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Hi everyone.

With the WE book coming up and around the bend soon, I've been working on collecting models for a WE "counts as" using models of Amazons.

The first problem I immediately noticed is that there are a lot of different ideas of what makes an amazon.

Note.

Amazon 1. The "Greek/Roman"Trojan" Amazon.




This pretty much constitutes any Amazons that wear breastplates and use shields/spears/etc. They tend to come from historical range makers.


Amazon 2. Something naked.




These come up a lot while searching. The theme varies from arcane, to jungle, to gothic, to really anything as long as bewbs are showing. I get so tired of wading through these.


Amazon 3. The Jungle.



THIS is what I'm talking about. The Jungle Amazon. Often with thick gold bracelets, Incan/Mayan/S. American Indian themes.

Sadly, these also seem to be the shortest in supply. Does anyone know a good range of these models? The Freebooter Line is great, but meant for a much smaller skirmish game and seems to me like the highly detailed ladies there would be characters instead of rank and file. Luckily, I won't be ranking up too many units with high elves, so repitition isn't as terrible. I'm just trying to find more models to work with! I found a few on reaper..but again, those are mostly character material. I've about decided that as hard a search as this is, I'm going to have to convert bows in if I want them because hardly any of the few amazon models I've found have them.

PS. I don't hate naked amazons, as long as they are a good model and make sense and aren't just naked for the lulz.

Awesome work! I really like the golds on the first one.

I agree. Whoever painted these did well!

I've yet to put paint to a model, as I want to get the logistics down first. I need help finding models!

http://members.optushome.com.au/cynan/Miniatures.htm

They make a rather large assortment. Regular people feet and then the ferals which offer an additional set of options like fawns and centaurs.

None of them have one breast cut off.

Given some of the rather busty girls I know who do archery for fun, somehow I doubt the whole 'cutting off breasts to shoot better' thing ever actually happened. "Without a breast" doubtless denotes women who had an excess of exercise and a lack of body fat.

Either that or it's a euphemism for women who don't like men but want to be just like them. "Not very feminine" would be the polite way to say it.

EDIT: Okay, that was a total thread derail, sorry...

Thanks a bunch Vulcan.

As you probably know Wargames Factory makes a cheap box set of Amazons. (Grecco/Roman, but good for modding w/ kneaditite.) They look way better -especially with the proper time and effort put into them- than the horrid paintjob on their website makes it seem.

I was considering the Wargames Factory because I WILL need rank and file... but they're the wrong kind of Amazon for me.

Even worse, I don't know what part I would use if I got them. The heads are bad from what I can see and the bodies all have breastplates. (This would be fine if I was doing "Empire" or some other sort of counts as...but not for Wood Elves.)

Niexist wrote:
None of them have one breast cut off.

Because then they would be dead from infections for no gain.