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I'd probably be in for a squad's worth. I use my space marines with other rule sets vice 40k anyway so fluff doesn't weigh in on my decision at all.

Jake

I wouldn't buy female marine bits, though I would buy "power-armoured females" from a company that can actually do correctly proportioned sculpts - Reaper for example.

BaronIveagh wrote:I'm all about undermining ethos + profit. Here's the thing, guys: once more, we've heard a lot about fluff, but not much about 'Do you think people would buy it?"

Example: this is discussed in another thread, but say I produce X number of fem marine bits to make your own fem marine army. Would there be, say, 80 people in the whole of the internet that would but it? 800? 8000?

Thoughts?

If you are really serious, sculpt one, cast it in resin and offer it for sale. That will give you some idea of the work involved and the possible level of interest.

Build it as a kit of parts, so you can change some of the parts to do variants. That reduces the amount of work for making different models. I mean, all the torsos, helmets and backpacks can be the same, so you only need sculpt different limbs, weapons and accessories.

I still think you will have trouble with GW's IP department.

if i had the budget for buying these super soldiers of a female persuasion, then i would gladly order about at least 10 of them to form a unique squad of them. unfortunaltly it seems im to broke to buy such things now but who knows times are a changin`
i personlay like the manga styled super soldiers, there cute and as for now i didn´t know that i had certain sexual comlexes or that i suffer from loneliness and have to compensate my needs with boobs on soldiers. its just a methode of spicing up ones army and giving the whole army more detail and not some look of soldiers right out of massproduction style.

Kilkrazy wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:I'm all about undermining ethos + profit. Here's the thing, guys: once more, we've heard a lot about fluff, but not much about 'Do you think people would buy it?"

Example: this is discussed in another thread, but say I produce X number of fem marine bits to make your own fem marine army. Would there be, say, 80 people in the whole of the internet that would but it? 800? 8000?

Thoughts?

If you are really serious, sculpt one, cast it in resin and offer it for sale. That will give you some idea of the work involved and the possible level of interest.

Build it as a kit of parts, so you can change some of the parts to do variants. That reduces the amount of work for making different models. I mean, all the torsos, helmets and backpacks can be the same, so you only need sculpt different limbs, weapons and accessories.

I still think you will have trouble with GW's IP department.

I'm not too worried about it. As far as IP law goes, I'm in a big gray area. Courts have defined my place of residence as a 'domestically dependent sovereign nation'. SNI does not actually 'have' IP laws and is not signatory to the Berne accord, and as far as non-violent crimes go, the US has no jurisdiction here. Throw in that I am not directly challenging their IP and I doubt they'll bother me, and if they do they don't have a leg to stand on.

I would get at least 10 for the god Slaanesh for sure.

Power armoured Libby from Hasslefree Miniatures:

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=185

I don't fancy yours much...

I would buy alot, I'm tryin to incorperate them in my chapter, there would be a few in every squad.

Like I said before, (I'm guessing my earlier comment got swept aside in the earlier off-topic discussion), I would probably buy one or two to have some token girls in my army, but again, only if the were conservatively done, and looked right at home with the boys.

I probably wouldn't be interested in a whole army of them, though.

A converted Libby, from my gallery. It's a great piece, but a lot smaller than a S/M. I'll get a comparison pic up when my camera batteries are charged.



I would be quite interested to see where this goes...

IF they look like that, and have a variety of poses, you WILL sell a LOT of them.

Across the reach of the Internet, I dare say you'd sell a thousand, easy.

Well, IF they quality is there and the price is not outrageous...

If they were scuplted like ^^ and reasonably priced i would certainly be interested.... :-)

Alpharius wrote:

IF they look like that, and have a variety of poses, you WILL sell a LOT of them.

Across the reach of the Internet, I dare say you'd sell a thousand, easy.

Well, IF they quality is there and the price is not outrageous...

There you go.

Do a test model and start taking orders. People sell limited edition resin figures for $10 to $20 each. If you got 1,000 orders you would be in the money.

I think models for fem marines is going to be like chapterhouse. Some will like the idea but not buy anything. My friend thinks chapterhouse stuff is great, if he played Salamanders or Dragons. As it is with female marines, I think it might be a "one off stand-alone model for display" purchase for most. If there were plastic SOB I think it could be more accepted as a bitz barn but at that point they're not FSM.

Now, female IG is something I have hunted for and would buy by the platoon. Darn Phoenix club for closing.

Actually TPC was hacked, the site hijacked and loaded with virii and the original owner seems to have vanished so no one else can put it back up.

I think of it as a pre-emptive strike by GW. LOL

If you NEED female marines to gawk at go to the US Marine site.. Otherwise lets keep within 40k fluff!

Sexy looking space marines would be beyond absurd.. If you're desperate for that.. get 300$ and pay some girl in vegas to satisify your fantasy

I don't know why people persist that female Space Marines are a good idea, or why they won't ever let it die. The image that keeps getting reposted of the resin female Marine is actually a pretty good sculpt, but I still don't see why people care so much about this non-issue.

Man, I sure wish my Genestealers could have boobs! That'd be the best!

Jollydevil wrote: Not to mention the weapons would have to be reproduced to fit their hands better.

I hate to tell you this but even now the military does not do this. So why would it have to be done in the far future?

Brother SRM wrote:I don't know why people persist that female Space Marines are a good idea, or why they won't ever let it die. The image that keeps getting reposted of the resin female Marine is actually a pretty good sculpt, but I still don't see why people care so much about this non-issue.

Man, I sure wish my Genestealers could have boobs! That'd be the best!

Because people always want things they're told they can't have.

And for some reason I seem to recall someone doing genestealers that looked different depending on which 40k race that had spawned from (Tau, Orks, etc). And you do have genestealers with breasts. Just look on 4chan. ROFL


That said: we have some people interested, some opposed on fluff grounds, but other then that...

CT GAMER wrote:

Captain Shrike wrote:Maby:

?

But, seriosly, Power armour would obscure all features.

The only thing worse then a female space marine is an anime female space marine...

Hmmm...I may have to model one for the Vangaurd Vets my shrike stand-in is rollin with

I would prefer some well sculpted heads rather than full figures.
As they are going to have to fit the army's theme, a full figure would have to be converted anyway.

I was considering Wood Elf noggins, but since looking in the spares box have decided that they are unsuitable because of the shape of the head.

I would probably buy some, assuming the sculptor knows female anatomy.

I'm interested, but small scale castings always cost a billion dollars.

If 10 models can't at least compete with the already awful GWS prices, I wouldn't be interested.

So for me, aesthetically I'm interested. Price would be a factor though.

I also personally would only want to use them in a Slaanesh army, so chaos bits would be necessary that fit their presumably different scale.

The Dreadnote wrote:Great. Now I've gotta go look for bubblegum crisis.

Try Here http://www.gtns.co.uk/store1/commerce.cgi?product=BGC&exact_match=on&cart_id=4589914.14349

I'd get a few I'd probably have at least 2 squads (vanguard for RG, sternguard for CF) just so i could paint something thats not the same old marine sculpt, same goes for guard, if the cadians had some female sculpts and a few more poses rather than whole squads of identical men holding their lasgun in identical positions, one squads took 3 years to do cause they were so dull

I don't see what all hate is for. I know that there will always be people who want female space marines, I'm just surprised at all the "GIRLS ARE ICKY" posts.

Also nice sculpt there.

This is what a female space marine would look like (credit to ZandrisIV):



See this thread on our very own DakkaDakka.

Chibi Bodge-Battle is correct that the best way to do this would be to simply put a female head on a marine (though realistically, they would probably have short hair to fit inside the helmet). Any talk of having boobs on the armor or anything is just preposterous. Female IG that are somewhat anatomically different (within reason!) are plausible. But a woman in full plate armor would not look different than a similarly-sized man. Armor doesn't become skinnier and more form-fitting just because the wearer is a girl. It would still have to have the same thickness, power plant, and servo-musculature as a male. Think about it. It is 3+ inch thick unobtanium plating attached to an powered exoskeleton. At that level of bulk, you won't notice anatomical differences between the sex of the wearer.

If you want to know more about female armor, please read this informative post about why female breastplates would not have boobs. (short answer, not only are they not necessary, they would actually make the armor less effective): link

While you're right, what has reality got to do with 40K?

There isn't any point making a female marine model unless it looks different to a male marine.

phwoar look at the hips on that! lol


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i mean the first pic btw

The cuirass with the aquila looks feminine to me anyway- as per the Zandris figure above.

While I have a certain sympathy with your sentiment Killkrazy, the point about deflecting surfaces in the article is a good one.

It is a futile exercise to go to all the trouble of creating super humans in power armour, if that armour is going to deflect projectiles towards the vital areas.