OT Narn Housecalls

>From another mailing list, does the Narn bat squad make housecalls to
other
lists?

> > Great story, great pictures, but...no snapshot of the enamored pair
on
> > horseback? What figure did you use for Venusia?

> Err, considering my (Italian langauge) dialogue for Venusia, the
figure
> of "the enamored pair on horseback" conjures up images probably more
suitable to
> the "alt.sex.equine" (or something) mailing list than this one!!!!  
:-)

Not trying to stirrup issues here, but finding appropriately mounted
25mm female
figures is indeed saddled with problems. I just have a pinto two to
make. 
Trying to get the poor gallup above the troops she's leading can be a
night-mare.
You could just paint her Colt of Arms on a completely armored-enclosed
figure.
You could take putty, and phillie chainmail-clad leader's hauberk with
properly
placed, em, bulges.
Of courser hair's too short, but trot out a closed helm,and the prince's
bridle look fine.
Or you could search e-bay, but success is doubt-foal.
But why canter highness just shoe up on the field using a manufactured
female
figure, without all this horsing around?
The Mane thing is, for pace of mind, you didn't spend hoof the day
worrying,
didn't equine about it, quit stallion, and used whatever the equus
available.

- Ken  

> I do have some (mirliton) Late Medieval Italian ladies (very fully
clothed),
> but they're on foot, and weren'y ready for action that day....

Seriously, finding fighting femmes on four-leggers is, well,
infuriating!

BellaDonna from GW is one, Seven Seas had a fig you can convert. A few 
older lines have medieval ladies (often sidesaddle, however). If you can
find an older 'throne' sitting female, it converts easily to a
side-saddle
rider. But again, it ain't Joan of Arc.
Irregular Miniatures has a camel-mounted Zenobia. She's bare-headed with
long hair, so you have to add a hat using putty, and mount her on a
horse.
With careful painting, she looks renaissance, but the fig itself is
pretty 'basic'.

Best bet is converting a fantasy fig from foot to mounted. Since some of
them
are standing "bestride like a Colossus' some cutting and filing can get
them on
horseback, at least with a narrow bodied horse. Another approach is to
cut them
in half at the waist. Then take an armored mounted male leader and do
the same.
Put her top on his bottom, adding a putty sash around the middle (very
renaissance). 

By all means, avoid the 'chainmail bikini' types, and cut down those
ridiculous
9 foot-long 200 pound swords.

And absolutely NO jokes about the personal preferences of Catherine the
Great
(wrong era, anyway)!

- Ken