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Funny what you can find with a completely random search

http://www.thewarstore.com/MASMiniatures.html



$10 for 2 of them.

EDIT no wonder I couldn't find them, they're listed under scenic bases... gotta drop Neil a line.

I spy Dark Mechanicum!

Nice find Kid!

Here's the manufacture's site, better for people in Europe.

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/miniatures-c-36.html

Yeah Micro art makes them so they are under scenic bases.

They make wings too for them, and a little crippled mechanicus on techno-hoveround.

EDIT:


Their minis are great in theme, average in sculpt in my opinion.

Those'd by fantastic (counts-as) Servitors in an AdMech army based on the DH codex. Or as numbers in an ][munda gang.

Hmm from their website:

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/miniatures-c-36.html

Amazon heads

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/images/CL_Heads_Amazons_set1.jpg


And bodies
http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/images/CL_Amazons_torsos_set1.jpg


I can see a lot of people finding used for them. You'd have to use elf legs and arms but they you can do SOBs, female guard, all sorts of stuff.

Does Neal sell those parts, too?

Hmm

http://www.thewarstore.com/MicroArtStudios.html

Apparently not. Worth emailing him though if people want them.

Anyone know what scale they are? Do they match up w/ the current 40k stuff?...if so, those guys will joining my army in some fashion. Those are Very nice

edit: here's a link to nice looking servitor models too
http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/obsequious-servant-p-81.html

How are they amazon bodies with two breasts? I thought Amazons cut one off to make bow firing easier (according to the ancient Greek 'fluff')

chaplaingrabthar wrote:How are they amazon bodies with two breasts? I thought Amazons cut one off to make bow firing easier (according to the ancient Greek 'fluff')

That is the 'history' for the amazon warrior women from what I recall. However, I'm willing to forgo that bit of information to avoid having models with a needless masectomy. If I wanted that, I'd just use the current Daemonette torso's. The tech priest looking guys are an awesome find good job on that KK.

Women shoot bows just fine with the normal assortment of breasts. Until they get REALLY large they don't get in the way, and can be strapped down well.

Also, these are in hoplite style armor, not lighter archer or skirmish type kit, so perhaps there is a caste thing going on (should you care to specify.)

I love the Warstore, but they really need to clean up their website some. I have a hell of a time finding stuff, mostly because of their sorting system I think.

Women are sometimes hindered in archery by the way the bones in their arms are positioned, some men do too

I'm still waiting for those MAS Grot Kommissar heads.

Rymafyr wrote:That is the 'history' for the amazon warrior women from what I recall. However, I'm willing to forgo that bit of information to avoid having models with a needless masectomy. If I wanted that, I'd just use the current Daemonette torso's. The tech priest looking guys are an awesome find good job on that KK.

From wikipedia:

there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the right is frequently covered.

Take it with a grain of wiki salt, but I have always heard that the whole "cut of their breast to shoot a bow better" was false.

Good find on the mechanicus-y dudes, KK. I had been wanting to get some of those but didn't feel up to ordering from Europe.

Um were there ever real amazons? If not this is a pointless debate.

But yeah I've heard both the 1 breast (supposedly a-mazon is without a breast in Gree) and that it was a mistake.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Um were there ever real amazons? If not this is a pointless debate.

But yeah I've heard both the 1 breast (supposedly a-mazon is without a breast in Gree) and that it was a mistake.

Pointless indeed. On the topic however, does anyone know if there are more of these tech-priest like guys being planned? I figure I'll pick up some of the basic guys, though I'm not a huge fan of the tracked guys.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Hmm from their website:

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/miniatures-c-36.html

Amazon heads

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/images/CL_Heads_Amazons_set1.jpg


And bodies
http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/images/CL_Amazons_torsos_set1.jpg


I can see a lot of people finding used for them. You'd have to use elf legs and arms but they you can do SOBs, female guard, all sorts of stuff.

Nice find Kyoto.

Scythian women were known to fight alongside their men, generally as horse archers, in Roman times. They are often considered the basis for Amazon type myths around the area.

To further put the masectomy issue into the ground, consider that many women shoot archery today. The Olympics does not have a lower ratio of breasts per woman than other sporting events.

I suspect such stories are more along the lines of "Look what those crazy barbarians do!" than a well reasoned or actually observed phenomenon. Humans love those sorts of stories.

Isn't the original source for that Herodotus? Good read actually think Bill Bryson BC. The scythians are the basis for the myth several "warrior women tombs" have been found. The breasts however were normal (as they were frozen mummies they were found).