Pics of female fighters/knights in realistic armor?

[aurance]

Metal boobies would do a particularly good job of guiding glancing attacks straight to the heart. That's probably more of a bugaboo for me than random pieces being missing.

 

[Balesir]

I nearly snorted Coke Zero when I saw the picture you posted. As a woman who has worn garters to hold up stockings I can tell you that those thin straps would never hold armor leggings they would break from the weight or hang loosely and be droopy.

Heh - not to mention they would chafe like you wouldn't believe!

IRL later plate leg armour was fitted using padded hose (like tights, but much stronger and padded) that the armour pieces were laced onto as well as strapped around and as well as being strapped to the breastplate. Properly fitted, it should be firmly enough attached that you can do tumbling tricks in it.

Having said that, it's not like cuisses (or other plate armour) is going to "fall down" - it's quite rigid!

 

[Hussar]

Thanks for the links all. There's some great stuff here. Finding decent token pics for people is a challenge. Way, way too much fantasy beefcake out there.

It gets even worse when you try to do SF games. Gack!

I'd suggest www.conceptart.org as well. You might have to google site search it though. Wading through things can be a bore. Or, in my case, a three hour time sink where I just HAVE to click that next link.

 

[scruffygrognard]

I did a quick bit of photoshopping to try to get rid of the boobage in the armor...

 

[Hussar]

Cperkins, that's pretty darn good actually. Hrm, I wonder if just doing a bit of a smudge job on a lot of the chainmail bikini pin-ups would work?

 

[Quickleaf]

Sorry, I got distracted by the use of snorting coke and garters in the same sentence

Here's a picture from Artesia by Mark Smylie (a *great* graphic novel) that depicts some functional aesthetically pleasing armor worn by the heroine:

One of Artesian horseback:

And one more from the most recent comic in the series:

 

[NewJeffCT]

I did a quick bit of photoshopping to try to get rid of the boobage in the armor...

OK - I think I need to use this one just because you took the time to photoshop it for the thread!

Thanks

 

[scruffygrognard]

Cool! Glad to be of service.

I'll leave you with a picture that I touched up for my wife's use. She wanted a female barbarian... but didn't want the character to have the Great Cleavage feat.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Look up St. Joan of Arc.

(Illo. Ca. 1485)

(Statue.)

(Statue.)
Both photos above from the St. Joan of Arc Center - N.M.

The Auld Grump

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Ahh well that is different those are mithral garters.

It was just a weird picture to me it was like seeing a woman on the top dressed in a business jacket and blouse and the bottom is a bikini. My roommate's comment was what it's laundry day and her pants are still in the wash.

One of my frustrations over the years has been finding decent minis and pictures of female adventurers.

A tin bikini at that.... ow. That cannot be comfortable.

It is better now then it used to be. I remember back in the early 80s going nuts trying to find a female wizard who was not half dressed or topless.

Sandra Garrity does a decent job of covering the body.

Not perfect, but at least you can't see her belly button. :/ (Why is the belly exposed on so many miniatures? That's the softest place on the body, you can open up the intestines and belly....)

On the flip side are the Libby miniatures by Hasslefree Miniatures-

The armor isn't perfect, but her body has some mass to it! (By some odd coincidence, I believe that the person who makes those sculpts is married to a woman named Libby. You gotta love a sculptor that does a model of his wife as a Jedi....)

The Auld Grump