Who makes good female figures?

smeagol the vile wrote:

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?

Warrior makes a pair of female modern u.s. army figures I saw on squadrons website hope it helps

jc

Those are some nice figures!

Actually, their other figures are pretty well done, too.

I like the hot girls

          Jim

stikpusher wrote:

Yes, their sculptor certainly has 40s era female anatomy and fashion down. I dont know if you caught this set that has been around for a bit. It's kind of in line with some of your work Manny. http://www.mbltd.info/3514.htm

Yes, their sculptor certainly has 40s era female anatomy and fashion down. I dont know if you caught this set that has been around for a bit. It's kind of in line with some of your work Manny.

http://www.mbltd.info/3514.htm

stikpusher wrote:

I was just browsing Master Box's site... they have two more female sets upcoming. Not cmbat poses mind you, but women in uniform. One USN, one Luftwaffe. http://www.mbltd.info/3556.htm http://www.mbltd.info/3557.htm I can see this being a good forthcoming series.

I was just browsing Master Box's site... they have two more female sets upcoming. Not cmbat poses mind you, but women in uniform. One USN, one Luftwaffe.

http://www.mbltd.info/3556.htm

http://www.mbltd.info/3557.htm

I can see this being a good forthcoming series.

The metal figures were state-of-the-art back in the 70's-80's... They were just as good as any resin figures are, but they were a bit pricy.. I've still got a "Modern Tank Crew" in metal I'm saving for I don't know what, but they aren't painted.. Here's a Shep Paine metal figure though..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/HansvonHammer/Screenshots/Corsair_1.jpg?t=1236358564

You can see that there' plenty of detail, and even the youth of this pilot is visible..

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

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'?

smeagol the vile wrote:

some of them are fairly nice, but I dont know how to work with, or mod metal figures...

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

HeavyArty wrote:

the Baron wrote: Hi, smeagol, here is a link to a Japanese sculptor's (sculptrix') site, Aurora Models: http://www.aurora-model.jp/e-index.html   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

the Baron wrote:

Hi, smeagol, here is a link to a Japanese sculptor's (sculptrix') site, Aurora Models: http://www.aurora-model.jp/e-index.html

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.

the Baron wrote:

smeagol the vile wrote: 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? 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

smeagol the vile wrote:

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?

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

My mother-in-law made a nice one.  Scale is 1-1 though

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

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.

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. 

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#

http://www.mbltd.info/3551.htm

http://www.tristar-model.com/products35012.html