(Xposted on the VSF board since some ‘steampunk' ranges can include a few minis relevant to the topic)
OK, I have not intent to ‘justify' such a ‘freak' idea, so alien to the Lace Wars ethos! Then, Robida robida.info/visionnaire.htm in «La Guerre au Vingtième Siècle»: link prophetized that women would be enlisted in the Territorial Army: thus female Regiments may indeed be seen as a «Lacepunk» (Science-Fiction in a Lace Wars setting) feature….
Thus I'm interested in compiling a list of ‘military' 18th C. female minis
(‘military' in that, according to their dress, they can be part of a field unit: so e.g. FIW ‘female colonists' in long dress, even if wearing a musket, are not relevant).
A full range is under development for years and grows slowly; not on display on the Eureka site since it's a kind of ‘private venture' variant of E100; its appearance on the general market is currently partial and irregular:
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Suren has, in the «Willie» French Early Napoleonic Range, figures for Italy & Egypt : one of them is a figure of «Madame Foures-Bellitote ala-Hussard, riding en-cavalier»; I know of no pic on-line:??
I also read somewhere (unable to retrieve the ref.) that among the Suren 18th C. ranges there is an ambiguous, Chevalier d'Eon-like, young mounted officer ?
The ‘Sandra' range is a ‘spin off' from some Eureka Female Pirates minis, and of course a very ‘irregular' unit can be buit by mixing ‘tricorned' such from a variety of ranges; painted in uniform colors, they would make a good ‘Charging Infantry' (in WRG parlance) Militia unit: headwapping (later concealed under a ‘dog collar' necklace) can increase the available diversity. Useful «Tricorned» (or bareheaded and in suitable dress: ‘land' breeches…) female Pirates appear afaik in only 4 ranges :
Brigade Games:
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Eureka Miniatures (‘Pirate Ladies'):
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Reaper Miniatures (well, maybe 1 or 2 ‘characters'):
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WestWind Productions (again, for 1 or 2 ‘characters' at most):
link
Now, minis NOT intended for a Lace Wars setting can be pressed in service.
Old Glory has a set of Female Cossacks (of doubtful usefulness imho: perhaps as Light Cavalry, after shortening drastically the 19th C.-looking oversized plume?) :
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A kind of light troops can be provided by Brigade Games ACW female Zouaves, though they would look less ‘19th C.' with a greenstuff turban around their ‘chechia': link
(there is also a corresponding ‘character').
Eureka ‘Pax Limpopo' African female warriors are unfortunately not of use, given their pose and weaponry; afaik no manufacturer did the 19th C. Amazons of Dahomey: too bad since, after addition by 'paint conversion' of shoes, stockings and perhaps a blouse (transparency effects on a dark skin!) to decently field them under our climate, how well they would satisfy the mid-18th C. European taste for 'exoticism'!
Freebooter Minis offer with their ‘Arquebusieres' what could be used as a Lace Wars «Warrior Princess»' Own / Lieb Unit:
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Even Warmachine can provide, with the ‘Arcane Tempest Gun Mages', a few useful minis, if better suited to depict characters or officers than to built a whole unit :
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Does somebody know of 25 – 30mm female minis that could be added to this list?
Thanks in advance,
Jean-Louis
(aka Louys of Monte-Cristo
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-like tribe). How such could fit in a Lace Wars setting I don't really know: probably a 'national' tradition of total equality between men and women, for rights and duties alike; probably no real 'field units' nonetheless, but a Prinzessin Lieb Unit and various militia. Following the historical exemples of ACW and British Victorian volunteers, the uniforms can be varied and in some cases 'exotic'. Anyway I have always been more concerned with uniforms than 'real' tabletop armies: