Author Topic: Historical ladies you'd like to see in miniature? (Read 11657 times)

argsilverson · « **Reply #15 on:** July 02, 2009, 10:26:48 PM »

Quote from: Doc Twilight on July 02, 2009, 10:23:12 PM

It seems a lot of folks do want Viktoria Louise... she's shown up in other discussions here too. I hadn't thought of her, but the uniform is pretty nifty, I'll grant you that.

Keep 'em coming, guys. I'm really grateful.

-Doc

Now I am eagerly waiting for!

Hammers · « **Reply #16 on:** July 03, 2009, 10:27:28 AM »

Margaret Thatcher. With a Gatling.

Poliorketes · « **Reply #17 on:** July 03, 2009, 11:32:25 AM »

Quote from: Hammers on July 03, 2009, 10:27:28 AM

Margaret Thatcher. With a Gatling.

No, just with a handbag. A +10 handbag of doom.

Chris Steadman · « **Reply #18 on:** July 03, 2009, 03:31:55 PM »

Quote from: Heldrak on July 02, 2009, 06:33:48 AM

...I suggest Florence Nightingale ...

And Mary Seacole

MuleSkinner · « **Reply #19 on:** July 03, 2009, 06:20:33 PM »

lady godiva, catherine eddowes (pre and post jack), violette szabo, and errr........imelda marcos

Gallowglass · « **Reply #20 on:** July 03, 2009, 07:03:21 PM »

Grace O'Malley, the "Pirate Queen":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_O'Malley

pierrebi · « **Reply #21 on:** July 03, 2009, 11:53:22 PM »

What about Veronica Lario, the almost former-whife of Italian Supreme Guide Cav. Dot. Pres. Silvio Berlusconi. Maybe you can do also 5 o 6 teen agers in bikini ;)to take care of Mr Belrusconi after the loose of the Great Love of his life

Doc Twilight · « **Reply #22 on:** July 05, 2009, 04:02:16 AM »

Thanks again to everyone.

You'll be happy to know that many of your suggestions were already on the list, or have been added - notably Viktoria Luise. I have a specific idea in mind for Viktoria Luise, and that may require that she's done in a later wave (perhaps the next, after this), but you can count on seeing her from Black Army in the next year or so.

(Maybe sooner.)

We (I) have decided on the female for the second wave of the COH line, and I think you'll be happy with her, as well. In addition to her, there will be one other, mounted figure and one to two additional figs in the range. Very early to say what they'll be, and I haven't completely decided on the last two, but a lot of things are being considered.

Feel free to keep your ideas coming. I'm willing to consider them all.

-Doc

warrenpeace · « **Reply #23 on:** July 05, 2009, 07:49:04 AM »

Quote from: Totleben on July 02, 2009, 01:52:07 PM

the rani of jhansi and other female characters from the flashman novels

Spot on, Totleben! Want all of them!

Heldrak · « **Reply #24 on:** July 05, 2009, 06:43:18 PM »

Quote from: Froggy the Great on July 02, 2009, 04:22:45 PM

Of Biblical fame - Deborah, Ruth, Jael (with tent-peg), Esther.

In that same vein, Judith (with the head of Holofernes) was a frequent study of classical painters and might make an excellent miniature...

Luthaaren Von Tegale · « **Reply #25 on:** July 15, 2009, 01:50:31 PM »

How about;
Lidya Vladimirovna Litvak, nicknamed Lilya. WWII russian fighter pilot.

Born in Moscow, Russia on August 18, 1921. At the age of fourteen she joined Aeroclub, and the next year she took her first solo flight. When WWII began, Lilya dreamed of joining in the battle. The Soviet military decided to build female pilot units, and Lilya began military service in the all-womam 586th IAP in 1942. Lilya, with white roses painted on the sides of her Yak-1 fighter jet, made her ace-qualifying kill and won a promotion to lieutenant. On March 22, 1943, Soviet fighters encountered a formation of six German Ju 88s. Lidya downed one of them before she noticed six more planes attacking her Soviet friends. She turned against the Germans to cover the other Soviet fighters. After 15 minutes of heavy combat, Litvak’s Yak returned to base, but Lilya had been wounded in the battle.
On her final mission, Lilya shot down two German planes before hers was attacked and she crashed to the ground. It took eight Messerschmitt Bf 109s to finally shoot down the ‘White Rose of Stalingrad’. Lilya was just 22 when she died.

Info above from the following web page but I first read about her in the Osprey Aircraft of the Aces - Soviet Aces book

http://www.myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=L_Litvak_whitworth_07_ul

Or for an ealier period how about Anne Bonney & Mary Reid the pirates?

vT

traveller · « **Reply #26 on:** July 15, 2009, 08:55:53 PM »

Hanna Reitsch trying to save Hitler in 1945.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch

Mad Doc Morris · « **Reply #27 on:** July 16, 2009, 11:24:04 AM »

Far off from other suggestions I'd really love to see Late Medieval/Renaissance women in everyday dress. Not that flamboyant unbound-hair fantasy-princess stuff, but decent civilian clothing with headscarf and/or hat.

Luthaaren Von Tegale · « **Reply #28 on:** July 16, 2009, 12:56:35 PM »

Gertrude Bell - explorer in arabia at the start of the C20th, travelled alone but for two guides/servants, spoke arabic fluently, friend & mentor of T.E. Lawrence and the only woman invited by Churchill to the 1921 Cairo conference. Just the sort of gal for pulp adventures.

"Good Queen Bess", or Elizabeth I if you prefer

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Wife of Henry II(?) and mother of Richard Couer de Leon - quite a strong willed woman from what I remember reading.

Or along the female politician line Edwina Curry armed with and egg launching catapult!

vT

aircav · « **Reply #29 on:** July 16, 2009, 01:05:44 PM »

Mata Hari,
Nellie Spindler The Angel of Passchendale

Keith

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