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Sometimes I make costume stuff!Here, have a build write-up - obscuruscrusade.com/forum/inde…
I think my favorite part of that convention was whipping out the neckbeard on some silverhair that tried to tell me women weren't in the guard. >:Y My bristles felt especially bushy on that day.
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Hello there! You two's Cadian costumes are incredibly nice. You see a lot of them out there that do well but fail to get the right shape of the helmet and y'all have made my day by getting it right. Good quality 40k cosplayers here in America are a rarity and it's nice to find 2 awesome ones who do Cadians. I do a Sergeant of the 203rd Cadian myself so it'd be awesome to bump into you guys at a convention someday. The Emperor protects!
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POWAH-FIIIISSSST!
Did you fist bump another cosplayer who was also wearing one?
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It always seems ridiculous to me that the Imperium wouldn't be geared up for total war and would have half the population not involved. Chivalry isn't really the Imperial way.
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Always depends on the planet, you know? The Imperium as a whole is a slow rolling gelatinous mass of bureaucracy, so it differs so much from sector to sector, since they're more or less left to govern themselves most of the time. You've got the Cadians who're mandatory military service for every man woman and child, to the Kriegers- who (for...questionable but 'practical' reasons) probably don't have any women serving. You've got codex approved lady commissars, Valhallans, Dan Abnett had some lady Tanith serving and Sandy Mitchel has referenced female Ogryn. I think I even recall some Catachans pewters floating around too.
To my best recollection, I can't really recall any regiment that specifically dictates its all male, besides some Tallarns (or more specificly, their commissar) being a dick to Valhallan Colonel Regina Kasteen for being a woman in power (and getting Cain all up in their face and thoroughly embarrassed over it as a result.) I'm fairly confident that may not be representative of the whole as far as Tallarns are concerned, however.
Not really much of a feminist myself, but it makes me happy to see 40k featuring some kick-ass ladies here and there. Having been a long term fan of war games I'd gotten used to the 'gunbunny' stereotype (at best), so 40k in general has been a surprisingly refreshing change from the norm.
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While I would describe myself as a feminist, what seems more relevant to me is that the whole 40k background is about how everyone is a tiny unimportant cog in a massive uncaring machine, and since I've never seen anything about them needing to run breeding programs since weight of numbers is generally not an issue, it seems stupid that the majority of planets would back the idea of women being delicate flowers who need protected. Frankly the 40k universe doesn't care about people enough for that and while I know there will always be planets that are the exception, it seems that no female fighters would be the less popular stance rather than the norm. Just IMO, of course
It does amuse me that the majority of the fic doesn't back GW's current stance on it though.
Catachan have a female grenade launcher, Tanith has a female lasgunner, the female commissar was a Games Day figure, then there's the two from the Last Chancers and several Rogue Trader and early era ones. I think that's the major female ones that GW has made.
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There's some debate over what the Kriegers are doing to produce so many of them.
warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Kr… (ctrl+f vitae)
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I'm going to point out that this illustrates exactly why "female guardsman" models are a tricky thing to do, a female soldier wears exactly the same gear as her male counterparts. Female Cadian heads would certainly be appreciated though, and Victoria Lamb of Victoria Miniatures does a range of Arcadian Females, the bodies are more feminine than I personally think makes sense but the helmeted heads are great.
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This is why Games Workshop NEEDS!!!! Female Guardsmen models. Or Forgeworld needs to finish up the Horus Heresy and make an upgrade kit.
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This looks fantastic! Some of the best Imp-Guard cosplay I have seen.
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This is SO cool! 
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Oh man, it's super fun! You should give it a try sometime!
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I'm not sure if I can handle fabric (I was always hopeless at home economics which involved making an apron and a nightie in middle school ...though both of those are pretty low on the list of clothes I'd ever find fun to make or to wear, I admit 
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