggestive? If not, might need redoing!

**RiTides**

Really? I don't see it being moreso than any sword handle

(there's a lot more that Is suggestive about this mini, but I don't see the sword handle being one of them)

**Azreal13**

Dude, there even appears to be a little hole in the end!

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Ps

I do like the model overall and may well pick one up as a Commissary for my allied Guard detachment.

**Construct**

azreal13 wrote:
Dude, there even appears to be a little hole in the end!

Now that you mention it, I can't unsee

but it looks more like a tang button to me.

**wspatterson**

At least she doesn't look like she's dancing at the disco.
Overall, I like her. I think the gun could be better, and now that it has been pointed out, the sword hilt does look a bit suggestive.

**Grot 6**

Is that figure a CAD 3D laser stuff or some sort of resin cast?

If they can do one that cool, why does the first one look so laughable, any way of repositioning that first sculpt so it isn't doing some sort of disco thing with such ridiculously large weapons?

All in all, little sister does what her big sister done.

I want one.

**Kroothawk**

Grot 6 wrote:
Is that figure a CAD 3D laser stuff or some sort of resin cast?

It is a 3D render as always. But as this is fed directly to the 3D printer, it usually is very close to the render.

**MightyGodzilla**

Pretty cool mini. I'd buy her and Ivanka as a pair. She's in a onesie because she's the little sister, if she were older Ivanka would be wearing it.

**Kroothawk**

Raging Heroes wrote:Skaryaa now in stock!

posted October 05, 2012

Skaryaa is now is stock, and she's looking good

Most pre-orders have already been filled and the few remaining ones will be taken care of within the next few days.

Also, we've received some nice feedback about the "inverted" Skaryaa and so we will certainly have her as a limited edition with some minor variants in 3 or 4 months.

Finally, rest assured that we have not forgotten our plan about another less-dressed Fantasy version that will perfectly fit with the Blood Vestals and will be used as a sorceress, ,as well as a SciFi version to go with the Sci Fi Blood Vestals.

In fact the Sci Fi version will be ready very soon...
So if you have any special requests, now's the time...

http://www.ragingheroes.com/collections/complete-collection/products/skaryaa-the-blood-mistress

**Nagashek**

:blinkblink: Is that... Molotov Cocktease?

**H.B.M.C.**

Construct wrote:
Is it wrong that I, a dude who can plait his own back hair, should want a pair of those boots?

It's weird that I had the same thought...

**Kroothawk**

Raging Heroes wrote:Meet Ivanka's two sisters + naming contest results!
posted October 11, 2012

We are happy to introduce Kapitan Ivanka Kurganova's sisters, Kommander Malinka Kurganova and Admiral Olga Kurganova. (More info below image.)

Coat details are still work-in-progress

PRE-ORDERS BEGIN TOMORROW!

Malinka and Olga should be on pre-order tomorrow, at a special launch price reserved for the 100 first buyers. Furthermore, don't forget to follow the news tomorrow as we will have an additional surprise for you concerning the Kurganova sisters…

WHO ARE THEY?

Malinka is the youngest and the problem child of the family, and Olga is the eldest, an over-achieving top-ranking officer.
From the beginning, we envisioned big sister Olga as Malinka's opposite: Olga is stern, she's very good with politics, a great strategist, and she aims for the top.
We wanted a character that would look tough as nail and very sure of herself. An incarnation of authority. So here she is, hope you like her!

THE CONTEST

As you know, we asked our Slavic friends to find a name and a motto for Ivanka's little sister. We received over 60 cool answers!
The feedback was so interesting that we ended up using this feedback for the big sister of the family as well…

When we read Svyatoslav Karyagin entry from the Spellscape shop in Ukraine, we knew that he had exactly got Invanka's little sister's spirit: "Куда черт не поспеет, туда бабу пошлет" (When the devil can't make it, he sends a woman).
Pretty suitable motto for this trigger-happy lady?
However, because it is too long to fit on her coat, we shortened it to " Куда черт не поспеет…" (When the devil can't make it…).

Fact is, we received many interesting suggestions. Here are some of our favourites:
- From Bielorussia: "Семерых одним ударом!" (Seven at one blow!)
- From the Czech Republic: "Ни шагу назад!" (Not one step backwards!)
- From Russia (via Sweden): "Пуля дура, штык молодец" (The bullet is stupid but bayonet is a good one (well done)" This is old military proverb means that fire weapons is ok, but they can miss and in close combat there is nothing better then cold weapons!)

We also got many, many cool first name suggestions.
So how did we pick the name Malinka?
Well, in fact, nobody really suggested this name. But Adrian Kramarzyk from Poland suggested Kalinka. We instantly liked the sound of this name. In fact, you probably already know this name as it comes from the very famous Russian folk song "Kalinka, Kalinka, Kalinka maja" as Adrian reminded us.
So we looked up the words of the song and we discovered that Kalinka means little guelder rose tree, a small tree that makes red berries that Russian people used to offer to the Russian goddess of love.
It was nice, but not quite in line with our hell-raising, if cute, Lolita.
However, the next verse of the song talks about Malinka, which means little raspberry!
Little Raspberry, isn't that a tangy name for a cute girl with big guns?

So, the prizes goes to Svyatoslav for the great motto and to Adrian for putting us on the right track for a great name. Each get a first-cast Malinka.

We also used the feedback to work on Ivanka's older sister.
First, several of you suggested the name Olga. We liked this name: definitely not a cute-sounding name, and exactly what we wanted for the older sister. The name Olga is also laced with a lot of history, being a name often used in the Russian imperial family. So Olga it is!

Finally, Adrian Kramarzyk also suggested the motto "только мертвые , увидели концу войны" (Only the dead have seen the end of war), a phrase coined by the philosopher George Santayana. It seemed very fitting for our ruthless Olga.

So, prizes goes to Adrian for the motto and for the name, we have three winners, from Ukraine, Russia and Lithuania. Each get a first-cast Olga.

Thanks to all the participants!
More tomorrow!!!

**BrookM**

Black-fething-Sabbath yes..

**Alpharius**

Those are all quite nice!

Now to find some way to fit them into an Alpha Legion army.

Finally, a good use for the "Allies" rule!

**Tannhauser42**

Very nice, but I would ditch the dainty little cigarette and holder and replace it with a cigar.

**H.B.M.C.**

Olga just screams 'Rogue Trader'. Perfect.