One
of my perennial bugbears is the lack of female models in the Imperial
Guard/Astra Militarum range. There are all-female and mixed gender
regiments in the background and there always have been. A general
lack of sexism is one of the Imperium's vanishingly small number of
positive qualities, at least when it comes to conscripting vast
quantities of cannon fodder to die for the glory of the Emperor.
Sadly,
representing this on the tabletop is difficult. I've always had
female characters in my background: my Traitor Guard have the
Khornate assassin Scrapper Turan and her arch-rival the sorceress
Hyria Bek; one of my loyalist Guard armies had a female commander,
Colonel Maria Dione; and in Fantasy my Vampire Counts are led by the
Master Necromancer Berenice Von Gallenberg. Representing these
characters, however, has been a bugger. Berenice is a plastic Chaos
Sorcerer with a plague doctor's mask; Maria has a gas mask and
Scrapper was an Escher Juve even though she's long since grown to
adulthood.
I'd
love to do a mixed or all-female Guard regiment and I'm convinced all
I need is heads: Cadian-style flak armour should all but eliminate
the profile of breasts. Luckily, a friend showed me these:
These
are made by Statuesque Miniatures, £4.75 for a set of ten and
they're even a British company so I don't have to bother with all
that currency conversion and international shipping bollocks some
third parties make you go through (which is fair and can't be helped
but it is annoying).
Now,
since the “third party” barrier has been breached I'm wondering
if I want to make these straight-up female Cadians or splash out and
get some kilted legs from Victoria Lamb miniatures and do female
Drookian Fen Guard or Kaledon Hunters regiment.
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