Eisenhorn!

[Daeothar]

Shame they got hit with a C&D as it was a good figure.  Turned it from something I was looking at and considering to a click-buy.

I'm not ashamed to admit I've just been doing that very thing, as the Wartel one is so much nicer (read: a bit more dynamic and actually old enough for his gear to be accurate, as per the novels. Nothing to do with the GW sculpt, which is just fine for a wargaming miniature)...  


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[mcfonz]

Hands are relative to the face - I was always taught, during 8+ years of art and design, that your open outstretched hand will normally cover your face. So placing your palm on your chin, your middle finger will reach your forehead above your eyes. Your outstretched little pinky and thumb will span across your face.

Typically with wargames figures of all genre's proportions tend to be deliberately skewed to some degree. Often weapons are larger than irl as otherwise they would be harder to recognise at the distance between the tabletop and where games tend to stand above them. Very few companies appear to go for the 8 heads tall, even though this is artistically what is usually recommended.

Some miniatures are far worse than others - this one is far from the most guilty and era/age of miniatures has no bearing either.

[Inso]

That is all good info but I think in this case, my very first opinion was 'legs too short, torso too long, head too big, odd posing of the legs'.

Proportionally, it leaped off the screen as looking odd.

If it doesn't to other people, then that is cool ... but it instantly didn't look right to me; which is a shame because the details and sculpting are brilliant... especially the face.

I hope those who buy this miniature are pleased with it.

[mcfonz]

Wasn't challenging you Inso 

More the concept that all modern GW mini's are rubbish compared to pre-slotta in terms of proportions. And that proportions are nearly always 'wrong' on wargaming miniatures - mainly by design, if not, by error.

[JamesValentine]

Thinking about it more and more i think I might skip this guy. It's too weird looking and growing off me

[horridperson]

@ JamesValentine

AFor me, all the GW Eisenhorn and C&D did was turn the artel model into an impulse buy.  They did better job of representing the younger Eisenhorn depicted in the earlier stories.  The GW Eisenhorn didn't do anything for me as it was but with a head swap the awkward gait would make a convincing, "Eisenhorn the Elder".  The plastic commissar head with a scalp sculpt is what I have in mind.  I am warming toward the idea of picking up the model but I still don't like it as it is.