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OMG! Ohhh, the SHAME!!! I'm converting myself into a "Flagellant"!!! I GROVEL in MORTIFICATION!!! No seriously, not necessarily a "certain look", but I think it's partly because we don't see many women in 1/35 scale, and when we do, sometimes the furor created over "masculine-looking/homely" female features is because the sculptor(s) DO get the features slightly "out-of-scale", for example, the "heavy jaw-line" that I mentioned earlier. What we perceive as "beautiful" and/or "homeliness" is largely subjective, anyway. If anyone is "sexist" or "objectivist", it's the people that run the modeling & acting agencies, and the powers-that-be which choose exactly WHO is going to be the next "Super-model" or Hollywood's next "SENSATIONAL", "PHENOMENAL", "STRIKINGLY BEAUTIFUL", or "GORGEOUS" female "SUPER-STAR"! Their words, not mine. We've all seen the hype on TV, and in the "Society & Media" rags... Me? I think I'd probably work on the heavy jaw-lines on this particular figurine, and reduce her cheeks a little bit, as I said earlier- It's cheaper AND easier than to go out and buy a set of HORNET "Female Heads", and then to have to form and sculpt "hair" on them, because HORNET only supplies these "Female Heads" as bald-headed! I suppose that I COULD sculpt "hair" on a HORNET "Female Head" easily enough, but quite honestly, I'm starting to get lazy in my old age!!! I could ALSO use one of the MASTER BOX Girls' heads, because they already come with hair, and in my opinion, they're prettier, but they STILL need some work anyway, because their facial features seem to be a bit masculine in structure. Masculine facial bone-structure, I think many of you will admit, generally tends to be "heavier" and more "robust" in comparison to female physiognomy, which really has nothing to do with whether a woman or girl is perceived to be pretty or not. It's not a big deal- We're only discussing a resin female figurine's facial features; I've altered and re-sculpted DOZENS of male figures' facial features, just so that they wouldn't be so "recognizable" when used with basically the same figure in a different pose, ESPECIALLY when these figures are in close proximity to one another. A LOT can be done to alter a scale figure's facial features by only using one's painting-skills, I've found in my own experience. Mainly, when I was discussing what I would do with this particular figurine's facial features, I was just "thinking out loud"... I probably won't buy this particular figurine in the immediate future, as I really have no plans for using a female "Resistance Fighter" at this point. Maybe in time, possibly in an interesting vignette, as she may be making "first contact" with "US, Allied or Soviet Liberation Forces"... It's a thought, anyway... PS- I would also alter her arms, re-positioning them so as to depict her holding her MP-40 a bit closer to her body- See how women and girls tend to hold many things (clipboards, notebooks, packages, bundles, laundry baskets, etc), closer to their bodies; this observation of mine shouldn't be misconstrued as being "sexist" or "observationist", even though I HAVE observed female tendencies vis-a-vis male actions, rather, so that I can properly re-create them in the figures that I build, detail and paint. For example, when women and girls walk, they tend to place their feet one ahead of the other, whereas men tend to walk with their feet laterally spaced a little bit more apart. Men also tend to slouch, more. I think that modellers can incorporate a lot of what we see on a casual every-day basis into our models and figures, in order to effect more realism into them...

Once again a strange anatomy for those figures. Very ugly faces, enormous foots.

In other words, very realistic. Lots of people are ugly with seemingly oversized heads and feet or even shoes a few sizes too big. Wearing oversized shoes often stuffed with news paper was not uncommon in occupied countries during World War II .

In other words, very realistic. Lots of people are ugly with seemingly oversized heads and feet or even shoes a few sizes too big. Wearing oversized shoes often stuffed with news paper was not uncommon in occupied countries during World War II . [/quote] Interesting that you should mention the newspapers stuffed into the shoes- Probably the "Voelkischer Beobachter"... Seriously, once my Dad's Polish Army Boots wore out, he wore (as did many other POWs of the Germans), ANYTHING that could be found to use as "shoes"- That often meant rags held together with bits of twine, "appropriated" bits and pieces of what was left of starved-to-death POWs' shoes, wooden clogs, cardboard boxes, you name it. The unlucky ones went barefoot. Due to the universal shortages in wartime Europe, civilians HAD to make do with whatever foot-gear and other clothing that they could find, as nearly all leather supplies and textiles for goods that would normally have been meant for the civilian market were diverted to be used in war-production. Newspapers proved to be INVALUABLE, NOT for their printed-content, but for insulation and "sizing" not only in shoes, but in other items of clothing, as well... "Give me five years, and you won't recognize Germany..." -Adolf Hitler

In my hometown in south Switzerland we always remember like friends the Polish soldier fleet from France to Switzerland during the 1940,one of the many camps was there and they build a road we call "la Strada dei Polacchi" "the Polish Road"and clear some land to turn in fields,the officer usually stey in private houses and one stay at the farm with my young Grandma and Great-grandfather with also some Italian kids my family give shelter and send to school,some of the soldier never go back home and go married there after the war during was illegal...sorry for the off topic but when i hear story about polish soldier i feel little bit like story of my family

In other words, very realistic. Lots of people are ugly with seemingly oversized heads and feet or even shoes a few sizes too big. Wearing oversized shoes often stuffed with news paper was not uncommon in occupied countries during World War II . [/quote] Indeed, I agree.

In my hometown in south Switzerland we always remember like friends the Polish soldier fleet from France to Switzerland during the 1940,one of the many camps was there and they build a road we call "la Strada dei Polacchi" "the Polish Road"and clear some land to turn in fields,the officer usually stey in private houses and one stay at the farm with my young Grandma and Great-grandfather with also some Italian kids my family give shelter and send to school,some of the soldier never go back home and go married there after the war during was illegal...sorry for the off topic but when i hear story about polish soldier i feel little bit like story of my family[/quote] Thank You...

That poor woman! You guys are just mean You don't judge a resistance fighter by her looks.. you judge her by how many Nazis she shot Hisham