New Dominator & Greater Good Heroes From Wargame Exclusive
July 16, 2018 by brennon
A new range of figures has been added into the mix by Wargame Exclusive for their Imperial, Greater Good and Heresy Hunter range. We start with two more of the Dominator models for the Heresy Hunters.
The first of these is the Dominator Mechanic here with her book at the ready, a manual towards the various litanies and scripture she needs to remember as she calls upon the machine spirit. Once again I think the model is looking great even if it does seem packed with detail.
You could probably very easily work out the chest piece to include a section of armour there as well if you wanted to give her some extra protection. Following on from her we have the Medic who looks after the well-being of mortals.
Once again she seems to have forgotten to wear her armour plating but you could very easily sculpt up the additional piece of tunic that she needs to cover up her chest and stomach. It's up to you of course whether or not you like this kind of thing, but I think most of us are on the same wavelength now with this kind of thing.
It really is a shame to see this continuing as Wargame Exclusive really do sculpt some impressive models and if it wasn't for these unfortunate choices of clothing they'd be a hit with more people.
Burn Baby Burn!
Next up we have my favourite model from the new set, the Imperial Arsonist.
The reason why she is the best is that she just looks insane. You could imagine her finding her favourite weapon and never, ever letting it go when she hits the battlefield. I love the matching flaming hair as well which has been styled to match her speciality.
I think she would be exceptionally perfect when dropped into a gang in Necromunda actually. If you scratched and defaced the winged symbol on the armour and the weapon you could see her using this scrapped equipment down there in the darkness of the Hive.
Wild Hunter
Last but not least we have an additional model for the Greater Good series of models they create. Here we have the Wild Hunter which is their take on a female Kroot.
Having worked alongside their alien overlords for a while it seems like this Kroot has taken some of their technology and tweaked it to fit her hunting style. I could see her as a great assassin character for you to drop into games or as the leader of a unit as a whole.
Once again, it seems a shame to have her wearing a battered 'bra' for what of a better word but otherwise the models is very cool indeed.
What do you think of these new alternatives?
"I think she would be exceptionally perfect when dropped into a gang in Necromunda actually..."
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Those are some stunning models.
Brilliant looking figure’s love the industrial weed whacker an the Kroot is very predatory.
That most be the worst rip-of, boobies-sell, minis I have seen in quite a while. Why on earth do you spend site space on showing these??
Because some of them are actually very good and just need some hobby time to sort them out. As I’ve said in the post above, you just need a bit of greenstuff and you’ll have solved most of the problems with the miniatures – which are obviously problems. It is very unfortunate that they still produce models like this but they clearly have the talent to do something awesome and hopefully by talking about it and explaining what we’d change/tweak on the models they might be inspired to do that. The likelihood is low of course…but worth a go right?… Read more »
I think all your points are valid in their own right. However, as we seem to agree that the product is not original nor desirable without greenstuffing perhaps there are other news/products that deserve highlighting more? All publishing/product development is about selecting the most important and/or relevant information as you cannot follow up on all pieces of news, especially today as the amount of talent out there is staggering.
I am not sure it is the job of BoW to censor the news feed. @brennon has pointed out the obvious flaw in the armour. Not to my taste and a bit sad to still see this stuff in 2018.
Very true – and that does factor into the decision making. It’s why I purposefully don’t post (at least at this point) about any of their models which are ‘baring all’ as it were and instead of posting about models that can be tweaked by hobbyists to fit into their collections with minimal effort. I do very much take your point onboard though and will be thinking more about whether or not I should be attempting to look at posting items from them in the future. For example, I blanket refuse to post anything from Brother Vinni which is in… Read more »
The amount of virtue signalling going on here is pretty sad to be honest. Wargame Exclusive produces some pretty great models (as does Brother Vinni). Just because some of their stuff doesn’t fit into people’s view of what things “Should” be, doesn’t mean you should pretend they don’t exist. What’s next? Ignoring Games Workshop releases because some of their model lines like Daughters of Khaine or Slaaneshi Daemons have some scantily clad people? I get not showing off the particular models that breach a certain maturity threshold for legal reasons, but ignoring artists’ work all together based on some sort… Read more »
I agree with you and reread @brennon‘s post above and to be fair he does state the circumstances where they are not shown quite clearly (ie it’s not a blanket ban – nor should it be as it’s the role of the news team to make the call on a case by case basis)
I may however introduce a backstage news section to allow discussion and disection of the more edgy pieces as (as many of you who know me already know) I’m uncomfortable with filters on the news flow here.
I do want to apologize if my reply came off as overly harsh. The transparency is indeed there and that’s a great thing. Normally I’m cool with people sharing their opinions on this sort of thing, but when almost half the word count of a news article is about what’s shameful about the models it’s more a matter of “why bother talking about them here at all then?”
An opt-in backstage feed that would allow this sort of stuff to be reported and discussed without having to skate that thin line of “appropriateness” would be pretty awesome.
no need to apologise 🙂 and I’ll explore a backstage news feed on my return.
Wargame Exclusive makes some great models, and of course some stinkers, like every other company. No need to coddle the naysayers. I’ve got a ton of their Tau models, as they do GW better than GW, and the quality is excellent. Thanks to Beasts of War for bringing these to my attention.
Keep posting @Brennon . 🙂
These models are solid sculpts. In fact these are pretty tame compared to some minis on there site. And Some of their minis don’t show any flesh and have great detail. Raging heros has models,like this and you can play saga with male minis with thier twig and berries hanging out. Regardless, our ultimate vote is with our money! If they stop making money, they’ll stop making the minis. Either way keep showing us the newest stuff and keep up the good work Ben!!
You’re right on all counts @coachjose59. I’ve never seen a complaint about the Raging Heroes models, which are just as risqué as these, or more so.
Ive got their ‘Big Shas’ model which is an amazing sculpt. I do like the Kroot mini though. In regards to the ‘Cheesecake’ aspect each to their own. Don’t like it, don’t buy but the style will appeal to someone.
I’m of the opinion that if I have to work to make a miniature not ridiculous I’m not going to buy it. It is obvious that they have talent. The only one I’m half way tempted with is the first one “Dominator Mechanic”. Though I just don’t understand having the chest exposed so I won’t be getting this. I think they can do female without “showing” it.
I’ll be honest… until I read the article lamenting the ethics of the sculpts in question, I didn’t even notice the issues you were bringing up. With the Mechanicus woman, it looked clear to me that she was wearing armour underneath her tabard, and that those breasts were just sculpted onto her chest piece. The hospitaller is certainly a bit more questionable upon second viewing, but I thought it was synth skin, ala any Imperial Assassin, Marvel superhero, etc., and not that she was roaming around in the buff. That arsonist you can’t possibly tell is female from the picture… Read more »
Well said. Instead of the article author acting like our mommy I’d like to make up my own mind about the article content. I don’t need the additional moral lesson, I just need the relevant and informative stuff about what is shown.
I rather like these. But they look extremely alike their GW counterparts, isn’t Wargame Exclusive pushing their luck? GW used to guard their IPs like a wargamer of 30 years would protect his resin stash.
Wargame exclusive does some great work. Even if they do go a bit overboard on the fan service sometimes. But their vehicle based and emplacement based stuff is top notch too. I bought a bunch of the tau drones and pulpit guns from them and they look great.