Will You Pick Up The Victim Girls Of Brother Vinni?
May 29, 2014 by brennon
Brother Vinni have added two more versions of a new Victim Girl to their webstore. Certainly not going to be everyone's cup of tea but see what you think of their Hanged Girl On Wheel...
There is both a clothed and naked version of this particular miniature but honestly I'd probably prefer Brother Vinni to head back to their Nuclear Sandlot in the future.
In terms of how you could use her though it might make an interesting part of a dungeon scene or larger piece of terrain that you're working on that has an insidious twist to it. Some Chaos Cultists pit would certainly have something like this within it.
Something for your wheelhouse or not?
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I think Brother Vinni has some issues
I just don’t understand the point if this range of miniatures. It’s a shame, because Brother Vinni actually make some good sculpts, but then make lots of this crap too.
I think the some of the people who commission Brother Vinni have issues. What I think we can say about Brother Vinni is that they won’t turn any work away lol
*that some, rather. Must remember to take an extra minute at the end of each post to check for grammar errors 😀
“In terms of how you could use her though”
Maybe not the greatest choice of words Brennon 🙂
Could use her as a captured Sister of Battle objective for 40k. As in, an Adepta Sororitas player needs to resue her.
rescue*
No. Just NO.
YES, PLEASE YES!
maybe this is simply a case of brother vinni thinking “nobody has ever made such a miniature before”, here is a niche in the market?
without stopping to think about WHY nobody has made such a mini before…
to each his own, as the saying goes.
Is it the worst taste mini that I’ve seen? not really. there must be a market for this as Brother Vinni isn’t the only one sculpting stuff like this Hasslefree and GZG both have over 18 sections. would I paint and game with them? Not on your nelly, but some will. And on the flip side after all, there are some historical armies out there that don’t have any clothes on them and in 28mm that can be quite disconcerting. Carry on up the Kyber any one?
Yes Hasslefree and others make some nude miniatures, but context is everything. I’ve nothing against nudity or nude miniatures per se, but this miniature is borderline torture porn. There’s a world of difference between Hasslefree’s nude miniature reclining on a cushion and this.
Reminds me of a night out at Torture Gardens…for anyone that’s into that kind of thing.
Good grief. I echo the sentiments above. Is this really necessary?
Strange thing is, this one looks exactly like the set up in the new(ish) Conan movie used by Acheron to sacrifice their daughters to the mask they created. Might not be any justification for this piece, but I suppose if your really wanting to re-create some sort of ultra mature Robert E. Howard or such look for some kind of role playing game? Or people just have too much time on their hands.
Here’s where I take issue with this. The use of the word “mature”. I don’t think that word means what some people think it means. This is adolescent, at best.
“mature” here being used in the nessesity of ultra PC minded people, as those who are aware that fantasy/sci fi especially that of the E. Howard or Lovecraft styles where never inteded for “young ages” wouldnt need to be told its for “older/mature audiances.” Whether the idea is mature or not is not for me to dictate to others
if they’d brought out a male version instead of the naked girl it would have some balance
didn’t they execute somebody on a wheel by smashing their limbs in davincis demons could have been used for that but this is obviously for titillation.
On the bright side, it could have penis-fingered hands and or tentacles all over the place and people would call it “brazen” and “boutique miniature”… Good to see that some people still make plain old sexist crap that cannot be sugar-coated by wanna-be hipster “I am so far out” talk.
I like my trash to look like trash.
Hear hear.
They even called it “victim girls”? Really? Are they just trolling now? Is this literally a cry for attention?
http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1369/87/1369877501107.png That’s all i’m saying
Lol
I don’t see the fuss being made here naked prisoners that’s ok for me
its when they do it as an army figure in half armour/nude running around with guns that’s when it looks stupid
Next on the wheel of unfortunate is ?
A hideously misogynistic miniature depicting sexualised torture – how can anyone come up wiith this stuff and somehow conspire to not see how toxic it is? What kind of person thinks that this is a good idea? Either no one at Brother Vinni saw this as problematic, or those who did were shouted down, and neither scenario exacrtly inspires confidence.
And then to compound the offence by entitling the range ‘victim girls’? That choice of title begins to stretch the credibility of any claim that brother Vinni’s repeated misogynistic sculpts are accidental.
Although I don’t think there is any real need for these types of figures I shall give Brother Vinni the benefit of the doubt that the term ‘Victim Girls’ is lost in translation from the original Russian, at least I hope that’s the case
I’m afraid that Brother Vinni has long since burned through any benefit of the doubt I might have given them.
To be honest I had never really heard of them before