Thanks for the well-wishes guys.
On Thursday we went to the local GW to get some toys, we picked up some Dark Elf Corsairs and skeleton warriors, ordered in some witch elves, the cool sartosan pirate and some coffin lid shields. we got to work on the corsairs straight away and it turns out my wife shares the same hobby pet peeve with me...removing mould lines :tongue:
after a couple of evenings of hobby the unit of corsairs are almost done, and here they are...
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We used female heads from the Dark eldar Wych box set. The bride wants to do an all female army, which is pretty cool and will only require some minor converting for the most part. We decided not to try and give the chest plates of the armour any boobs because quite frankly elves are meant to be quite petite in that regard and while it would have been possible with a bit of green stuff it's probably not a good idea to bite of more that she can chew hobby-wise for her first project and in her words "I don't think ladies who are that buff would have much in the way of boobs" which is kinda a good point when you think about it with female body builders and female professional athletes as an example. Yes there are exceptions of course
I guess that is not how women are portrayed in miniature form, usually being portrayed as overly buxom etc but it kind of makes sense. Sometimes I think that the proportions on female models must be so far out there that if they were real life then they would have some serious lower back issues.
The only exception to this I think is Werner's female sculpts. Werner's sculpts are often heroic scale in the head department so that leaves other anatomical issues if it was represented in an actual person. All that said these are toys stylised to be interesting to paint and game with so meh.
I have been building some skeleton warriors while this is going on, they are just normal skellies so theres no point waffling on about them.
peace out
Hajmoid
