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Get two and you have a very big collection.

By way of Beasts of War: painted Forgefather for Warpath:


I have to admit, while the whole "beards in space" deal is a little off-putting to me, I do like the details. I actually like the proportions rather more then GW's space marines... I could easily see using these to make a Space Marine army, depending on what the other weapons look like.

Doesnt look.....half bad actually. I require more pics of more minis though! I dont really want to buy any forgefathers, meh. Cant fit them in any of my collections

Buzzsaw wrote:I could easily see using these to make a Space Marine army, depending on what the other weapons look like.

Arent you a little short to be a Space Marine

I'm not blown away, but I don't dislike it either. I think it bodes well for the future of the line.

Buzzsaw wrote: I actually like the proportions rather more then GW's space marines... I could easily see using these to make a Space Marine army, depending on what the other weapons look like.

That's what I thought when I saw it on the other thread. Besides, SM's in game arent' nearly as heroic as the fluff would suggest. Squats might be a better match for the current SM stats.

I like it. I hope they have some with actual beards because as it stands I'm not thinking "space dwarf" so much as stubby robot. I'm not a big Mantic fan but I'm crossing my fingers over this one.

Gimme! That's all.

In the interest of being comprehensive, I figure I might as well shamelessly swipe the alternate paint scheme that scarletsquig posted in the other thread "(courtesy of max jet on warseer)";

WOW! Looks pretty sick, actually! I'd get a squad, assuming they have several poses.

It's been my experience with Mantic that their models (elves aside) look notably better in person and well painted than online.

The elves are a little off no matter what you do, unfortuantly.

Not really feeling it at all unfortunately.

Was a tad underwhelmed when i first saw him, but he's growing on me a little. I like the photoshopped one much better than the original. Have they said what other armies they plan to launch with? or will it just be dwarves at first and then adding others later on? I liked the sketches I saw for their human army

Basically I need to see Moar!

There is a little promise here mind, and although I have not been interested in their fantasy stuff, at all. Their Sci-fi range might hook me in.

I always felt GW's early stuff was dominated by a much more interesting and nicer looking 40K range. Maybe Sci-fi stuff is easier on the eye?

Looks good to me.

I wonder if this will be a static pose model or a line of interchangeable multi-part models?

I look forward to some neat 'counts as' armies with these. This might be the first mantic product I might buy.

If the have mech suits of some sort they could be a cool alternaTAU.

Mantic have really nailed this one on the head with a resounding thump. As someone who is currently making a imperial guard themed squat force I couldn't fit these in with my current theme. That said it wouldn't stop me from getting a small force to proxy as inquisitors and sending them to war with my EXO armoured troopers.

I know everyone is on the warpath buzz but anyways the rest of the KoW mega army deals are out http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Getting-Started/Mega-armies.html

Wow, I wasn't really feeling much of the concept art, but I love this guy...he just oozes personality.

Glad to see they didn't totally rip off GWs art style.

Buzzsaw wrote:In the interest of being comprehensive, I figure I might as well shamelessly swipe the alternate paint scheme that scarletsquig posted in the other thread "(courtesy of max jet on warseer)";

What separate parts does this have?

Are Legs and torso separate or combined? Head swappable?

neither. This heavy weapons trooper has posable arms

lord marcus wrote:neither. This heavy weapons trooper has posable arms

Not too surprising, mantic is usually very limited on their poses

kenshin620 wrote:

lord marcus wrote:neither. This heavy weapons trooper has posable arms

Not too surprising, mantic is usually very limited on their poses

Which works fine for fantasy, but will be interesting to see how it translates into sci-fi.

This heavy weapon model will be one of their resin plastic models, since it's a more elite unit.

The basic forgefather troops will be plastic and should have a bit more kitbash potential.

The weapon that the model is holding is a "heat-cannon".. so either a meltagun or multi-melta equivalent.

Buzzsaw wrote:In the interest of being comprehensive, I figure I might as well shamelessly swipe the alternate paint scheme that scarletsquig posted in the other thread "(courtesy of max jet on warseer)";

The photoshopping does make this look better, but now I see this closer up I'm not too taken with the beak-beards (are they still looking for people to name this stuff, I think I'm on to a winner ).

I kind of like it, good job mantic!
It has some old school flavor to it and should be nice to paint up.
Wow the prices of the army deals are incredible good!

I like it, but I don't know how much. I need to see more to make a real assessment.

I kind of want to use these for servitors in my inquisitorial retinue...hmmm

Why the discussion about this news have ben moved for here? Oh well...

Here we go, now my pace Dwarves (not squats) count as marines army will be real... it look amazing (without the golem studios paiting).

Really, the guy from golem studios seens to paint very well, at least he use tecniques i wanted to know, but he never work properly on the colors. WHY blue and gold? It Would look aweome in the red/orange/brass colors from the fantasy dwarves...

Personally I love the model and am seriously debating building an army of them. However my wife took one look and said:

"Looks like a techno-Santa Claus"

Gornall wrote:

"Looks like a techno-Santa Claus"

I totally want to paint him red and white now. Robosanta!