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Hey Dakka! I've been working on a bunch of Mantic minis over at my blog and thought I would share them.
A few things: I don't mind criticism and suggestions, and I'll take both to heart, although theses are for all intents and purposes finished and
unlikely to be revisited for some time. I'm no artist, and these are all intended for table top use, so bear that in mind The zombies and
forge fathers were dipped, a lovely process. The bases are tiled (or not) .5mm plasticard sheets and misc bits over the standard Mantic bases.
Anyway, PICTURES GOOOO!


First batch of forge father steel warriors.


Second batch of steel warriors.


Steel warrior Thane, and trial kit-bashed DIY Thorgarim.


Green team, my first batch of Mantic Corporation Marines. I like how they turned out, they present well from a distance.


Another shot of green team to show some different details and angles.


Z-corp's finest reanimated soldiers, zombie marines of the Black Platoon reporting!


A mysterious figure leads the Black Platoon, it is obvious that he's from the same original corporate force, but is he a zombie, a minder, or something else entirely?

A few Z-corp team shots:







The first of three heavy weapon teams. Gonna see about a bigger picture when I do the other two soon.

There are more to come, but I'm just too tired to keep uploading. I've still got two more weapon teams, another squad of marines,
and two teams of corporation rangers to show off! Check back soon for more Mantic Madness!
What do you think? Trash? A worthy effort? Feel free to throw some votes at them in the gallery, or just ogle them and move on.
More to come, thanks for viewing, Happy Hobbying!

What a coincidence, i have been staring at the forge fathers list not 24 hours ago. They look great!

Really like your beige / brown colour schemes, the dipping works a treat. Might well dust off my own Mantic stuff and get round to slapping on the paint.

Thanks guys! I rather like dipping as well, it doesn't work for *everything* but there's quite a lot for which you can use it. Gotta keep moving, but here are the rest of the shots for what I've got done at the moment:

Z-corp weapon team 2:




Z-corp weapon team 3:




Now for my second marine squad:


Gold Team 1, including the team leader and heavy laser cannon. The weapon team can detach from their team base and, while they're not painted at the moment, I have a set of arms magnetized to swap the gunner into a normal marine.



Gold team 2 includes two plasma rifles


The full gold squad, ready for action.

I originally got these to use as Guardsmen, but kind of lost interest along the way. Now, in case I want to use them as guardsmen after all, I've pooled the two marine squads into one IG vet squad with 3 plasma guns:




And now, we have the Corporation Rangers! These are the elite marines, sent in ahead to take out key enemy positions and the like. To aid in their task they've been given heavy laser rifles, they're shorter range, but more powerful. They also come with grav packs to allow aerial insertion behind enemy lines. Squad 2 has much better looking visors (IMO), but otherwise they're very similar.


In addition to heavy laser rifles, rangers can also take tactical flame units. I opted to use the third weapon option to represent these as I preferred it to what I think was the actual TFU.


Grav packs. These help give the rangers a distinctive look along with the helmets and different arms.

Squad2:



And just as the two marine teams form up to make an IG vet squad, I can use these to make either two squads of storm troopers (as above) or combine them into a Melta/fireball company command squad:



I think that's it for now. If there are any questions, feel free to ask! I can take more shots any time too should anybody want a different angle on something. Thanks for viewing, votes in the gallery are greatly appreciated, and remember to check out the blog for work in progress and future projects

I like your take on how the Z corp run their heavy weapons, one dood shoots and the other lunges / chucks a random body part.

Well, at first they tried using a regular living soldier, but all that did was distract the shooter One of them is *sort of* pointing