"28mm Old West Women" Topic

Hello,

I am posting again as it does not seem to have worked.

I am trying to complile a list of all the firms that make 25/28mm old west cowgirls, armed women, etc. If you know of any, please add them to the list. Thank you.

Dixon
Blue Moon
Reaper

Shadowforge

Irregular makes a single armed female.

RAFM makes a female settler pack in their F&IW range that contains women both loading and shooting muzzle loading muskets.

Old Glory makes a wagon train settlers pack, however I don't know if that contains any armed females or not.

Black Scorpion's Tombstone, Reaper's Chronoscope, and Iron Wind Metals Spaghetti Western lines.

Artizan – in the Thrilling Tales range
Irregular has Apache women

Reaper, Black Scorpion, EM4 – think 30mm

Thanks. A lot of great stuff there.

We have one – code AWE009

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Knuckleduster has a few as well.

Don't overlook Conquest and other companies who do F&I. A woman in a bonnet is pretty generic.

"A woman in a bonnet is pretty generic."

Arrgh! That's the biggest problem with this genre, getting figures with the correct costume. The "bonnet" in the late 18th century looked nothing like the "prairie bonnet" of the 19th century. Even the "prairie bonnet" was not worn as much as Hollywood would have you believe. Also, the 18th century dresses were definitely out of style by the 1870s.

"A woman in a bonnet is pretty generic."

Hakkk-phtooo!!!!

I am sculpting some more old west females at the mo' I'll let folk know when they are ready. To date a plains indian maiden & 2 black Americans

@ElaineP,

Interesting point about fashion. Do you have any online image links handy to illustrate your point? A fashionable 18th cent. dress vs. a late 19th cent. dress? A prairie bonnet vs. an earlier bonnet?

Thanks,
Robert

I've not found a site that has 18th cent. dress & 19th cent. dress side by side. However, the bonnet did not become fashionable until the early 1800s. If you look closely at the headwear worn by common women in the late 18th century you will find variations of the "mob cap", band caps & wide brimmed "sun hats".

Fashon changed every 10 to 20 years until 1840 when the sewing machine was invented. By the end of the 19th century, fashion was changing every year. It is true with men's fashions as well. That is why Civil War minis being used for 1870s-1880s troops never look quite right.

Images for women's fashions from 1860 to 1900:

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Images for women's dresses 1770s:

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Eureka have 19th C women that will fit Wild West.

Thanks for the links Elaine.

The Civil War Museum in Ft. Worth has an adjacent Victorian Dress collection that is fantastic.

I hate to sound like I'm nit-picking, but if you are going to spend time getting your posse, gunslingers, lawmen, etc. to look right in your game, wouldn't you want the women to look right as well?

I need Western women mostly for Deadlands, so there is a bit of leeway with accuracy (as there seem to be with Black Scorpion and Shadowforge…)
My main concern is getting them in mounted AND not forms. As it is with biker/bikie figs, cowpeople on horseback do not seem to come also in a dismounted form and the overwhelming majority are only available on foot. In fact mounted Western men are much the same.
I find so many sculpts of Western women are too chunky, almost like they were made by GW Ork sculptors, or they are a bit better but seem to be sculpted in undergarments or dressed like an early 90's teenager trying to make her own Western.
Then again you should see the outfits I have seen on the covers of some novellas available from a newsagent near my place… nothing but late '80s-early 90's satin and lace lingerie and only a revolver or clap-action rifle to link them to the cinematic Western environment.
Why can't we get a good sculptor to make a figure that looks like a lady the Duke may have encountered? And if there already are, why so few?

The only company that I know of that makes mounted & unmounted western women is Westwind. Part of the reason is the dress. Most women did not dress to go riding. In fact, in most Western towns, people did not ride horses much at all.

Take your movies with the Duke. Very very few of his female co-stars rode.

I've long been tempted to just paint up a dust cloud with a horse's head sticking out to use as a generic rider. God knows that's how most trail rides I've been on look and feel.

As to women of the wild west, my biggest challenge has been coming up with a good way of painting the faded prints that dominated most of the period clothing.

Conquest and Redoubt have some in the FIW ranges that would work nicely…

"Conquest and Redoubt have some in the FIW ranges that would work nicely…"

And I'm sure they'll look nice next to the gunslinger wearing the tricorne about to gun down the Comanche wearing the mohawk… sigh.

The only female sculpts in the 2 lines that even come close to the 1870s are the ones of Cora Munro.

Artizans Eliza Stone is beautiful!