1930s Imagi-Nation / VBCW / Soviet Female Soldier (conversion)

[Roy]

[Penraken did cast the original miniature, so its only half a "Non-Pendraken Stuff  ]

1930s Imagi-Nation / VBCW / Soviet Female Soldier (conversion)

My Conversion of Belt Fed Gaming's (BFG17) WW2 Soviet Sniper













I covered the breasts, using green stuff, with a blouse top.
I removed the right arm, before pinning it back in an alternate position.
Then attached a flag pole and made for it a hand-painted flag.

The figure was a gift for a wargamer, who has a 1930s Imagi-Nation called Klintanistan. If you were wondering why the label.

The painted example figure, at Colonel Bills:

[Leman]

Funny how a very large number of female wargame figures have outrageously large breasts. Breastfeeding a fevered imagination? Does Donald Trump wargame?

[d_Guy]

Great looking figure (no pun intended!), Roy. I think you have made her look much more plausible.

@Leman - Donald Trump AND Bill Clinton,  "just a couple of red-blooded American boys"*
Want to keep the forum non-partisan 


*one of my favorite Bill Mauldin cartoons concerning Willie and Joe.

[Steve J]

Nice painting and a good conversion

[Techno]

 

Cheers - Phil

[Roy]

Thanks all.

Very true, Leman.

Thankfully the naked male miniatures don't feature exaggerated bodyparts, or a lot of us would be feeling very much insecure.

On that note, I wonder what female gamers think about the body shapes of the female figures? - nude and clothed. Male miniatures come in all shapes and sizes, but as Leman says, the majority of female miniatures follow a stereotyped view of a more curvaceous form.

I know of some chaps who are embarrassed to use nude female miniatures, especially should female family members be playing - I wonder on the scenario of a father introducing his (boy and girl) children to playing, and should the female child see this 'pin-up proportioned' female miniature she would be pressured into feeling that unless she fits such an image when she grows up she won't be pretty in the eyes of men? This is all talked about in the media, young girls and women being influenced by such instances, so thinking on this issue from a miniature gaming point of view isn't such a leap from whats already happening.

[toxicpixie]

Roy - On that note, I wonder what female gamers think about the body shapes of the female figures?

See "Believable Female Miniatures" from Bad Squiddo Games/the Dice Bag Lady. In short, so many people think so little of said "traditional" female figures that Annie at BSG effectively built an entire business out of making ones that are, errr, believable.

https://thedicebaglady.net/

I like the conversion - much better than the original, although if the original had remembered her blouse and buttoned her jacket I'd be more tempted to buy it.

[Roy]

Yes, Colonel Bill is familiar with Annie's view. 

Colonel Bill: "I've a new figure coming out soon"

Dicebag Lady: "Is it clothed?"

Colonel Bill: "No, she's got her T*ts out!"

Stu and Annie know each other, so the above (from Bournemouth 2016) was all said in jest. Annie does carry some of the Belt Fed Girls, but just the clothed miniatures that are available.

There was a few of us, myself included, that were ribbing Stu (Col. Bills) about how he should have some naked male gladiators sculpted. This was over on Facebook. In fact, another suggestion he's had is of a naked chap climbing out of a window (used with a 4Ground building) as he's running away from the husband of his mistress. All suggestions of naked men have so far not been acted upon! 

No, I have actually spoken to Stu on this subject, and the nudey women are some of his best sellers. So that being the case he gets more sculpted. Maybe he should see if the sculptor could make a few different body shapes, though. 

[toxicpixie]

Yeah, I understand GZG's risque range is a very good seller as well!

Actually, half clothed/clutching trousers and panicking blokes would be handy for camp ambushes or skirmish type games when people get jumped either in flagrente delicto or having a nice snooze or sitting on the throne etc etc.

[Ithoriel]

IIRC, Colonel Bill's had a figure at Skelp with trousers round ankles and supplied with or without a Wild West "thunderbox" model.

I have the Wild West sheriff, shown below, who is in his underwear.

[toxicpixie]

Damnit, now I have to consider some more cowboy figures

[Roy]

Actually, half clothed/clutching trousers and panicking blokes would be handy for camp ambushes or skirmish type games when people get jumped either in flagrente delicto or having a nice snooze or sitting on the throne etc etc.

That's a good suggestion. I'll pass it on 

IIRC, Colonel Bill's had a figure at Skelp with trousers round ankles and supplied with or without a Wild West "thunderbox" model.

Yes, there's two more toilet break miniatures to be released at some point.

"Taking the Pith" - British Colonial Officer

WW2 Japanese - which I can't remember the witty name for.

[toxicpixie]

What made me think of it was partly you mentioning tiffin with the generals daughter, and remembering that the only bits of recent Musketeer things I'd seen were all half clothes chaps leaping out of windows

[FierceKitty]

Damnit, now I have to consider some more cowboy figures

Mine are patiently waiting for me to finish the Leuthen project and start on them (and the peaceful little town of Dean Man's Knees, thanks to Leven).

I like the idea of an unclad male scrambling out of a window.

[Roy]

Actually, half clothed/clutching trousers and panicking blokes would be handy for camp ambushes or skirmish type games when people get jumped either in flagrente delicto or having a nice snooze or sitting on the throne etc etc.

I passed this suggestion on to Stu, and he likes it so much he wondered if there was further opinions on what period would be best for such models? (in today's 28mm market)

A big seller for Colonel Bills is C17th / ECW

or

Stu wondered if a C19th Colonials would be better

Anybody have any suggestions / opinions / other ideas??


[Pendraken will be casting the models, should they be made, so there no problem discussing this, I'd say. After all Leon & Co. will be getting money from any dealings, one way or the other.