(*For a part* already posted as a comment to the 'new pirates' thread)
=> http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=250199a rather appealing
18th C. 'female pirate captain / adventuress' and an even more... fanciful
18th C. female Assassin: both could have their way in any Pirate / Swashbuckling ('Gloire') / Gothic Horror (
Carnevale http://vesper-on.com/index.php / A Touch of Evil
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35815/a-touch-of-evil-the-supernatural-game) / Horror
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.fr/search/label/Strange%20Aeons%2018th%20century / Pulp / Science Fiction
http://www.drunkendragoonproductions.com/18thcentimagi-nation/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=81 game set in the Lace Wars era,
=> http://www.drunkendragoonproductions.com/18thcentimagi-nation/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=79 an unit of Lace Wars 'she-dragoons': not only they could be fielded in Imagi-Nation armies, but they could appear as '
Marinettes' in Pirates games, as well as in
Petite Guerre skirmish games (such as e.g. the episodes of the never ending struggle between Lady Pettygree and Milady de Winter played by Bill Protz -BAR and D.A.F. -Minden Miniatures-
http://campaignsingermania.blogspot.fr/search?q=pettygree: so far Bill Protz has to resort to inappropriate Hinterland Victorian
Hussarettes).
=> give her
(from
)
a tricorne over a 'period' haircut
a rapier and a pistol and you'll have a stunning (
http://tinminis.com/Delia2010.jpg 
)'pirette captain'.
A
Steampunk variant could easily be obtained with an alternate head
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4QfNLjPi3yc/Tq0BN2UdOyI/AAAAAAAAAnw/6yxgfKV11Yo/s1600/robida+le+vingtieme+siecle.JPG (perhaps with goggles?) and VSF weapons.
Ideally the 3 'characters' should be available
on foot and riding (horses to be obtained elsewhere) as at a time it was practically the norm for minis of 'dungeon adventurers'.
All in
28mm: even if it makes them slightly smaller than, say, Minden miniatures, all the better, women are on the average more
petite than men.
PS: Don't forget wargaming minis are NOT intended to be display case figurines to be scrutinized individually, but are intended to be used as playing pieces seen
en masse from a distance: their most distinguishing features are to be... emphasized / underlined
(as a form of poetic licence, let's forget that gravity is lower on Barsoom...)
Really *odd* how -while our hobby basically invites everyone -children included- to simulate wounding, killing, the maiming of human bodies- some prefer female miniatures to look androgynous. As if it was feminine beauty which was 'shocking', obscene, had to be toned down / hidden (from children?). On TMP vignettes of 'finishing off' a helpless wounded foe are displayed for all, children included, to see; but bits of unpainted metal or plastic 28mm high are concealed behind an 'adult filter'. Seems to reflect a bizarre perversion of aesthetic / ethical values, of what is really ugly / obscene, of what type of images children have to be protected, if that is the underlying reason of such censorship.
25 June 2007, 11:17:31 AM
