I am working on adding to the female numbers in my imperial guard army.
Currently I have some converted escher,tanith models, last chancers etc. But wanted more.
WIP of them:
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Below is a green stuff mini im working on that should hopefully one day be finished

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stage 2 with added belt and wip combat pant pockets
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Below is my WIP air cav valkyrie, including detial on greenstuffing the air cav symbol.

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heres some of the rear countermeasures(flare launcher/smoke launcher) and pilots with night vision googles
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Also running some repairs on some really badly cast Phoenixwargamersclub resins too: Thw waist and belt areas were near enough totally destroyed and numerous bubble holes all over. still got some more work to do on these.
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bigga pick please

assultmarine wrote:bigga pick please

Click on the pictures. They link to bigger picks

They are looking good so far. Keep it up.

Update on green stuff.
flaps on combat pockets and stating to flesh out the torso ready for the body amour

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as always click for larger pic

cool. i hate the warrior women model though as she couldnt look any more like a whore!

im geussing from those finger nails you have to be a girl!!

edit: nm

some new additions just arrived this morning.
greenstuffing the sniper rifle as the barrel was a little dinky (to mkae it look like a marine sniper rifle barrel), and the original missile launcer is gone and replaced with a IG one.

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dirkthe1 wrote:cool. i hate the warrior women model though as she couldnt look any more like a whore!

im geussing from those finger nails you have to be a girl!!

nope, but after years of nail biting, i recently stopped and keep forgetting to cut the darn things.

Nice work. I really like the GS WIP.

I like the 2nd edition castings of the female IG by the PhoenixWargamer Club. DarkSoul did a good job with the new mold. They no longer have as many air bubbles. He also uses grey tinted resin, not plain white. The only drawback is a lot of thin flash. It's easy to trim but takes time.

YOU must make female commisars

person person wrote: YOU must make female commisars

You know GW's already done this, right? IIRC it was a Games Day model that was later available through mail order.

the GW female commisars are on ebay for silly money...seen one go for £30 !

i will see how all these go before moving onto HQ choices.

I did see a conversion someone did of a feamle inquistor as a commisar was quite good, but cant fnd the link


I get the GF to regularly check my sculpts to make sure they arent to.....manga esque..i.e way too cartoony curves and sizes so to speak. The old phoenixwargamers club minis used tog et a lot of stick for being too cartoony

Its still cool

xceptionzero wrote:the GW female commisars are on ebay for silly money...seen one go for £30 !

i will see how all these go before moving onto HQ choices.

I did see a conversion someone did of a feamle inquistor as a commisar was quite good, but can't find the link


I get the GF to regularly check my sculpts to make sure they aren't too.....manga esque..i.e way too cartoony curves and sizes so to speak. The old phoenixwargamers club minis used to get a lot of stick for being too cartoony

If you mean that Doctor Thunder used to catch hell for making female models with breasts the size of basketballs (ratio wise, that is), and for making female models almost exclusively, and for daring to make female space marines, then "yes" the club got "a lot of stick".

Frankly, I don't think ole Doc was doing anything that wrong for a hobby wrapped around pure fiction.

Yeah some of the comments people used to leave in some of the old doc thunder threads were just plain rude...an opinion is one thing but some people go too far.. I like his concepts, but find i prefer a slightly different style of model.

He was one of the first to dare go that far and challenge the norm.
which is odd as GW have made female IG models even space marines in the past. They would of course never do now as the have the sisters of battle.

p.s Got some new WIP pics due on here tommorow

Here is a missile launcher team loader (none gw) didnt do any modfications to it, just part painted so far

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and here for my escher heavy stubber i have converted it into a plasma gun using a marine plasma pistol and some GS (again not finished)

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and woot! my new Greenstuff tools arrive this morning
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BTW, the PhoenixWargamersClub site is back in operation.

TPC

It's just came back up late last week. The site does not have much activity yet since it will take time to get the word out.

Doc Thunder is still busy raising his new child but he and DarkSoul are still closing out a few projects: female jungle fighters and perhaps the panzer chick.

very small site, but i do post there. useful as some of the chaps really know casting with resin techniques and the such.

DAKKDAKKA will still remain my main WIP site

I agree completely. Dakka is my favorite GW related site. It's user friendly and doesn't burn my eyes like those sites with white backgrounds.

Regarding your question on TPC about vent channels, have you looked at work on Dakka by BrotherArgos, Sersi, and my simple tutorial?

yup, saw your tutorial already and i have read through several times, its very good.

My Royal Sovereign clay shapers arrived a day behind yours. I'm trying them out now on non-drying clay just to get some experience.

Have you looked at these sculpting sites:

1. 1listsculpting on Yahoo

2. FU-UK also known as Frothers Unite! UK.

3. StormtheCastle.com also has tutorials, some of which are YouTube videos.

Good luck with your projects! They look pretty good.

another addition autpistol to lasgun conversion

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and the plasma gun complete

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some more progress on a new GS model and my current project

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Who makes the none GW models on here? Some nice stuff great green stuffing slightly perturbed by the square breasts until I realised it was a Cadian style flak vest!

The rocket team before i swapped some bits is a shadowforge model from battelfield berlin(german site as the models are actually austrialian (1 sf-scm144 marine special ops rocket set (2) 7,90 euros)
the sniper is also from there I think..let me check.

yeah the chest armour isnt finished yet, does look very weird at the mo. Not quiet sure baout flak vest styling yet...but GS is good stuf to carve into or slice bits off

xceptionzero, where can I buy those silicontools?

artifolk.co.uk

http://www.artifolk.co.uk/catalog/colour_shapers.htm

only the xtra firm ones are considered clay shapers

More progress

Here i have started to had boots to the "skinny model"

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and here the chest armour almost complete and adding detailing on shoulders on the traditional model "big boned chick?"

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picked up this sandra-lapd model from warstore its quite cool and is becoming my commisar:

original



convereted(wip)




made the cap peaked, added an IG symbol and a large imperial gaurd knife)might make it a power sword later....and not forgetting a bolt pistol!

Awesome

Stuff looks great , I have some of docs first female guard from his first casts ( the white ones ) they where really in bad shape casting wise I didnt get more because of it , but I heard some good things about the newer mold I might look into it to finish out the platoon .

the newer grey casts are alot better and truely professional, if you can get any..best having a look at the re-opened "the phoenix gaming club" site.

although i am gonna keep trying to make my own female cadians, and get casting them at some point to bolster my troops. until then conversions like my commisar will keep me occupied

double post..doh! please delete

Somw WIP of my female commisar(lots to be done just yet)


FEw more escher for my guard command squads


My first female commisar with basic paint job, needs more detial work.


A random figure i found on the tinternet, converted a little to have a long-las sniper rifle

The oversized sniper rifle's awesome

JB wrote:Dakka is my favorite GW related site. It's user friendly and doesn't burn my eyes like those sites with white backgrounds.

thats cos its GRIMDARK see :

more updates for all the projects on monday 24th

Cant wait

Nerf_IG wrote:

person person wrote: YOU must make female commisars

You know GW's already done this, right? IIRC it was a Games Day model that was later available through mail order.

i actually made one a year back. here are some pictures




edit* i dont like the pupils i did :[

What do you think about this?

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1060009&prodId=prod1095840

Cheers for the link theres some interesting stuff there looking forward to seeing more on here.

Heres a model i found that had an awful rifle and head (looked like a neanderthal had sculpted it. However the body is ok, so its now got a lasgun and i will be doing the hair shortly
the head thats been attached is a hasslefree female head(which are darn good for a basis)




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nice sculpting and some great conversions!

These are really characterful and its always great to mix a diverse source of minis. I did a similar thing once with a Tau army where I just used anything thats cool

few more updates

quite pleased how the hair and beret came out on this one:

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and here is the girl with the sniper rifle with some basic paint:
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Waw. I really dig your GS WIP.

something odd I have discovered is the temperature in the room while working with greenstuff.

The last few days have been quite cold and the GS is a real pain to work with bur you can carve finer detail into it.
where as befre during summer it was really soft

i think im gonna alternate temperatures to get the consistency i want.
for example

warm to get the basic shape on there and then cool it down to do detail before leaving it to set overnight

got some basic painting done on this one, just needs the fine details

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Awesome

almost got this autpistol juve right, just a bit more detail work



basic bits in place (this escher juve was a miscast, missing the top of her head!!) so going for a beret once i can get it looking right
Will use as a medic with a few more additions

Stuff looks great, nice greenstuff work

I dunno, you got this "silicon-[Mod Edit - Please don't do 'work arounds' for the Swear Filter] in uniform"-look (which is waaay too common for female miniatutes in the world of miniature-gaming) on your army and I think it's just tacky, boring and not very cool.

And, generally speaking, women in uniform and bodyarmour doesn't look very feminine...

Otherwise, nice GS-work.

c0un7_z3r0 wrote:I dunno, you got this "silicon- puppet in uniform"-look...

Fixed it for you.

Might want to read Dakka's rule #1 before you post anything else. Might stop you from getting on the bad side of mods or Frazz in particular.

Oh, I'm so sorry. Didn't mean to brake any rules, it just came out that way but it won't happen again.

Thanks for the critique, and the compliment on the GS.

i cant see how putting them in uniform/armour which is the sorta thing the imperial guard do, reduces their feminity? And if it does reduce them to just people in uniform with no female attiributes how can they also look like sex objects?

Oh well I work with the models I can get hold of and attempt to make them practical but still stylish. Hell 2 of the girls i knew during basic training at Bassingbourn knew exactly how to wear DPM and still look like girls. Which is very difficult with the stores policy of one size fits all

I believe by having a 50% female imperial guard army i am properly representing the imperial armed forces in my particular vision of 40k.

NOOOO! A womans place is in the... oh, never mind. (jk) Seriously I must confess that these are coming along nicely and with your GS and painting skills these should look sweet when finished as a whole force.

agreed

They're about as sensible as the Catachans, honestly.

an update on my WIP medic
(the other one is a escher ganger with autpistol to lasgun conversion and GS shoulder pads.




and also some shadowforge soldiers with GS armour (chest/shoulders) and lasguns added....additional didnt like the hats so went with berets instead

Lasguns look a bit bigger on those models.

c0un7_z3r0 wrote:I dunno, you got this "silicon-****puppet in uniform"-look (which is waaay too common for female miniatutes in the world of miniature-gaming) on your army and I think it's just tacky, boring and not very cool.

And, generally speaking, women in uniform and bodyarmour doesn't look very feminine...

Otherwise, nice GS-work.

Even though women in Uniform in real life tend not to look feminine, this isn't real life. Models have to have features greatly accentuated to actually be noticeable in 28mm scale.

You may think his style is tacky, but it is one of the most tasteful versions I have seen of all female armies. Just look at the kid who did the whole Space Marine army of chicks with torpedo chests.

person person wrote:Lasguns look a bit bigger on those models.

yeah the shadow forge are very skinny little things, i already bulked out with some chest and shoulder armour...i may tree some knee pads to see if it helps too

its been a long time away but im back with my magnetized demolisher with all weapon options/dozer blade and extras magnetized..... plus converted twin linked autocannon and custom stubber

The tank is very easy to magnetize especiually the main guns due to the newish cannon mount the kit has.

The heavy strubber (as one doesnt come in the box :( ) was made from a hacked down autocannon and a few extra bits from the box.

Nice tank, thats a nice conversion on the extermintor weapon

I really like those Shadowforge models! They look great in that they (A) are noticeably female and (B) aren't over-the-top.

That being said, I would have to agree with some of the other posters in the fact that this is probably the most tasteful female army I've seen so far. The utilization of all of the GW female models, some other kits integrated with GW parts, and some awesome GS skill certainly gives it a nice GW feel too it, which I haven't seen in the other female armies. These guys...er, gals remind me of a bunch of female Catachans, and with the male Catachans are as dangerous as they are, I can't imagine what these gals are like on a bad day!

Great quality work, looking forward to more

Hey dude!
This is awesome! I'm really impressed. Great GS work. I definetly agree with the tasteful comment. You've inspired me to go ahead on my female-guard project. I was beginning to think that there was no way to do female guard without making them look like an army of hookers, but you've proved me wrong! (I'll be posting WIP stuff in this section of dakka soon... just as soon as I get a boatload of green stuff...). Any tips? if it would be easier to pm me, that's cool

Cheers!
Gear

if you do goahead with an all female or part female army be prepared to do lots of work and darn it can be hard to find good models and bitz...its worth it though

Accolade wrote:...and with the male Catachans are as dangerous as they are, I can't imagine what these gals are like on a bad day!

Or a bad week, if you catch my drift.

HEYOH!

xceptionzero wrote:Heres a model i found that had an awful rifle and head (looked like a neanderthal had sculpted it. However the body is ok, so its now got a lasgun and i will be doing the hair shortly
the head thats been attached is a hasslefree female head(which are darn good for a basis)




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I was just wondering if you know what range this figure is from thanks? great work love the use of female's brings a bit of realism to the 40k world


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xceptionzero wrote:Heres a model i found that had an awful rifle and head (looked like a neanderthal had sculpted it. However the body is ok, so its now got a lasgun and i will be doing the hair shortly
the head thats been attached is a hasslefree female head(which are darn good for a basis)




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I was just wondering if you know what range this figure is from thanks? great work love the use of female's brings a bit of realism to the 40k world

Very intresting

Have you see this stuff ?

http://www.studiomcvey.com/

Might help

lone dirty dog wrote:

xceptionzero wrote:Heres a model i found that had an awful rifle and head (looked like a neanderthal had sculpted it. However the body is ok, so its now got a lasgun and i will be doing the hair shortly
the head thats been attached is a hasslefree female head(which are darn good for a basis)




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I was just wondering if you know what range this figure is from thanks? great work love the use of female's brings a bit of realism to the 40k world

the head is a head from hasslefree www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk
the solider is from ebay but its here in a pack as "alison"#
http://www.thewarstore.com/backstreetmilitia.html

you sir have blown my mind, with this army.
It is not over the top.
It looks great and the feth dosn't GW sell any good female models. you should work for GW.

http://chapterhousestudios.com/webshop/component/virtuemart/?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=69&category_id=35

chapterhouse sells some female guard heads if your interested.

keep up the good work

Don't touch the Chapterhouse heads. They are ugly as feth. Microart offer superior sculpts.

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/women-heads-p-360.html

I have never actually ordered from chapterhouse. but those heads you posted terribletrygon do look better!

those chapterhouse are bit weird..the microart do indeed look better

i prefered the hasslefree as it gives you free rain to model a helmet/beret/hair


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Gear wrote:Hey dude!
This is awesome! I'm really impressed. Great GS work. I definetly agree with the tasteful comment. You've inspired me to go ahead on my female-guard project. I was beginning to think that there was no way to do female guard without making them look like an army of hookers, but you've proved me wrong! (I'll be posting WIP stuff in this section of dakka soon... just as soon as I get a boatload of green stuff...). Any tips? if it would be easier to pm me, that's cool

Cheers!
Gear

mm tips..well these are mine:
1: get some good tools..seriously the "clay shapers" as gs doesnt stick to them as they are silicon...notes metal/wood and plastic tools can still be used but need water or oil on to stop em sticking.
2: practice i spent ages making just minor improvements and adjustments like just doing extra pockets or berets..
3: research ..look at similar models ..i even looked up and read sculpting books /articles
4: IF IT GOES WRONG SCRAP THE GS OFF AND START AGAIN
5: remember gs goes hard over a set time that differes on temp...so if you want very fine detail let it harden a bit then do small detail it really helps
6: practice practice practice

got these two joining me hopefully will have pics and my gs work on them in next few days

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=817

thinking officer

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=181

maybe a colonel or inquisitor

they still havent arrived but in the meantime foudn a great way to get lights on a valkyrie

here is where i got them from (got loads of these bits left over from the basillica building pack)



and on the valkyrie


later at some point how to put rappling hooks next to the doors!

sweeet

very nice models, if i may ask was it your intention on making your sniper to look like sniper wolf from metal gear solid?

do you mean this one?
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jHDBjYkNMiI/SrC6dWj_vzI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/4OLFpNAZ4lo/s400/2009-09-16%2011.11.40.jpg

at last my two new shineys from hasslefree arrived



Started by smootingh over any chainmail, which was on the elbows/ankles/crootch and bottom..oh er missus!
Hoping this model will become my equivalent of SGT Bastogne(?) with hot shot las pistol and power sword.






Started with a simple belt, Hoping this can become an officer with more work


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added las pistol to "sgt bastogne"
and shoulder pad to even things up

Methinks you should cram a Commissar cap on that Trenchcoat mini. She looks far better than GW's Fugly Femmissar

tried seeing how a wire from the powerpack on the bacxk would work going into the handle of the las pistol
used cotton but as you can see it gets pretty bad looking after paint
may replace with some wire, put cant find any thin enough yet



the beginning of a belt


and the officer may just nend up being my marbo!

Awesome conversions, the wire on the HSlas could be thicker.
Also, that pistol goes halfway down her leg. Damn GW exaggerated gun sizes! Look at your leg and try to imagine something that goes halfway down it. I don't think that would be classified as a pistol.


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xceptionzero wrote:its been a long time away but im back with my magnetized demolisher with all weapon options/dozer blade and extras magnetized..... plus converted twin linked autocannon and custom stubber

The tank is very easy to magnetize especiually the main guns due to the newish cannon mount the kit has.

The heavy strubber (as one doesnt come in the box :( ) was made from a hacked down autocannon and a few extra bits from the box.

Yeah, I was dissapointed at the amount of stuff that came in the LRdemo kit. No HS? No SB? No stowage or equipment? Not even track guards? Only 2 frames, GW. Not good enough.

indeed it is a huge pistol...

i am thinking about greenstuffing a smaller one from scratch, if it works

xceptionzero wrote:tried seeing how a wire from the powerpack on the bacxk would work going into the handle of the las pistol
used cotton but as you can see it gets pretty bad looking after paint
may replace with some wire, put cant find any thin enough yet

Try the 'twist-tie' from a loaf of bread. strip off the covering and fold in half. Grip folded end with small pliers and twist slowly by hand.
That's how I did it for some of my conversions.

yup found some

just wondering if i should so one or twist two

Re: pistols, I recommend these: http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=1842

got the basic paint down prior to detailing

Awesome minis you got here

lol, just realised I havent actually played a game of 40k for 6 years... o.0!

Great project. Best of luck!

Looking good. Keep up the good work.


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awesome

Total progress on my female imperial guard








and my commisar got a knife/sword(not sure yet)
will be moving onto the commisar cap using greenstuff soon

JB wrote:

xceptionzero wrote:the GW female commisars are on ebay for silly money...seen one go for £30 !

i will see how all these go before moving onto HQ choices.

I did see a conversion someone did of a feamle inquistor as a commisar was quite good, but can't find the link


I get the GF to regularly check my sculpts to make sure they aren't too.....manga esque..i.e way too cartoony curves and sizes so to speak. The old phoenixwargamers club minis used to get a lot of stick for being too cartoony

If you mean that Doctor Thunder used to catch hell for making female models with breasts the size of basketballs (ratio wise, that is), and for making female models almost exclusively, and for daring to make female space marines, then "yes" the club got "a lot of stick".

Frankly, I don't think ole Doc was doing anything that wrong for a hobby wrapped around pure fiction.

Most 40k players are insecure manchildren when it comes to wardollies game, go figure they went into a nerdrage against Doc Thunder for what he shared with the community.

Doctor Thunder was creepy. Though, I personally raged against him mostly because he was commissioning lots of work but not giving credit to the artists most of the time. That and how he kept calling people that didn't agree with female marines homosexuals (lol). Still, what he did to Female Marines did make its mark in the form of hours of entertainment and drama, which is worth it's weight in gold. So for that I salute him.


Anyways, back on topic; can we see close ups at some point? Kinda hard to judge the paint jobs from those pictures.

my painting skills are well not that great..but will see...my phone has a lousy camera on it so close ups are difficult

but its now on my todo list once i finish magnetizing my new leman russ

what?!

no heavy stubber in the leman russ kit :(
very dissapointed, its just like the demolisher kit

although, having almost every weapon type for main guns in there is nice..once you figure out how to get them interchangeabl

Dude I love this blog, I really want a group shot that would make my day.

decided i need another special weapons model

green stuff done.
1: hacked off the hair, autogunh magazine and barrel.
Replaced with nozzle from flamer and cansister.
Had to green stuff a helmet and used part of the gas maslk you get form the command spure..seemed right for a flamer trooper.
neaten up and bingo


base layer of paint


next stage bit more detial and basing for ash wastes