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When will the Corporation get their first vehicles?

Ok, that not-Squat thing is the first Warpath model I've really liked.

@scipio - That's definitely one of Mantic's 60mm bases it's on, to give you an idea of scale. So yeah, dreadnought-sized.

But definitely not dreadnought priced, you'll probably be able to get them for cheaper than ebay'd black reach dreadnoughts. The Jotunn is a similar-sized model with more seperate parts and costs £12.50.

@BrookM - Probably later this year, November or December time. They're at the concept stage currently, plan is to release an APC and then a battle tank based on the same hull as the APC.

I like the Dwarfbot, as well as the Commando. Warpath is getting more and more interesting.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Ok, that not-Squat thing is the first Warpath model I've really liked.

Likewise. Slap a jaw on it, and it would make for a pretty cool Ork Dredd.

I kinda like the not-Orks.

Man is Mantic doing a great job . I want more ! And I'd like them to start a Space-Demon army or something like that. Not like the daemons of 40k. More like Demons in the first two Doom.

Who ever is frigging painting these Veer-myn should be bludgeoned. I've actually got 10 of 'em and they look pretty good IMO, but the colours and techniques they're using to paint them in their example shots are frigging awful.


That Iron Ancestor is sick.

Maybe it's the same one who paint the zombies on the zombie box. I just got the stuff I won from miniwargaming for the Dakka Painting Challenge and one of the stuff I got is 30 Mantic Zombies. The paintjob for that one is not bad, but it's just a bit above tabletop level. I really think they can do better to showcase their product: the zombies are amazing! The paintjob could've showcased their amazingness more.

Yes I would tend to agree with you. But, it's easy to forget that they are a small company still at the moment. Presumably someone like Angel Giraldez who does the Infinity stuff does not work cheap, and that is compounded by the scale of the game and the fact that whoever is painting stuff will have to do units of stuff rather than just put loads of effort into a single mini.

Perhaps one thing to improve would be the studio and photography that they use, although that has definitely been getting better recently.

Yeah, it's something they can improve in the future.

I'm not saying I'm really good at painting, but I can do better than the box art and I'll be willing to accept Mantic miniatures as payment...

Hi all, new videos from Beast of War:

Veer-Myn Nightspawn Unboxing:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/warpath/ferocious-veermyn-night-spawn/

Veer-myn Nightmares Unboxing:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/warpath/dark-veermyn-nightmares/


Thats all, enjoy.

heartserenade wrote:Yeah, it's something they can improve in the future.

I'm not saying I'm really good at painting, but I can do better than the box art and I'll be willing to accept Mantic miniatures as payment...

Yeah, I rang them from Australia ...a year ago now and asked them to consider putting bigger and better pictures of their models on their website. Basically the same size of GW's pictures. I was looking at their undead characters, you know, focal points of armies. A year or more on, and no change. Good pics sell models.

Oh yeah. Those dreads. I'll definitely be down for a few of those. Is there a release date ETA on them?


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Rolt wrote:Hi all, new videos from Beast of War:

Veer-Myn Nightspawn Unboxing:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/warpath/ferocious-veermyn-night-spawn/

Veer-myn Nightmares Unboxing:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/warpath/dark-veermyn-nightmares/


Thats all, enjoy.

Thanks very much for the link. The nightmares look like the same figures that come with Project Pandora? They don't look awesome to me, but with a bit of mod work and possibly some GW skaven heads, they'd look much better. Similarly for the Nightspawn. Maybe even dremel out a higher point in his armour for his head to be raised a little. I wish BoW could have another guy do at least some of their figure reviews, though. That guy's slow rambling makes me stabby.

heartserenade wrote:Maybe it's the same one who paint the zombies on the zombie box. I just got the stuff I won from miniwargaming for the Dakka Painting Challenge and one of the stuff I got is 30 Mantic Zombies. The paintjob for that one is not bad, but it's just a bit above tabletop level. I really think they can do better to showcase their product: the zombies are amazing! The paintjob could've showcased their amazingness more.

I've spoken to the commission painter who painted those zombies, while he had the unit of zombies in front of him.

He explained that there were different levels of quality that could be commissioned, and that Mantic had, for that unit requested (and paid for) the unit to be painted to a basic gaming standard (with a slightly higher standard on the models in the front rank).

They don't "need to be bludgeoned", they are painting to the quality standard that they are being paid for. If Mantic has the funds to pay them quadruple the amount, then they can paint up the unit to the same standard as the AoW berserkers regiment (painted by exactly the same people, only to a showcase standard instead of a gaming standard).

So, the painting is largely an issue with Mantic making a fiscal decision to use their money to make more miniatures rather than spending a lot of money on commission painting everything to a high standard. A horde of 60 zombies painted to a high standard could easily end up costing $1000 or so, money which Mantic could have spent making more miniatures instead. Unlike most other garage companies and whatnot that make single miniatures, Mantic has to pay for getting whole armies painted up, which does not come cheap.

Using the community to paint their miniatures is not an option since they need to physically keep hold of the models to use for shows and new photographs, they can't just have one picture then call it quits.

Photography is still poor, as can be seen on the completely-out-of-focus gun arm on that iron ancestor. I've given up complaining about it, I can only tolerate being TFG for so long. :p

Oh well, if that's the case if it were up to me I would make the commissioned painter paint at least one zombie in the top quality possible, for box art and promotional purposes.

I hope that Mantic will earn more and expand as a business, so that they can tackle presentation problems like that in the future, including photography problems. Having nice photos and paintjob do sell the miniatures: I was enraptured by Infinity figures because of that.

scarletsquig wrote:
So, the painting is largely an issue with Mantic making a fiscal decision to use their money to make more miniatures rather than spending a lot of money on commission painting everything to a high standard. A horde of 60 zombies painted to a high standard could easily end up costing $1000 or so, money which Mantic could have spent making more miniatures instead. Unlike most other garage companies and whatnot that make single miniatures, Mantic has to pay for getting whole armies painted up, which does not come cheap.

Actually I'd say it'd much higher then that, speaking as someone who has talked to painting studios. Around $300 per model or so for the High Quality paint jobs everyone loves.. so around $18,000 for a horde of 60 zombies.

I don't see the issue with the quality of mantics paint jobs so much as the awful colour selection. Bright blue for their undead was an awful choice, same as bright yellow on the vermin and blue and gold on the space dorfs are awful choices.

Late to the party, but I'm really liking the look of the iron ancestor. Don't have a use for it in any of my armies, but I'd like to see what the Jotun looks like.

Da Boss wrote:I don't see the issue with the quality of mantics paint jobs so much as the awful colour selection. Bright blue for their undead was an awful choice, same as bright yellow on the vermin and blue and gold on the space dorfs are awful choices.

I quite liked the yellow on the Ver-meen, reminded me of the Nibbleheim Nibblers Bloodbowl team

I guess with this kind of thing hopefully we will see things improve in time. A lot of the other companies have had a long time to get it right, and also a lot more money - you would have to expect the production values to eventually tighten (to an extent - I will never forget the Leman Russ with upside-down heavy bolter on the cover of the box! )

I like the look of this guy:



Forge Father walker announced on the Mantic site. Glad to see the Kings of War push isn't totally drowning Warpath releases.

Dr Mathias wrote:I like the look of this guy:

Wooo... an interesting model. Dred sized I assume, not terminator sized.

That is possibly 'lootable'

Huh these are new too I think

Yes they are, they look like alterations to existing kits. So, pic one is some kind of new weapon mounted on the Jotumm artillery chassis. Not sure about pic 2, it looks like some new weapon/arm options for the Stormrage Veterans. I love the little guy with what looks to be a toolkit!

^ It looks like this will be the contents of the new set will be this, 2 crew models, surtr heat cannon and static platform:



Basically, a Surtr static weapon platform, but if you have a Jotunn, then you can hot-swap parts between the two kits to make either a tracked Surtr, or a static Jotunn. Excellent idea!

I think the tracked version will look a *lot* better with both blast shields in place rather than just the one.

And the untracked version will look better with no blast shields.

The half-and-half way they've built them on there with either the top or the bottom blast shield in place looks a bit crap, but the actual sculpt is quite nice, looks like an alien weapon!

I'm certain it'll look great once it's assembled with a better regard for the overall silhouette of the model.

Also, new Raptor Transport for the Marauders:



So, there's now a way to go for either a 3-wheeler or 4-wheeler, open top or armoured style for that model.

Bleh... They get it right with the dwarf walker, but those gun platforms look like akward conversions and the Maurauder vehicle looks worse than the last one. So many awesome 3rd party vehicles out there which out-do this in every way.

nkelsch wrote:Bleh... They get it right with the dwarf walker, but those gun platforms look like akward conversions and the Maurauder vehicle looks worse than the last one. So many awesome 3rd party vehicles out there which out-do this in every way.

Yea the gun platforms imo look like they have NO stabilizers for recoil. A stiff breeze will knock them over

Bit in agreement about the marauder thing, it juts looks off somehow. Like its a size too small or something

Iron Ancestor: make me excited with warpath again.

Cannon Thing: bleh, that thing look eldar, and in a bad way... But the crew show a real effort into a new concept of infantry...

Orx Raptor: i like it, thinking about the price it will come out, that will be a great optionm for those ork players around... Other third party products tend to be very good, and expensive. With Mantic it dont happen that way...

The iron ancestor really make me come back... But i really want to see more arms...

The gun platforms are unimpressive, but I do like that Marauder vehicle. Perhaps a bit small for a transport, but the design is pretty cool.

Hmm dont know if this is official yet (not on the mantic site), but FPR games has pre orders for several warpath items. First price is normal, 2nd is FPR's price

Warpath - Corporation: Strike Force
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $49.99 $39.98

Warpath - Forge Fathers: Iron Ancestor
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $19.99 $15.98

Warpath - Forge Fathers: Stormrage Section
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $29.99 $23.98

Warpath - Forge Fathers: Strike Force
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $49.99 $39.98

Warpath - Forge Fathers: Surtr Heavy Heat-Cannon
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $24.99 $19.98

Warpath - Marauders: Raptor Transport
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $24.99 $19.98

Warpath - Marauders: Strike Force
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $49.99 $39.98

Warpath - Veer-myn: Scougers
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $19.99 $15.98

Warpath - Veer-myn: Stalkers
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $24.99 $19.98

Warpath - Veer-myn: Strike Force
PreOrder (Est. September, 2012)
Price: $49.99 $39.98

Nice catch, cheers!

Judging by Mantic's usual price bands, the UK prices should be something like:

£30 - Strike Forces
£16 - 10 Stormrage Veterans
£14 - Raptor Transport, Surtr Platform
£12.50 - Iron Ancestor


Very nice pricing on the the Iron Ancestor there, I expect it'll be a very popular kit. At that kind of price point it's no problem at all to just buy forgeworld arms for the thing and kit it out however you want.