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Wait until we get the Infestation stuff.

Hopefully the PVC will be as nice as the Wrath of Kings models, and then we can gripe and pine for figures like these to be made in that material instead.

I'm already a fan of Mantic's BoardGame plastic(tm). I would much prefer to work with that than metal, so long as they have a smidge on of quality control. The really warped stuff that Always Comes Back after hot water treatments is an issue, but they managed to avoid it for MA and DBX, I think.

My Dungeon Saga stuff was generally alright, but I heard horror stories from others.

But the Infestation stuff is going to be made in the Wrath of Kings material- isn't that a different consistency than Dungeon Saga?

My Dungeon Saga stuff was really bent up pretty badly, to the point I just shelved the whole lot and haven't dealt with it at all since receiving it. It was pretty bad.

I like those centaurs a good bit! I am actually kind of surprised at how much I do. 30$ isn't too shabby either! 6$ a model for cavalry sized metals is pretty darned good these days, especially with a discount from somewhere or another.

Good job Mantic.

There was nothing so bad in my 150ish plastic model strong dungeon saga pledge that 45 minutes, a kettle and a plastic tub couldn't sort out..

The main difficulty I, personally, had was some of the resin heroes felt a little bit porous and I was concerned it was brittle, with some gaps on certain resin models too.

My main frustration with Dungeon Saga stems from how badly my mates were screwed over with Mantics deplorable shipping. Nothing kills enthusiasm for s game from a mate when he can't play a game here's been waiting the better part of a year for by mantic taking literally months to send the card decks required to play the actual game.

I like how the Naiads come with otters and frogs. You can see in the the army set pictures and on the sprues.

http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/kings-of-war/forces-of-nature/product/forces-of-nature-naiad-regiment.html

http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/kings-of-war/forces-of-nature/product/forces-of-nature-mega-force.html

Brueckenkopf-online photographed the Empire of Dust sketches shown at Salute

Source: http://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/?p=168717

Yeah, those are Tomb Kings
Well, GW certainly isn't using them, so why not.

Those enslaved guardians look pretty nice.

If the final models look like that concept art, I could actually see myself collecting an army of those. The Enslaved Guardians piss all over GW's old Ushabti.

Looks good to me so far.

Jaffa KREE!

Anyone else hear the stargate themesong when they saw the enslaved guardians?

So it looks like a mix of themed upgrade kits (Skellington Warriors, Revenants, Catapult) and outright new minis (Heroes, Enslaved Guardians). Seems like a pretty decent way to do it.

Cool concepts - if they turn out as well as their existing Undead Skeletons, that will be ace!

Oh the ungodly sums of money I will spend on those models if they turn out even 85% like the concept art.

Hate to be the negative one, but these are supposed to be upgrade kits to current undead minis right?

Probably ulgurstasta, but what's bad about that?

 ulgurstasta wrote:
Hate to be the negative one, but these are supposed to be upgrade kits to current undead minis right?

Clearly not all of them are, as I've already pointed out.

The big question is whether they will be straight retail release or the next big Kickstarter out of Mantic.

I wouldn't be opposed to funding a handful of new plastic fantasy kits once Deadzone is out the door and Warpath is wrapping up.

Dust and Twilight Kin? Nameless? Who knows...

Warhams-77 wrote:

This guy on the left - oh my gosh

I've never had much of an inclination to try Tomb Kings, but that concept is just brilliant! Like others have said, if it turned out well I'd definitely pick it up... even though I'm not sure what I'd do with it just yet

 ulgurstasta wrote:
Hate to be the negative one, but these are supposed to be upgrade kits to current undead minis right?

Skeletons, Revenants and Catapult will presumably be upgrade kits.

Characters and Enslaved Guardians (Ushabti analogs), I'd assume will be new sculpts in metal.

What's negative about that though? I realize some people hate plastic/metal hybrid kits, but the Mantic skeletons lend themselves rather well to separate torsos/legs in metal. There are a lot of surface to glue them together.

The negative is that I once said I am not gonna buy upgrades as long as they are metal. Upgrades in Restic would have been a thing but somehow Mantic get talked into metal again......

"If you're not into metal. You are not my friend!"
-Manowar

metal/plastic hybrid is not tru metal

Fair point.
As we all know, only true metal people is Manowar's crowd.

While it might be a pain with metal hybrids getting a high center of gravity, restic is such a headache to clean.

Having top-heavy minis is also no problem if you multibase your units.

I have here old GW Metal Hybrids and a lot of Mantic Restic.

While Restic is harder to clean and need some hot water to fit, Metal needs more work to be attached without breaking later and you need GreenStuff for a perfect fit.

But I have no problem with full metal models, while my Brock Rider conversions would have been impossible if they models were metal.

From what I've heard, the upgrades will be hard plastic, the skeleton sprue is tooled so that one half of it can be replaced something already done with the revenants), so this very likely considering that the concepts are showing a replacement of the torsos, arms and heads.

No Kickstarter for them either, most likely. It's a new release to give ex-GW players some miniatures to buy for their army now that Tomb Kings are OOP.

I have waited many years for good looking Khemri core infantry, if the basic skeleton set is hard plastic, Mantic has sold me another army.

Finally! Multipart Stargate figures!!!

I wonder if we'll see these figures eventually phase out the original Kings of War mummy units.

Stargate guardians are way cooler than gorilla armed mummy men.