Daily reminder that ~literally the FIRST~ early Space Marine kits included female Space Marines, and if you remind the average 40K fan of that you’d better have an umbrella ready for the fash tears.
Personally I don’t think they sold like shit because they were women, either. I think they sold like shit because they look like complete shit. Even the best paint jobs on those two models still look awful.
Yeah the faces on them are really rough, basically impossible to make them look good. Then there’s the hilariously tiny waists - even corseted Sisters of Battle don’t look that thin!
But speaking of SOBs, I’ve got a whole company of the original pewter SOB models and those still look great. GDubs figured out how to sculpt heads and just decided not to give FSMs another go, which is a shame.
It’s true that there were a pair of models of FSM back in ye olde Rogue Trader days (Female Warrior Gabs and Female Warrior Jayne), but they weren’t in the first batch. The first space marine model was the metal LE2 Imperial Space Marine in '85 (or possibly '86), followed by the RTB01 plastic kit in Sept '87 which came out at the same time as Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader (aka 1st edition). Gabs and Jayne were metal models ordered individually from a miscellaneous “Adventurers” release in Spring '88.
Daily reminder that ~
literally the FIRST~ early Space Marine kits included female Space Marines, and if you remind the average 40K fan of that you’d better have an umbrella ready for the fash tears.Personally I don’t think they sold like shit because they were women, either. I think they sold like shit because they look like complete shit. Even the best paint jobs on those two models still look awful.
Yeah the faces on them are really rough, basically impossible to make them look good. Then there’s the hilariously tiny waists - even corseted Sisters of Battle don’t look that thin!
But speaking of SOBs, I’ve got a whole company of the original pewter SOB models and those still look great. GDubs figured out how to sculpt heads and just decided not to give FSMs another go, which is a shame.
It’s true that there were a pair of models of FSM back in ye olde Rogue Trader days (Female Warrior Gabs and Female Warrior Jayne), but they weren’t in the first batch. The first space marine model was the metal LE2 Imperial Space Marine in '85 (or possibly '86), followed by the RTB01 plastic kit in Sept '87 which came out at the same time as Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader (aka 1st edition). Gabs and Jayne were metal models ordered individually from a miscellaneous “Adventurers” release in Spring '88.