Today we have a completed boardgame faction. Not quite as impressive as a finished army, but hey, 8 figures fits into that same kind of size as a squad, or a (smallish) Necromunda gang or Bloodbowl Team. The biggest appeal(s) of the 7 Sins factions was that I could probably get them from none to done pretty quickly – and in that process – clear a box from my boardgame shelves as these will obviously have to go on a painted model shelf or at worst a figure case rather than residing in a giant box.
Here’s the controller. Pretty much a woman dressed for the business end of a bondage session, including a complete lack of pants, who got his by the tenticular bloaties. She doesn’t seem to have really noticed much, though.
Usually, a model like this would get its own post pretty much right after I completed it, separate to the Abominations – but since we’re playing catch-up this month for April’s models still – we’ll do the whole lot in one post. Not that this particular figure is in any way amazing or deserves it’s own post based on the sculpt or paintjob, so it’s all good. She ain’t the Avatar in terms of impressive models. that’s for sure!
Here are the Abominations of ̶N̶u̶r̶g̶l̶e̶ Gluttony (sorry, don’t know how I got confused there!) As you can see, Adrian Smith’s Vagina Dentata obsession rears its head once again on the head-parts of these little mini Great Unclean Ones. We don’t just have a “leech mouth” here, as there are some pretty clearly-shaped labia on show. I mean, if the model design on these was more of a one-off, sure. You could say it’s in my mind, but when you see a pretty consistent leitmotif throughout a range, then smoke usually means smoke…
The rear ends of these guys is much more “traditional” Zombie-Nurgle, as you can see. Not that I’m claiming that Nergal is a wholly-original creation or anything, but GW has codified a bunch of aspects of the whole “plague demon” thing pretty well over the past few decades, and these fit in there pretty well from the designs of a former GW artist.
I just thought I may as well throw in a box shot for this faction here again – what with it being the completed faction from the box. Dunno if I’ll ever play the actual game, but that wasn’t a strong consideration when I purchased it as a set of “should be able to proxy these in the Warhams” models.
To finish, here’s a size-comparison shot, so you can really see how the controller is very slight (maybe she’d fit in well with Eivor?) while even the Abominations are just a little undersized from what I’d assumed (and hoped) that they’d be to fit in with my Plaguebearers. I mean, they’ll still work and I doubt anyone outside of a GW store or officially-sanctioned GW-tournament would complain, just not quite as well as I’d hoped.
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Really like those- vagina denta aside- they are pretty monstrously looking.
Cheers,
Pete.
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That they are, Pete! I wonder if Adrian Smith is into Tentacle Hentai or something like that?
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The mind boggles if he is….
Cheers,
Pete.
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As always another great paint job but I would have left the box on the shelf and bought what was next to it! 😉
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Well, it was a Kickstarter bundle, but now they’re all done and dusted. Besides, the big guy amongst them is a pretty cool model, featuring no extra-gross reproductive organs!
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Great painting as always, feel they would fit in with any disease ridden force you want to put them in
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Yep, that’s very much the plan! 🙂
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Nicely done mate, they’re pretty damn cool. That controller is a nice mix of tropes – Slaaneshi and Nurgley… Nurgeshi? Slaanurgly? That might explain all the mouthgina! 😱
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At some stage, I’ll be up to painting the “Lust” faction. There’s a lot more Nurgley feel to those than you might think, though. To the point where they feel more like more Nurgle Proxies with mammaries than Slaaneshi ones.
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That creepy butt!
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Shake that money-mak… erm, maybe not…
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Ahahaha!
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Ewww, though nice painting, but ewww on the dentata. I know that’s what you were going for, just skeevy as all hell! To the leader: Get thee to a nunnery!
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Yeah, I believe that this particular game was essentially a vehicle to get models made of weird/horror based shit that was in Adrian Smith’s sketchbooks. For whatever reason, the amount of dentata didn’t really occur to me on the KS page, and became much more evident once I had the figures in hand. On the tabletop, ingame I won’t be pointing them out “hey, lookit that face-vag right there”, but as the blog contains all manner of my ramblings, it does get pointed out here! 🙂
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Wow, awesome work! 😀
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Thank you, Ms.Moth! 🙂
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A truly disgusting looking bunch, but very nicely finished indeed!
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Cheers, John – and onto the next couple of Nurgley things now!
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Yeah mate they are really ugly ! but well painted !Woops I nearly said fucking ugly !
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Good thing you didn’t make a swear there. As you know, I’m extremely sensitive to harsh language! 😉 And thanks!
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Very suitably gross! Grandpappy Nurgle will surely be pleased!
At first, I thought the “Plaguebearers” were based more on radial symmetry, and it was a little bit of a bummer when I got a better impression of their actual builds. They look good for Plaguebearers, tho, a little shorter, a little bulkier, averages out alright in the end.
The leader, for me, that sculpt just doesn’t work. It looks too much like two very different things shoved together, rather than a person who’s being warped and mutated. And the clothing (such as it is) is well in the “why even bother” range.
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Yeah, the key thing for this range of models is that they outright admitted that the game concept came from “how can we turn Adrian’s artwork into a game?” Which is fine, though it doesn’t always work thematically with the sculpts, since they’re largely using the Slaaneshi and Nurgley archetypes (over and over) in slightly different variations. Boobs, quim, bloat and tentacles.
Check out the models for “Lust” here:
https://d8mkdcmng3.imgix.net/2091/board-games-expansions-the-others-7-sins-lust-expansion-1.jpg?auto=format&bg=0FFF&fit=fill&h=600&q=100&w=600&s=935cfb97eaabe705ac773ba4c5c52bcd
Lust.
Uh. Huh.
Right?
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Why is the leader (I’m guessing) of the Lust faction dressed head to toe in so many layers that they might not even be actually humanoid and you couldn’t tell?
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Because!
On a more serious(?) note, I’d guess it’s some kind of (not-so) subtle comment about the Catholic Church and their …reputation.
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Wow… They look impeccable! (The irony!) Which should be a sin, too!
Nergal… What a trip! Kind of Mars, but… I sure went down that Nurgle connection!
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Thanks mate, and yeah, so many of the models in this range say Nurgle so strongly, and I’ll be doing a lot more of them as Nurgle-themed than the others… 🙂
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