First pictures of cast Manticore / Lamassu

posted January 21, 2011

The Manticore production is moving along quite nicely. As we mentioned earlier, the resin foundry we are working with is setting up a quite innovative workflow which will enable them to produce the Manticore in large quantities in a most efficient fashion. Barring a last-minute issue, we expect the first pre-orders to go out on January 31st. Once we start shipping, our production capacity will be sufficient to ceover the rest of the pre-orders within 5 days.

On the images below, you can see the first two pieces to make it out of the production moulds: the Lamassu head and some of the base elements. We are really happy with what the foundry has achieved.

If you're not quite familiar with resin production, you'll probably be interested to know that although resin has many qualities (high level of details, easy assembly, light weight that allow for outputting larger models, etc.), it is usually a most time-consuming production process.

The moulds are more complex to make than moulds for metal casting, and they need to be replaced frequently.

The fact that our resin caster is in the process of resolving these two challenges means that on top of having great casts of the Manticore, and in sufficient quantities to supply shops around the world, we will be able in the near future to offer you large or quite complex models that could not have been produced in a cost-effective way with metal casting. This is very exciting indeed.

We will definitely continue to produce metal miniatures, but we will probably do more and more large and complex projects like the Manticore in the future.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Aren't skulls GW TM'd?
There may be trouble ahead...

Salacious Greed wrote:Perhaps your Foundry could send their breakthrough to FW, help them up their game some!!

Raging Heroes wrote:Manticore / Lamassu – The first cast
posted February 08, 2011

Here it is! Below are pictures of the very first Manticore / Lamassu resin casts. Maybe it feels the same for you, but as for us, when we see the actual casts as opposed to the 3D renders, it always look a slightly bit more powerful and beautiful than the 3D renders.

The process for creating this piece has been quite a challenging task for our master caster, as he explored radically new ways of creating moulds and doing the casting. Inevitably, doing such experimental stuff pushed him over schedule, but we can assure you that the results are worth it. He showed us pictures of the process (which we are no allowed to divulge), although we can tell you that it opens up brilliant new possibilities for our future projects in the coming months…

But once again, we have to push out the delivery dates out for a few days. However, this time, our master caster is the one who will do the explaining, as we will get an interview out of him in which he will talk to you directly about his work. He tells us that he expects to have the production moulds ready by the end of the week, and the first 50 casts out in the middle of next week, barring any problems.

As usual, we will keep you updated via this blog. Meanwhile, we haven't been idle. Check out our next blog entry on the release of Asharah Anniversary Edition, in stock now!

Seven more images of the first cast of the Manticore / Lamassu here.

۞ Jack ۞ wrote:How have i missed this until now? 0_o

Anyone got thier yet?
Want to see the final product thats being shipped.

However, im leaning towards a few of these.
The quality puts FW to shame, and the price just kicks them while they are down.

RiTides wrote:I don't think there's a "saddle" or anything, though... so hopefully it will look just fine on its own!

Fafnir wrote:A Manticore painting competition would be pretty cool...