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Okay do you think these would be a suitable substitue for Sister of Battle minis?

Not really, no. They don't really say "Religious nutjobs with swords" to me.

They make me think guardsmen in carapace armour.

They look more like IG than they do Sisters. The cast-quality also makes them look like they came out of a bubblegum machine.

Female Guards Batalion.

Is there anything in the fluff whether there is such a thing at all? Artwork is male exclusive...

 Kosake wrote:
Female Guards Batalion.

Is there anything in the fluff whether there is such a thing at all? Artwork is male exclusive...

Xenan Free Legions are entirely female, just to name one.
Just because the artwork (and it isn't, actually) is male-dominant does not mean the IG is. Certain Regiments, sure. In the balance across the entire Imperium? 50/50 split, some units are co-ed, some are all-male or all-female.
The artwork of Only War depicts a lot of female Guardsmen from a bunch of different Regiments.

Ralis wrote:

Okay do you think these would be a suitable substitute for Sister of Battle minis?

As in, "Would I let you field them as a SOB army?" Sure, to each their own.

If you're asking if I would find them suitable to build my own army around, nope. I'd only play SOB for the aesthetic and they don't suit my tastes.

Thank you all for your thoughts.

I think I'm going to continue looking for other options.

Raging Heroes is going to do a Kickstarter later this year (or early next year) for a 'not Sisters' army. They have chronic lateness problems, but their miniatures are absolutely gorgeous. (And unless my calculations are off, even at their boutique prices, you'd STILL pay less than with GW.)

In any event, that's when I'll be buying into a Sisters army. You might find some good stuff there, too!

Yeah, that Cloistered Order of... something or other. They look pretty freaking good.

Or you could just use the official models, helping us run GW out of metal stock so they actually give us our plastics...

That said, these guys are also in production;

http://dreamforge-games.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/preview-of-eisenkern-valkir-20-powered.html

Or you could do what some other Sisters players have done and built them out of modified Dark Eldar with Space Marine parts, which can look pretty good;

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3671/11542120985_bc0c11e029.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7301/11542159514_e3907beb4d.jpg

Interesting Idea. but the pics for the conversion aren't coming up.