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Today's Green:



Troll?

Wow! That looks great. Mantic seem to be coming on in leaps and bounds after the kickstarters.

I think I may need to own that

I have no use for it, but I do need to have it

 Cyporiean wrote:
Today's Green:



Troll?

It sure is - and I'm glad I got a bunch of trolls!

Thanks for posting that!

Really like that sculpt!

Sure beats the crap out of the trolls that GW are releasing this month, anyway!

That is a great looking troll.

Wow, very impressive.
Are they releasing the sculptors names?

They don't generally release sculptor names, but that's a Remy Tremblay sculpt, you can tell from the photography and the use of fimo for the bulk of the sculpting.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Really like that sculpt!

Sure beats the crap out of the trolls that GW are releasing this month, anyway!

Considering the size of his beatstick? I'm sure it beats the crap out of whatever it wants to.

Awesome troll! Yay - I'm getting 9 of those too.

Gonna have a big unit of trolls in my N. Goblin army now - and I'll be able to sell the metal GW ones I bought for a healthy profit.

I just hope the unit has a healthy bit of variety to it.

Mantic is really on a roll with their kickstarted goods. The Ogres, Angels and Trolls - I've yet to be disappointed.

Holy gak I should've pledged that kickstarter O_o

HOLY gak

That is one awesome Troll.... I am absolutely loving these sculpts.

I generally try to not be anti-GW but they're going to have to bring their A-game to meet the quality of Mantic's new models.

Schmapdi wrote:
I just hope the unit has a healthy bit of variety to it.

If you look very closely, you can see that there's clear join lines at the shoulders and the head, so it looks like separate arms and heads for these guys.

The shoulder/ neck armour on the model overlap the join lines and hide them!

How those legs hold that upper body up, let alone let it walk, is the 8th wonder of the world.

 -Loki- wrote:
How those legs hold that upper body up, let alone let it walk, is the 8th wonder of the world.

Thus why he's "knuckle dragging". Not every monster in fantasy has to have human proportions.....take our cousins the apes for example..


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 -Loki- wrote:
How those legs hold that upper body up, let alone let it walk, is the 8th wonder of the world.

I know! This doesn't match actual troll anatomy at all!!!

Yeah, the legs are on the small side but the models still look great!

Not as small as the legs on Privateer Press' dire trolls (I know, I have a bunch...).

Well, OK. Maybe similar in size

But man, I love the aesthetic of both the trolls and the ogres. I loved the art, too, but couldn't commit to them without seeing any WIPs.

I feel bamboozled. Mantic tricked me with terrible models for a few years so I didn't even give their KS a second look.

 -Loki- wrote:
How those legs hold that upper body up, let alone let it walk, is the 8th wonder of the world.

It's troll physics. No mystery. Looks good. I have 15 coming in. I agree-GW needs an A-game for sure. These new sculpts...better than most of the recent GW sculpts. Chaos. Need I say more?

 plastictrees wrote:
I feel bamboozled. Mantic tricked me with terrible models for a few years so I didn't even give their KS a second look.

Yeah, this was always a risk... one that has appeared to have paid off spectacularly with the quality of the sculpts!

Cannot wait for my legion of plastic to arrive... I really need to take a year off to paint!! (And a display room!)

 plastictrees wrote:
I feel bamboozled. Mantic tricked me with terrible models for a few years so I didn't even give their KS a second look.

Lol, same here

 scarletsquig wrote:
They don't generally release sculptor names

They should. I always thought it lacked class when GW stopped listing the sculptor's names in the pages in the back of WD. Let them know this for me, SS~!


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 Makaleth wrote:

 plastictrees wrote:
I feel bamboozled. Mantic tricked me with terrible models for a few years so I didn't even give their KS a second look.

Yeah, this was always a risk... one that has appeared to have paid off spectacularly with the quality of the sculpts!

Cannot wait for my legion of plastic to arrive... I really need to take a year off to paint!! (And a display room!)

Everything that you just said.

I just hope the werewolves and the golems are as good - and I think they will be!

Great looking Troll, love the scraped together armour, the angle guy on the previous page is outstanding (even if hes armless) so many tidy and clean little details. I Very much look forward to seeing the warroir nuns,
I forget their names (never a good idea to forget a lady's name ), have'nt been very impressed with Mantics female sculpts so far to say the very least, but if the current sculpting standerd is anything to go by they could end up being a pleasant surprise.

Y'know when this Kingdom of Men armie comes out I'm going to have to sculpt up a Knight of Solaire miniature to lead them into battle, somehow I think it would be rather fitting.

 Alpharius wrote:
I just hope the werewolves and the golems are as good - and I think they will be!

Still holding out hope for those Werewolves. I want some Crypt Horrors.

Arrrgh I shorted myself on the Trolls (still getting 3 for free) to have a huge Celestine force, but dammit if I don't want a whole bunch more of those guys!

Very very nicely done!

 Alpharius wrote:
I just hope the werewolves and the golems are as good - and I think they will be!

We've already seen the golems, and they're great!

 scipio.au wrote:

They should. I always thought it lacked class when GW stopped listing the sculptor's names in the pages in the back of WD. Let them know this for me, SS~!

Only thing with releasing names is that people can get really, really bitchy about particular sculptors online. I've lost count of the number of personal attacks on Bob Naismith I've seen over the years including numerous "demands" for him to be fired, completely ignoring his awesome work on the Undead and Orc ranges. And that's nothing compared to GW fans and Trish Carden. I don't see how it helps, it's nice to know, but I can see why the sculptors would prefer to opt out if they want. It doesn't affect their professional or freelance work at all to remain uncredited as it'll all be in their private portfolio when applying for new work anyway, even if the general public doesn't have a clue about whether person X did sculpt Y.

It seems that what they do currently is allow the sculptor themselves to choose what level of publicity they want, by giving them the option to talk about their work on their blogs (which Remy does all the time).

I'm fine with that, it might have worked back when WD was a B&W TSR fanzine, but these days with people being a click away on facebook after you have access to their real name, privacy is a much more attractive option.

 scipio.au wrote:

 scarletsquig wrote:
They don't generally release sculptor names

They should. I always thought it lacked class when GW stopped listing the sculptor's names in the pages in the back of WD. Let them know this for me, SS~!

That's because everything these days comes 'fresh from the warhammer forge' !

That sculpt looks awesome, like some kind of mental-shrek on steroids!

 scarletsquig wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
I just hope the werewolves and the golems are as good - and I think they will be!

We've already seen the golems, and they're great!

We have? Crap. I must have missed them-do you know where I can find pictures, I'd love to see them. Or maybe I have and I've forgotten...old age is beginning to set in and all that.

 scarletsquig wrote:

Only thing with releasing names is that people can get really, really bitchy about particular sculptors online. I've lost count of the number of personal attacks on Bob Naismith I've seen over the years including numerous "demands" for him to be fired,

cough Gary Morley cough. who normally I hate, but his High Elf Swordmasters of Hoeth are some of my favorite models of all time.