Editing Malifaux (section)

== Models ==
===1st Edition===
[[File:Rasputina box.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Compare...]]

The metal models of 1st Edition Malifaux weren't bad, honestly. They were mostly sturdy, had pronounced features, which made them easy to paint. The problems they suffered from overshadowed those nice points by miles, though - Though nothing was really wrong with the models technically, they suffered from what many other first edition models often do - To make the model easy to recognize and to bait people to play the game, all models looked the same, while having no sense of unity or unique flair (Umm, what? The 1st ed models have way more personality and flair than the poorly rendered and flat plastic sculpts).

[[File:WYR20303a 81731.1375408993.1200.1200.jpg|right|thumb|350px|... And contrast.]]

When you want to make new, memorable models for a range, your models must speak volumes of the setting, because the models are what most people see first when they get interested in a game. That's why [[40K]] make the models stand out through easily definable models (There's a lot of races in this game, something for anyone!), because we know a lot by just seeing the model painted. Malifaux, on the other hand, didn't do this at all. The universe is an alternate victorian era, with steampunk, wild west and supernatural horror elements, with focus on the later. The models didn't convey this at all - The models were strangely [[Weeaboo|anime-esque]] in models and ''especially'' artwork. [[PROMOTIONS|Female models had big boobs, long and full hair, slender bodies and were modeled in a distinct sexually way, thrusting their butt out or showing boobage]], while male models were either forgettable or cloaked in brown cloth. Now, sure, this isn't necessarily distinctly [[anime]], but the way the models were presented, it didn't give us any idea of the universe it all took place in at all - [[Infinity]] wrote the book on [[Weeaboo|anime-esque]] models and makes all models like that on purpose, simply because it's a part of the concept, but Malifaux did it because it's easy. They even had "Avatar" models where the women are even more sexualized and the men even burlier, like they are trying to be fucking [[Anime|Kill la Kill]].

===2nd Edition===
The M2e models are ''nothing'' like that. Though they still retain some modes with less than average amount of clothes on their body, the models are distinctly more <s>human and realistic</s> cartoonish and overdynamic. Models like Lady Justice who just stood there to show long, flowing hair, big bosoms and slender legs, she now has a body looking more like the badass teenager Batman she is, and is standing like a warrior ready to strike too, while the formerly pretty revealing Rasputina now looks like the powerful yet reserved frost mage she was supposed to be from the start. On top of that, the artstyle has gone a lot darker and more horror, Lovecraft-inspired, which is also reflected in the models - Some of the newer models are absolutely horribly looking, in a good way, and a good paintjob will make them absolutely disgusting.

Arguably some of the better sculpted models in the industry (Games workshop ain't got shit). They're all in plastic as well, and come in about one million pieces per mini.
Oh yeah.

===3rd Edition===
Not much has changed with the models, but Wyrd has learned their lesson from M2e and a lot of the newer models have fewer tiny bits. Additionally there is update to models whose boxes were notorious for having small fiddly bits that got lost in the carpet.