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Amen. Wargaming has a rightly deserved reputation as terribly unwelcoming toward women, and getting rid of the cheesecake obsession would be one step in making things better.
My opinion on this topic is that there is space for both styles of models, where appropriate.
For the political officers, I chose to make them properly dressed, because I wanted a realistic depiction of how a woman PO might go to war, appropriate to the setting we have developed.
For the "pilot" of the Convent Redeemer, I chose to have her wearing very little, not because she is supposed to titilate, but because she's supposed to be unsettling. Is this woman even in control of the vehicle she has been attached to? Is she intended to survive the battle at all? Probably not, is my answer to both of those. So the "cheesecake" there is supposed to horrify, rather than be voyeuristic - as I mentioned upthread, my original intention was to have her wearing even less, but it was deemed too unsettling!
Now, is there space in the wargames market in general for women who stride into a hail of bullets wearing lingerie?
Sure, it obviously sells.
Will I be sculpting any such models for the DiD range, in any of the scales we're now operating in?
I doubt it. I'm not a big fan of such stylings in a model due to the typical motivation behind the chosen aesthetic, unless I can make it unsettling or disturbing in some manner, to turn the voyeuristic element on its head.