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Looking good. So excited for November.

Thanks for sharing

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Deadzone stuff looks good, if a bit 2nd edition-y orky (which may depending on the buyer be a big plus). It seems like they're putting more work/effort into making Deadzone and Dreadball stuff right whereas it feels like (from the pics and posting tone) they're just cutting their losses in KOW.

I agree warboss; it really seems like with KoW they realized they'd eaten up their budget and had to get what they could done. With DreadBall and DeadZone their budgets were apparently better structured to not have to take whatever the artists handed them, though I'd submit there were still some QA issues they could have handled a bit better.

Stuff is looking pretty good. Marauders are really growing on me. Loving that little mini cannon/ tank thing the goblin is driving.

I hope they've learned a bit from some of those missteps they made with Kings of War.

If (when) Kings of War heads back to Kickstarter, which I would assume it will at some future point, I hope Mantic continues with this more cautious approach.

Some really nice figs there, especially like the Hulk at the back left, looks like an interesting colour scheme on the skin.

Looking back at the marauders now theres some painted examples, i've started to really like their look. Odd really considering how bad I thought the inital greens were. There seems to be a nice cohesion between the models, although how'd they match up with the current orx stuff I dont know. I might grab a orx raptor and try painting it in the grey scheme.

Roll on november!

These marauders look nice. Are they plastic or restic? Sorry if it says one type of another 50 different places in the pics.

privateer4hire wrote:
These marauders look nice. Are they plastic or restic? Sorry if it says one type of another 50 different places in the pics.

Restic

All the painted pieces will have been done in resin the production ones will be PVC/restic.

As they've been shown now:

That's actually quite the nice gang!

I'm really positively (?) surprised. When I saw the greens a couple of months back, I never would've thought that they'll turn out to be quite nicely looking.

Ahh they've been shown, but you always have better pictures

Really starting to like the look of those marauders, may have to rethink my brown/leather scheme, they look really nice as they are.

I think if I can just repose the ripper and sgt arms... I'll be very happy with the lot.

And those dogs... are huge... Given how big those commandos are (nearly nobs, definitely a step beyond the grunts)... I guess they are *mawbeasts* and not maw-dogs. More like lions almost!

So, are we going to be seeing Goblin Mawbeast riders in warpath?

The sergeant's arms came fixed like that. I can't remember if his head was separate or not. Some were, some weren't.

The ripper suit arms are interchangable (with the other suit), but the ammo belt dictates the position; there are two provided so you can elect which arm to use. Actually posing it would basically mean sculpting a new arm, so it's fairly limited.

It's an ork in a political officer's uniform. I'm sure Kroothawk can vent for a few hours on the subject of polish companies producing such commodities for those needing variety in their sergeants.
@winterdyne it might not be a bad idea to ballpark prices for a similar (or identical) commission every time you post a pic like that - someone might just bite. These things really bloody well deserve it.
Awesome stuff, again!

Nah, I don't like pushing advertisement, and to be honest, I'm busy enough for the forseeable.

I think it'd suffice to say the troops are fairly standard high end tabletop. The ripper suit was a beast though, several days work on that.

winterdyne wrote:
As they've been shown now:

that is quite impressive, think I am starting to regret not backing as I have not been impressed with Mantic sculpts as of late.

Daedleh wrote:

Ack ack ack! Ack! Ack ack ack ack?

Daedleh wrote:

And my mate took this scale shot:

Love this Marauder, has a real soldier feel to it, glad I ignored the naysayers and went all in for them

Man, those Maraduers went full Rogue Trader/2nd Edition and I'm loving it. They have the character of 80's minis without having the somewhat ham-handed sculpting of the time. They'll be an utter joy to paint.

Don't know if it just the paint job being awesome or what, but I think they look fantastic. Just looking at them brings back a lot of fond memories of one of my favourite gaming eras. Even the saw-dogs (though they look a lot more rough than the rest) are not too bad (I like the non-bucking one a bit more; its pose feels more natural for some reason).

They're steadily growing on me as well. Maybe if the knife sgt was pointing with his right hand it would help justify the position of it to me...

Roll on November!

Jesus christ, Winterdyne has done an amazing job on these. I don't doubt that it's going to help Mantic sell these babies at retail. I'm beginning to think 3 strike teams + BOGOF for every race isn't enough. Curse you wave 2 ability to spend more money, curse you!

If only I could paint 10% as good.

I was under the impression that all models from mantic come prepainted by Winterdyne.

You know... I really did order too many models. Maybe Mantic and I could work something out...

Nah, painting them myself is too much fun, even if I'm not that good at it

I think when survey 2 comes around, hopefully depending on new Warpath lists out by that time, I'll be cherry picking to finish off some units. Might need a plague hound and or mawbeast to make a round number for a squad, etc.

I just hope they keep Warpath's flexible allies system. With just a little effort (maybe some core troops to enable the characters and monsters) you could easily make a pretty large-ish Warpath army by allying the Rebs, Marauders, and Forge fathers.

 warboss wrote:
I was under the impression that all models from mantic come prepainted by Winterdyne.

Yep, pretty sure that was in the kickstarter agreement!

Great painting Winterdyne, thanks for the pics. Looking forward to getting Deadzone now.

The marauders are looking okay, glad people are happy with them. I'd like them a lot more if the hands were a touch smaller, though.

They're pretty much just 40k orks at this point if you give them a headswap in terms of sculpting style. Which, as far as a business decision goes, is probably a good thing since I can't imagine the range as it stands sells all that well currently.. might as well go the whole hog, make them GW shoe-ins and produce alternatives all the unit types. I'm okay with this, having orks in the Warpath universe at all basically screams 40k clone, so you might as well do it properly if you're going to do it and copy the Brian Nelson style.

Very firmly heroic scale, as the comparison to the truescale warpath marauder shows.

This is something you can get away with with orks because huge size and style variance is in the background... if these were human sculpts however, being compared to the original enforcers and corp marines we'd all be saying how terrible they are.

Just some food for thought on that point!

Rebs are looking really nice, though, very happy with those. Everything about those sculpts is looking top-notch, no complaints from me!

 warboss wrote:
It seems like they're putting more work/effort into making Deadzone and Dreadball stuff right whereas it feels like (from the pics and posting tone) they're just cutting their losses in KOW.

That's all well and good unless KoW is the game you're most interested in. :p

They do seem to have taken some advice to heart though - The Marauder Hulk is a lovely model that is everything the KoW Trolls should have been.

Can't see the whole model in those pics, but I can at least tell that it has legs, and the face is well-sculpted.

What are the hard plastic Enforcers and Plague like for scale, Daedleh? The right size?, look okay next to the Rebs?, Guns aren't 5 feet long? Hands aren't larger than their heads?

I'm concerned that they'll mess up like the men-at-arms and make the new enforcers substantially more massive than the existing restic ones, or make the restic Rebs and their weaponry look like midgets.

The same person who sculpted the MAA seems to be doing the deadzone stuff which is why I'm wondering about what they'll look like. Don't forget, even the men-at-arms looked okay as renders, not so much the actual models though.
I hope Mantic gives us a look at the 3d prints fairly soon.

As nice as the marauders are, you have to concede that rampant scale creep is starting to kick in, as someone who has bought heavily into both Rebs and Enforcers I'm hoping scale creep won't make one side look like it has 28mm truescale models, and the other side look like 35mm heroic scale. As it stands the scale consistency between different lines of minis (and even within armies) is all over the place.

I'm liking the Marauders a little better than before. Mawbeast looks better on Daedleh's photos. I really like the Ork with what appears to be a power weapon and commissar's hat and jacket. Really captures the Orkiness. The ripper suits could be used to really great effect as Cybork bodies.

These chaps are going to fit right in to finish off my RT Orks

 edlowe wrote:

privateer4hire wrote:
These marauders look nice. Are they plastic or restic? Sorry if it says one type of another 50 different places in the pics.

Restic

Thanks and...

Crap! We hates restic for anything other than vehicles. We hates it.

Funny, if there's one place I'd loathe having to work with restic it's on vehicles. Infantry, not so much.