Brother Vinni Bring Out Fearsome Viking Shieldmaidens
August 21, 2015 by dracs
Viking mythology and stories contain plenty of mighty warrior women and now some of them can take to the field of battle as Brother Vinni release their Shieldmaidens.
Brother Vinni have succeeded in sculpting some good, believable warrior women, lacking the sexualisation that usually happens with these types of figures. Armed with swords an round shields, these ladies look ready for dark age battle.
The poses might be a little stiff, but I think that these four models would make a good inclusion in a Viking warband as a unique, elite unit, or even as part of a fantasy force.
Brother Vinni have stated that they plan on bringing out more Viking style miniatures in the future, so we will be sure to keep an eye out for those.
Would you include these warrior women in your warband?
"Armed with swords an round shields, these ladies look ready for dark age battle."
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I like how Brother Vinni can get everyone’s pc undies in a twist with their models, then turn around and make something no one can really complain about.
I like the models, though I am wondering what the current obsession is with shield maidens. Must be fallout from that whole “everyone wants to be like Lagratha” thing.
These are quite good. I like that they are slowly changing their attitude because if you take a look at their range you begin to wonder… especially if you take into account some of the names Brother Vinni gave to the minis.
I was gonna say . . . where are the armored bikinis? Where are the chainmail thongs?
No seriously, this is great. These figures look like their actually ready to fight someone and come from a cold environment. Trust me, you give a shieldmaiden like Lagertha a sword, she’s sexy enough without the strange attire! 😀
Definitely a big step in the right direction.
Agreed @oriskany. Having said all that, the pose on the left still says “Spank me.” 🙂
I really like these. I’ve been thinking about getting into some saga”ish” models. I might pick these up at some point.
Those are actually really nice.
I like these a lot, along with a few other of Brother VInnis mini’s. Would be niceto see how they scale with HF and The Dice Bag Lady’s figs.
Hmmmm Shield maiden warband for Frostgrave on the horizon. …..
Victoria is already ploughing through the lists of manufacturers for likely looking candidates for her Frostgrave team of bad ass all women team of miscreants, these just made the almost top of said list.
And also Jim they are so nearly great except, her indoors says no women would ever go to a sword fight wearing a skirt when she could ware trousers and especially that one so long it hinders theirs movement. Other than that great! (You know what there just isn’t any pleasing some folk LOL)