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Well, I didn't want to be the one to say it...

Yeah... Like the previous one I consider this very underwhelming.

Oh my. These feel like a synthesis of 90ies Red Era monopose plastics goofiness and awkward digital sculpting, GW what are you doing

Gorgeous Bulldog.

But the rest I think at pretty plain looking. May be the skin tone though. Very pale, might be hiding detailing.

No. It’s the goofy grins. It’s definitely the goofy grins.

i could be generous and blame the painting....

nope just not very good which is a shame. Wonder if this is a new sculptor being used without a lot of supervision as all the more experienced ones are busy

Those look pretty standard for Wizkids' prepaints. Though it looks like they're using a cheaper plastic than before.

Ew!
Not a good look. Not good execution of the idea, and a bad paint scheme direction. On top of that, the details look shallow. They're a take on Marauders that doesn't bring anything interesting.
What is actually happening to the one warrior's mouth? Is he growing lictor mandibles? It's not great.

The little Khorne-dog looks really great! The rest is a bit uninspired.

Is it a little mini-bull/taurus? Or is it a dig wearing a mask?

I get the idea they were going for, but the execution is lacking. The paintjob is far too bright and there needs to be a lot of attention giving to the mouths. They need to be bloodied up and gory, like they've hacked it open and sharpened their teeth.

Yikes. GW's summer interns need some supervision.

My word. I'm a mostly positive guy but these look pretty poor. It's like they're missing details. Except the literal bulldog, he looks alright, must of been done separately. It's almost like they got melted in the mould a bit (or slag heap) and GW said 'Cor blimey that's a cool effect' and ran with them anyway. I read they're supposed to be mutated but still. Should I say that not since having seen the Turd of Nineties Nagash in metal have my eyes been this hurt?!

'Kamandora’s Blades have come to scavenge skulls from the depths of Embergard.' They should warn people they poke out your eyes first before they take your skulls.

Oof. In addition to being part of a completely one-note faction, those are faces even a mother can't love. This is a rare - but HUGE - miss from Underworlds.

 BorderCountess wrote:
Oof. In addition to being part of a completely one-note faction, those are faces even a mother can't love. This is a rare - but HUGE - miss from Underworlds.

One genuinely bad group out of like, 40 odd isn't a bad ratio.

 BorderCountess wrote:
Oof. In addition to being part of a completely one-note faction, those are faces even a mother can't love. This is a rare - but HUGE - miss from Underworlds.

The models are kind of dire, but I wouldn't really blame the faces for it. They're supposed to be mutations. It stands to reason that they'd look off.

In my opinion the poses do nothing to help the models. The mishmash of gear doesn't work for me at all. The leader's pantsuit is ridiculous and lacks definition. The rest of her gear is thrown on without much of a theme to it. Most things are large and exist in isolation from the other elements on the model. There is little in the way of visual interplay. The heavy is better in that regard, but the pose doesn't really suggest what he's supposed to be doing. Not with the way the head looks straight ahead. The ganger that's reaching for the skull has a similar problem.

All of that is only made worse by GW's painting style that draws attention to all the wrong things because it exists to delineate so people can see what they're buying.

What's that saying.... Mantic GW, Almost.

Looks like they cut their lips off - honestly I'm willing to bet this is one set where the official paint scheme just failed - rare but happens from time to time. I'd wager they'll look better with different schemes or takes. Or it might be one of those "cool idea in lore/art but translated poorly to a model, esp as we had to oversize the teeth to make them appear at 28-32mm scale."

I actually thing the dog is the worst part. It's another one of those "I never took anatomy, or art" pixel pusher sculpts that's frozen in mid air in one frame of some nonexisting movement, no sense of where the weight is nor any tension in the muscles that should be working for that move. I've seen better balloon dogs.

The guys would be okay as part of 10 sculpts on a sprue of mooks ala Hobgrots. Shame they went to photography with an unfinished paintjob, before someone inked the mouths so it's not white teeth on pastel pink gums with no edge in between.

Dog does look a bit like "this was modelled after a dog sleeping on the floor and then propped upright".

Cause yeah I've taken enough photos to know that there are a LOT of very ungainly ugly/bad looking positions that animal legs can be in during motion. Nailing those split second moments when they actually look good is darn difficult.

 Overread wrote:
Looks like they cut their lips off - honestly I'm willing to bet this is one set where the official paint scheme just failed - rare but happens from time to time. I'd wager they'll look better with different schemes or takes. Or it might be one of those "cool idea in lore/art but translated poorly to a model, esp as we had to oversize the teeth to make them appear at 28-32mm scale."

I went back and took another look. The sculpting isn't amazing but it looks partially the angle of the poses. The bigger issue is the paint job. For what the models are trying to convey they are WAY too clean. They need to be filty.

Yikes! Worst Underworlds warband I've ever seem...

Yeah, they are just not inspired in any way. And the headdresses look ridiculous. Everything just feels clumsy. Like if you saw them coming toward you, you'd expect them to fall on their faces before they made it three steps.

Models are a bit boring, but not THAT bad. The paintjob is awful though - they could look like pale menacing ghoulish scavengers or dark Voodoo cultists. I mean, do they even want to sell the models?

The dog on the other hand is a really bad sculpt. And I don't know why it is even part of that band.

If these models were metal, and came out 20 years ago, people would be saying that "they don't make characterful models like this anymore"

 Dryaktylus wrote:
Models are a bit boring, but not THAT bad. The paintjob is awful though - they could look like pale menacing ghoulish scavengers or dark Voodoo cultists. I mean, do they even want to sell the models?

The dog on the other hand is a really bad sculpt. And I don't know why it is even part of that band.

That's not a Dog...it's a Dogh, completely different beasts and the sculptor did a fantastic job of actualizing its........nope, can't do it......it is just bad.

I wonder if it began life as some kind of living mechanical mini brass bull and then got changed to living part way and then twisted around

I don't like the bulldog. Cow-things are a Slaaneshi niche!

 Overread wrote:
I wonder if it began life as some kind of living mechanical mini brass bull and then got changed to living part way and then twisted around

It originally was a Greater Daemon of Hashut. It's not that large, because it's worshipped by dwarfs and skinny yellow grots.

Grins.

They look like cheap prosthetics, rather than mutations.

That’s what’s been annoying me.

Whether that’s the paintjob or sculpt remains to be seen.

 Theophony wrote:

 Dryaktylus wrote:
Models are a bit boring, but not THAT bad. The paintjob is awful though - they could look like pale menacing ghoulish scavengers or dark Voodoo cultists. I mean, do they even want to sell the models?

The dog on the other hand is a really bad sculpt. And I don't know why it is even part of that band.

That's not a Dog...it's a Dogh, completely different beasts and the sculptor did a fantastic job of actualizing its........nope, can't do it......it is just bad.

Dag. It's a dag.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Grins.

They look like cheap prosthetics, rather than mutations.

That’s what’s been annoying me.

Whether that’s the paintjob or sculpt remains to be seen.

I'm leaning in the direction of the paintjob, mostly. They look like they have wide, lipless mouth props that kind of look stuck onto their actual faces. That's the mutation. It's not a normal jaw with just the flesh removed. It's wide and distended and just slots into an otherwise normal head. I wouldn't call it bad as such, but the sculpt itself doesn't seem to have any visual cues that identify the mouth as a mutated part.

If the sculpt doesn't make it clear, it's the paintjob that has to do the heavy lifting. Which it doesn't because 'Eavy Metal style really isn't fit for the job.

I don't think the sculpts are truly horrendous but the paint job makes them much worse. I mean they are slightly better than that awful Corteaz sculpt.

My first thought seeing them is that they took the idea from Hindu Aghori. I've seen some Aghori who wear the ash paint in a similar way as the weird mouths on the minis to create the illusion of skull like teeth over their mouths.

Obviously in this case they've cut their mouths instead of using cremation ashes because Chaos or whatever.

I think painting them like that would make those minis suddenly much better.

I like the idea of scavengers focusing on the blood letting aspect. I always appreciate GW attempting to show a different facet to one of their factions.