Jeff Imel at BMC Toys USA recently sent out an email to those interested in his plastic 54mm Army Women Project:
“I’ve got some exciting news about the BMC Toys Plastic Army Women Project. The story about young Vivian’s “Why aren’t there Plastic Army Women?” letter has been circulated widely over the past month. The CBS Evening News will feature Vivian in an ‘On the Road’ segment at the end of the program tomorrow (Friday, August 30th). Steve Hartman (host of On the Road) even took some time to ask me about the project.
“The interest in Vivian’s letter has already helped increase subscribers to this newsletter from about 200 to nearly 500 (my goal is 2000). The extra attention and support has prompted me to get this project in gear, so I’ve had a bunch of new art created and will have a full update this weekend. In the meantime, I’ve created a handy link to share the blog posts. Thanks for your support, Jeff Imel at BMC Toys”
https://bmctoys.com/blogs/news/tagged/plastic-army-women
Concept drawings and prototype figures (images copyright of BMC Toys) :
Concept sketches
If you want to support this 54mm BMC Plastic Army Women project or know more, visit the PlasticArmyWomen.com web page, sign up for the newsletter or look at https://bmctoys.com/blogs/news/tagged/plastic-army-women
Should add some interesting figures for modern mixed and female units as well as Amazonian style ImagiNations troops.
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 31 August 2019
B.P.S. Blog Post Script
Having seen the BMC website, I now recognise the originals of pound store figures as https://bmctoys.com/products/bmc-iwo-jima-marines, which sometimes turn up as clone or pirate figures in cheap plastic figure sets. Hence putting this post out on my Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog. https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/pound-store-us-marines/
Also seen here: https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2019/07/21/milk-carton-creation-no-1-cheap-landing-craft/
Pound Store Plastic Warriors 
What a terrific idea! Great to see it getting off the ground. I’m very much looking forward to seeing the finished product.
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I think it could be an interesting one for FEMbruary painting challenge female figures. If they are ready that soon. The more sign ups on the newsletter, the more interest shown, the more likely or more quickly this may happen.
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Yes – just what I was thinking. It would make for a fab FEMbruary submission.
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