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I've said this for years.
Most female mini's look like monsters.

Especially GW. Kind of made me wonder what passes for feminine in Nottingham.

Girl face details have to be delicate and subtle to be accurate and thats hard to do at 28mm scale.

The best I've seen so far:



Black Witch
Sculpted by Tom Meier
Dark Sword Minatures
32mm

this beautiful pieace from http://www.studiomcvey.com/

nidz wrote:I'd sacrifice my ears for a Banshee girlfriend.

I've got about 3 or 4 exes I could introduce you to...

Anyway,



Kekekekekekekekekekekekekek

namegoeshere wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:

Orkeosaurus wrote:

That, my friends, is quite possibly the most beautiful thing that I have ever laid my eyes upon. Just stunning.

I'm such a nerd that this annoys me. Orks don't have sex! They spore. GW be consistent!

Eve and the inquisitor have Elfish features, not sure if that is by design

I'm thinking I like giant boob woman's face the most. All the other models have overly large facial features (eyes, mouth etc), which is prob what you want on a miniature, along with other heroic proportions, but I like the more proportional face of back-problem lady

I thought it was only the 40k ORKS that were fungus based, whereas the fantasy ORCS were flesh and blood? Hence the different spellings etc... mind you I could (and frequently am) be wrong.

Flippa wrote:

namegoeshere wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:

Orkeosaurus wrote:

That, my friends, is quite possibly the most beautiful thing that I have ever laid my eyes upon. Just stunning.

I'm such a nerd that this annoys me. Orks don't have sex! They spore. GW be consistent!

Eve and the inquisitor have Elfish features, not sure if that is by design

I'm thinking I like giant boob woman's face the most. All the other models have overly large facial features (eyes, mouth etc), which is prob what you want on a miniature, along with other heroic proportions, but I like the more proportional face of back-problem lady

I thought it was only the 40k ORKS that were fungus based, whereas the fantasy ORCS were flesh and blood? Hence the different spellings etc... mind you I could (and frequently am) be wrong.

I'd say that we're looking at a particular strain of Oddboy that only manifests when the Orks find themselves playing Bloodbowl. The "Cheerleadaz" form is encoded in the Orks fungal DNA along with Mekboyz, Painboyz and Runtherdz but in the GRIMDARK GRIM DARKNESS of WH40K those particular sequences aren't expressed very often.

Back on topic ... GW can do female faces that aren't monstrous. The House Escher gang from Necromunda looked pretty good. Even had one Juvie that bore a striking resemblance to Tank Girl.

john q. wrote:

Anyone know where this mini is from and what scale it is?

Thanks to the PP in the post below I found it as one of the Warmachine Khador Widowmakers from Privateer Press.

john q. wrote:

^This. And i want one!
But seriously, PP does really nice toys.

That Black Witch is ridiculously good. How do people sculpt like that?

Natorum wrote:
Anyone know where this mini is from and what scale it is?

Thanks to the PP in the post below I found it as one of the Warmachine Khador Widowmakers from Privateer Press.

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/khador/units/widowmakers

Seriously, hasslefree minis are NOT good famle sculpts, most of them are waay too round-faced for the GENERAL beauty-standard IMO.

Rackham makes real good looking female sculpts IMO.

Müller wrote:Seriously, hasslefree minis are NOT good famle sculpts, most of them are waay too round-faced for the GENERAL beauty-standard IMO.

Sculpt quality isn't measured by how well it adheres to society's standard of beauty.

Not at all, but when the thread regards to which is the most beautiful, it would be measured that way...

Commander Endova wrote:

nidz wrote:I'd sacrifice my ears for a Banshee girlfriend.

I've got about 3 or 4 exes I could introduce you to...

Anyway,



Kekekekekekekekekekekekekek

Does that model even have a face? I didn't notice...

I'd vote for the bretonnian damsel on foot as the best female mini GW has ever produced. Not the really old one, but the more recent version that has the cloak and staff. And definitely not the one on horseback *shudder*. Second place goes to the demonettes which for some reason got replaced by crappier looking plastic ones last I checked. Way to go GW.