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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.