Greetings Terrans, quick post today – hot on the heels of his excellent skirmish force from Mythic Battles: Pantheon, my youngest has just finished up a quartet of Amazons. They were fiddly little buggers, so I helped with some of the trickier areas, but most of the work & all of the design choices are his. Check it out:

My son really wants these to be an elite option in combat and at range, so in Dragon Rampant we’ll be fielding them as Elite Foot with the addition of a fantasy rule called ‘Wizardling’. This gives them a reduced access to some spells, one of which is a suitably shooty spell, this we can simulate their deadliness with bow, sword and spear. Here they are with their fellow mortals:

These ladies form a nice segue into another topic – that of my now-annual ‘Fembruary Challenge’! It’s a simple affair, just paint & post one or more female miniatures from your piles-of-shame, in the name of fair representation within the hobby. Just link back to this post, or ping me directly & I’ll grab a pic and include your entry in the final round-up in early March (usually by International Women’s Day, 8th of March)
Given that this is intended as an encouragement to think about inclusion in the hobby then it makes sense if your entries are kick-ass ladies, and not the product of some socially awkward mini-sculptor’s sexy fantasies… Anything dodgy & I’ll omit it from the round-up, otherwise, have at it! I usually pick my favourite of the bunch – no prizes I’m afraid, but a boatload of kudos to you as an official Fembruary Winner!!! 😊
Laters potaters
Looks good to me.
Cheers,
Pete.
Cheers dude 😊
I say nice job on the Amazonian quartet!
Count me in for Fembruary, as usual. Things are a bit crazy at the moment here but dammit I can surely stretch to a female figure for the good old Fembruary challenge!
Thanks mate, and great news! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with this year 😎
I’ve got a 40K commissar in Severina Raine that needs painting – consider it “Fembruaried”.
Perfect 👌
Well painted Amazons, I like them. The rules for them sound good too. I’m going to paint a Hero Forge gnome wizard type, that I’m painting for a friend.
Cheers Ann & can’t wait to see that gnome painted – lucky friend!!
Nice Amazons! :-) I really like the blue! In all my armies I only have one WW2 Russian female radio operator and two western ladies besieged in Peking in 1900 and no other ladies in the painting queue. So my only chance of getting in on the Fembuary challenge is to paint a battleship, the likes of which are always feminine to my traditional mind, so would that be good enough to get me in to the challenge? Well, OK, it’s really an aeronef battleship, but that’s the closest I can get!
Cheers mate – I think entering an inanimate object is outside the spirit of it, but I’m not the boss of your paint queue 😂
I think half of the problem is that there’s no paint queue management at all at this end! ;-)
😂
Well, if those Amazons are being entered into Fembruary, were all screwed! Your youngest did a great job on those.
I also really like the other soldiers in the band. Especially the verdigris on the shields.
As for Fembruary, always fun to see what people do. Myself, I’m not quite sure if I’ll have a model finished. My daughter has definitely made me start painting more female models, but finishing them hasn’t been my strong point of late.
Thanks mate, I’ll let him know – that will make his day!
No worries if you don’t get anything over the line in time, but you know where to reach me if you do 🤞😊
Your lad did a great job on those Amazons 🙂 fantastic!
As for the challenge, I have a few female troops that are ready to paint, including a Company Commander 👍
Cheers dude, I’ll pass that on 😊
Sounds good on the Fembruary front – intrigued by the Company Commander!!
Great work by your youngest, a chip off the old block for sure. Count me in for Fembruary, just got to get a figure or two. Kick ass ladies you say? OK kick ass it is then.
Cheers mate – he’s way better than I was at that age!
As always, looking forward to seeing what you have in store 😁
Those are great, well beyond what I was doing when I was a lot older and more practiced than he is. They fit in really well alongside Leonidas and his boys too.
As for Fembuary I’m spoilt for choice, I think I’ll just start working my way through all the unpainted kick-ass ladies on the shelf of shame and see how I get on. :-)
If only we had Contrast paints when we were lads, eh? 😌
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for Fembruary!
He is rather good at that painting, they are looking great.
And your challenge seems like a good excuse to get some paint on my Esher Gang.
He’s shaping up nicely, and honestly, contrast paints are a game-changer for kids with normal attention spans! As for your Eschers – hell yeah!!
Contrast is great, does make things a lot easier and do not have to go throught that stage where the model looks worse before any washes.
Nice to see your kids work, nicely done indeed. As for Fembruary, if “Mark’s Conquistador Contest” is done, I could try. But as you’re in it as are a bunch of others I’m gonna do that first, and I don’t have any more females to paint there. But I’ll enjoy all you and others put together!
Cheers mate, but feel free to take a break from Conquistadors & paint a lady or two… not that I have a vested interest in you finishing in early May or anything!! 😜
These look great! I think I’ll enter one of the murder parrots into the Fembruary challenge, thanks for organising yet again!
🧐 Ah, but can you prove the murder parrot is a ‘she’ ?!? 😂
I was actually really surprised to notice that a fair few of the Corvus Cabal minis are women – including the leader character. Progress <3
hell yeah, the warcry bands are very cool in that regard (and in every other regard tbh!!)
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I’m in for FEMbruary 2021 – BMC new Plastic Army Women 54mm plastics:
https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/snowball-fight-at-camp-benjamin-bmc-plastic-army-women-arrive/
and possibly / hopefully Annie Norman’s Bad Squiddo WW2 pigeoneers in 28mm:
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/09/support-smaller-figure-companies-annie-norman-and-bad-squiddo-pigeoneers-of-ww2/
Excellent news – great mini choices!
Hi I was thinking of entering “Fembruary” by painting this fig….
She’s not very “Kick ass” I’m afraid, more some “socially awkward mini-sculptor’s sexy fantasie”…..mine, I sculpted her back in November, and need to get her painted.
Can I still play?
Cheers Roger.
Hell yeah you can mate, home-sculpts rock!!
Thank you very much, here’s a link to my site…
https://rantingsfromunderthewargamestable.wordpress.com/
Cheers Roger.
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