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

 

[NewJeffCT]

Some good pics I found on the deviant art website mentioned above...









Hmm, not sure why the thumbnails aren't coming up - I know I've done it before.
oh well

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Whoops, meant to post this with the other -

'Mystic Warrior' (definitely not a Jedi) Libby.

More disturbing is Dominatrix Libby....

The Auld Grump

 

[NewJeffCT]

Whoops, meant to post this with the other -

'Mystic Warrior' (definitely not a Jedi) Libby.

More disturbing is Dominatrix Libby....

The Auld Grump

well, the sword does kind of look like a light saber.

No comment on dominatrix libby.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

well, the sword does kind of look like a light saber.

No comment on dominatrix libby.

Heh, it was painted as a light saber on their site, until they switched back to showing original sculpts and unpainted minis.

They also have a not Scooby, a not Shaggy, a not Mal, a not Kaley.... It is possible that there is a pattern here....

Jinkies!

The Auld Grump

 

[Kaodi]

If you really wanted realism in armour (as opposed to just coverage) you would probably begin by demanding female warriors wear helmets. Deflections to the heart are of secondary concern when someone is trying to bash in or bisect your head.

 

[Dausuul]

If you really wanted realism in armour (as opposed to just coverage) you would probably begin by demanding female warriors wear helmets. Deflections to the heart are of secondary concern when someone is trying to bash in or bisect your head.

Agreed. If you armor nothing else, you armor the head. Helmet is top priority. Once you've got that, you cover neck, chest and belly. Everything else is of substantially lesser importance.

(I always kind of wonder why artists who want to portray sexy female warriors don't go with Roman legionary armor. It's practical combat gear that also shows a fair bit of skin. But then, I guess the point of cheesecake is to emphasize that the character considers looking sexy to be more important than survival.)

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Agreed. If you armor nothing else, you armor the head. Helmet is top priority. Once you've got that, you cover neck, chest and belly. Everything else is of substantially lesser importance.

(I always kind of wonder why artists who want to portray sexy female warriors don't go with Roman legionary armor. It's practical combat gear that also shows a fair bit of skin. But then, I guess the point of cheesecake is to emphasize that the character considers looking sexy to be more important than survival.)

Or at least have the helmet ready - tucked under the arm, sitting on the ground while the model is in a relaxed pose....

But the gut is an even better target than the head- less likely to get out of the way. One slice, and then it's the onion test....

The Auld Grump, feed the victim onions, wait a bit, then sniff the wound. If you smell onions then the person is going to die.

*EDIT* Yep, just checked, both models I linked to are wearing helmets, though one has horns and the other has hair just waiting to be grabbed....

 

[Dausuul]

Or at least have the helmet ready - tucked under the arm, sitting on the ground while the model is in a relaxed pose....

But the gut is an even better target than the head- less likely to get out of the way. One slice, and then it's the onion test....

If you've been slashed across the belly, you can still act to defend yourself and even fight back, albeit feebly; slashed-open abdominal muscles is a crippling injury but not paralyzing. A good hard knock on the head, however, and it's lights out. You cease to be a threat and the enemy can finish you off at her leisure.

Like I said, neck/chest/belly are the next things you protect after the head. But the head comes first. To the best of my knowledge, in all of history there has never been an army that gave its soldiers armor but not helmets.

 

[NewJeffCT]

If you really wanted realism in armour (as opposed to just coverage) you would probably begin by demanding female warriors wear helmets. Deflections to the heart are of secondary concern when someone is trying to bash in or bisect your head.

While true, the picture I was looking for needed to be clearly female, so the face would need to be showing unless the picture had cleavage baring armor and/or boob plating.

 

[ValhallaGH]

This site seems to have some good shots: Full suit of armor | Armor suits :: ArmStreet

Of particular relevance: Fantasy Stainless Full Women's Lady-Warrior Armor Set :: ArmStreet

And a two-fer: http://www.varmouries.com/cgallery/gothbaba.jpg

I find it interesting that the best "woman in actual armor" pictures are from sites trying to sell actual armor. There's obviously a market for such things.