I really wanted to respond to the last thread with some minis i've been eye balling but you all got huffy and the thread was locked.
I'm a girl and I enjoy painting female minis I think it's an extension of playing with barbie when i was a kid.
I'm a fan of both Soda Pop and Kingdom Death miniatures. I'm currently working on a KD mini right now and have already finished 2 soda pop minis you can see them either at my blog or in my photo gallery here.
I paint to paint. not to play a game. I have a Sisters of Battle Army but i refuse to give another dollar to GW until a new codex comes out and lasts longer than 6 months before they release a new edition and it becomes useless. So i'm guessing I won't ever be giving them money again.

Anyways there are plenty of female minis out there that aren't over-sexualized and can be fun to paint. Here are a few I found with about 5 minutes of searching on coolminiornot.com I'm sure you can find many more. I encourage everyone to post their favorites!


http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/degra-miniatures/mlle-rocateau.html


http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/dark-age-games/forsaken/forsaken-clergy-ann-2.html


http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/eolith-miniatures/zo-dot.html



http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/freebooter-miniatures/female-assassin-3.html


http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/freebooter-miniatures/bella-cigna.html

Sister_Lucy wrote: I have a Sisters of Battle Army but i refuse to give another dollar to GW until a new codex comes out and lasts longer than 6 months before they release a new edition and it becomes useless. So i'm guessing I won't ever be giving them money again.

you should start saving some money.

Many of the female models from Infinity, they look for the most part functional, wear the same clothes as their male counter-parts and look good at the same time.

el edit.

A couple of those gals look familiar Lucy.
Have marked a couple of Freebooter figures for reference.
I want them for gaming but they are a bit too herioic scale and cartoony for what I am wanting.

But would love this pirate boat

and Steampunk Fairy





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Anima Tactics do some nice female models....
oh wait...

to be fair some of them wear clothes


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Not forgetting the Discworld figures
Some of them are super.

Some examples:

Infinity:




Urban Mammoth:


Warmachine:


Reaper Chronoscope:


Hasslefree:


Heresy:


Even Shadowforge:

Hasslefree do quite a lot of fully clothed female minis.



Although they compensate by doing quite a few fully naked ones too.

Privateer Press


(big pic, note unit leader) http://privateerpress.com/files/products/circle-orboros/units/reeves-of-orboros-unit.png

Even the scantly clad ones don't seem particularly sexualized to me.
http://privateerpress.com/files/products/circle-orboros/units/tharn-bloodtrackers-unit.png
http://privateerpress.com/files/products/tharn-bloodweavers.png

To be fair to the Tharn, the cannibal thing is something of a turn-off.

Worglock wrote:

Sister_Lucy wrote: I have a Sisters of Battle Army but i refuse to give another dollar to GW until a new codex comes out and lasts longer than 6 months before they release a new edition and it becomes useless. So i'm guessing I won't ever be giving them money again.

you should start saving some money.

Yes. Yes, you should.

Mark Copplestone has also done several lines of clothed but badass female minis over the years.

From GW to Grenadier, to Wargames foundry and his own Copplestone castings.

Some more from Warmachine.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:
Anima Tactics do some nice female models....
oh wait...

to be fair some of them wear clothes

In all fairness though, it's not like many of their male models wear much clothing either (see picture on far left of sig).

This degrades gamer that have put years into perfecting skin tones and nipples.

Less is more!

fair comment.

Though I sometimes think Cordelia Rosamund may be a tad overdressed for the occassion!

Wow I really like that one, very cool looking.

Reminds me of an Assassin's Creed 2 character.

There's a new range called Governance of Technology from Anteoniciti's Workshop.

It has a number of fully clothed female figures.














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Best not to look at the Bodyguards in Bikinis section, though.

I don't mean to threadjack here, but I'd like to say that my biggest complaint about GWS - in a veritable sea of complaints about how GWS is doing it wrong - all the price increases, all the neglected model lines, pporly done marketing, all the bizarre rules, and retconning, and blood angel/necron team ups - none of them bother me nearly on the level of how they portray women. Which is to say, not enough, and poorly when done.

There is no reason to think, that in the far future with humanity fighting to hang on with threats from all directions, that a meat-grinder organization like the Imperial Guard would ignore literally 50% of their possible recruit market because they don't have the right junk, a distinction which is rapidly becoming irrelevant in modern-day forces the world over. It's shameful. The rationale for this (that the target demographic for this game is boys who still think girls are icky) cheapens the hobby as a whole for me if I think about it.

It's about 20 years overdue for GWS to start adding female troops to every line that has sexual dimorphism. I think they've finally started taking good steps with the DE release, but the current status quo is embarrassing.

Ouze wrote:I don't mean to threadjack here, but I'd like to say that my biggest complaint about GWS - in a veritable sea of complaints about how GWS is doing it wrong - all the price increases, all the neglected model lines, pporly done marketing, all the bizarre rules, and retconning, and blood angel/necron team ups - none of them bother me nearly on the level of how they portray women. Which is to say, not enough, and poorly when done.

There is no reason to think, that in the far future with humanity fighting to hang on with threats from all directions, that a meat-grinder organization like the Imperial Guard would ignore literally 50% of their possible recruit market because they don't have the right junk, a distinction which is rapidly becoming irrelevant in modern-day forces the world over. It's shameful. The rationale for this (that the target demographic for this game is boys who still think girls are icky) cheapens the hobby as a whole for me if I think about it.

It's about 20 years overdue for GWS to start adding female troops to every line that has sexual dimorphism. I think they've finally started taking good steps with the DE release, but the current status quo is embarrassing.

Bad internet slash fanfics aside, Space Marines can't be female.

But otherwise, yes, it's fun to get mad over miniature games.

Worglock wrote:Bad internet slash fanfics aside, Space Marines can't be female.

Yes, that makes sense, except the opposite, though. I could type out a long explanation for why this is lame, but "who says?" is probably adequate.

Worglock wrote:But otherwise, yes, it's fun to get mad over miniature games.

Oops, sorry for feeling passionately about my hobby. I forgot that, on a board whose sole existence is to discuss these matters with like-minded people, I was supposed to pretend I could care less about them.

Ouze wrote:

Worglock wrote:Bad internet slash fanfics aside, Space Marines can't be female.

Yes, that makes sense, except the opposite, though. I could type out a long explanation for why this is lame, but "who says?" is probably adequate.

Space Marines fluff going back to Rogue Trader would be a good place to start. So that would be Rick Priestly and Jervis Johnson.

Just like how the "Battle Sisters" army can't have men. Goes back to original fluff and how the Ecclesiarchy was banned from "building an army of men", so they did some hand waving and gave all the nuns special forces training.

I stay within the GW realm of miniatures, so I dont see very many women figures. When I do they are typical nude though. To see so many posted pics of women actually clad in something other than rags or nothing is unusual. Glad to see not all miniature producers are pervs

Worglock wrote:

Ouze wrote:

Worglock wrote:Bad internet slash fanfics aside, Space Marines can't be female.

Yes, that makes sense, except the opposite, though. I could type out a long explanation for why this is lame, but "who says?" is probably adequate.

Space Marines fluff going back to Rogue Trader would be a good place to start. So that would be Rick Priestly and Jervis Johnson.

You mean, back when Squats were still in 40k? That's the window in time in which the lore was laid down that would be unchanging, unto forever?

Ouze wrote: Oops, sorry for feeling passionately about my hobby. I forgot that, on a board whose sole existence is to discuss these matters with like-minded people, I was supposed to pretend I could care less about them.

I think this is completely fair enough. We can argue all day about female space marines, but there is certainly no fluff based reason as to why every single plastic cadian or catachan is male. I know it would obviously require new molds etc, etc, but it really is about time GW at least made an effort to include some women in the main guard regiments. I'm sure there are examples, but I really struggle to think of any current guard model - plastic OR metal that is female (I can only come up with rocket girl from the last chancers box - though I'm not sure if this is current or not).

Apologies for going off topic!

OK, I created a new thread for the GWS specific arguments here. Sorry for dragging it OT, Sister Lucy!

I can't beleive this delightful gem hasn't been posted yet;


The Oniwaban Shinobu Kitsune from Infinity.

More Warmachine to fuel the fire:

um eldar?

Valhallan42nd wrote:

Worglock wrote:

Sister_Lucy wrote: I have a Sisters of Battle Army but i refuse to give another dollar to GW until a new codex comes out and lasts longer than 6 months before they release a new edition and it becomes useless. So i'm guessing I won't ever be giving them money again.

you should start saving some money.

Yes. Yes, you should.

Well considering rumors for a SoB/WH codex/plastics and 6th Edition Both surfaced with in days of each other I have a feeling I will be saving money by not having to buy anything from them. My bet is that 6th edition will come out with in 6 months of a new codex, probably more like 3 months.
So I'm going to spend all that money I saved on awesome minis from smaller companies that deserve my money.


anyways more minis!

This one was one of my favorites to paint and convert!




https://store.sodapopminiatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=33

I'm anti the bare belly button look, but it can be fixed with putty.



There are two more in their resin limited edition lineup.

I'm happy now. I can stop my whine. Tasteful, Proportions you can see, good details.

I'm just a picky swine.

THANK!

Also, I'd like to formally apologise to dakka. For some reason, I can't help posting threads that end up locked. I thank the mods for thier continued tolerance

Where is that Oz- Dot mini from?

I'd like to get one of those.

I like the girl on the walker. Who made/manufactured that one?

Soda Pop.

Lord_Osma wrote:I like the girl on the walker. Who made/manufactured that one?

Soda Pop, I put a link under the picture here it is again.
https://store.sodapopminiatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=33

I find that amusing given that Soda Pops portrayal of women is exactly what kicked off the last thread.


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BrookM wrote:Many of the female models from Infinity, they look for the most part functional, wear the same clothes as their male counter-parts and look good at the same time.

el edit.

This one (assuming I deleted the right pictures) would be exactly the kind of thing that's so annoying. The men are in body armor, the girl is in a belly shirt, the men are wearing baggy/functional pants, the girl is wearing painted on tight pants that don't even cover her all the way. Now, women's fashions are different than men's fashions, and I know a decent number of girls who dress exactly like that, but in this specific case she's supposedly wearing a freaking uniform, and decided not to wear body armor so she could show off her body.

Requia wrote:I find that amusing given that Soda Pops portrayal of women is exactly what kicked off the last thread.

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This one (assuming I deleted the right pictures) would be exactly the kind of thing that's so annoying. The men are in body armor, the girl is in a belly shirt, the men are wearing baggy/functional pants, the girl is wearing painted on tight pants that don't even cover her all the way. Now, women's fashions are different than men's fashions, and I know a decent number of girls who dress exactly like that, but in this specific case she's supposedly wearing a freaking uniform, and decided not to wear body armor so she could show off her body.

Here I think that we really have crystallized the problem in minis of this type, which I call the "Iron Man Paradox"; for those who have not seen the movie (what's wrong with you?) there is a scene near the beginning, where Tony Stark is in a Humvee with several soldiers, presuming them all to be young men, until one of them speaks up and he realized that this soldier is actually a woman. Now, the point of this is that it is a nice illustration of the problem that faces illustrators/model makers: put a woman into a modern uniform, and it does what uniforms are meant to do, make people look uniform. In war, that's good (for various reasons), but it makes designing female characters for illustration/minis a a catch 22.

Do you;
-Make the woman realistic, but fall prey to the paradox and produce a mini that is (especially at the 28 mm size) essentially indistinguishable from the male miniatures. Put another way, in the image that BrookM posted, is it not entirely possible that there are 2 women? The woman with the bare midriff, and the person with the high turtleneck and knit cap (line kazak 3)?

-Make the female minis distinctly female, either by overemphasizing anatomy, stripperiffic garb or a combination of the two. The problem, of course, is that you run the risk of the same consumers that clamor for female minis will bare their fangs at your attempt to make the mini noticeably female.

This problem is compounded by the move to plastic kits; take, for example, the recent (excellent) Dark Eldar Wyche, Warrior and Hellion kits. In each of these the torsos are all interchangeable, which is excellent, but at the cost that the arms all have a distinctly "masculine" muscle structure, while the hips and legs must be androgynous. So, the only place to put any real mark on the mini to indicate gender is the upper torso, which results in quite a few examples of cleavage windows and the most common superpower.

I acknowledge the problem, though the pic I singled out above is one of the more egregious examples (if not as bad as heavy armor with a cleavage window).

It's not necessarily an unsolvable problem though. A good example of a kit that does it:



Though interchangeable plastic parts would make doing the above a freaking nightmare. Throw in the problem there seems to be with female faces (I'm not sure if that's an artist skill thing or a problem with certain casting processes or what, but I've seen a few lines where the women had manlier faces than the men), and I can see why people would resort to drastic measure to try and get past the problem.

Of note to any budding artists trying to solve the Iron Man Paradox, I just pulled a pair of eye tracking papers into my reading queue, haven't read them yet but the abstract concludes that men's eyes don't linger longer on larger breasts/hips in the first .2 seconds (when gender is established), which suggests giant breasts aren't really useful, as long as the breasts are visible in the first place.

Requia wrote:I acknowledge the problem, though the pic I singled out above is one of the more egregious examples (if not as bad as heavy armor with a cleavage window).

It's not necessarily an unsolvable problem though. A good example of a kit that does it:



Though interchangeable plastic parts would make doing the above a freaking nightmare. Throw in the problem there seems to be with female faces (I'm not sure if that's an artist skill thing or a problem with certain casting processes or what, but I've seen a few lines where the women had manlier faces than the men), and I can see why people would resort to drastic measure to try and get past the problem.

Of note to any budding artists trying to solve the Iron Man Paradox, I just pulled a pair of eye tracking papers into my reading queue, haven't read them yet but the abstract concludes that men's eyes don't linger longer on larger breasts/hips in the first .2 seconds (when gender is established), which suggests giant breasts aren't really useful, as long as the breasts are visible in the first place.

In fairness though, the paradox really applies more to people wearing sci-fi/"modern" armor: the gun mages are a) wearing only soft clothing, where the artist is able to emphasis the very minor difference in waist and face on that mini, and b) painted by a master painter. Exquisite paint jobs never hurt minis.

The thing about fantasy armor is that, of course, it's already fantasy, and pretty much all armor I ever see is wildly impractical to start. Modern armor, on the other hand, tends to combine either bulky fabrics and rigid plates, or all-over articulated armor.

That said, yeah, the biggest problem is in designing female minis for mass use: individual characters, especially single pose, unique metal models, are far easier to finesse around, as that gunmage, and several examples from Warmachine, and the excellent models from Infinity show. The problem lies in, as is the case with the DE models, you have common parts for arms and legs (necessary so that you can have males and females with interchangeable weapon options) and have to establish gender with only heads/torsos.

Another part of this, which is, from what I can tell, a big problem with the plastic Sister's of Battle line, is that one of the most effective ways of establishing gender on an armored figure is their face and hair.

An example;

In the recent movie Alice in Wonderland, the heroine eventually dons this armor,

A fine, quite realistic suit of armor. And in it, Alice looks like this,

Very nice.
But, what if take away the long, flowing tresses? The actress (Mia Wasikowska) frequently wears her hair short,


Now, imagine (or someone good at photoshop do a bit o'editing) Ms. Wasikowska with that hair, in that armor. Because the armor is realistic, we have a fantasy example of the Iron Man paradox; without the obvious visual clue of her long hair, in realistic armor I think it would be very androgynous, and whether we would be looking at a young man or a woman would be very much open to debate. And that's with an actual (very pretty) young lady!

I bring this up in the context of plastic models because plastic models almost always have the heads separately sculpted, to give the assembler more range of pose. But doing that means that there are very limited possibilities for hair: nothing can drape down or be over-long. Alice, notice, has hair well below her neckline; that would of course be impossible to sculpt as a separate piece.

By the way, none of all this is to excuse bad miniature, but it is intended to spark a bit of thought on people's behalf before automatically condemning a mini for common "failings". Bad minis are bad minis, but we do have to recognize that making female miniatures is, in a very real way, twice as hard as making a male mini: you not only have to convey what the mini does, but its (female) gender. A hulking, armored trooper doesn't need to establish that it's male; we simply assume it is. Making a heavily armed female involves flirting with the paradox.

There's some decent feminine cues to that armor, even without a girl wearing it. The higher waistline in particular. Another bit is proportions to other models. Stick Alice next to a heavily muscled man, and she'll look a lot more feminine (if you look at the difference between the legs and arms of the male and female figures above, you'll notice that they did exactly this for the gun mages).

Though as you've pointed out, interchangeable plastic bits don't really have that option, and I've talked to a few people who feel the customization available from that style of plastic kit is the most important thing in a model line.

Thinking about it as a limitation does change my perspective a great deal as well. I bought Shock Troopers after all, knowing that they weren't ideal figures. Thinking of context inappropriate stipperific outfits as limitation of the medium/artist (depending on which part of the Iron Man problem they were forced to get around) moves them into that same 'maybe this isn't perfect but it'll do' slot, rather than 'why the hell can't they just give me a girl in armor'.

Moz wrote:

Wow ... a WM model I really like - that is almost a first!!

Kilkrazy wrote:

I'm anti the bare belly button look, but it can be fixed with putty.

Belly button aside, this one kills me, I'm getting one. I love the head.

Buzzsaw wrote:This problem is compounded by the move to plastic kits; take, for example, the recent (excellent) Dark Eldar Wyche, Warrior and Hellion kits. In each of these the torsos are all interchangeable, which is excellent, but at the cost that the arms all have a distinctly "masculine" muscle structure, while the hips and legs must be androgynous. So, the only place to put any real mark on the mini to indicate gender is the upper torso, which results in quite a few examples of cleavage windows and the most common superpower.

My two thoughts on that, in that I think DE are the best GWS has done to date so far as integration goes: A.) I don't have any problem with the DE ladies having bodybuilder arms as that fits quite well with their role, and B.) Elves are supposed to be androgynous as hell, anyway.

Buzzsaw hit the problem on the head.

There is no point making female figures that don't look in some way female. The trick is how to achieve that without the use of dubious uniforms.

Hey, I looked at the pricing for that Sedition Wars female terrorist, and before I buy it - how is the scale? I know they say 32mm, but how would, say, the female terrorist look mixed with GWS SM Scouts? There is only one pic in the gallery of her, with nothing for size reference.

That particular model is still available only as a limited edition resin cast. There will be a metal cast soon, which will be cheaper.

Unfortunately I am not familiar with SM Scouts.

In general, all of GW's human figures are so distorted from normal proportions that no-one else's models are a good match in terms of bulk, though the height is usually compatible.

I've got some some Sedition Wars metal models on order. When they arrive I will measure them against a 1st edition Beaky, and do a comparative height pic.

I don't have any modern SMs to hand, unfortunately.

When it comes to sci-fi and fantasy figs, I don't buy the paradox, or at least I think there's room to work within it.

As this thread shows sci-fi and fantasy have enough leway that a good artist can produce an armored female figure that looks armored and female without resorting to open shirts and exposed belly's.

Now such a figure is going to have some exagerations from the real human female norm (thinner waist, more pronounced chest, slimmer figure, exageratedly feminine facial features) but it need not be as exagerated as most fantasy figures. It's easy to see which sculpts are trying to achieve balance within the paradox and which are simply catering to imaginary ideals.

As soon as the belly button makes it's appearance on a uniformed female fighting fig, it becomes clear which side the sculptor has fallen on. Though if it's a good fig, I'll break out the putty. I've got an Iron Kingdoms figure with two pistols and a cape that's waiting for this treatment.

Dark Sword has some really good, convincing female models that manage to avoid excessive amounts of skin or boobcup armor.



Red Box Games has a lot of really good female fantasy minis too. Here are a couple from the first few pages.

Ouze wrote:Hey, I looked at the pricing for that Sedition Wars female terrorist, and before I buy it - how is the scale? I know they say 32mm, but how would, say, the female terrorist look mixed with GWS SM Scouts? There is only one pic in the gallery of her, with nothing for size reference.

Scarper's got a nice Necromunda modelling blog over in P&M with a bunch of GW figures and he recently got a few Sedition Wars minis. Link here.

I own this mini, it is cool.

Good job that man!

And well done Zefig for posting the link.

The Emporess Approves!

I see (I realy do) what you did there

MeanGreenStompa This thread is called "Female minis with their clothes on " dental floss doesn't count no matter how cool it is.



http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/wyrd-miniatures/guild/sonnia-criid-witch-hunter.html



http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/scibor-monstrous-miniatures/28mm-30mm-dwarf-girl.html



http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/wyrd-miniatures/resurrectionists/kirai-ankoku.html

I just convert my own fighting woman characters from true scale 28mm male models. The scale works out in a way that makes them look slim compared to Heroic 28mm male models. To bring them into heroic and change the gender you just need to swap out the head and hands. Pick one that doesn't have exposed flesh and has a decent amount of armour or robes, and you're set.



This Daemon Huntress is Red Box Game's HighLord Valerion the Gilded, with a head swap (Hasslefree), and soon to be re-sculpted hands. I also added a new sword and a power plant. Of course, this technique isn't perfect, as I have had to thicken the shield and I will probably need to raise the knee a tad, but it should be a decent way of getting a ton of character models for Fantasy and 40k. Lord of the Rings models also work for this, as I used one of the character Ringwraiths for a Word Bearer Zealot priest.

I love that Scibor female Dwarf, if I could see how she scales to GW Dwarves I'd be half tempted to start bringing my Dwarf army up to speed.

Especially with the plastic Slayers coming out from AoW.

Red Box do some very nice female dwarves too

Kilkrazy wrote:Buzzsaw hit the problem on the head.

There is no point making female figures that don't look in some way female. The trick is how to achieve that without the use of dubious uniforms.

I'm honestly not sure there is a solution that maintains realism and is able to convey gender.

I mean, reality is;
and

Legs and arms covered with either armor plates or loose cloth, helmeted and with a rigid plate defining the chest, all that is really left is the face; on a 28mm scale model, how big is that, the size of one's pinky finger nail?

But at the same time, there is a desire for female minis (for various reasons).

Minis that have the head cast with the body allow for liberties to be taken with the hair, but that compromises the consumer's ability to pose the model. It's no mistake that the models we've seen so far in this thread (to the best of my knowledge) are all metal.

Can anyone think of a genuinely good female mini in plastic? Other the the DE figures, I'm not sure I can.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I own this mini, it is cool.

Trollin' like a boss.

It is hard to make a female in armor look female without exagerating some feature(s).

Here is my wife, in full IBA with all ballistic plates in.



She is a d-cup, but you sure can't tell that from the picture. Some sculptors are REALLY good at faces, and there is a place you can make a difference. Sculpting the figure with head gear off can make that easier, but is not going to always be realistic.

Nope but like you said, a good sculptor will be able to depict feminine facial features even with the helm on.

The body shape of your wife is still female
Might be a subtle difference in 28mm but there are skilled sculptors with a good eye out there that could do it.

Buzzsaw wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Buzzsaw hit the problem on the head.

There is no point making female figures that don't look in some way female. The trick is how to achieve that without the use of dubious uniforms.

I'm honestly not sure there is a solution that maintains realism and is able to convey gender.

I don't think many folks are really looking for realism. This is sci-fi and fantasy, afterall.

A totaly realistic approach renders 28mm figs in body army nearly androgenous, while a completely stylized approach has mini barbies with anime implants and guns that cover more than their clothes do. When dealing with female sci-fi military models, its much better to find the middle road that makes the figure look suitably dressed and military, while allowing for a few exagerations of proportion to make her visibly female on the tabletop.

On a more serious note, I created a female Knight of the Blazing Sun on the mmo WAR and the armour was excellently done, feminine whilst not gratuitous or comedic. I'd love a character model like that to lead my forthcoming Marienburg army and would pay dollar for it.


On a less serious note, I do indeed own that Army Brat model and will be using her for a counts as Sly Marbo one day... My wife bought it for me as a valentines day present.

Kilkrazy wrote:





I'm anti the bare belly button look, but it can be fixed with putty.



There are two more in their resin limited edition lineup.

Where are these from??

That woman is far too good for you MGS

You are probably correct Eilif.
The infinity range do a good job in providing body armour yet you can easily tell that the soldier is a female.
Thinking about it some of the female characters are so OTT how do we know they are not actually ladyboys?

Some of em have all the overstated female stereotyping of drag queens

Vikingscott, those are the Sedition Wars minis from Studio McVey http://www.studiomcvey.com/

Sweeet. Thanks a lot.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:That woman is far too good for you MGS

You are probably correct Eilif.
The infinity range do a good job in providing body armour yet you can easily tell that the soldier is a female.
Thinking about it some of the female characters are so OTT how do we know they are not actually ladyboys?

Some of em have all the overstated female stereotyping of drag queens

Well, Infinity has taken a good deal of cues from the Manga and Anime styles for their artwork, and to some degree, their models... This, imo tends to lead to females wearing armor, yet still retaining a good deal of femininity.There are still a few models from the Infinity line that fall into the OTT category. The various sculpts for the Reverend Moiras come to mind (sorry, my ability to link the pics direct from the site are lacking)

I don't know, I thought the Reverend Moira was rather conservatively attired.



oh
you mean that one:


Do we really need to see the full moon?

definatly! was a moonworshiper my whole life^^

Is, is that one girl's gun attatched to her spine?

Anvildude wrote:Is, is that one girl's gun attatched to her spine?

If you mean the 3rd from the top it could just be some sort of power/data feed link.

It's the power feed for her bionic/power arm and possibly the gun also.

But she doesn't have a bionic arm! Data link, I could see, though.

Anvildude wrote:But she doesn't have a bionic arm! Data link, I could see, though.

Would be kind of cool if the thing around her neck looked more like a night vision scope. Maybe it's supposed to be one, but it looks more like a respirator type thingy.

Oops, I was looking at the top model.

It is an odd choice. why would a gun the size of an SAW be wired to a powerpack the size of a paperback rather than just putting the papeback on the SAW?

Balance wrote:

Anvildude wrote:But she doesn't have a bionic arm! Data link, I could see, though.

Would be kind of cool if the thing around her neck looked more like a night vision scope. Maybe it's supposed to be one, but it looks more like a respirator type thingy.

I figured she had a HUD in her goggles.

At the risk of undermining my "interested in realism" cred, here is one fantastical miniature that I just love;



2 things right off the top;

- Look at that freaking dinosaur! Ahem...

- While there is quite the "Daisy Duke" vibe to the figure, I find that it's appropriate, and actually enhances the figure. A sort-of-rustic attitude to go with the Western/Fantasy/Post-Apocalyptic feel of the rest of the model.

Really, Studio McVey suffers from an embarrassment of riches in terms of great female minis.

If the critter had a bit and halter and she was holding reins I would like that figure. As it is, I see the critter chucking then eating the rider.

Even if she did not get eaten, ask any female with decent sized breasts how she likes bouncing up and down on a horse without a good bra. We have horses. My wife and her friends usually wear sports bras when riding for a reason. So, no, her attire is not really appropriate if she was going to be a real cowgirl, even on a dinosaur.

This is why we don't invite you to parties, you know

any female with decent sized breasts, how she likes bouncing up and down on a horse without a good bra

Better I say nothing and just leave that thought to your own imaginings

CptJake wrote:If the critter had a bit and halter and she was holding reins I would like that figure. As it is, I see the critter chucking then eating the rider.

Even if she did not get eaten, ask any female with decent sized breasts how she likes bouncing up and down on a horse without a good bra. We have horses. My wife and her friends usually wear sports bras when riding for a reason. So, no, her attire is not really appropriate if she was going to be a real cowgirl, even on a dinosaur.

I just dunno what to do with this pair of comments...

A bit? Are you mad? You don't bridle a noble creature like that... besides, as we all know, Velociraptors are far too intelligent for such chicanery...

Besides, you can't compare the butter-smooth, sensuous ride of a bipedal raptor to a common... ungulate. Uch.

Hmmm, One thing that I will add to this, I liked the Tau because all indications were that they are reptilian in nature, and there are very few differences outwardly between males and females of a reptilian species, exce3pt color markings and size of crests/dewlaps, etc. otherwise you really can't tell under the firewarrior/pathfinder/battlesuits what gender they are. Just my 2 cents for fully clothed females.

That's not a raptor, that's a tiny Allosaur. And it does have reigns, on those useful little protrusions on his lower jaw.

There is no room for unrealistic miniatures in the 40k range ... wait!

The Reverend Moiras mooning issue is easily dealt with by painting the buttocks as cloth.

Everyone should walk around with their buttocks painted as cloth. It would be a brave new world.

terribletrygon wrote:Everyone should walk around with their buttocks painted as cloth. It would be a brave new world.

Don't you mean paint your clothing like buttocks? Get it right!

a large chunk of the reaper models have tastefully dressed female models.

Example.
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/chronoscope/latest/50227

according to the figure finder just in Female models alone Found 740 figures

http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#search/Female

Buzzsaw wrote:At the risk of undermining my "interested in realism" cred, here is one fantastical miniature that I just love;



2 things right off the top;

- Look at that freaking dinosaur! Ahem...

- While there is quite the "Daisy Duke" vibe to the figure, I find that it's appropriate, and actually enhances the figure. A sort-of-rustic attitude to go with the Western/Fantasy/Post-Apocalyptic feel of the rest of the model.

Really, Studio McVey suffers from an embarrassment of riches in terms of great female minis.

I don't know if you've heard of a web-series "DrMcNinja" but I think it would be right up your alley, lol

Aye this is a good figure, hmm really need to see what kind of scale difference there are between these and GW figs.

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/female/latest/60025#detail/IG_668_1

IIRC the scale on the right side of the B/W pic is half inches.
But would it be a problem, if the female miniature is smaller than a GW male one?

It can be. I have a Hasslefree mini that looks like a ten year old in comparison to GW minis.

terribletrygon wrote:It can be. I have a Hasslefree mini that looks like a ten year old in comparison to GW minis.

Newt doesn't count!



Or any of the other kids.

Zefig wrote:

terribletrygon wrote:It can be. I have a Hasslefree mini that looks like a ten year old in comparison to GW minis.

Newt doesn't count!



Or any of the other kids.

Child soldiers. *awesome*.anybody have any objection to me fielding an IG army of them?

Man, these are some good minis.

Sister_Lucy wrote:Female minis with their clothes on

THIS



King Ghidorah

Nice link to a black screen Ghidorah

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Nice link to a black screen Ghidorah

Yeah that's all I got too.

yup for me too...and i was so eagerly waiting for more clothed female minis^^ (do i sound like a pervert now?)

Yes, but only because you used an otaku emote.

VikingScott wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Nice link to a black screen Ghidorah

Yeah that's all I got too.

Viktor von Domm wrote:yup for me too...and i was so eagerly waiting for more clothed female minis^^ (do i sound like a pervert now?)

Use Firefox? It's a working YTMND page... A serious one. Not a joke answer. Not at all.



King Ghidorah

I don't use firefox.

use IE and still not showing up...

When you temprarily allow scripts and Java, it is just a video of a maybe 3 foot tall woman firing a gun, so not serious at all.

after searching for the text on that page via google pic hunt i found this... sorry if off topic but a certain mod might find it interesting^^

Yeah... A coworker just said it wasn't working for her either...

It was this, but with an awesome tune:





King Ghidorah

This is rather off topic.

oh
after all that
The black screen was more interesting

One of Ollie's Army by the looks of things Vik
and yes it is OT, the female daschund is nakee!

+1 for Freebooter (Klockenbooty); PP; hasslefree and Wyrd

well chibi i thought it is always good to sooth the spirits of a totalitarian overseer...and best is to do it beforehand... one never knows when it is needed^^

Ghidorah wrote:

Sister_Lucy wrote:Female minis with their clothes on

THIS



King Ghidorah

lmfao
+1

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