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Bueno!

Awesome, Wrath looks great, glad I'm getting him, not that I can remember all the stuff on my deadzone survey anyway....

Looking at that pic I can't help but think of that Khan vs Klingons squad scene from star trek 2, I'd love to think Wrath is
equally as bad-ass.

So on the Dreadball front...model restic feels more like regular plastic. Definite plus. There are a couple mold lines that are a bit harder to scrape off, but I've only had one that was almost a PITA. Pictures will follow tomorrow, it's just been way too much of a long day. RITides, you're gonna love your Nameless team.

Looking at the dreadball haul, there appears to be 2 types of restic.

One is lighter like the season 1/2 stuff, and the season 3 stuff is darker.

I may be assuming that there is a change. Season 1 teams definitely have the lighter mix for the new sculpts. Season 2 I can't confirm as I don't have much season 2 stuff, but season 3 freebies are for sure in a darker mix.

I will try to get some pics up

Edit: I think my box is slightly mispacked looking at my invoice. I was supposed to get 2 female prone figures, and 1 upgrade pack, but I got 2 upgrade packs and no prone figures. The upgrade packs are 3 + 1 prone, and the prone figure listing has them labeled as a single figure. There is some other odd things in there too.

Also, Blaine is awesome and Dozer is a big girl. Lol

Blaine is sweet!

Does anyone know of a good source that would have a picture of everything from season 3 shipping? I suppose I should try mantic first huh.

edit: I took out the reference to Dozer, I was thinking barricade.

Just put together my nameless spawn too. I REALLY hope these guys make it into Warpath!

 scarletsquig wrote:
People are reporting that the "feel" of the new restic mix is closer to hard plastic.

Yes! This can only be a good thing

~Tim?

Absolutely.

Here's to hoping that they finally 'figured it out' and Restic going forward (for Deadzone!) will be an OK material now....

Thinking about it, restic is a really good material for the Nameless since you can use hot water to re-pose the tentacles.

What I don't get with the Nameless Strikers is how Mantic posed them for the pics.

On the official pics, they look close to the basic base.


The actual DreadBall Miniatures I got have a far wider stance, with an odd base that has two "fly-out" additions to add the legs.



And since the new material is tougher, you'd probably have to break off / cut off the legs and re-glue them to make the miniature as Mantic build it.

I should think the painted mini is a resin master

after digitising it probably turned out that it wasn't castable in that form so they had to move the legs further out

Also that's a very nice Void Siren.

Doesn't make waiting easier though...

Nice pic, thanks Zwei. Nameless looks good. Nice idea reposing the tentacles using hot water SS, gonna pinch that.

 Yonan wrote:
Nice pic, thanks Zwei. Nameless looks good. Nice idea reposing the tentacles using hot water SS, gonna pinch that.

Cheers.

My "unboxing" (though there really wasn't a "box") is here: http://pinsofwar.com/unboxing-mantic-dreadball-season-3/

 Zweischneid wrote:
What I don't get with the Nameless Strikers is how Mantic posed them for the pics.

On the official pics, they look close to the basic base.

Spoiler:

The actual DreadBall Miniatures I got have a far wider stance, with an odd base that has two "fly-out" additions to add the legs.

Spoiler:

And since the new material is tougher, you'd probably have to break off / cut off the legs and re-glue them to make the miniature as Mantic build it.

That is absurd, worse than the vermyn! I wish mantic would give up on the integral bases. They restrict the posing -unless you fudge like above, they are harder to remove than a slottatab if you aren't using mantic bases - which I don't particularly like, the angle of the bevelled edge is ugly - or add height to mini if you leave it on, and -worst of all- they don't work as a sturdy base on their own...

 Zweischneid wrote:

 Yonan wrote:
Nice pic, thanks Zwei. Nameless looks good. Nice idea reposing the tentacles using hot water SS, gonna pinch that.

Cheers.

My "unboxing" (though there really wasn't a "box") is here: http://pinsofwar.com/unboxing-mantic-dreadball-season-3/

Very nice, thanks! Blaine looks great, and the material does look much sharper next to the old material.

 rosafari wrote:

That is absurd, worse than the vermyn! I wish mantic would give up on the integral bases. They restrict the posing -unless you fudge like above, they are harder to remove than a slottatab if you aren't using mantic bases - which I don't particularly like, the angle of the bevelled edge is ugly - or add height to mini if you leave it on, and -worst of all- they don't work as a sturdy base on their own...

This. Full agreement! Everything you said!

So looking through my items and what was on the packing list:

I was supposed to only get 1 of each season 2 upgrade packs, but I got 2 for the judwan and 2 for the robots, and 3 for the females and Z'zor.

I have 2 corporation keepers.
Missing my Veer-myn keeper, but got a prone marker instead
Missing Z'zor Keeper

And I am missing the models from line items for Female Corp and Z'zor prone figures, but I have 2 extra upgrade packs, so I came out ahead there.

Did you folks who have gotten your latest shipment get a notification it was on the way?

 CptJake wrote:
Did you folks who have gotten your latest shipment get a notification it was on the way?

No, Mantic don't tend to send out shipping notifications, hope you get yours soon!

No notification, I didn't even know they had started shipping. It was just a happy surprise.

Pics of all the new team boosters are up on the mantic site:







And the KS Exclusives are up in the Mantic points section now too, for anyone who missed the kickstarter.

Muahahah, the Judwann "curl up in a ball until it all goes away" prone figure is amazing, I kind of want one just because!

May have to give that dreadball thing a try some day

Great looking minis, will definitely pick up a couple sets. Would have liked them in the new restic recipe in theory, but guess it might not look good next to the old recipe basic team.

I really like the tan/olive green skintone on those goblins! It meshes with the blacks and deep reds nicely.

~Tim?

Had my first Dreadball game two days ago. I must say, it is a lot faster than I had expected and I got 7 pointed after 5 turns

It feels like a great game with loads of interesting rules, interactions, little details and stuff.

Will definately paint up my Forge Father to a reasonable standard and play some more games.

It's great fun isn't it Ronin, although sorry to hear about your rather ruthless-sounding first game opponent!

Those look great, with the exception of the female corp ones who don't look as good as the originals from that angle.

Nice to hear the exclusive miniatures are available with the mantic points also.

My wife was putting up Halloween decorations today and I noticed this was among them:



Ha!

 Alpharius wrote:
Marauders, looking....better than expected?

From BoW:

That dog looks awful, but the orks looks passable. Above average even

Really kicking myself for not getting in on the Deadzone kickstarter, but the funds just weren't there.

The spore guys and mercenary guys looks great.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com