Hey guys, Im looking for combat or combat related 1/35th female figures, I know Zvedia has two sets with female russian snipers, but the detail is horrible. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Type “female” into the search function at The Red Lancer and you’ll get pretty much all the female figures available right now in scale.
That is definatly not all of them, search only yielded 4 pages of results, 70% being semi or completly topless females. I have seen other female figures in scale that wernt listed as well, thanks anyhow.
just to say it, im NOT looking for topless figures
There are some here http://www.milminwh.com/ a few native american female figures, but the sculpting on the face is severly subpar on the ones that would be really good
(especially the female on the horse ith the papoose
A few that I can think of. First, Tamiya do a Soviet tank crewwoman in their ‘Russian Tank Crew at Rest’ set:
https://www.megahobby.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2558
second, Dragon do a set of Red Army snipers which includes a female figure:
http://www.dragon-models.com/html/dragon05.html#6068
third, the Italeri 1/35 Schwimmwagen includes a figure of a Luftwaffe Hilferin:
https://www.ask-models.com/shop/italeri/military-1/35/italeri-1/35-schwimmwagen/prod_457.html
I’m sure there are others.
Cheers,
Chris.
Thing I hate about dragon kits, is they show you box art, and thats it. I REFUSE to buy a kit if I cant see what the figures look like
Trumpeter, MiniArt, and Tri Star also include some female Soviet figues in sets of theirs. I do recall seeing some metal figures of US W.A.S.P. figures and WWII era nurses as well. I dont recall any UK female figures offhand. MasterBox just released a set of French Maquis figures that include at least one female guerilla fighter.
http://www.trumpeter-china.com/war513/products/en_message.asp?id=410#
I’v seen those masterbox figures before, there ALOT like my esci french resistance figures, the female figure is really close to the same pose.
I stumbled across some the other night, there was a Russian Female Tanker. She was dressed in proper soviet clothing, well a tanktop and combat pants. Same manufacturer also had an Israeli female officer in dress uniform with an Uzi. I think they were Andrea Miniatures, but I’m probably wrong on that. Fontegris Miniatures also has a female Soviet officer in Winter uniform.
Keep i mind, I found these while looking for topless figures. [(-D]
Yea, I saw those they wernt bad, but what Im really after are russian female snipers, and such, they always make them as civvies or noncombat roles
If I were to undertake that project, I’d pick up a set of female heads, some resin Russian snipers, and some Green Stuff resin putty and do a little scratchbuilding to add the curves that a lady. I find it doubtful that there are a whole lot of finely sculpted female snipers out there on the market. I think the uniforms of the Red Army were kind of gender neutral, especially in winter…
Remember that all women dont have the figure of Pam Anderson.
God Playboy… hehehe sorry couldn’t resist
if your talking rpg females
try reaper
http://paizo.com/store/games/miniatures/miniaturesForRoleplaying/darkHeaven/humanoid/human/female
here is a link site of different manufactures of mini’s
http://paizo.com/store/games/miniatures/miniaturesForRoleplaying/darkHeaven/humanoid/human/female
My mother-in-law made a nice one. Scale is 1-1 though
Hi, smeagol, here is a link to a Japanese sculptor’s (sculptrix’) site, Aurora Models:
http://www.aurora-model.jp/e-index.html
Among the subjects on her site are military women, though not necessarily in combat poses, rather, in poses between actions, and also, a good number of WWII German military women, like Luftwaffe personnel, and so on.
Regards,
Brad
some of them are fairly nice, but I dont know how to work with, or mod metal figures…
Great site !!! I wish more of those figgies were in resin instead of white metal…[banghead]
I have seen his figures at Armorama. They look more like Japanese Anime than actual females to me. The sculptor said they were too. From an Armorama post.
“What you say is right.
but I cannot think that the expression of a real face is pretty.
so I make only a little with an anime type. This is my style.”
I don’t get the whole “I cannot think that the expression of a real face is pretty” bit. To each thier own though.
I can see your point, though I don’t think they’re as stylized as classic anime girls are, and they actually remind me more of the old Phoenix Model Development figures, especially the Tim Richards sculpts.
To save folks some time, here’s an example of what we’re talking about, three different Wehrmacht signals auxiliaries:
I could see using these in a diorama, depending on how you paint them.
Regards,
Brad
Similar process to working with styrene or resin, that is, similar methods, and even the tools and much of the material you might use on a plastic or resin figure, can be used on a metal one.
That is, you get the raw casting, you need to assemble it, putty it, prime and paint it. So, you would still wind up sanding, filing or scraping mold lines; you’d probably want to pin any joints with stiff wire or brass rod (uh, huh-huh, rod! huh-huh-huh), and use CA glue or 2-part epoxy to glue the pieces. Modifying poses is pretty similar, again, removing material (like a wedge of an arm, to bend the elbow), adding filler and/or a pin, then puttying, priming and painting. About the only things I can think of that I wouldn’t do is use plastic cement on the metal figure, or try to solder the plastic one [;)]
hmmm… I guess so, just something about those metal kits, they look like toy soldiers, the way there almost completly put together, always makes it hard for me to see what needs to be painted what.
Also, if you were so inclined, you could just recast the metal into resin, eh’?
there is nothing wrong with metal and usually once paitned you canot tell a metal fig from a resin fig. it all comes down to painting.
the first figs I painted were Phoenix Phollies 80MM figs, all girls. Great thing about metal figs------you can dry them in the oven on the lowest setting for 15 minutes and you can strip the paint with Easy Off. Cant do that with resin!!!1