"15mm manga girls with modern weapons ?" Topic

Typical archetypal young Japanese female students armed with weapons. Think not-gunslinger girls.

Two copies each of four different sculpts in a packet ?

What do you say team ? Any preferred weapons like a Katana or … ?

Thanks

Piotr @ Pole Bitwy

Since this is a OOTW setting; pistols/revolvers, melee weapons, non-lethal weapons.

Gracias,

Glenn

Female students with weapons yes, weird eyes, please no. The older style of giant "manga" eyes has never been successfully translated into 3D without looking completely hideous on 28mm figures, much less 15mm figures.

I was thinking more of realistic Manga, so they could be used with/against our infected, cultists or similar minis.

No large eyes for sure but deadly weapons in excess ;)

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Edit 2: They could use a few 'Men-in-black' types as cannon fodder I think…

Like where you are going Piotr.

Cheers
Mark

So like a 15mm Gogo from Kill Bill? That would be cool.

i made some manga girl
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If you're doing the old style dark blue seifuku, I'd do different skirt lengths as well – short, medium, and long (to the ankles). Apparently the gang girls always went for the long skirts.

momoiro, you have some points,, but this was a commission piece. thanks.

Thanks Momoiro, that's a very interesting fact. Can you have different lengths or styles of the uniform in the same school ?

By the way, here is a poster for 'Seifuku SurviGirl'

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Each school has a specific uniform and there are summer and winter versions. The skirt length is specified in the school's uniform regulations. It may be about knee length or mid-calf length depending on the school. The knee length are more common.

Many girls roll up the waistband to make the skirt into a miniskirt. This is easily done out of school and they can let the skirt length down when in school grounds. This is done in summer or winter.

Remember adolescent girls can grow quickly so may have a skirt which is below the knee and rises above it due to natural growth in the course of a year.

I know all this because my wife is Japanese. She told me all about the strict uniform regulations she had to endure.

Can you have different lengths or styles of the uniform in the same school ?

Not so much in real life as KK mentions, but in manga, different skirt lengths are commonly seen. The skirts for Yankee gang girls are almost always portrayed down to the ankles. The actual style of the uniform is always the same for a school though.

How about the Lovely Angels aka The Dirty Pair, the Warren & Smith comic versions?

Well, *if* you're doing not-Gunslinger Girls, you've got three small ones (elbow-high on a European adult): one with chin-length hair and a P90 (Henrietta), one with shorter hair and a Dragunov or an MG42 (Rico), and one with long hair and an AUG (Angelica). Claes is a little taller (between elbow- and shoulder-high), and carried a VP70? machinepistol with a shoulder stock. Triela is taller (about shoulder-high) and carries either a couple SIG pistols or a Winchester M1897 Trench Gun with the long bayonet. Petra is about the same size, but I haven't seen her with a weapon in hand. Beatrice is another short one, but I need to re-watch the second season to remember what she carried exactly. I think it was a MAC10 with a suppressor, though.

And I'd definitely buy them *all*, especially if you did a set with guns out and another set with cases. Add a third set of Handlers.

Those 'oversized' weapons really make your head turn.

Battle Royale style: picture

Cheers
Mark

I might add some not-Kill Bill influence.

Handlers or Men-in-black will be a separate set of at least four sculpts. I am wondering if some typical Yakuza weapons would be a good idea…

Schoolgirls from Oniyama High School [Demon Mountain ?] battle evil and corruption during extracurricular activities ;)

I am not absolutely sure if I should make them so young as in not-Gunslinger Girls Lion in the Stars. They will definitely be schoolgirls [Junior High possibly ?]

Since I plan on making at least two packs [eight sculpts] I was thinking about a blade weapons pack and a ranged weapon pack with a possible third pack in the future…

True, children with guns is generally enough to make most people shudder (plus then you have to worry about IP lawyers, although most Japanese authors tend to be less uptight about it than certain western companies, especially if you send them a nice letter asking to use their work for inspiration).

Triela- or Petra-sized girls (shoulder-high or just a little shorter) would work very well, particularly if you put one or two in a more business-suit looking 'uniform'. IIRC, Petra is 160-something cm tall, so she'd actually come up to the chin of a guy who's 180cm tall.

I'd suggest smaller blades or handguns for the handlers, no shirasaya (erm, plain, wood-handled katana).

Do remember how short most 12-year-olds are, compared to a 6-foot adult male, though. Even a friend's son was less than shoulder-high on me when he was 12, and Ian is a really big guy now that he's 16 (about 5'10 and 225).

If you did a set of not-gunslinger girls, I would definitely buy several packs, just for … fun. yeah, that's what I'll call it when the guys get back to a cyberpunk game…

I'd consider a pack of melee-weapons as well as ranged weapons for the girls, too.

I would also buy a set of not gunslinger girl figures. that series has plenty of potential for skirmish level game play.Don't know if I would want them with melee weapons though other then combat knives and Triela's bayonet.

I don't know if the Japanese are less uptight about licensing. They just have a mechanism for letting amateurs use their IP in limited venues like WonderFest.
Just ask the people over at the MaK forum how they feel about the AE WWII "hommage" to the PKA suit. I'm pretty sure they were responsible for having the Eureka SAFS suit discontinued as well.

I have two four girl sets but they are 28mm rather than 15mm.

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Regards, the Gorb
aka Left Hand Miniatures

I think 15mm is just too small for the style differences to be noticeable.

Each school has a specific uniform and there are summer and winter versions. The skirt length is specified in the school's uniform regulations. It may be about knee length or mid-calf length depending on the school. The knee length are more common.

Where I live, the girls have no summer/winter uniform, they just wear theirs just above the knee and simply have to suffer during the winter. Sometimes they let them get away with gym shorts underneath and most wear scarves in winter. Private schools look pretty much the same as Western private school uniforms, it's only the government schools that go for the Prussian uniform and sailor fetish look for the girls.

Did someone say Japanese martial arts girls?

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Ouch! Rugby will never be the same again :o)

Thanks for the update Youthful Elephant.
How could I forget unarmed martial arts schoolgirls. Seems another packet of four poses looms in the distance…

My normal anime girl preference are usually the airhead bimbos that seem to have trouble keeping their clothes on, not the hentai series the ecchi series (Urusei Yatsura, Kanokon, Girls Bravo, etc) Can't use a them in a war game. But a Major Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell) would make a kick butt CO, being a full prosthetic cyborg. The Dirty Pair would be good to, got GZG 25mm of them already.

Girls with guns in 15mm Rock on….

Infojunky: not your 'average' girls with guns. Rather cute, uniformed school girls that will blow up your neighborhood, rip your heart out and serve it on a plate raw. Sushi anyone ? :D

I think that their 'handlers' will be able to fill in as Men In Black, Agents or Yakuza.

I wouldn't mind maybe one as an unusual future ninja type, as long as she doesn't have baseball sized eyes. More than one is a trend I don't want to establish.

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Gracias,

Glenn

Glenn: Must have been too popular ;)

Try the official site including a trailer: artport.co.jp/movie/seifuku

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And another movie: Zombie Hunter Rika link

Piotr,

is there any chance of a 15mm Buffy as well?

SJDonovan: Sure, why not. She could be used as a survivor.
How would you arm her and what other three characters would you like to join not-Buffy in the packet ?

Four Buffys in different K.A. modes will do!!!!

Cheers
Mark

Wny not four TV heroines – Buffy, Dark Angel (Jessica Alba) etc

Cheers
Mark

I'd vote for a pack containing a not-Buffy, a not-Willow, a not-Xander and a not-Giles. Followed by a not-Spike, not-Angel, not-Cordelia and not-Anya (the latter preferably dressed as a bunny rabbit: picture

With regards to weaponry you could go for the stake but personally I'd opt for the characteristic standing with arms folded or hands on hips pose: picture

How about some Not Black Lagoon figures? you could a have a set of not Lagoon traders, Not Hotel Moscow ,a not Roberta figure maybe even a not Hansel and Gretel set.