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You all wanted female space marines....There ya go! Better not see anymore complaining.

Nothing a LOT of green stuff won't fix...

Lots more additional figs here: http://shop.prodosgames.com/en/72-space-crusaders

All of the figs have a "Space Crusaders" logo, but the game box has the same logo but says "Space Crusade". Typo on the box?

No detailed pics of the small demons or skellie/zombies.

The not-termies are "Inquisitors". Regular good gals (Crusaders) have a severe underboob problem, but would probably look pretty good fully armored.

Big demon and the dread are cool, if you remove the naked chick from the dread and replace it with an armored head.

The good gals ("Amazons") bikes are pretty cool and there are also bad gals bikes with big skulls on the bikes and forks made of chain.

Winged, close combat "Sirins" would make good 40K harpies.

Some potential here, but I think its a wait and see project...

timd wrote:

All of the figs have a "Space Crusaders" logo, but the game box has the same logo but says "Space Crusade". Typo on the box?.

I suspect it's deliberate... Space Crusaders for the model range, Space Crusade for the game that you use your Space Crusaders minis in.

Possibly so that if GW challenge the trademark, they only have to worry about a single product

There do exist cheesecake done right, and this is so, soo very not that.

I hope this ridiculous project crash and burn as fast as possible if it's actually something they are serious in pursuing.

 insaniak wrote:

timd wrote:

All of the figs have a "Space Crusaders" logo, but the game box has the same logo but says "Space Crusade". Typo on the box?.

I suspect it's deliberate... Space Crusaders for the model range, Space Crusade for the game that you use your Space Crusaders minis in.

Possibly so that if GW challenge the trademark, they only have to worry about a single product

I am pretty sure that Space Crusade was among the trademarks that GW/Milton Bradley let lapse, along with HeroQuest.

The Auld Grump

I cant even...
or odd...

Mama Nurgle and bikes aren't too bad. I can even stand the not-dread. But even being the fan of boobs that I am, I'm still at a loss on most of this one.

I've seen much better. The bikers look decent for what they are, but the rest of the heroines are...not.

 zedmeister wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Dark Severance wrote:
Who is Archon Studio?

A group that have clearly misjudged their target audience.

I dunno, something tells me that this will sell like hot cakes to a certain type of teenage boy as well as those individuals who absolutely want sexualisd female space marines...

I may not love the models, but as expected, I ran them by my wife, and she loves the bike ones, and wants me to order some eventually.

One doesn't need to be a "Men's Rights" nut, or a teenage boy, to like a certain aesthetic.

Wow, the models are stunningly awful and the name is pure cynical exploitation. I am sickened. I've been eyeing up the AvP game for a while but I definitely can't support Prodos if they pull gak like this.

I wonder if these have been done by somebody who's teamed up with Prodos to manufacture them,

they just don't look sharp enough to be Prodos digital sculpts, they look a lot more like traditional (not brilliant) greenstuff work

also interesting that the first minis are preorders for Feb and the game itself for June

Oddly I would have to swap out all this bad cheesecake for at least decent cheesecake, probably the ones done by wargameexclusive. At least I would have something to finally use those miniatures with. LOL!

 Dark Severance wrote:
Oddly I would have to swap out all this bad cheesecake for at least decent cheesecake, probably the ones done by wargameexclusive. At least I would have something to finally use those miniatures with. LOL!

I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I wonder if these have been done by somebody who's teamed up with Prodos to manufacture them

That is why I asked about Archon Studio. Prodos is listed as only 'manufacturing' the miniatures so not sure if they designed them or someone else did and this is like what they did with Demigods miniatures.

This is possibly one of the most ill-concieved projects that I have ever seen. Given that Prodos seem to have some monetary issues I cannot see why they invested in this of all games/possible miniature lines. As others have said maybe they are just producing the minis for another company? Amazing stuff, the females are beyond cheesecake.

I can enjoy some decent cheesecake, but this looks more like someone slapped together some cheap processed cheddar and a a dry spongecake and hoped that if you just combined cheese with cake, that would count.

Who needs armor when you have huge tits and tight asses.

Ehhh.

Uh.

Mmmm...

Yeah, well...

I don't know what to say.

Or actually I do. This is sexist crap.

Prodos have actually managed to pull of some really cool female characters for WZR. So what has happened here?

I'm not sure what confuses me most about the boob-terminators:

- the lack of chest armour
- that the storm shields are all upside down?
- that they only have 3 fingers???

In the Darkness of the Far Future....

there are only wonky mittens?

 TheAuldGrump wrote:
I am pretty sure that Space Crusade was among the trademarks that GW/Milton Bradley let lapse, along with HeroQuest.

I'll start my own Space Crusade. With Blackjack and hookers!

I would guess Prodos is more of a producer/distributor than the designer, this as many minis are rather badly sculpted (apart from also being strangely designed).
This said, there are some gems among the turds.

I would for instance love to have this model (if it survives the transformation from brilliant concept to plastic mini):

I don't know what is the saddest in what I'm seeing:

- That someone designed and asked for these models to be sculpted, without realizing that maybe their definition of sexy may be a lot of other people definition of facepalm material.

- That if they had normal armor they could have been pretty cool and useful models, and it now looks like such a wasted opportunity.

The girl with the wings remind me of the Warzone miniatures I was buying when I was a kid, not in term of clothes but in term of sculpt quality. And let me tell you, the Warzone miniatures from the 90s, they were not what people would call masterpieces...

Well at least she has the proper amount of fingers.

What a steaming pile of turd these models are lol. Makes GW's Wulfen look amazing by comparison.

Archon studios is probably yet another shell company within prodos's seemingly ever shifting corporate structure. As for quality, they probably can't afford the same sculptors as AvP because they have no money.

 BrookM wrote:

 Dark Severance wrote:
Oddly I would have to swap out all this bad cheesecake for at least decent cheesecake, probably the ones done by wargameexclusive. At least I would have something to finally use those miniatures with. LOL!

I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this.

If the game is decent, that is definitely the first thing I would be doing. Pulling out those really bad set for really great cheesecake. I mean if you are going to do cheesecake do it right, because what they did.. just isn't right. LOL!

Via the Eldritch Epistle blog - from the Bryan Ansell collection - GW minatures or at least some of their parts that were not meant to be shown to the public

NSFW

http://eldritchepistles.blogspot.de/2013/10/the-bryan-ansell-collection-warhammer.html

Ripppofff

These new miniatures are really bad, sorry


They should have copied this classic one based on the Blanche art

Warhams-77 wrote:
Via the Eldritch Epistle blog - from the Bryan Ansell collection - GW minatures or at least some of their parts that were not meant to be shown to the public

NSFW

Spoiler:

http://eldritchepistles.blogspot.de/2013/10/the-bryan-ansell-collection-warhammer.html

Ripppofff

These new miniatures are really bad, sorry

At least those minis are nearly 30 years old, and somehow less exploitative than this dumpster fire of a model range.

Exactly

UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote:
Archon studios is probably yet another shell company within prodos's seemingly ever shifting corporate structure. As for quality, they probably can't afford the same sculptors as AvP because they have no money.

Thanks for the reminder - I knew I'd seen it somewhere - on the AvP thread (14 Oct 2015), Jarek wrote:

Warzone Resurrection wrote:Prodos is divided into 2 companies:

1st one is stand alone, self sufficient, casting power house called Archon, it's based in Poland and makes resin minis for Prodos as for other companies.
2nd is the Prodos Games, the company that sale the product world wide.

And on the same thread on the 18th August 2015, Mark Rapson wrote:

WFG DRMR wrote:Prodos Games has no owners in the UK and yet another company owned by ProdosGames and Jarek's father in Poland (pila) called Archon Games.