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I've been assembling my Forge Father Brokkrs and engineers today and I'd like to add to what many others have been saying, the restic has actually massively improved now. There's minimal flash and moldlines now.

Only downside is, they still feel kinda 'tough' to deal with, so it's worth getting a new knifeblade before having a go.

Yeah basing is fun, I miss it a bit, but I think I'll use fantasy multibasing for KoW to scratch that itch.

In saying that, after doing all this praise, I've found my first missing part.

No

1 Resin Plastic Inferno Drill with Brokkr Engineer

In the Forge Father booster bundle.



Conveniently, on the Kickstarter comments, this was posted on mantics forums:


""The Inferno Drill has unfortunately been missed out of the Booster Bundle. We're sorry for the error, we'll make sure they're all sent out in the third shipment.""

I'm not holding my breath on restic having actually improved, but will see what the minis are like when they arrive.

Restic can be done right. My relic Knights were fantastic with very minimal and easy to remove mould lines. I still would only use it for skirmish games but it can be done right.

Darn I was kind of looking forward to that drill, but I guess I'd rather them do it right.

The drill is still in the faction starter though, so it's not that big of a deal.

Very minimal clean up on my brokkrs.

There are faint mold lines on all of the bald heads and down the middle of the larger pieces(bike and drill) but that's about it.

In my opinion they are a lot better than the others.

(But a mantic almost moment when they sent me a random brokkr instead of the chief mini. Hopefully the missing parts survey will be sorted soon)

Mantic responded to my missing item form pretty quickly and pleasantly, about a week later and the missing figure arrived- credit where it is due. I should be all caught up now except for the wave 3 plastics.

For their own sake I hope they can continue to improve their shipping and quality assurance, the $$$ spent on shipping out missing or incorrect items must have been very high.

Glad to hear that the new Forge Fathers are turning out well.

+1 internets to whomever can get some pics of the minis, and then get them painted up as well!

If they'd just send my durn stuff it would be unboxed... I love doing day 1/ early unboxings, but i never seem to get my stuff first or even close to it

Rough and ready test piece for my scheme - face is a bit rough as I painted it in a golden yellow first, didn't like it so went over it with a bright blue, then changed my mind and went over it again with silver. There's not really enough detail on the areas to matter, but the finish is a bit rough. Nice and quick as well, as all the models are undercoated in silver already.

Just finished the Infinity model that was on my desk as well, so looks like I can batch my way through the other 26 Asterians in the next few weeks.

 Pacific wrote:
Glad to hear that the new Forge Fathers are turning out well.

+1 internets to whomever can get some pics of the minis, and then get them painted up as well!

Well, I can do the first half of that. - But it might take a millennia or two for the second half...











I'm working on my iron ancestor and big artillery gun now.

overtyrant wrote:
Restic can be done right. My relic Knights were fantastic with very minimal and easy to remove mould lines. I still would only use it for skirmish games but it can be done right.

The original pre-KS undead cavalry seemed to be pretty good, and those were in Restic.

i hate bringing negativity to the thread but... I need to share these things so people can be aware of what to look for.

My special resin Rebs Commander was miscast.



If you can't find it...



Oh, and it also looks like the dead-dudes arm snapped off my resin plague Gen 1 as well. At least THAT I can fix.

Easy replacement. Just email or fill out the parts form.

Yup, already done. I just don't want people coming to assembling their models 6 months from now to find the same issue, only to find that Mantic have dropped the mold or something.

 Azazelx wrote:

overtyrant wrote:
Restic can be done right. My relic Knights were fantastic with very minimal and easy to remove mould lines. I still would only use it for skirmish games but it can be done right.

The original pre-KS undead cavalry seemed to be pretty good, and those were in Restic.

Really? Mine were horrendous, worse than anything in my KOW or DZ shipments.

To leave tonight on a positive note.

Here's a picture of my assembled Forge Father heavies. - The Urban Pattern Iron Ancestor as well as the nasty death cannon (see, I remembered its name! )



Some tips, it's worth pinning the torso on the Iron Ancestor. - Also trimming it's backplate. I dunno if it's just me, but the left leg sat a bit funny, maybe should have tried some hot water reshaping on the left foot.

For the Attack-ey Death Cannon, it's in 3 different materials, metal, restic and a resin front plate. Looking at the picture there, I could do with straightening out the metal a bit.

As both these models come with the standard restic bits used for their other weapons, a clever person could quite easily magnetise and/or pin the alternate parts to them.

 Azazelx wrote:

 Bolognesus wrote:
No, that's really not going to be cheaper as soon as you need them in any significant quantity.
Additionally, this allows for much more varied designs (most resin base lines have 5-8 25mm designs, 3-5 40mm, 2 60 mm and a single 120 oval, for example), while varying where you push your greenstuff into the mold helps a bunch with creating more varied bases with this method.
Also, as soon as you get into less 'standard' base sizes, you'd be SOL with ready-made resin bases.

Fair enough. I guess I'm just dubious on anything that asks for that amount of expensive putty/greenstuff, plus the need to "make it" yourself. Costing almost 50 bucks on top of that, you may be able to see where my caution comes from. I'd like to really see a lot of finished products from something like that (as in something that a hobbyist has done - based an army, etc) before being willing to go there.

Hmm, like a pound of milliput yellow/grey and milliput fine grey is $7.99 at Hobby Lobby here in the USA - seems like after about a dozen bases you'd be saving versus buying premade resin bases. and I have a TON of premade resin bases :(

While assembling my Enforcer Booster Bundle, was starting to get into a huff over missing component sprue for the bag of Enforcer specialists/leaders (So had Captain's arms/torso/cape, but no heads, sniper foot/body/rifle, but no supporting arm, etc), but then after checking the Mission Control it appears that this was never supposed to be in there in the first place, and instead it was just supposed to be the two Medics and a quartet of Defender parts for converting regular Enforcers (Which I did get and had everything)

Also, had a boatload of extra bases; 16 25mm, and 10 40mm. I think the 40mm might have been due to a mixup with a missing parts form, since I already had the missing 40mm bases for Wave 1 sent to me.

Anyone else have weirdness like this with extra parts?

Almost all of my booster bundles had extras. Extra plague and extra marauders for sure. Not as sure about rebs, and I haven't gotten my wave 2 to know about enforcers. But I think I've got extra big plague dude and marauder captain cause to give you the extra specialists in the booster bundles it seems like they just gave you the bag those came in

The bases are probably for the plastic enforcers you will receive later.

 darkPrince010 wrote:
While assembling my Enforcer Booster Bundle, was starting to get into a huff over missing component sprue for the bag of Enforcer specialists/leaders (So had Captain's arms/torso/cape, but no heads, sniper foot/body/rifle, but no supporting arm, etc),

It is supposed to include 1 'Enforcer Specialist Booster' specifically including the missile launcher (which, admittedly, may be overruled by the plastic set), an engineer, 2 Sentry Guns and a complete Sniper. - According to whats advertised on the Kickstarter.

So, sure, I could see the argument for you not receiving the extra parts for the captain, but still you should be entitled to a complete sniper.

I've just opened up one of my 2 enforcer booster bundles and after having a quick look, it seems that I do have a complete set. - A complete Peacekeeper Captain, Sniper, Missile Launcher, Assault Enforcer, 2 sentry guns and an Engineer. The small bag with all the arms and things was inside the "DZ Enforcers" bag.

The other booster bag seems complete too, though I haven't opened it.

This reminds me, I still have to use these LEDs and batteries and gak I got a while ago. The giant stompy robots are perfect for it, but maybe the translucent martians could have it worked into their base somehow... just for funsies.

Update #97 - Sep 15 2014

Counting down the days...
We’re counting down the days to when we start shipping with a whole bunch of goodies you won’t yet have seen. First up:

The Masters of Science!


It's impossible to photograph these without making them this awesome. These translucent green plastic Science Division were a Kickstarter Exclusive offering. One figure was included free in pledge of The Will of Man ($100 and Early Bird) and up, whilst the set was available as a Core Add-on. We'll be back tomorrow with a new update. Let us know what you’re looking forward to seeing most!

That is pretty awesome. Sadly I think I'll only be getting one as I was running out of funds at that point in the campaign.

Mine finally shipped! 2 packages, 56 lbs.

25KG = Problems!

Good luck sneaking that past...anything!

 Alpharius wrote:
25KG = Problems!

Good luck sneaking that past...anything!

Luckily the wife is well aware.

Watch your back then - remember, lift with your legs!