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on the one hand it looks cool, bit on the other hand...

well a surfing girl with a gun has only limited possibilities.

No, either way you slice it, it is cool!

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Way, way cool. The only thing that's not perfect is the horns, but they could easily be filed off.

The horns are part of her helmet, I think, but, as you say, easily removed if they're not to your taste!

Wow.

Not sure exactly what's going on there, but it's a lovely sculpt that just oozes character, and a cracking paintjob to bring it to life.

I've been pretty impressed with all of the McVey releases so far after the first one...

Sort of Tank Girl looking model. Very sweet.

The only thing that's not perfect is the horns, ...

No comments about the face from anyone? Faces nearly always seem to be an issue on minis portraying females.

There are quite a few female minis out there with reasonable faces. Although they're quite frequently an issue on GW females.

In this case, her face is slightly androgynous, but female enough given her build and apparent character.

Hehe...she is whale-tailing.

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Yes please

Certainly an interesting mini. A pity I can't think of a way to use it in my 40k armies.

For me she has this Eureka 7 vibe.

Which is a good thing, and thus the slightly androgynous face works (as an Anime style).

Piousman

Melissia wrote:Certainly an interesting mini. A pity I can't think of a way to use it in my 40k armies.

Well, you probably don't play them, but this looks like a slam-dunk Dark Eldar hellion skyboard conversion... assuming they are worth taking, either as a squad or for an IC, in the upcoming Codex.

Melissia wrote:Certainly an interesting mini. A pity I can't think of a way to use it in my 40k armies.

agreed, i was just about to post the same thing. the name is certainly appropriate, though.

Melissia wrote:Certainly an interesting mini. A pity I can't think of a way to use it in my 40k armies.

The McVey minis have generally been too big for 40K anyway. They're intended as display pieces more than for gaming.

This is a great piece. McVey is a gaming nerd legend.

Am I the only one that thinks of Timothy McVey when I hear anything from McVey Studios?

Cool sculpt, but the model is not that useful. Maybe in a sci fi rpg or something?

Daggermaw wrote:Am I the only one that thinks of Timothy McVey when I hear anything from McVey Studios?

That is the head of Mcvey studios him and his wife

sonofruss wrote:

Daggermaw wrote:Am I the only one that thinks of Timothy McVey when I hear anything from McVey Studios?

That is the head of Mcvey studios him and his wife

No, that would be the Oklahoma city bomber. this is a different McVey.

Am I the only one that thinks of Timothy McVey when I hear anything from McVey Studios?

If you've been buying GW products long enough to remember McVey's amazing dioramas for Warhammer this probably didn't enter into it at all. Oh, there's also that totally different spelling thing. The terrorist did not spell his name M-c-V-e-y. Finally, that's totally off topic and irrelevant. Stream of conciousness doesn't really contribute much to the discussion.

There are two things I really like about this sculpt.

1: She's ugly. Not in a my-sculptor-doesn't-know-how-to-sculpt-women kind of way. It looks to me to be intentional. Which adds a lot to the sculpt. If they insisted on giving her doe eyes and supermodel lips she'd look a lot less believable.

2: She DOESN'T fit an army. I like that. It's good once in a while to see sculpting done purely for the love of the subject matter, not just to plug a gap in the release schedule. There's life in this model you'll just never find in 99% of GW's kits (or other companies' supplemental models).

Punk isn't really my thing so I probably won't get it, but it's damn nice work.

Cool model, I'm too autistic to buy anything I can't slot into an army myself however...

Amazing to see Mike McVey's website however as I always wondered what happened to him, I had assumed he mentioned Squats at a Games Day or something and was black bagged by Kirby and left to die on Bodmin moor....

It was his stuff (and Tim Prow actually) who made me really want to improve as a painter.

RandyMcStab wrote:Amazing to see Mike McVey's website however as I always wondered what happened to him, I had assumed he mentioned Squats at a Games Day or something and was black bagged by Kirby and left to die on Bodmin moor....

He actually left GW back when Privateer Press was just starting up with Warmachine... Went to paint their studio models.

insaniak wrote:

RandyMcStab wrote:Amazing to see Mike McVey's website however as I always wondered what happened to him, I had assumed he mentioned Squats at a Games Day or something and was black bagged by Kirby and left to die on Bodmin moor....

He actually left GW back when Privateer Press was just starting up with Warmachine... Went to paint their studio models.

I think he was also a sculptor for them in the beginning.

But, whatever it was, there was a kind of falling out, and he and his wife left a few years ago. Was all similar to the GW/Andy Chambers split from my POV.

It's better than old lemartes

I noticed the running BA medic in the release WD which he sculpted....

His studio has been putting out some amazing work, but I'm not quite feeling this one. I think the pillar is almost overpowering the girl and her board.

Proportions are good, pose is dynamic, details pretty good but not exceptional... I think maybe it's the scale. She just gets a bit lost.

I'd like to see the board in stronger colours, and neutral colours for the pillar (lose the spraypaint, although it's technically perfect) and she'd pop more.

edit: Ah, the pillar is reflecting blue from the "propulsors" or whatever beneath her board. It makes a bit more sense, but overall it drags the eyes away from her to the base.

And I love the face. It's rare to see good female faces with a personality other than "vacant supermodel". This one definitely has character.