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

[toxicpixie]

I was thinking the age of lace and wigs as well - musketeers and mi'ladies and privateers and similar. Half clothed and fairly generic I suspect you could squeeze a few figures across half a century plus from the ECW to Marlborough!

[Roy]

Another one:

Colonel Bill's 'Hoetha Fukaya' - painted to go with my (Victorian SF) IHMN Prussian's, roaming through Africa.

[Techno]

Damn good face (sculpting wise)!!

Cheers - Phil

[Matt J]

Damn good painting wise as well 

[Techno]

Oh, definitely ! 

I was just rather impressed with the sculptor's skill regarding the face.
Faces aren't too difficult to do.....But making the face look female takes a fair bit of time...as does giving the impression of any 'non caucasian'.
(For me anyway.)

Cheers - Phil (Who hopes that doesn't sound racist, in any way. )

[fsn]

The sad thing Techno, is that it isn't even remotely racist.

I'm guessing the things that make a non-Caucasian face (e.g. Big lips and a wide nose, or "slanty" eyes) are both the things that define that race and the mention of which drives SJws into a frenzy.

Shappi Khorsandi does a piece in which she talks about being at a party and trying to point out a person as being "the chap with the curly hair", "with the brown eyes" ... rather than saying the "B" word.

I'm guessing that you're sensitive to not over-doing the ethnic look to the point of caricature, even though, I'm also guessing, that in 10mm the only way to make them appear different to Caucasians is to over-emphasis those differences.

I don't believe you have a racist bone in your body - except perhaps that 2nd metatarsal on your left. I'm also a bit susupicious about your liver, which is always spewing bile.  

[Techno]

That's absolutely true, Nobby.

Especially at 'toy soldier' scales.
It's difficult to not make (what some folk might think are offensive) caricatures......It would be relatively easy to do full on caricatures.....and it's only the few microns of putty that turn a "Yep....I think that looks a fair representation of (for example) a 'Negroid' or 'Asian' face." To something that looks like I'd be taking the p*ss, which does bother me.

I like to think I'm not any type of racist.

Don't worry about my liver......I won't let them test that, down at the Doc's.

Cheers - Phil

[Roy]

Cheers chaps 

[Orcs]

I have just painted some 200 odd Peter Pig 15mm modern Africa figures. While some of them seem to have faces that seem to have a bias towards Caucasian or Negroid  features, both types look fine when painted as either race when a suitable flesh tone is used.

That gets you back to the distance and scale/detail argument. - Can you see any difference apart from extremes of colour  in a persons face at anything more than about 50 metres?

I guess you could tell a black person from a white person and possibly from a person from the Indian subcontinent. But could you really see the difference between an Arab or Oriental and a European ??

[toxicpixie]

Fnord, at arms length gaming distance & without being a different colour, I have enough difficulty telling if it's an elf, Orc, dwarf, T-55 or human, let alone which flavour! If it's for close up shots where the photographer can really capture the detail then yeah, it's a fine line. But for gaming schnucks? Skin colour will do it, close enough.