...Madness in Miniature
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...Madness in Miniature
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Since becoming involved in historical war gaming with miniatures in the early 80's I've wanted to have an all female fantasy army. To this end I started collecting 25mm scaled female fantasy figures and have assembled quite a collection of figures from a range of companies. A couple of years ago I sat down to paint them and realised that what I had was a collection of character figures not an army as such, lacking as it did a unified appearance and an apparent common purpose of arms. Disappointed with my collection I then started making inquiries about having an army made to my specifications. I joined a number of Yahoo Groups including `1listSculpting' (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/1listSculpting) and advertised here and on `The Miniatures Page' (http://theminiaturespage.com) for sculptors and artists. Eventually I engaged the services of Gareth Pannan, an illustrator and concept artist, from Melbourne Australia who at this point has no website and can be contacted via my website. Some of Gareths concept art can be seen on my site (http://maidenheadminiatures.com). I then engaged the services of two sculptors: Drew Williams a figurative sculptor from Baltimore (U.S.A) whose webiste is at http://www.jwdc.com/dw/bench.html) and Mike Broadbent a figurative sculptor from Melbourne Australia. Drew has a number of clients and has undertaken a range of freelance work producing some very interesting and exciting miniautres. Mike produced his own range of 54mm scale military and historical figures, and now does much of the sculpting for Nic Robson of Eureka Miniatures. Mike also has no website and can be contacted via Maidenhead Miniatures. All three have worked hard to help me put together my female army which over the last couple of years has finally come together. The original idea was pretty vague and basic being semi-clothed females with attitude. To refine my ideas I searched the web and visited various art sites such as `Fantasya' at (http://www.fantasya.net) and also discovered `Primal Lust' a `Gallery Girls Collection' art magazine. Realising that I was not the only person who enjoyed semi-naked females I decided to continue with that theme and added prehistoric mammals as mounts. The BBC documentary `Walking with Beasts' was released towards the end of the work and helped confirmed the proportions and motion of the beasts selected. The beasts are correctly proportioned to each other but slightly up scaled to the female figures. At this point the `Babes that time forgot' range includes mounted and foot warriors. The mounted troops include a chariot pulled by two sabre-toothed cats, a wooly rhino and crew, light cavalry and heavy cavalry. The light cavalry figures consist of lightly armed female warriors (7 poses) mounted on `Phoriushacos' a 3 metre high flightless predatory bird from South America (6 variants). The heavy cavalry consists of armoured female warriors (7 poses) mounted on sabre-toothed cats (4 variants). Also there are 25 lightly armed and semi-clothed female warriors currently available. Work is well advanced on a `heavy infantry' component consisting of approximately 20 bone/hide armoured female warriors, don't panic there is still plenty of clevage and nipples in abundance. I am also negoiating with Drew Williams over the production of a major piece of work to complete this particular tribe. Consideration is also being given to commencing work on a new tribe of females. I am very happy with the work done so far and so far the response to the range has been quite favourable. --Back to the review-- |
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