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Several years ago, when Poser was a brand new program, an artist did a crowd scene - to save rendering time, the figures in the back, where no one could see them, were nude.

Humans being humans, somebody took the file, rendered it from another angle, then lambasted the artist for his nude scene....

The artist, in that case, was not responsible - the responsible party was the idiot that did a new render, just to show the nekkid people that were not visible from the angle intended.

Ral Partha, way back when, had more than their fair share of bottomless male orcs, goblins, ghouls, and satyrs - and the models were not overly sexualized.

Prodos, by comparison, is doing women in armor that does not protect the part of the body that most need protecting - the gut.

Instead they decided that bikinis were just the ticket for a futuristic firefight.

If they have force fields that protect the bodies, then why bother with the heavy armor on arms, legs, and shoulders?

If they do not have forcefields, then they should be wearing their gosh darned armor!

So, yes, there is a difference.

The Auld Grump - who has decided not to buy from Prodos, but is quite happy to buy from Hasslefree, Reaper, Darksword, and other companies that do tasteful nude miniatures.

Ditto for if you do not notice that the crappy sculpt of really stupid armor is a crappy sculpt of really stupid armor.

Prodos has made a crappy sculpt of really stupid armor is, I think the main point.

All else aside - the bikini marines are Just. Plain. Stoopid.

The Hasslfree miniatures have the redeeming value of being decent sculpts, even if you think that the subject is indecent.

The bikini marines have no such saving grace.

I will not call them 'porn' - because they aren't.

I will call the armor that they are wearing really stupid - because it is.

There are companies that make more pornographic models that are worse sculpted.

I do not buy from them, either.

I am, in point of fact, more annoyed with the stupid armor than the bikinis - the juxtaposition of heavy armor and an exposed gut... is just plain poor armor design.

I am, further, less offended by the Wargames Exclusive Nekkid Tau with Big Gun miniature - she just isn't wearing her armor, as opposed to wearing armor that will just plain get her killed.

There is no practical reason for the bikini marines to exist.

The Auld Grump