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Veronika, 28mm miniature, resin casting:


Nudity warning

I think we all can agree that boobs are wonderful, but this mini just looks silly to me.

Very nice sculpt, but why exactly? I'm confused about a lot of aspects of this mini.

To be fair, it fits in with the rest of the range

More people need to keep hiring Brother Vinni for freelance work so he doesn't have time for this sort of nonsense.

Umm. Yeah...

Practical combat gear...

I thought we were going to see a model based off the BHoS companion that was in Fallout: NV.

Not this. Why this?

Mat

Nice, uh, boots... Yeah... "t", not any other letter.

Even with a NSFW tag, I'm thinking might be a good idea for Brother Vinni to put his pictures in a spoiler box.

Valete,

JohnS

I don't understand why she needs to be naked with a rocket launcher.

That's a sentence I never thought I'd type.

As silly as the rest of the line.

I'm half tempted to buy one, so I can practise my clothing greenstuff skills.

This is why you don't let min-maxxers play as Logistics Officers.

Brother SRM wrote:I don't understand why she needs to be naked with a rocket launcher.

That's a sentence I never thought I'd type.

That ought to be a sig.

Boobies and rocket launchers. Looks like a good combination to me.

That missile exaust flashback is going to leave a mark.

That's... uh... special. Of all the impractical armament, that's about the worst combination. Maybe a flame thrower would have been a worse idea?

For the life of me, I can't understand how something like this could happen, but:
- As far as I know, this is the only naked miniature with a rocket launcher, so the market is cornered!
- There are lots of hypothetical reasons why someone naked could end up toting a rocket launcher
- It's a really nicely sculpted example of the female anatomy; hey the world would be a boring place if we only had the option to buy screaming bald men!

I don't understand why she needs to be naked with a rocket launcher.

hahaha right, but it's best not to question, just accept it!

Nice bazooka(s).



Anybody besides me cringing at the thought of what the backblast of the rocket is going to do?

See, wargamers? This is why we can't have nice things. Why? Why push the stereotype of tabletop gamers being sweaty lonely perverts? Why?

Because some of them ARE, that's why. And that's why freaky porn models will continue to be made. *Shivers*

Frozen Ocean wrote:Because some of them ARE, that's why. And that's why freaky porn models will continue to be made. *Shivers*

Let's not go overboard. The model is silly, pointless, rather sad, and maybe even a bit embarassing. But just because it's nude doesn't make it porn.

There must be a symbolic reason for why this exists.

Perhaps this is his statement that the emasculation of the armed forces through budget cuts and liberalization of who is allowed in has rendered the entire military apparatus vulnerable not only to combat effectiveness but in reputation as the ranks of the army slowly gets watered down by recruits that reduce its capacity to wage war.

Or maybe he just like sculpting nude gun toting females.

JOHIRA wrote:The model is silly, pointless, rather sad, and maybe even a bit embarassing. But just because it's nude doesn't make it porn.

Too true...

maybe the back wash of the last rocket blew her combats off ? or maybe its just a peice of uter tosh

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I'm half tempted to buy one, so I can practise my clothing greenstuff skills.

Honestly this is a good reason to buy this model. I never think of these things as playable minis, but as blanks. Some people have a real hard time with proportions or sculpting motion. Using these as blanks can and is a good way to practice your own sculpting skills for things like cloaks, belts, or other things and thus making a unique model that is field worthy.

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Jayden63 wrote:

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I'm half tempted to buy one, so I can practise my clothing greenstuff skills.

Honestly this is a good reason to buy this model. I never think of these things as playable minis, but as blanks. Some people have a real hard time with proportions or sculpting motion. Using these as blanks can and is a good way to practice your own sculpting skills for things like cloaks, belts, or other things and thus making a unique model that is field worthy.

But you can buy blanks! I have a whole load of them from Bronze Age, hasslefree do them too and there must be others

Jayden63 wrote:Honestly this is a good reason to buy this model. I never think of these things as playable minis, but as blanks. Some people have a real hard time with proportions or sculpting motion. Using these as blanks can and is a good way to practice your own sculpting skills for things like cloaks, belts, or other things and thus making a unique model that is field worthy.

The posing would make her tricky to use as a blank without cutting her arms off.

But I honestly can't see any better use for this mini. She's not posed as a 'pin-up', and the action pose with boots and a scarf and nothing else on just makes no real sense. It's nudity for the sake of nudity, and with the awkward posing not a nice enough sculpt to be worth buying for that.

It's puzzling. Vinni can clearly turn out some nice work, so I don't understand why he keeps releasing stuff like this.

well someone keeps buying them, it's not like he's only done a couple

Jayden63 wrote:

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I'm half tempted to buy one, so I can practise my clothing greenstuff skills.

Honestly this is a good reason to buy this model. I never think of these things as playable minis, but as blanks. Some people have a real hard time with proportions or sculpting motion. Using these as blanks can and is a good way to practice your own sculpting skills for things like cloaks, belts, or other things and thus making a unique model that is field worthy.

I'm not accusing you of anything, but really, how many people do you think are going to buy this model to practice green stuffing? Most people would use armatures for that. I think I can safely say this is a model aimed at the 'lonely weirdo' segment of the market, not the trainee sculptor.