Believable Female Miniatures

I'm back after a weekend away in Cardiff, watching the Rugby World Cup and revelling in the atmosphere created by Irish, Welsh Canadian and Uruguayan fans, as well as seeing Japan beat the might of South Africa (I watched that one on TV but it was still amazing!)
Yet... this is not a rugby blog.

In a roundabout way I want to tell you about the Dice Bag Lady and her Believable Female Miniatures.

One of my favourite things about going back to Cardiff, apart from catching up with family and friends of course, is a visit to Firestorm Games on Trade Street. This shop has grown from being a good local games store to an amazing warehouse dedicated to gaming. It switched venue about a year ago and is now run out of what used to be, I think, a furniture store. So there's masses of space, huge gaming tables, couches, toilets, everything you need really. Plus loads of really cool miniatures, board games and terrain on sale.

This is the old venue which was a little ... cosy

The new place is unbelievably cavernous

I always love a chance to go down there and browse, and because I only get back to Cardiff two or three times a year I rarely come out of there without blowing a small fortune! They're celebrating their sixth birthday at the moment with discount on their website, and some of the prices are already pretty decent, so check them out.

However the main point of this post is to tell you about those miniatures. Last week I spotted The Dice Bag Lady / Bad Squiddo Games on Twitter and got tempted to buy! I had no idea that Annie actually operates out of Firestorm Games and offers loads of weird and wonderful things including handmade dice bags (want one of those), flickering smoky explosion markers (got some of those) and what is claimed to be the largest collection of female miniatures in the world.

To quote DBL herself,

"The theme is “Believable Female Miniatures”, this means the focus is on attire and poses that are realistic to the task that lady would be performing. In a nutshell it can be summed up by “no chainmail bikinis or oops-I-dropped-my-pen stance”.

There are some very cool fighters and other sculpts of non-humans including heavily armoured dwarves which I really like. Check them out here

I wouldn't object to someone using a mini with a chainmail bikini at my table if they really wanted to. But as I am gaming with my parents, wife and kids, it's nice to have a choice of genders that doesn't involve lots of pink bits on show!