Poor Image: Fantasy Axis Of Evil

It's so tiny I have a hard time figuring out what's going on. This appears to be one evil "race" from Warhammer 40 K, whereas the trope is settings having five "stock evil" races with particular characteristics.

GIS completely tanked on finding a better version of the current; voting to pull regardless of replacement.

I'll go with pull due to quality issues. I think I see what it's going for, though.

Pull.

The image does illustrate the trope - orc is humanoid, undead is eldritch, goblin is crafty, minotaur is savage, and Chaos Knight is fallen. It's just very poor quality.

I vote keep until we find a quality upgrade.

I've put a query in the Warhammer thread in the Tabletop Games forum, but I'm not holding my breath.

It strikes me that the game depicted illustrates the trope, but the actual image doesn't.

I'm not sure how image uploading works with this site, so linking this instead - would this suffice? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NpS5U59cbxJZmgenSX8Rls0-JMa_aw6c

Incidentally, what I believe people are referring to as undead is actually a human.

Edited by GoldenKaos on Feb 24th 2020 at 4:39:45 PM

That is a better quality but now that it is bigger it is more obvious that it doesn't show all the races.

Would a collage of pics from various sources be appropriate here?

I think a collage might be appropriate, but it would need to show races from a single work. The trope's about an in-universe ensemble, after all — simply having a single archetype in a work doesn't fit the bill — and the image should reflect that.

Pull the image regardless of replacement.

Here is a collage of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar models I put together:

It still needs work but it gets the idea across.

I like the idea, but it's a little awkward stacked like that. Here's those models rearranged and downsized a tetch.

I feel your pain, but I don't have any tools handy to do so.

Edited by Willbyr on Feb 24th 2020 at 3:10:18 AM

I could get behind that if not for the white background.

IK I complain about it all the time, but hey, someone has to care about Night Vision.

I could handle the background, but I'd need time and an image at a higher resolution than the site displays them at — I'm frankly still an amateur at image editing, and downscaling a large image is the best way I know of dealing with stray pixels.

Alternatively, I could just remake the collage myself. Where are the models' images from?

Edited by Theriocephalus on Feb 24th 2020 at 3:51:32 AM

They are from various Games Workshop sites including here and here.

How's this look? I'm worried the image size limits are kind of making the figures a bit too... crushed.

Yeah, that does seem a bit too squashed together.

Take 2:

That looks good.

A question I do have, based on how shoe-horned most of the examples are, is whether this particular combination of races is a trope in the first place. Maybe the description needs some work, or maybe some people know more good examples? Anyway that's not really a job for this forum.

So, uh, are we still thinking of replacing the image?

These miniatures are not bad, but there are too many details which make them a bit confusing. I'd prefer a quality upgrade of the current, if someone has one available.

Yeah, it's not a good sign that the very first example says: "...features several evil races, but the ones that fit the mold..." I feel like this is a pattern, so I'm not worried about wasting time on the image picking, but the trope might need to get looked at.

Edit: After another quick glance, I'm not sure it's a pattern after all. I think it might have just been a couple of popular examples (that themselves eventually grew beyond). As categories the concept isn't terrible, but as a pattern it seems pretty shoehorned in.

Edited by Jokubas on Mar 1st 2020 at 6:07:03 AM

It's on TRS (which currently has a five month waiting list, so don't get your hopes up).