Vermis wrote:

femmemarine wrote:
@Elbows - The whole body and armor is thinner and shaped to have a female look. I don't want them to look like Schwarzneger with Sharon Stone head on them.
Legs will be thinner and longer, bust will have a hint of a breast and so on.

I try not to negatively criticise hobby projects, but while I'm sure you have noble intentions and the render looks sharp, it looks and sounds like your design is based on fantasy tropes and assumptions about female anatomy and female armour, rather than what the former, at least, really is.

To begin with, I agree with Elbows. I'll also throw space marine powered armour in there - inches-thick armour that covers anatomy and bulks it out. But even thinning the layer down a bit, the design here looks very skinny in places. The effect's added to by the - frankly - extreme length of the legs. (Fun fact - female legs are generally, proportionally shorter than male legs. It's the higher waistline that make them seem longer.) Although the torso piece is one of the thicker, spaced-out pieces of this design, the fact that it's still going to be externally shaped to accommodate breasts suggests a hefty endowment on the otherwise thin frame. It's a body shape that Sharon Stone would've failed to match. Sorry to say, the overall effect puts me in mind of a different plastic toy.
And we're talking about people who've been genetically modified and roided up to become enormously strong, barely-human super-soldiers. You don't want Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that's fair enough, but I dunno if supermodel+ is entirely appropriate either!

Putting aside overidealised anatomy: with real-life plate armour and it's necessary padding, body shape is obscured and there's little apparent difference between the sexes. I'd say the same would be more true of powered armour.

It's your project to do what you like, and you've already put a lot of work into it, so I don't want to stop you. But I'd say that a bit more subtlety in the design wouldn't kill it it dead, either.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
@femmemarine Well, you can take some inspiration from mythology. Emperor's Valkyries? Andraste's Chosen? You can go the generic route: chapter names like "Salamanders" don't exactly scream "we are all males". Once you pick up a name, a symbol should be easy to figure out.

 Big Mac wrote:
Chapter name- Rainbow warriors, doh, already taken; how about goo goo dolls, chapter master pussy galore, battlecry- cum and get it!

KINGPIN54 wrote:
I think the mouth part on the helmet needs to be worked on a bit, looks weird, the handle on the gun needs to be a bit thinner in order for the hand to grip it tighter, other than that looking good so far. P.s a slight butt crack probably won't hurt either.

 rayphoton wrote:
Can't ever go wrong with the pointing pose

 Stormonu wrote:
Minis are looking good, like the Coatyl emblem.

I'd like to see a variation on the breather that comes to a point at the bottom (like a kite shield), and is pointed inward instead of outward. May look too Banshee, though.

I'd be curious to see what a power fist would look like on this armor, as well as what the assault version would look like if you go with the Valkyrie theme.