Concept to Crate - A look at how Mrs. Walls was created

Disappointed that it's another pinup model. If they'd advertised the mini-crate stuff as explicitly all about the pinups, that'd be one thing. They'd be owning it as a design choice and people could make informed choices about whether they want them. But instead they're just advertised as "exclusive limited-edition" sculpts with no mention (to my knowledge) that the majority would be sexualized swamp monsters and what not.

Even this Concept to Crate thing just says the concept is "female version of Mr. Walls, the Quartermaster, in full pirate-themed regalia", which somehow mean it must be sexualized. Look at the poses considered -- they're all Bond girl poses. The concept text says she "looks as if she would mess you up and clear a deck all by herself", but her wierd hip thrust/booty-out pose still says "sex object".

I dunno. To me the problem is that they're making pinup models and then acting like they're just normal representations of female characters. Normalization of women-as-sex-objects is the kind of thing that turns people away from playing the game. I have female friends who are into sci fi and fantasy and whatnot. There are women in the Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering groups that share a game night with Warmahordes at my local game store. I really wouldn't mind if my local meta had people in it who weren't dudes.


Edit: Fairer representation of my local meta.

Are they? The Bloody Bradigan Pitt sculpt shows a lot of skin, but last I checked beer guts are... not conventionally sexy. Certainly less so that the Brad Pitt reference it's based on. The Alten Van Helsing sculpt looks fine but not terribly sexualized. Is there another male sculpt I'm forgetting?

Huh. Yeah, that'd definitely qualify as pinup.

To be fair: All chaps are "assless".