Top 3 things that annoy you in miniatures

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**JoshInJapan**

Shadow Walker wrote:
I would also add integral bases (like Frostgrave etc. models have). I hate them, and will now not even bother with removing them but simply will not buy any models with them.

I get where you're coming from, but I prefer integral bases over the alternative of having the soles of the model's feet as the only point of attachment to the base. I can't count how many times I've had to re-attach a model that has popped off it's base while in storage. That doesn't happen with a slotta-base or a puddle base, and I can always hide the join with putty.

**JoshInJapan**

makeitorky wrote:

I really wish there were more miniatures of women that were like actually realistic. I know the topic is probably a dead horse, but sculpters, please go outside and look at real women! We don't look like sex dolls! Also, the fact that the vast majority of women miniatures are heels is just so frustrating.

Here are a couple of options:

Bad Squiddo

Oathsworn

**JoshInJapan**

Vulcan wrote:
It's worth noting at 25/28mm scale, even general details are pretty darn small and exaggeration for visibility is the name of the game. That's why we exaggerate shading and highlighting when painting.

Yeah, 25/28mm minis are exaggerated, both male and female. If they're not exaggerated, they come across as quite androgynous on the tabletop.

Taking the two examples, Bad Squiddo and Oathsworn, take a good look at those ladies close up. Quite curvy, solid C and D-cups across the board, because anything less just looks flat (and therefore masculine or androgynous) at 25/28mm scale.

Of course, there's exaggerating, and then there's just being silly. I'll grant quite a few female sculpts would have a hard time finding bras that fit and develop severe back problems in short order in real life.

I agree with your basic point, and acknowledge that regular human proportions at this scale don't really work at arm's length. That said, you'll not find g-strings or bare midriffs in either of these lines, which is at least part of what makeitory (and myself) like about them.