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I am very pleased with John Doe. I hope most of the rest of the MVPs turn out with such high quality.

My favorite part is his armor, but my FAVORITE part is his face.

So exciting to get the survey done!

Added some extras for my girlfriend that she doesn't know about. So far my extra total is 38 dollars, but I might add a board game to that... damn mantic taking all my money away.

edit: I was weak and added project pandora.

Switched a few things round in the survey, decided to get rid of the cheerleaders in place of the season 3 keepers and added another mech. Glad I wrote down what I had planned on getting beforehand though, just hope I spent all the money I pledged!

Wow that's a lot of work! I almost ended up buying a second set of every season 2 and 3 teams as I forgot they are included in the Season Upgrade sets only coped it because I forgot to answer a question and got a prompt. I've changed my mind about getting the Acrylic pitch so many times but I juggled a few bits around (didn't really need Hex bases for every single mini - yet) so that it only cost another $40 so I bought it and now it's locked in I can't change my mind again.

A shiney collector's gotta do what a shiney collectors gotta do

and that acrylic pitch sure was shiney


and on a related note: the latest Mantic Newsletter says their warehouse will be closed from the 13th to 19th November to 'buld up stock'

So I supect that they will be labling and packing for us then for a mass send out on the 20th November

can't wait!

Wow, that survey was a drain. Decided on keeping my three bigs to being one each, Nameless Spawn, Alpha Simian(Gonna give him a nice cigar), and Barricade(going to carve him up and stick in some LEDs). I hope that I used up all the money as I thought I was doing, wish they'd enabled a final tally at the end there.

Also caved in and went acrylic...

I added the paint set and project pandora.

Not too sure if pandora was even remotely a good idea. Mantic claimed that it was a 'kickstarter saving' but it's the exact same price, if not even more expensive than buying it normally.

 scarletsquig wrote:

Muwahahah! Nameless Team is going to rock!

I only have to wait a year

As someone who has been very harsh about sculpts I don't think work (*cough*Wildcard*cough*), it's only fair that I am equally fulsome in praise when they do things right.

This?


This is one sexy beast. Just about the only thing I would change is a minor rotation of the forearms, and I'm thinking about buying a second one for that. It's an unqualified success.

...come to think of it, I almost regret having filled out the survey without ordering a second one of those. My trusty old full-plate wearing illithid telepath psion character concept would need only minimal conversion from this (actually, just a plain pair of hands, diff pose perhaps)

 scarletsquig wrote:

COME AT ME BRO!

Looking forward to seeing the production version of this model. Mantic has really been stepping it up in the last couple months. They have come a long way since those abysmal elf and dwarf plastics they originally started with.

putting in zeros for everything makes me grumpy

 Buzzsaw wrote:
As someone who has been very harsh about sculpts I don't think work (*cough*Wildcard*cough*), it's only fair that I am equally fulsome in praise when they do things right.

This?


This is one sexy beast. Just about the only thing I would change is a minor rotation of the forearms, and I'm thinking about buying a second one for that. It's an unqualified success.

John Doe looks so good as he is

AND also looks very easy to convert, nice simple cuts could move forearms, shoulders, hips and 'ankles'. The knee joint will be the trickiest, but even that looks do-able for somebody with moderate skill

 ironicsilence wrote:
putting in zeros for everything makes me grumpy

Then put in ones!

Riquende wrote:

 ironicsilence wrote:
putting in zeros for everything makes me grumpy

Then put in ones!

that would make my checkbook angry, but seriously they could have made the doc work without needing to put in 0's for everything.

Not sure if I should post this here, but has everyone seen the LED-acryllic Dreadball pitch in the Warmill thread? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/453007.page#4865608

That is awe inspiring.

I like! Verry nice how much!

Love they changed the prone counter packs to mix and match allowed me to go to 5 prone counters per team instead of 6.

Extra to spend elsewhere.

Oh, I may have to get that LED board. It would be cool if one side could glow one color and the other side glow another.

Really neat!

nkelsch, I don't know if the two sides can glow different colors- at least, maybe a bit of a transition-like color, but in the video the difference in the 2 sides was never very stark (even though the pics make it look like it might be able to do that).

So. I think I've decided on my team names:
Z'zor=The Redskels
Femcorp=The Aggronauts
Judwan= The Longfellows
Nameless= The Anonems(Also called the E-men or Damned Wrigglers)
Corporation= The ManRIs(still working on this one, but I like it because the opposing teams call the members "Man Readily Injured")
The Orkies= The XNOs
Veer-Myn= The Heap Kings("Be readied for a Heapking helping of pain!")
Dwarves= The Dorfstoppers(Another name I'm working on, mostly because I want them to be called "the Doorstoppers" by accident/on purpose)

As to the four teams I'm not getting(YET):
Theraton WaddleWarpers
Zee Armada
Asterian Projections
Robot Painframes(working on this name)

I've named my two male Corporation teams thus far - Knights Arrant, and the Anvil Grinders.

I've got partial background sorted for the two corporations behind the teams, but I won't be posting that until I'm happy with it.

I really don't like that the pledge manager didn't have my pledge, a running total and a summary before confirming. I have no real idea if I went over/under or not.

 Dysartes wrote:
I've named my two male Corporation teams thus far - Knights Arrant, and the Anvil Grinders.

I've got partial background sorted for the two corporations behind the teams, but I won't be posting that until I'm happy with it.

I've created a thread on the Mantic forum for such stuff here (when you're ready).

 MasterSlowPoke wrote:
I really don't like that the pledge manager didn't have my pledge, a running total and a summary before confirming. I have no real idea if I went over/under or not.

Yeah, that was the one thing I didn't like about it. Pretty sure I had everything worked out right though!

Were we supposed to get a reply email with our selections after we filled it out? I'm still waiting for an invoice to paypal the extras I added.

No, there was no automatic reply after the survey

(use the contact Mantic option if you're worried you did something wrong, stewart gets back to you pretty fast)

and I'm waiting for a paypal invoice too so don't worry yet

Yeah still waiting for my invoice here too, good to see it's not just me. Although I've already forgotten how much extra I went in for, and I've just upped the goodies on my Dredd KS, so probably time to stop buying more minis.

At least for this week

I think we are all waiting.

I decided to fill up my season 1 teams, added some prone markers for my GF's season 2 teams, and added project pandora, but I may need to drop that, I forgot I have a speeding ticket to pay.