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We've added a new innocent bystander to our 70s pulp line. She's spunky TV news associate producer Minny Apless.
Ok, she might not be strictly usable in 40k, , but you might want her as a civilian, or you may even play contemporary games in addition to futuristic. If so, well, yeah. Painted by the absolutely amazing Jennifer Haley!
I wonder how much need is there for 40k looking civvies? I think most 40k players do straight up battles rather than RP or scenarios involving civvies, right?
If there were a huge need for it I might consider a dark future civilian line after doing about a dozen of these 70s pop figures.
By the way, when you see my next 70s civilian, you will want to sing:
Go ahead dislike your neighbor
Go ahead and unfairly treat a friend
Do it in the name of the celestial place
You can justify it upon completion
There won't be any brass instruments blowing
On the day of cataclysm
On the sanguinary morning after, hmmm
One pewter soldier rides away!
(I wonder if I'm just amusing myself here, lol)
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Very nice sculpt, probably very useful for any game that needs "bystanders" or "VIPs" to protect, escort or blow away. The Zeitgeist of the 1970s is also evoked well.
khurasan_miniatures wrote:I wonder how much need is there for 40k looking civvies? I think most 40k players do straight up battles rather than RP or scenarios involving civvies, right?
If there were a huge need for it I might consider a dark future civilian line after doing about a dozen of these 70s pop figures.
nice figure. If I were to do moderns or 70's skirmish, I would definately be interested.
As for "Grim dark far future" citizens, I would certainly be interested. Every game setting needs a pack of civilians, because really, that is what wars are about, the mass of people not involved directly in them. Either to capture, kill, convert, protect, save, escort, or abuse, civilians are the canvas that small unit actions can be painted on.
Possible uses for civilians in a 40k game: Milita, objectives, rabble, rioters etc. I would recomend that any company interested in producing comptable figures consider the most generic types of imperial citizens (Hivers), what they would wear (utlitarian clothing), and if possible leave them as convertable as possible in terms of hands/heads.
Figures would also be useful for Necromunda/=I=Munda, 28mm Inquisitor, other skirmish games, RPG games etc.
George Spiggott wrote:she needs a microphone to make her more 'TV anchor'.
She's not a TV anchor.
The reference might be a little obscure for the younger folks. "Spunky TV news associate producer Minny Apless" is a take on Mary Richards, the 30-something TV news associate producer as played Mary Tyler Moore on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Her character worked at WJM-TV in Minneapolis. Minny Apless. Get it? Wakka wakka!
And because I've finished everything I need to do at work, I will now cross reference Khurasan's description of Minny Apless with the theme song from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "Love Is All Around" by Sonny Curtis.
From Khurasan Miniatures website:
When you're spunky TV news associate producer Minny Apless, love may be all around, but you've still got to get the gritty news to the public (even if you work for the lowest rated news show in town).
Thanks to the producer of the news, Bud Lee, Minny has a chance to do some hardhitting investigation on occasion, including location work, though he worries that her spunk (which he claimed to hate, but really admires) might get her into tight spots at crime scenes or in inner city situations occasionally. Hopefully law enforcement will assure that she makes it after all!
"Love Is All Around"
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all
How will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big, girl this time you're all alone
But it's time you started living
It's time you let someone else do some giving
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all
And as an added bonus, here's the intro to the show so you can sing along!
"Don't have much use for a poop droid." - Iorek "Elusive has a bloodhound like capacity for finding hugely ugly minis." - tortoise
Reaper has some hats. There is a beret in the mix.
I like the sculpts. Im intertested if there are a few more.
Zombie chow is a good thing.
At Games Workshop, we believe that how you behave does matter. We believe this so strongly that we have written it down in the Games Workshop Book. There is a section in the book where we talk about the values we expect all staff to demonstrate in their working lives. These values are Lawyers, Guns and Money.
That is nicely done. I suddenly want to make her a 40mm base loaded with 40k torture implements, with her painted just like that in the center with her "And here is where I will purify you with pain and make you repent your heretic ways, 'k?" expression
, but you might want her as a civilian, or you may even play contemporary games in addition to futuristic. If so, well, yeah. Painted by the absolutely amazing Jennifer Haley!
