With FEMbruary in mind, you could do well to visit the interesting blogposts, references and figure lists at The Raft blog section on Wargaming Warrior Women. I visited this site for the Dahomey Warrior Women section last year https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/wargaming-warrior-women/
Some of the interesting Warrior Women articles on this blog (screenshot).
Well worth spending some time reading and browsing here.
Here are some of my last year’s FEMbruary posts which link with The Raft’s history research:
After black acrylic primer, blocking in colour begins with light olive and flesh – very animated 28mm Annie Norman’s Bad Squiddo figures Women of WW2 Russian Command.
Over the weekend as FEMbruary 2019 begins, I have undercoated my two sets of believable female miniatures by Annie Norman at Bad Squiddo.
I started to block out basic colours onto each set. Finding the right green / khaki shade for Soviet troops should be interesting. They will most likely be gloss finished.
I noticed when comparing the Land Girls set this year with those painted last year that I used mostly Revell Aquacolor Gloss Acrylics. I usually now paint in toy soldier style, rather than the more realistic “grungy” khaki and brown wash of modern Wargames figures and “Military Modelling”. A matter of personal taste.
Gloss or not Gloss? Even the wider range of Matt colours can be glossed at the end with Varnish.
Last year’s FEMbruary Land Girls at Rest on the left, this year’s work in progress are Land Girls at Work with bag of spuds on the right. The hay stook on the left is the cut off broom head from a Steve Weston Mexican peasant woman, converted into a Suffragette last year.
Gloss or not gloss?
2018 FEMbruary Land Girl figures painted in gloss – not quite finished yet.
One new #FEMbruary / #MARCH challenge that has come up – Will I be able to get both sets of Land Girls finished and box framed ready for the craft section of my local Spring Flower Show in mid March?
It fits the local agricultural / flower show theme. Many Land Girls worked or trained on local farms in my semi-rural Southwest area of Britain during WW1 and WW2.
It strikes a blow for “boy-craft” in an otherwise mostly female craft section.
Hopefully I can finish this project on time to a suitable standard (my own!)
Last year I didn’t think my Suffragette conversions were quite ready or suitable for the same event, even though it was the Right to Vote centenary and we had had active suffragette campaign in my home area.
Meanwhile reading my FEMbruary challenge read – The Unwomanly Face of War, an oral history of Russian women in WW2 – is proving surprisingly interesting and challenging subject matter. Grim in many places, not for the faint hearted but certainly a history that needed to be recorded (written 1985, updated 2017) before this generation of women passed away.
As I don’t have any 28mm WW2 figures to game with, I will base these Bad Squiddo figures up individually but they will, for the time being, work as great little diorama vignettes.
FEMbruary2019?
Once more, like 2018, fantasy gaming blogger Leadballoony has set the FEMbruary 2019 challenge to paint some more believable female miniatures than the usual unbelievable chainmail bikini female fantasy (or male fantasy?) figures.
This year, matching book bloggers like CupcakesandMachetes, https://cupcakesandmachetes.wordpress.com I have chosen a book for FEMbruary as well, to match the Bad Squiddo female Russian figures.
Man of Tin blog 