Cool Mini Or Not Release a Study of the Female Body (NSFW)
July 27, 2012 by dracs
Cool Mini or Not are continuing their trend of provocative sculpts with three new Nude Study miniatures.
OK while there is way too much pointless female nudity in the miniature industry at the moment these ones have had all pretence stripped away (along with their clothes). The whole point of these is that they're naked, not just the gratuitous nudity of the warrior women or mech pilots we have seen before.
Don't get me wrong, they're still rather pointless, but their not bad sculpts and you could see them being used in plenty of dioramas. Maybe they could even serve as just a painting challenge, practice to help you get skin tone and shading down.
But why, Cool Mini Or Not, are you making so many of these naked minis? Is there not enough material to make a t-shirt?
What is your opinion of all these nude sculpts? Is there a point to them or are they just nudity for the sake of seeing boobs?
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The heads seem a little oversized, but otherwise they are fair attempts at the female form in miniature. As an exercise in showing that the female form CAN be done in this scale they work well . They are titled nude studies and I don’t see any ulterior motive, Numbers 3 and 1 look fairly standard poses to be seen in the life room. Number 2 is a more provocative and not sure about that one tbh The clenched fists suggest she has an invisible exercise wheel. Not sure who will buy them, but I guess if you wish to… Read more »
I would say that numbers 1 and 2 are fairly straightforward (the number 2 pose is quite common in renaissance sculpture which was attempting to imitate the Greek and Roman styles, think nymphs, angels and the like). #2 stretches the muscles along the torso, which provides stronger definition to the form which is one reason why it is actually quite similar to what you might see in a life drawing room. #3, however, is definitely not a fine art pose. I’m surprised you can’t see why (hint, it’s not the fists). Try turning it around. You’ll not see many nude… Read more »
No need for the hint, am fully aware of what is happening the other side ta
It still could easily pass as a relaxed pose, but the tightening of the fists suggests otherwise 😉
Well, sure, but relaxed poses beyond the simple “in repose” type you see in Titian’s Venus of Urbino and the like are actually pretty rare in art. The whole point of life drawing is to highlight human anatomy and musculature so most nude models end up standing/sitting/lying in truly ridiculous poses (for instance lying backward stretched out over an uneven surface, back arching like just about every other nude Titian ever painted) so that the muscles are stretched to provide the maximum definition. #1 is a good example of a pose that looks relaxed until you really study it. You… Read more »
What I meant was the pose could easily have been, girl lying prone reading a book/magazine looking up rather than anything pornographic.
I still do not understand the hands.
There is not a single pose that I suppose is comfortable after 5 mins unless the model is a yogi.
Chibi BA(Hons) Fine Art.
The only explanation I can come up with for the hands is that the sculpt is based on a photograph from some bondage porn. Kind of explains the angle of the torso relative to the hips too. (actually, the other explanation is just that the mini is mounted on the base improperly and the hands are supposed to have their palms pressed to the floor).
Honestly though, I’m more impressed by the painted carpet on the base than I am with the models.
Thinly diguised to be sure, and not very good sculpts. This is something Werner Klocke would be better at. Now I suppose we all need to run off and find a brush small enough to paint individual pubic hairs.
This is not art. They should just sculpt a sloppy threesome with a fat middle aged guy in the middle and be done with it…boom-chick-a-bow-wow. Oh, and then drape their togas over a settee and perhaps add an Ionic column base to one side so we can call it classical art.
Dispite having little oversized heads (althought not much) these are rather well sculpted. I am liking most from #3 becouse of that pose.
That’s a lot of skin to try and paint with some degree of skill. This would be more for a master class lesson for showing proper technique in shading and highlights while using thin layers.
Could be used for Dark Eldar slaves, as decoration on a raider, or pain tokens. The sculpts GW has are horrible.
That’s because GW believes all women have six packs, and yes, I do want these for my raiders if I ever try using the duke in a half serious game.
In and of themselves, they’re pretty good miniatures I guess. *meh*