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I actually like the strain model. It has a natural movement some of the other Strain don't have.

The merc I'm not liking. At all. Her pose just seems wonky to me, and she seems out or proportion.

The aliens are pretty slick, especially the big guy. I'd love to see him go toe to toe with some of the 3rd Gen Strain from the base game.

Sharro is either a cyborg or an android it's been left deliberately unclear in the background so far. She has cybernetic legs and at least one arm is as well (right arm) probably both are. She's a former extreme combat athelete so her legs and arms are probably longer than normal for that reason it's the same on the original sculpt as well her limbs are intentionally disproportionate to her body.

I'm not sure I like the lady alien in the tight red leather suit.

The pose is good and the detail in the model, but she is too obviously mammalian.

She looks like a typical Star Trek style alien made of a human wearing a prosthetic head make-up.

 Kilkrazy wrote:


She looks like a typical Star Trek style alien made of a human wearing a prosthetic head make-up.

Agreed...my first thought on seeing her was that she was very similar to "Vastra" out of Doctor Who...

And more. You wait ages for a SW update and loads come along at once:

One more Bounty Dog preview for today, then we’ll have some new Strain tomorrow.

Gilgamesh is a former Clone gladiator – his body heavily battle scarred from years in the arena, fighting for the entertainment of the SolCon elite.
Freed as an honour, he knows only his trade, and is a Bounty Dog because it is the only chance he has to keep his edge.

Gilgamesh looks stupid. I'm going to assume he's really, really tall and that that would explain his tiny head, but the hair still needs to go.

That's Super Saiyan hair!

he's clearly powering up ready to fight

If he powers up anything like Goku etc from DBZ then he will miss the battle!

I liked the lizard guy. I'd take a few in a better quality restic. Maybe I can proxy some sort of Infinity force with them and shut Barzam up about giving the game a try.

I still hope for the best from this game.

Sharro's optional head

Booba Fett?

Haha damn, in their own way I'm really liking these new models. The alien in the red outfit reminds me of a Samara from Mass Effect and I'm pretty sure that Gilgamesh is actually Guile from Street Fighter

 zedmeister wrote:
And more. You wait ages for a SW update and loads come along at once:

One more Bounty Dog preview for today, then we’ll have some new Strain tomorrow.

Gilgamesh is a former Clone gladiator – his body heavily battle scarred from years in the arena, fighting for the entertainment of the SolCon elite.
Freed as an honour, he knows only his trade, and is a Bounty Dog because it is the only chance he has to keep his edge.

This guy looks like he was sculpted for and approved from someone who works at Mantic.

I didn't know Guile used a gun. You'd figure his sonic boom would be a good enough ranged weapon.

 warboss wrote:
I didn't know Guile used a gun. You'd figure his sonic boom would be a good enough ranged weapon.

Presumably in his quest for vengeance, he got fed up running into opponents who could jump

 warboss wrote:
I didn't know Guile used a gun. You'd figure his sonic boom would be a good enough ranged weapon.

Apparently all the beatings he's taken has shrunk his head, so he doesn't use his brain too much any more...

His hands are seriously larger than his head. The Guile hair is funny looking and out of place with this model.

 Salacious Greed wrote:

 warboss wrote:
I didn't know Guile used a gun. You'd figure his sonic boom would be a good enough ranged weapon.

Apparently all the beatings he's taken has shrunk his head, so he doesn't use his brain too much any more...

His hands are seriously larger than his head. The Guile hair is funny looking and out of place with this model.

He'll fit in decently with the other Plague models if painted right.



Oh wait, different game....

One terrible model and one must-have model.

The womalien-in-a-corset mini took all the wrong lessons from the Klingon Cleavage Sisters.

EDIT: There's more?

Gilgamesh is pretty awful, but Cosplay Sbarro makes me feel ashamed for McVey. As if Travis and the Fandalorians hadn't done enough to put people off star wars, now we need a shameless cash-in homage mini of the least committed Mando at the convention. Do we get a Sailor Bacon next? How about a guy with two sock puppets calling himself a Pierson's Puppeteer?

I'm sorry. I saw that mini and I started having convention flashbacks. I can practically hear the filk music. Shudder.

McVey isn't really putting up stuff that meets the standards he's set for his stuff...

This is disappointing.

 Alpharius wrote:
McVey isn't really putting up stuff that meets the standards he's set for his stuff...

This is disappointing.

I guess that would depend on what you mean by the standards he has set. He set a standard with the Wave 2 Sedition Wars shipment...

I know what you mean there, but here even the initial designs are disappointing.

If all the Sedition Wars stuff for the KS looked like this, a lot fewer people would have been burned there.

I love the gnosis suits, reptilian thing and the Thraex (pose reminds me of a dog running on a smooth surface, slipping and scratching as it's trying to get traction)!

The bounty hunters look good too... guy's head looks like he is shrugging (no neck), but still looks good. Nice to see SW get some love!

It's really strange that these previews are so hit and miss. The gnosis (sp?) suits are really cool, and the big burly alien is also well-sculpted. Everything else, though... is a clear miss. Maybe Gilgamesh will look better unpainted?

I do like the gnosis suits, and a couple of the mercs, but want to see what they look like in restic and see how they handle scaling differences between materials.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
.. As if Travis and the Fandalorians hadn't done enough to put people off star wars..

Hah, I'd heard that there were people who hated on her work but I guess I wasn't looking in the right places. Her RepCom books were the only part of the EU I even remotely enjoyed, if only because it was nice to see some Mary Sues who weren't rocking brown bathrobes and glowsticks. My name is Siygess and I guess I am a Fandalorian


That said, while the Boba helmet made me smile, I wouldn't put it on that model.

 Alpharius wrote:
McVey isn't really putting up stuff that meets the standards he's set for his stuff...

This is disappointing.

It's not just that. But the fact he went so long without any new product release, sucks more so for the few people who love the game and fluff (I'm sure there are a few).

Instead waits over a year for new releases and you can't even get them unless you sit in front of the computer 24/7. The ones that will be regularly available are the ones made in that dead dog S#!t plastic.

I'll say it again.

SM and CMON fahked up. They should have played small ball.

Instead of going a Zombicide route bucket-o-minis dirt cheap. They should have invested money in partnership with wargames factory. I would have been more happy with 3 or 5 hard plastic Samaritans than I would have been with 15 or 20 Samaritans that I got which remain unpainted.

The plastic is an abomination.

Well said PH - I think you've nailed it, actually!

I really like my sedition wars minis, the stuff in the boxed game is good quality, not too many mould lines and goes together easy. The minis are really detailed and look great with a wash.

Do you have the same box game I do, Squig? Can we trade then? Yours certainly sound a lot better than mine...

If McVey does end up ever doing that new box he talked about, I wonder if it'll still be with CMON?

With Wrath of Kings hopefully dropping next month, and if the quality is comparable to what we've seen so far, maybe there's still hope for decent mass- produced SW stuff?

Not too many mold lines?

I have scars on my left thumb from trying to cut through the mold lines, thick as roast beef.