@Vitor Soares@William Redford
Actually, “historical proportion” female sets for things like "Dark Age working women" and/or fantasy kits might be the smarter route for female minis at the moment (there isn't a whole lot of historical scale proportioned female parts out there right now, so just doing bodies and heads for them seems a little bonkers to me😅, just a little).
While I could see a female set similarly outfitted to the WGF Numidians doing really, really, well*🤑. For basic bodies lets stick with the idea its an all male subject for now cause that is what we all have in our bit boxes staring at begging for bodies🤣.
Most of us have played around with this idea for awhile and I have mentioned it before elsewhere on this forum, but:
While there is a workable one size fits all option with regards to just using up extra parts (which is a plain plate cuirass armor with pants and pull on boots torso😆), THERE IS NO “good one size fits all” torso that’s “useful for every era of history gaming” option out there due to radical costume changes over time... and things like chain armored sleeve shoulders🤣.
However there are a couple of torso designs we can all agree are more or less useful for a lot of things😏:
The plain Dark Age clothed body with a tunic/shirt and pants body (ie what the Goth kit has): Useful in the Dark Age and earlier Iron Age Europe and near east, arguably not a go to for anything past the 1300s or the Himalayas though.😆
The Numidian Tunic with bare legs and bare or sandled feet body (like the old WGF kit had): Useful for a lot of Mediterranean clime dwelling groups, a number of ancient Europeans and generic slaves (THIS NEEDS A GOOD REDO AND ITS OWN body SPRUE). 50/50 at best for non-Mediterranean or non-European groups (up for debate), but clearly not a go to for colder clime groups or Europeans from 16th century onward though.
Now a plain or buttoned shirt with a plane shashed or belted on pair of pants with pull on boots might be a good third option Since that might be able to cover the 17th century to maybe the 21st century for Europe and the Americias, but there is a lot to debate about that**.
TBH most of the other "generic body" designs I have heard (and even proposed myself) are either useful for a very particular era or work best for Fantasy kit bashing.
For example the WA partisan torsos as mentioned could theoretically be used for modern or very late 19th century with the right guns, but those torsos work best for the pulp era from 1920 to maybe 1960. A good chunk of time but the popularization of tee shirts kind makes them stand out a bit after 1960 if by themselves and some torsos just seem to be dressed wrong for the 1910’s and earlier.
Likewise, the “plain plate cuirass armor with pants and pull on boots” torso should suck up any weapon armbits and headswap combination you throw at it and still look "awesome" or at very least "decent"😉. BUT lord only knows if anything kitbashed with it would work for historical war gaming🤣.(For fantasy and SF gaming it would work great for a lot things, history not so much🤣).
Notes:
(*that said the best way I could see selling them would be as “Rebelling slaves I: fight for freedom ladies!” or some equally questionable title in the fantasy or maybe general accoutrement section🤣)
(**I personally do not think that would work that will for that whole timeframe. Though a 100 year period of time useable body, such as the 19th century, might be achievable with such a torso setup depending on the combination of mentioned details)
