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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => In Her Majesty's Name => Topic started by: Craig on 10 January 2014, 07:51:46 AM
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Mr Womack esq. has asked if Northstar can produce the list below. Given that Northstar cannot do everything I thought that I would ask you good ladies and gentlemen if you knew of suitable figures elsewhere?
A Servants of Ra Booster set, including:
1x Ambullah, Nubian Captain
2x Nubian Guards
1x male Hashashin
1x Mummy
3x Cultists with Khopesh
Giant Ape with Howdah.
Kaiser Wilhelm Heavy Walker
Scout Walker
Bulldog Walker
Johnson Mk. VII Industrial Walker [Currently under construction by Northstar]
Jackal Walker
Professor Moebius and Amelie
French Zouave with Vertical Spring Translocator blister
2x Zouave
Yeti blister (in case you want a second one)
Society of Thule Jäger/Tod-truppen blister
2x Jäger
2x Tod-truppen
Society of Thule Heavy Weapons Blister
1x Jäger Machinegun team
1x Jäger flamethrower team
British Soldier with Congreve Rocket Gun [Currently under construction by Northstar]
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I don't know of an ape that already has a howdah, but it seems the pose on Reaper's Kabaka Kwana, Ape Lord would lend itself to easy conversion.
(http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/03052_w_2.jpg)
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For the Society of Thule Jagers, I'd suggest Noth Stars' 1866 Prussian Jagers:
http://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=100&cat=241&sub=424&page=1
With regard to zombifid versions, perhaps a converson using either Mantic or Wargames Factory plastic zombie parts?
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I don't know of an ape that already has a howdah, but it seems the pose on Reaper's Kabaka Kwana, Ape Lord would lend itself to easy conversion.
I wonder if that is in the Bones series yet...
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It'd be a bit pricey in lead...
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i have buy a tobsen 77 maximilian as a jackal http://www.tobsen77.de/products/maximilian.php (http://www.tobsen77.de/products/maximilian.php) .
i know it's not a "walker" ;)
for amélie : http://www.reapermini.com/figurefinder#detail/50284 (http://www.reapermini.com/figurefinder#detail/50284)
for professor Moebius : mirliton
http://www.mirliton.it/product_info.php?pName=mad-scientists&cName=nightmares-28mm (http://www.mirliton.it/product_info.php?pName=mad-scientists&cName=nightmares-28mm)
yeti blisters : coppelstone castings
Kaiser Wilhem :
http://www.tobsen77.de/products/bismatron.php (http://www.tobsen77.de/products/bismatron.php)
mummy :
any fantasy fig ( eureka, gamezone, etc ... )
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It'd be a bit pricey in lead...
Reaper's price on it in lead is $44.49US. It's in five parts. No Bones listing yet.
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for giant gorilla you have this one :
http://www.cdiscount.com/juniors/mini-univers/gorille/f-1206619-fig4892900880334.html (http://www.cdiscount.com/juniors/mini-univers/gorille/f-1206619-fig4892900880334.html)
in any toy's shop
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Would these be suitable?
I know you're not keen on the 32mm scale Craig but possibly not so much of an issue for a Walker?
(http://cdn3.volusion.com/gnclv.fjgyd/v/vspfiles/photos/DLKB21-2T.jpg)
Dystopian Legion's British Knights
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Would these be suitable?
I know you're not keen on the 32mm scale Craig but possibly not so much of an issue for a Walker?
Dystopian Legion's British Knights
I have no issue with the scale, it just doesn't fit with the rest of my collection is all :)
They might do very nicely though.
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Would these Crooked Dice Thuggees have a use?
(http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Thuggee-300x295.jpg)
Or this Brother Vinni miniature:
(http://images-cdn.ecwid.com/images/844103/189265694.jpg)
Wouldn't the EotD exo-skeleton from West Wind make a perfect walker for IHMN?
(http://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WWP_Steam-Exoskeleton.jpg)
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(http://www.artizandesigns.com/images/img1899.jpg)
Artizan Morocans for Nubians...
(http://www.shop.battlefield-berlin.de/img_big/37832622f2785c6b57027c5f89ddafd8.jpg)
(http://www.shop.battlefield-berlin.de/img_big/adc3c9cd355cfdc4e1bbb550c0711239.jpg)
or Hell Dorado Saracens for slightly more fantastical.
(http://www.shop.battlefield-berlin.de/img_big/a297e34aa79eb6bae1c29e1bfae25468.jpg)
Hell Dorado also makes a Hashasin
Apes are not lacking, but the fine Howdah you do? ;)
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Hey all since we are helping people find figures perhaps you can help me find the leader of U Troop. I have all the rest of the figures found I just need to find Inspector Robert Etienne.
I have looked though and discarded dozen of Cowboy/westren minis because they are too United States cowboy/calvary and not enough Canadian gentlemen/maverick Paramilitary leader. (A side note for my neighbours to the south there is no insult intended there, the style of dress was very different.)
I am looking for a refined looking young-to 30 something with a long jacket buttoned up or open, twin pistols and if the jacket is open I need a jack or shirt underneath that could pass for the uniform jacket, shirt or undershirt of the RMP. If you know of mini that might work please post or PM me.
Cheers,
Irish.
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this one ?
(http://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/11/63/95/43/tomb_t10.jpg)
http://www.blackscorpionminiatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=75&osCsid=g737jornst0krimnbfc91o4r55 (http://www.blackscorpionminiatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=75&osCsid=g737jornst0krimnbfc91o4r55)
with some head swap ...
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I considered that one but it is so friggen tall compared to the Mounties I have it looks like a bloody giant.
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It would require a head swap but what Captain Biggleswade from Artizan?
(http://artizandesigns.com/images/img1182.jpg)
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I considered that one but it is so friggen tall compared to the Mounties I have it looks like a bloody giant.
one of the artizan pinkerton detectives http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1030 (http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1030)?
or one of the cowboy posse ( with head swap) http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1025 (http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1025)
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It would require a head swap but what Captain Biggleswade from Artizan?
(http://artizandesigns.com/images/img1182.jpg)
Hmmm that might be the way to go actually.
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As to Society of Thule Sturm-truppen, I have stumbled across two sources:
Brigade Games VSF - Steampunk
Prussian Empire Officer and Troopers in Rebreathing Apparatus
(http://wrgmr.com/prussians/bgprussianofficer.jpg) (http://wrgmr.com/prussians/bgprussians.jpg)
Parroom Victorian Science Fiction Panzer Fusileers
(http://wrgmr.com/prussians/parroomprussiancmd.jpg) (http://wrgmr.com/prussians/parroommg.jpg)
(http://wrgmr.com/prussians/parroomprussians.jpg)
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I do have some pinterest boards on steapunk sources BTW...
Miniatures Sources- Tiny Steampunk Miniatures (http://www.pinterest.com/curufea/tiny-steampunk-miniatures/)(<15mm) [Pinterest]
- 15mm Steampunk Miniatures (http://www.pinterest.com/curufea/15mm-steampunk-miniatures/)(15-20mm) [Pinterest]
- 25-28mm Steampunk Miniatures (http://www.pinterest.com/curufea/25-28mm-steampunk-miniatures/)(25-28mm) [Pinterest]
- 32mm Steampunk Miniatures (http://www.pinterest.com/curufea/32mm-steampunk-miniatures/)(32mm) [Pinterest]
- Large Steampunk Miniatures (http://www.pinterest.com/curufea/large-steampunk-miniatures/)(>32mm) [Pinterest]
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As to Society of Thule Tod-truppen, I have stumbled across two sources:
Brigade Games VSF - Steampunk
Prussian Empire Officer and Troopers in Rebreathing Apparatus
(http://wrgmr.com/prussians/bgprussianofficer.jpg) (http://wrgmr.com/prussians/bgprussians.jpg)
Parroom Victorian Science Fiction Panzer Fusileers
(http://wrgmr.com/prussians/parroomprussiancmd.jpg) (http://wrgmr.com/prussians/parroommg.jpg)
(http://wrgmr.com/prussians/parroomprussians.jpg)
If you are going that route (no great coat) then there is also the Warrior Miniature ones.
(http://www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk/OTWGames/figures/eig7.jpg)
(http://www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk/OTWGames/figures/eig5.jpg)
(http://www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk/OTWGames/figures/eig6a.jpg)
(http://www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk/OTWGames/figures/eig6b.jpg)
There is a chance the Todtruppen will get made by Northstar, it's all dependant on sculpting time availability.
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Games Workshop's Death Korps of Krieg?
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Wouldn't the EotD exo-skeleton from West Wind make a perfect walker for IHMN?
(http://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WWP_Steam-Exoskeleton.jpg)
The Johnson MkVII walker pictured in IHMN and being produced by Northstar is classed as a Light Walker. The EotD walker is obviously a civilian version and will be significantly larger (based on pilot size compared to walker). On this basis, the EotD walker will make a perfect Withall MkII medium industrial walker to support british civilian-orintated companies (e.g. as per the Brick Lane Commune list).That's what I've bought one for!
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Oh dear Bullshott, but I've already spent my tuck money this month! I shall have to send home to Papa and ask for an advance :)
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(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UGMzmRrNKoo/Uac_VlA0F7I/AAAAAAAAAMU/IHSmAYZ6SDo/s1600/Prussian+squad.jpg)
How about these Meridian Miniatures for Thule Sturm-truppen? Does anyone know if they are available now that the Kickstarter campaign is over? I can find nothing on the web about purchasing these.
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(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UGMzmRrNKoo/Uac_VlA0F7I/AAAAAAAAAMU/IHSmAYZ6SDo/s1600/Prussian+squad.jpg)
How about these Meridian Miniatures for Thule Tod-truppen? Does anyone know if they are available now that the Kickstarter campaign is over? I can find nothing on the web about purchasing these.
Oh I do like the look of these :D
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How about this one for the giant gorilla?
http://www.toysandlearning.co.uk/schleich-gorilla-male-14661.htm
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How about these Meridian Miniatures for Thule Tod-truppen? Does anyone know if they are available now that the Kickstarter campaign is over? I can find nothing on the web about purchasing these.
You can start here:
http://steamandaether.blogspot.co.uk/
There's lots of optional heads, actually, although the above is a fave. I hope he gets a proper store up soon, as I think that could bring him a lot of customers...
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Not in the 'existing figures' category, but instead in the 'stuff I want to see from Northstar' category:
Weapons sprue for conversions, e.g.:
Hunting rifle
Arc rifle + power supply
Arc pistol + power supply - ideally a couple of these
Congreave rocket gun
Arc generator backpack
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chech out "Reaper Miniatures" for your weapons...they make a great set for VSF...among other ones...
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For the Nubian guards; it might be an idea to look at Wargames Foundry's Colonial Range.
For the walkers, try Brigade Games/ Parroom/ Victorian Science Fiction/ Steam Tech.
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You can start here:
http://steamandaether.blogspot.co.uk/
There's lots of optional heads, actually, although the above is a fave. I hope he gets a proper store up soon, as I think that could bring him a lot of customers...
I've found the following websites on Andrew May's Meridian Miniatures:
http://meridianminiatures.blogspot.com/
Last entry is Oct. 15, 2013.
http://steamandaether.blogspot.co.uk/
Last entry Nov. 27, 2013.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Meridian-Miniatures/278329682295664
Last entry Nov. 21, 2013.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2004599158/meridian-miniatures-steampunk-army?ref=live
Funded July 4, 2013; last update Nov. 4, 2013.
Nothing about how to acquire these minis since the Kickstarter ended.
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/628/544/bb85934c72a6fad0215595f7b3b219de_large.jpg?1369827262)
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/715/681/c33db50aa674b2d96b89707885a7c23f_large.jpg?1372780485)
Andrew May, where are you?
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His blogger profile also lists an e-mail address for him, for the industrious pursuer.
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Andrew May, where are you?
Have you tried contacting him via pm?
He's a member of our forum, so shouldn't be that difficult ;)
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Have you tried contacting him via pm?
He's a member of our forum, so shouldn't be that difficult
Excellent advice. Should have thought of it myself, but no one has ever accused me of having a firm grip on the obvious.
Just sent Mr. May an enquiry and anxiously await a response. Hopefully we will find that these fine figures will soon be available.
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Not in the 'existing figures' category, but instead in the 'stuff I want to see from Northstar' category:
Weapons sprue for conversions, e.g.:
Hunting rifle
Arc rifle + power supply
Arc pistol + power supply - ideally a couple of these
Congreave rocket gun
Arc generator backpack
Not sure if this is what you're looking for in an Arc Generator Backpack, but from Last Stand Convertibles, Steam Powered Back Power Packs:
(http://hoardobits.com/lsbits/steambackpacksjpg.jpg)
Not on your list, but they also have Steam Powered Wings and Jet Packs:
(http://hoardobits.com/lsbits/steamwings.jpg)
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Mike, you little bobby-dazzler, what an excellent find!
Not sure if this is what you're looking for in an Arc Generator Backpack, but from Last Stand Convertibles, Steam Powered Back Power Packs.
I'm thinking the third of these, with it's power dial could be just the thing. It even has a transmitting coil on the side.
Not on your list, but they also have Steam Powered Wings and Jet Packs:
I'm thinking that these would count as Ornithopters...
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A thousand pardons: I've been showing possible figures in this thread for Thule STURM-truppen (which are gasmask-wearing, gas-grenade-wielding types) and I've been mistakenly calling them TOD-truppen (which are revivified-zombie-jäger types). I think everyone knew what I meant, but I'm sorry if I confused anyone. I have corrected my posts so future generations will not suspect my blunder.
Mike O
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I think that the Crocodile Games Asar Warriors with Khopesh would work for Nubian Guard. The Reaper wild west guns could make the conversion for Ambullah.
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For Nubian Guards, I'm going to go with a couple of these guys at some point (veiled ones, with the false ears chopped off).
https://www.crocodilegames.com/store/itemList.cfm?tag=necropolis
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I can recommend Crocodile Games for a variety of Mummies as well. Though for the mummy horde i was assembling for Wargods I managed to gather an assortment of Croc Games, Reaper and West Wind for suitable mummies to look like a varied horde.
West Wind has:
a large mummy i use as a 'leader' type http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_37&products_id=334
and for 'lesser mummies' http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_37&products_id=335
For the large ape, i do not personally have the Reaper figure but from Black Orc Games Hundred Kingdoms there was a Great Gor that i use for Joey, my company's Ape with a forthcoming howdah. The Reaper one should be just as suitable as it is sculpted by the same fellow: Jason Wiebe and looks to be just as hefty.
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Have had a successful conversation with Mr. May, dollars have been converted to Pounds Sterling and transferred electronically, and figures suitable for a most devilish Thule's Totenkopf Battalion are on the way across the great Atlantic to my Acre of Paradise in the [former] Great Black Swamp of northwest Ohio.
6 skirmishers, 2 officers with swords and pistols, 2 heavy weapons (rocket launcher and [heavy?] arc rifle), all in greatcoats with gas masks and Pickelhauben. Total, including shipping from UK to US, is £25, which, I believe, is most reasonable.
(http://www.wrgmr.com/prussians/meridian.jpg)
Totenkopf sturm-truppen
(http://www.wrgmr.com/prussians/totenkopfhvyweapons.jpg)
Heavy weapons (will come with greatcoats and same heads as the sturm-truppen)
Will keep you all advised upon their arrival.
You can PM him on the forum: his user name is, appropriately, Andrew May.
Mike O
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Mike, you little bobby-dazzler, what an excellent find!
Mr. Cartmell:
Being a crude colonial, I actually had to look this one up, desperately hoping it to be some sort of acclamation, or "warm fuzzy," as we Yanks are wont to say.
Thank you for your kind words.
I think. lol
Mike O.
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I have just been raiding my already painted Colonial figures for most of the other figures. Nubian guards are Ruga-Ruga or askaris. Brits are brits, Hunters are hunters etc.
I have also turned to my Pulp stuff to form other companies. Selective shopping of my 30s RCMP Mounties has lead to figures I can use for NWMP Mounties. My sasquatch is the Yeti figure, nick named Riel, so he is a Meti-Yeti.
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Another (probably cheaper) option for the howdah ape are the zoo figures in some of the plastic ranges for 54mm and 60mm figures (which would certainly be giant next to a 28mm human figure).
Britains did a range in 54mm scale:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-BRITAINS-LTD-England-GORILLA-standing-on-knuckles-Plastic-Zoo-Animal-/350986535590
Schleich does them in 60mm scale
http://www.schleich-s.com/en/GB/toys/wild_life_gorillas/
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For Professor Moebius, I'm using a Dr. Jekyll figure from Foundry. As I can't find it on the website, it may be an OOP, limited edition figure.
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For Moebius I used this guy on the far right, just swapped the pistol for a syringe.
(http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/c10.jpg)
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If Northstar would do your complete list, they would be my heroes!!!!
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They would be mine also. However, they are a small company with limited resources so I am just grateful for the splendid support that they have already given us.
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Perhaps via a small kickstarter campaign, just a thought.
I think you can never have enough miniatures :P
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Perhaps via a small kickstarter campaign, just a thought.
I think you can never have enough miniatures :P
My understanding is it's much more to do with sculpting time than money.
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My understanding is it's much more to do with sculpting time than money.
erhhmm ... i'm quite disappointed when i see many of those small companies working on the same anglo zulu range , or WW1 .
a lot of sculpting time , and i'm not sure for money ...
But we can find quite all the figs for the companies in IHMN and HVF , the main problem, is that, because of the multi-figs pack policy, and the lack of store with a "good" range of products , it's expensive , very expensive .
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erhhmm ... i'm quite disappointed when i see many of those small companies working on the same anglo zulu range , or WW1 .
a lot of sculpting time , and i'm not sure for money ...
But we can find quite all the figs for the companies in IHMN and HVF , the main problem, is that, because of the multi-figs pack policy, and the lack of store with a "good" range of products , it's expensive , very expensive .
And with rising shipping prices in Canada I am in the same boat.
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One thing the gaming world is not short of are Victorian, VSF and Steampunk figures.
I, for one, am grateful for the faith and support Nick and his team have given to our little project. Without them I doubt that IHMN would have become so popular so fast :D.
And now we now have the opportunity to get Jesse McGibney's brilliant illustration of the industrial walker made real by Nick and the lads. What many people do not know is that if Jesse had not submitted that piece to Osprey there would be no mechanical walkers in IHMN at all :o
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What about a few female soldiers?
(usually it's in 18th C. boards that I pester people with this idea >:( )
In the Western world from the end of the Dark Ages to WWII women fought rarely, and then generally masquerading as menhttp://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=294048 (http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=294048). Yet in some extreme circumstances -desperate sieges, specially during a cruel civil / religious war where there is little hope of mercy- some fought openly and in significant numbers. In Victorian times it occurred during the Commune of Paris, and then some of them even received an uniform.
(http://www.parisgratuit.com/images-patrimoine/portrait-Louise-Michel-B.jpg)
(http://www.ubiqwity.com/ubik1/ubik1access/cahiers/premiere/histoire/institutionspolitqiuesfrance4814/web/pages/communarde_fichiers/image002.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7RgNOqwRjqk/S_g9nNBMStI/AAAAAAAATlI/NLEBp3SFeAA/s1600/Daniel+Urrabieta+ViergeFemme+%C3%A0+l%27H%C3%B4tel+de+Ville,+deuxi%C3%A8me+jour+de+La+Commune+1871.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7RgNOqwRjqk/S_g9qRBdLOI/AAAAAAAATlY/hkL91aKyS0s/s1600/Daniel+Urrabieta+ViergeFemme+%C3%A0+Montmarte,+17+juin+1871.jpg)
(http://img.over-blog.com/630x470-000000/3/31/92/65/LA-COMMUNE-DE-PARIS/La-commune-de-Paris012---Copie.jpg)
(http://www.ephemanar.net/images/commune_harper.gif)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Commune_de_Paris_barricade_Place_Blanche.jpg/789px-Commune_de_Paris_barricade_Place_Blanche.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q75IA2fqGrY/UH4KaUXJZFI/AAAAAAAACCY/H1m9IOeE5J4/s1600/barricada+1.jpg)
The idea being quite 'modern' / revolutionary for the time, the képi looks indeed for fitting than, say, a pickelhaube.
I know Brigade Games have ACW female zuaves (http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Women-in-ACW-Zouave-uniforms--Kepis-6_p_453.html) but being old sculpts they are probably smaller than most 'modern' ranges? (Although, women being on average more petite than man, it may be a minor problem).
Btw, I probably missed them, but I don't remember IHMN companies of Hinterland (http://hinterlandminiatures.weebly.com/) Hussarettes?
(http://hinterlandminiatures.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/9/7/3997309/7135504.jpg?450?9570184)
;D Westwind Nadezhda Durova (http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Nadezhda-Durova-Vampire-Slayer.jpg) could provide a daring (with this House Escher Mad Donna hair cut!) dashing young commander: there are historical precedents of officers sporting a pelisse while their troops are in dolman only; and her revolver is definitively a super-weapon.
200% personal but the 'WWI' Trench Raiders look too 'modern' for IHMN, imho.
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What about a few female soldiers?
You will note that we have included women in many of our companies. Women played a much more direct part in history than many historians of the period were willing to record.
I particularly like your pictures of the Paris Commune. The Incendiaries of the Brick Lane Commune are modelled directly on those brave ladies.
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What about a few female soldiers?
Brigade Games do a couple of packs of women in zouave uniforms for GASLIGHT games set in the ACW. These would work nicely in a French setting too.
http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Gaslight_c_137.html (http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Gaslight_c_137.html)
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It would be ideal to have alternate versions of the same uniformed Victorian female soldiers in trousers AND in skirts.
Trousers are more convenient for field campaigning but skirts are less of a hindrance in siege / street fighting / stationary guard. Given the prejudices of the time, in 'regular' forces women would be accepted at most in some form of Home Guard / Sedentary National Guard and would be expected to wear skirts:
(http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/attachment.php?attachmentid=131522&stc=1&d=1298340175)
Co.A of the 62nd St.John Fusiliers of New Brunswick aka the Amazonians (http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=4201705&postcount=19) at the time of the Boer Wars.
'Revolutionary' armies are another matter entirely, hence both types of uniforms would be useful.
Now, Robida (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Robida) when illustrating his vision of the 20th C. dressed 'active' women followed what was then the most 'modern' / 'progressive' style of female fashion: with the socks (often covered with gaiters) and trousers of *bicycle riders*; worn under, to keep the costume feminine (and for 'decency' sake? Probably also to allow the use of a fashionable tournure 'bump enhancer'), a 'cosmetic', almost symbolic hiked up short skirt (the miniskirt of the time):
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Robida_vingtieme_siecle_p338_1.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Robida_vingtieme_siecle_p303_1.jpg/300px-Robida_vingtieme_siecle_p303_1.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-EL6gZOHDE/TLk7av8QtSI/AAAAAAAAAH0/u6X4B6c2trQ/s1600/20_1_de_couv_femme.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Robida_vingtieme_siecle_p285_1.jpg/440px-Robida_vingtieme_siecle_p285_1.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Dilwnimo0MI/Stt90EIntmI/AAAAAAAABoM/22Mr4EUgUxU/s1600/20_sup_femme.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Robida_vingtieme_siecle_p347_1.jpg)
(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2010%20-%2005%20-%20May/Robida11.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Robida_vingtieme_siecle_p413_1.jpg)
Thus Robida provides us with an "authentic" period pattern for late 19th C. women uniforms. Unfortunately not translated into miniature figurines so far.
Robida's design is all the more interesting and relevant as he himself had a keen interest in the history of women fashion (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44187).
Actually with this design historical VSF author Robida was unquestionably -if in a more subdued way, he was publishing in the 1880- a precursor of 'steampunk' female fashion:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8z6Hp4O4uOQ/TatIczWBKOI/AAAAAAAAAqs/cDhrLy8Y3tk/s1600/Steampunk+couture+2+-+costume+design.jpg)
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1b0q1P5XG1qbi5v6o1_500.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Scf-bL_swpU/Ts4e72EYoQI/AAAAAAAACXw/al9PnI8QxgM/s1600/yaya-han+hot+sexy+busty+thick+steampunk+cosplay+neo+victorian+era+dress+model+corset+big+huge+breasts+whooty+pawg+black+hair+asian+asia+chinese+female+japanese.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/b1/48/dc/b148dc1115d98ed24a50faddead52b31.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-edcKBuphZco/Tsgvya-dAoI/AAAAAAAACYs/vF-oLsJ2ykA/s1600/huntress.1887.jpg)
(Michael Dooney '1887 Ladies' (http://michaeldooney.deviantart.com/gallery/33431300))
Now, wargaming minis are not intended to be submitted to close scrutiny but to be seen from some distance on the playing table: the most distinguishing features have to be somehow emphasized (http://tinminis.com/images/DeliaA.JPG) :D (far better than the oversized hand and feet of so many Foundry, GW &c... imho).
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To have them looking 'ultra-modern', even 'futuristic' for the 1880 Robida gave bicycle riders socks & breeches to all types of troops of 'progressive' design or serving 'futuristic weapons' or contraptions:
crews of his 'flying scout crafts' and 'torpedo airboats' (which btw look less 'waterboats somehow flying' than many Space 1889 designs, for instance):
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35103/35103-h/images/x-page-108.jpg)
(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/content_images/fig/2730090606004.png)
submarine crew:
(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/content_images/fig/2730090606011.png)
chasseurs cuirassés:
(http://www.noomuseum.net/noomuseum/Robida/Robida-GuerreInfernale-004.JPG)
mitrailleurs à hydrogène:
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35103/35103-h/images/x-page-104.jpg)
and specialists of biological and chemical warfare (he was specially fond of the idea, in a macabre way):
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35103/35103-h/images/x-page-109.jpg)
(http://klaus-johansen.dk/pix/robida-miasme600.jpg)
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35103/35103-h/images/x-page-149.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/194905253_91ea54eb76_b.jpg)
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35103/35103-h/images/x-page-101.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fg2Pketnvzs/UjChBUTabvI/AAAAAAAAAnY/0HMRBwcFVhQ/s1600/1887_G_XXe_S_p25_Chimistes_sans_Peur.jpg)
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35103/35103-h/images/x-page-013.jpg)
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35103/35103-h/images/x-page-100.jpg)
Note the unconventional braiding of the dolman often favored by Robida. The next image (right) shows another of his original concepts: a cavalry helmet with a 'gallic' rather than' classic romano-greek' (à la Schomberg ) crest helmet:
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35103/35103-h/images/x-page-142.jpg)
Too bad no VSF miniatures sculptor feels inspired by these 'historically accurate' VSF uniforms!
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Too bad no VSF miniatures sculptor feels inspired by these 'historically accurate' VSF uniforms!
I agree with you on the relevance to the era: Robida is the illustrator with the contemporary eye for what we would want is a 'realistic' VSF look. i wish more 'Steampunk' couturiers would see these images and follow the ideas.
I am truly inspired by your selection of illustrations but sadly lack the skill to execute them in miniature or the money to pay bribe someone to sculpt them. I foresee a lottery ticket in my future, but the numbers are hazy... o_o
I note the two reference to the Canadian female unit include an item in my library already - Frank Chadwick's Soldier's Companion. I will need to dig that out and have a read.
Thank you for your diligence and patience in assembling a massive post.