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Title: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: The Red Graf on 07 May 2019, 03:02:01 PM
Dark Maenad Games is running a kickstarter for a group of pleasure cultists in 32mm.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darkmaenad/the-nameless-thirteen?ref=project_build (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darkmaenad/the-nameless-thirteen?ref=project_build)

(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/024/916/635/ab64118bb13c9b74cf9786ab6e93c0ec_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&crop=faces&w=1024&h=576&fit=crop&v=1556302705&auto=format&frame=1&q=92&s=6220c4da6723b9031bff7ad944e13474)

The coven members are available in resin cast by RN Estudio or in metal cast by Effin Cool Miniatures. The Mercenaries available as stretch goals will only be available in metal.

(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/024/918/599/8f4ec2bd9e2591c2198a57e23d091e96_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&w=680&fit=max&v=1556313732&auto=format&gif-q=50&q=92&s=218ce5200eed34ccff28f5a518f2369e)
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Hobby Services on 07 May 2019, 05:27:46 PM
Not thrilled about the stated scale, but the subject matter is unusual and the sculpts are reasonably tasteful for what they are.  Awful lot of males for a Europe that's supposed to going through a Y the Last Man kind of plague, and why do they (mostly) get to be fully dressed while the gals are almost all at least partially starkers? 

Hope the High Priestess has had that lionskin glued to her horse or something, because she's going to be falling off in short order the moment she goes over a sedate walking pace otherwise.  Might not stay on regardless, she sure doesn't know how to sit a horse.  Witchie-poo is no better, but falling off a goat doesn't hurt as much as falling off a  horse.

Like the jester and huntsman quite a bit, and the duelist and pistol swashbuckler are neat poses if they get unlocked.  I suppose the nun could make for an interesting addition to a Mordheim Sister crew - those dames are crazy already, going pantless doesn't seem over the top for them.  :)

Mostly not to my tastes, but at least you can back for small lots of them.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Gandalf the G on 07 May 2019, 05:44:18 PM
I LOVE the Captain, it looks a lot like Artesia. Is that on purpose? I might back the project just for her. I would love to see some size comparisons with models from other manufacturers.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: The Red Graf on 08 May 2019, 01:36:40 AM
The plague is far from taking the last man. It has reduced the male population significantly but in a society where almost all work outside the house is done by men, a loss of fifty percent of the male population would cause significant changes.  Men and women generally choose to dress differently from each other in the pre-modern world. They choose to undress differently as well.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: The Red Graf on 08 May 2019, 01:38:31 AM
I LOVE the Captain, it looks a lot like Artesia. Is that on purpose? I might back the project just for her. I would love to see some size comparisons with models from other manufacturers.

Thank you, the resemblance to any witch/captain/concubine or to anyone else in the known world is purely coincidental.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Daeothar on 08 May 2019, 07:37:32 AM
Some interesting sculpts here. Not all of them, but certainly the jester, the bard and most of the mercenaries.

Are they only renders right now, or are there some prints already?

...Witchie-poo is no better, but falling off a goat doesn't hurt as much as falling off a  horse...
Obviously you've never fallen off a goat...  :D
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Gallahad on 08 May 2019, 05:47:19 PM
Very well executed sculpts.

I think I'll have to get the Jester, hunchback, and likely the Nun.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Hobby Services on 08 May 2019, 07:17:09 PM
Some interesting sculpts here. Not all of them, but certainly the jester, the bard and most of the mercenaries.

Are they only renders right now, or are there some prints already?
Obviously you've never fallen off a goat...  :D

Wrong.  I've fallen off both.  The horse resulted in an emergency room visit.  The goat resulted in me getting back on the goat.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Hobby Services on 08 May 2019, 07:27:31 PM
The plague is far from taking the last man. It has reduced the male population significantly but in a society where almost all work outside the house is done by men, a loss of fifty percent of the male population would cause significant changes.  Men and women generally choose to dress differently from each other in the pre-modern world. They choose to undress differently as well.

Y the Last Man was a (fairly famous) comic series that dealt with the aftermath of a plague that killed only males, albeit later in history and much more completely.  You should storyline is the same trope set earlier and apparently with less mortality from the disease.  Good thing, your gals won't be able to rely on sperm banks until they crack single-gender reproduction.

Not buying that explanation for why your cultist men get clothes and your cultist women don't.  If you're going to do cheesecake at least own up to it.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Gandalf the G on 08 May 2019, 07:40:33 PM
Thank you, the resemblance to any witch/captain/concubine or to anyone else in the known world is purely coincidental.

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

I backed. Artesia is worth it. And Jimi Hendrix.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Metternich on 08 May 2019, 09:41:36 PM
Some truly fantastic sculpts, but the choice of scale is "idiosyncratic."  Doesn't fit with anything else.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Gallahad on 08 May 2019, 09:54:45 PM
Some truly fantastic sculpts, but the choice of scale is "idiosyncratic."  Doesn't fit with anything else.

I think 32mm should fit in pretty well with most modern fantasy miniatures. They won't look good next to old glory whatever's from the 90s though.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: The Red Graf on 08 May 2019, 10:27:00 PM
Some truly fantastic sculpts, but the choice of scale is "idiosyncratic."  Doesn't fit with anything else.

32mm? It fits almost everything I have including the new GW stuff. Even most Reaper figures look better next to 32mm figures than 28mm. There is one 54mm figure that is for collectors and painters. Oh, and The Champion is 35mm because he/she is supposed to be six and a half feet tall.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: The Red Graf on 08 May 2019, 10:31:21 PM
Some interesting sculpts here. Not all of them, but certainly the jester, the bard and most of the mercenaries.

Are they only renders right now, or are there some prints already?
Obviously you've never fallen off a goat...  :D

Thank you,

We have several finished figures in resin, metal figures have been cast bust I don't have good pictures yet. These are resin.
(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/024/983/557/c2a4be94647b06b081eba79c6efe39ac_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-2.0.0&w=680&fit=max&v=1556761000&auto=format&gif-q=50&q=92&s=64c8a37af72a6737b3458004b0b7c665)

(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/024/983/564/0d62d39f339dad95cac7eb3a30005edc_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-2.0.0&w=680&fit=max&v=1556761046&auto=format&gif-q=50&q=92&s=5ec45239f6f41ff6b615f780e01c4cd5)

More pictures on our Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/DarkMaenad/ (https://www.facebook.com/DarkMaenad/)
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: The Red Graf on 08 May 2019, 10:52:02 PM
Not buying that explanation for why your cultist men get clothes and your cultist women don't.  If you're going to do cheesecake at least own up to it.

I'm sorry, I think we have a misunderstanding. They were absolutely meant to be sexy. They were designed that way from the start, but the men were designed to be sexy as well and I think we succeeded on that. What's more, I have gotten a lot of positive feedback from women about the way I depicted the women and the men in this project. No they aren't all undressed to the same extent but I think we've come closer than anyone else except Kingdom Death in balancing parity and sexiness.


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Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: AWu on 08 May 2019, 11:42:16 PM
Damn man. I love them,
Strangly I prefer male models to female because of them being half naked as opposed to full naked :)
(and lets be honest here gents. Its much easier to make pleasure culty ladies than convicting men)


I started sculpting quite similar project but as rather medicore sculptor  I failed on many you got here perfectly :)
Pity they are too pricey for me to get with shipping.
But I need  Agnes Sorel mini for my Slaaneshian cult
so i might get 3 or 6
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: FramFramson on 09 May 2019, 01:28:29 AM
Gotta get that bard.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: The Red Graf on 09 May 2019, 02:16:31 AM
Damn man. I love them,
But I need  Agnes Sorel mini for my Slaaneshian cult
so i might get 3 or 6

Thank you, I struggled with the males a lot more than the females. A few concepts didn’t pan out.

I have to know did you just recognize Agnes from the miniature? If so I am both impressed and delighted.
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: The Red Graf on 09 May 2019, 02:54:31 AM
We are funded and the first stretch goal in unlocked. The Baroque Sorceress. Sculpted by Mikh and only available in resin. $9.

This example painted by Jen Haley.
(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/025/071/929/0d62d39f339dad95cac7eb3a30005edc_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-2.0.0&w=639&fit=max&v=1557366375&auto=format&gif-q=50&q=92&s=3a61a9b76c9482091862adbc37599b63)
Title: Re: KICKSTARTER The Coven of the Nameless Thirteen. NSFW
Post by: Daeothar on 09 May 2019, 08:29:04 AM
Not buying that explanation for why your cultist men get clothes and your cultist women don't.  If you're going to do cheesecake at least own up to it.

How about simple economics? Supply and demand.

For a woman in that setting to get the attention of a male, she needs to be ever so slightly more attractive and available than her competition. So off to the gym and and off with the clothes... :D

As for the few men; they could really let themselves go. After all, the demand is so high, that even as a wheezing, overweight couch potato, after a few months, they'd not only have bags under their eyes... lol