After the success of my guest post on buildings, Chris kindly offered me to officially joint the Dropship crew... Thank you, Chris!
I heard last week-end on the radio that March, 8th was International Women's Day and got this idea for my first "real" post here... And yes, I'm late: I was waiting for Khurasan to be back on line (like I couldn't use the Wayback Machine) and then needed some more time pulling my thumbs out of my ass!
I heard last week-end on the radio that March, 8th was International Women's Day and got this idea for my first "real" post here... And yes, I'm late: I was waiting for Khurasan to be back on line (like I couldn't use the Wayback Machine) and then needed some more time pulling my thumbs out of my ass!
As I'm afraid that cataloguing female 15mm sci fi players might have turned out to provide me with too little content, I choose to catalogue female 15mm sci fi miniatures instead.
Just like for the buildings, I elected to organise them in a couple broad arbitrary categories to bring some order into my madness... They're just that: an organisation tool, broad and arbitrary. By no mean do I intend to pin a given model in a given role nor to force my vision of things on anyone.
Just like for the buildings, I elected to organise them in a couple broad arbitrary categories to bring some order into my madness... They're just that: an organisation tool, broad and arbitrary. By no mean do I intend to pin a given model in a given role nor to force my vision of things on anyone.
Characters
Khurusan Jellina Jo-eli 1 and Lily 6 (picture from the manufacturer website) |
- Not-Carter (from Stargate), not-Zoe (2 poses), not-Inara, not-Kaylee and not-River (from Firefly) are available in GZG Human Characters range
- And not-Ripley (from Alien of course) among Khurasan Commercial Freighter Crew (also available with guns)
- Khurusan also sells charismatic resistance leader Desiree Kim and federal teenage secret agent Tornado Teacup and their nemeses: evil dictator Jellina Jo-eli 1 and her geniticaly engineered assassin minion Lily6
- Darkest Games sells anime Spec-Sec Agent Ionia
Troops i.e. miniatures available in several poses (either all female or just some of them) and usualy intended to function as a (somewhat) uniform (para-) military unit
Rebel Mini Black Widows Mercs (picture from manufacturer website) |
- Inspired by Heinlein universe, Khurasan Federal Navy Crews are largely female
- Khurusan Federal Army range used to include a pack of female troopers, but I can't seem find them (Dogmaanddragon's found them, have a look at his comment hereunder), one or both of its medics could also be female
- Khurusan various Sepulvedan ranges (Resistance, Provisional Army and Liberation Front) all have a couple of women among their ranks
- Half the (8) models in GZG Colonial Security packs are women
- Rebel Mini Sahadeen field a female only unit: the War Maidens
- At leats 2 females are hiding among Rebel Mini Earth Force Infitrators
- Black skin suits, long coats, and pistols: maybe you can hire... Rebel Mini Black Widows Mercs
- Astro Miniatures not-Starfleet, not-Klingons and not-Romulans crews all includes females
- Battlestations also offers a pack of four crewwomen
- If horned women are your thing, have a look at Blue Moon Shivan Sisterhood
Civilians
GZG Civilians/Colonists (picture from manufacturer website) |
- Nearly all packs of GZG Civilians/Colonists range include a couple of females: civilians, young civilians, armed civilians, technicians, space suits...
- Khurasan has a little girl, a pregnant woman and a (not very scifiish, IMO) female scientist among the other civilians and scientists
- Women also serve in Khusasan's DPLS crew as first mate and engineer
- Straddling the line between civilians, troops and characters, GZG Ravagers packs both include at least one female.
- Very near future (honestly, one might just call them modern) Oddzial Osmy journalists: the photographer wears a skirt
- Also sci-fi mostly by name, HOF refugee family includes a girl
- And QRF got a mother-and-children among its Deep Space Colonists
- RAFM actually has a pack of mixed Space Vixens
- Both Splinter Light space crews includes women
- Can't really be sure given the quality (or lack thereof) of the picture but I think one of Stan Johansen Ten Adventurers is a woman
- Darkes Star Games just released a pack of "sci western" Colonist Adventurers which includes two females
Aliens, mutants, humanoid robots and other not-quite-humans
CMG Vadorian Assains (picture from manufacturer website) |
- CMG Mercenaries range has two packs of Vandorian Assassins, the first one is entirely made of (5) females, the second only has two (out of 5 minis)
- Not too sure about the rest of Khurusan Alien Legion, but the upper right green riflething looks female to me
- Two of the six C-3POish GZG Humanoid Bots are fem... Well they have breasts. Whatever robots might be using those for
- More robots with tits at The Department of Fabriquant Management: not-replicants for your not-blade-runners to track
When dealing with aliens, it might be difficult to
identify the female gender (if there even is such a thing for that
given species), so I purposefully left those (except for very humanoid
ones) out of this catalogue, leaving each player to decide for himself
what gender his favourite mass of tentacles or blob of goo is. The same
goes for bulky (power) armours, they might just be female crewed but
fall out of the scope of this post (just like a MBT might be female
crewed and yet not quite qualify as a female model). The bottom line was that a
model needed humanish visible female secondary sex characteristics (i.e.
boobs) to figure in this listing.
Finally, I don't own every single pack of 15mm miniature ever produced (but I'm working on it) and I've written this based mostly on the pictures available on the manufacturer's websites. They might perfectly be some more girls hiding in other packs that I missed. Don't hesitate to let me know.
Khurasan has reorganized his Federal Army packs, but the females are still there.
ReplyDeleteThere is a riflewoman at the far right of the bottom row here: http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/federal-set-1.jpg
and 3rd from the left here:
http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/federal-set-2.jpg
The difference is pretty subtle though. They just have slightly bulkier chest armor, which you wouldn't even notice unless you looked hard at a male and female soldier side by side.
Desiree Kim is probably my favorite 15mm sci-fi mini regardless, male/female/alien/other. I don't have Tornado Teacup (probably my 2nd favorite) but only because I'm pretty sure my all-thumbs paint job would be a fail on something so small.
ReplyDeleteDesiree Kim (aka not-Alyx) and Not-Gordon-Freeman are the bloody FINEST sculpts in this scale I have ever seen. Jo-eli and Lily 6 shown above look just as good. I don't think that very many people could paint them well enough to really do them justice.
DeleteTornado Teacup colour picture: http://www.destroyerminis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/teacuptornado.jpg
DeleteMight want to move the Splintered Light space crews up to the character section, since they are not at all the Firefly crew.
ReplyDeleteLaserburn 15mm.co.uk line have several females.
ReplyDeletehttp://15mm.co.uk/104.htm
http://15mm.co.uk/111.htm
http://www.15mm.co.uk/MSM51_Human_Female_Scouts.htm
Better photo of one of them (On right. Left is Plastic Soldier Soviet Company Nurse, Middle is GZG Colonist)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5pJyyJTLqIE/UBXqWqCy6fI/AAAAAAAAA7k/2MU24D0N6bs/s1600/civ3.jpg
Several of 08's Neo-Pole packs have female figures. To their credit, you don't really notice them unless you look very closely, because they are wearing the same bulky body armor as the male.
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