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 timetowaste85 wrote:
Anyone have paint scheme thoughts yet? My enforcers are sticking with the iron man theme, and I'm thinking Hulk'd out humans, Abomonation, A-Bomb and others for the plague. God, I'm such a marvel nerd... Also, considering using character styles from Don Bluth's "Titan AE" for my Rebs. Corso, Prood and the others should be totally doable from what I've seen. Anyone who hasn't seen Titan AE, Netflix is is your friend. One of the best damn sci fi 'after earth' cartoons out there. Possibly the best. I'm thinking my marauders may end up with an albino skin setup.

I'll likely be using Iron Man (and the Silver Centurion armour, and War Machine) as my inspirations. I do like the Mantic standard scheme, but I'm not averse to brightly coloured minis - I collect Space Marines, after all...

 scarletsquig wrote:


A lot of the minis don't come with bases either, so I'm toying with the idea of clear acrylic for everything.

That quote worries me.

I'd guess it's just the bigger stuff that's baseless?

I would hope that the final production copies have bases included for everything.

However- after checking out that ebay link for those laser cut clear ones, I'm tempted to partake as well.

The larger minis that go on 40mm bases don't have the integrated disc is all Scarlet means.

Yeah, I meant they don't come with integral base disks. The larger ones probably come with MDF bases like with Warpath.

Have to say, it'd be very interesting if they produced a clear polystyrene round base sprue, or got Renedra to run their existing ones in clear plastic. Would be a very cool option to be able to buy.

I think acrylic could end up a bit scratchy long-term.

I have 11 sprues of bases coming from the PDC Kickstarter specifically for my DZ minis.

Fair enough.

I wouldn't have expected the larger pieces to have integrated bases. That I can deal with.

Excited nevertheless.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Anyone have paint scheme thoughts yet? My enforcers are sticking with the iron man theme, and I'm thinking Hulk'd out humans, Abomonation, A-Bomb and others for the plague. God, I'm such a marvel nerd... Also, considering using character styles from Don Bluth's "Titan AE" for my Rebs. Corso, Prood and the others should be totally doable from what I've seen. Anyone who hasn't seen Titan AE, Netflix is is your friend. One of the best damn sci fi 'after earth' cartoons out there. Possibly the best. I'm thinking my marauders may end up with an albino skin setup.

Enforcers- Mass Effect's Cerberus colors. They look great painted up like that and it's practically the same as the studio colors anyway. Here's one of mine in it.

Marauders- Afrika Korps
Reps- lots of earth tones
Plague- purply-pink so that they match my existing zombies
Forge Fathers- their mech suits are getting Zaku color schemes. The rest will get Cadian style khaki and green to match my existing ones
Asterians- Tron

I'm going to do my Enforcers in three tone US Navy dazzle camouflage measures 31, 32 and 33

My Plague in either purple or a deep red instead of pink

Marauders are going to range from light green through dark green and maybe teal and blue depending on the species of the guy

My rebels are just going to be whatever creative colour looks good on each one, though I've earmarked an orange and red two tone thing for the Teraton.

Forge Fathers and Asterians I won't decide until closer to their arrival date.

Enforcers - Black and silver for me with neon green accents. Possibly, will have to do some tests, they're a bit tricky.
Rebs - Grey/ Brown in various combinations with various accents and skin tones. I like the idea that these guys don't stand out and can blend into the civilian population.

Plague/ Marauders - Won't be doing until Warpath launch, but for the Marauders would be a dark red/brown skin tone and black/silver gear. Plague I think could be interesting in an albino theme, mostly white with some raw dark red flesh and eyes showing through. Not pink, and not rotting/ zombie tone, they're not zombies.

Forgefathers are an interesting one, either black/ orange or copper for me, want them to have a warm look. blue/grey and gold with fiery orange could be interesting too.

Asterians will most likely get some kind of clean and shiny white/turquoise/gold combination, depends on the models.

Enforcers: Either studio scheme or some kind of Digital Camo
Rebs: Variety but mostly muted earth colours not too dissimilar from the enforcers, maybe some kind of Camo (not digital)
Astheiran- Either tron style or possibly similar to the Geth from mass effect.
Plague: No Idea, probably similar to that poster of the human body under the skin that my girlfriend has.
Marauders: Similar to ww2 germans. Not sure about skin yet.
Forgefathers: Black and Yellow maybe

Their manufacturer still fails completely at getting the base disks done right... instead of adding platforms to the rocket enforcer shoes it would have been far better to have the front foot attached and the back for not attached to the mini-disk.

Wow. That is really craptastic. Who at Mantic approved that? Why was it approved?

Still considering paint schemes . . . and truthfully, I plan to see what some of you do with yours before making my final decisions on a number of factions. I've been out of the miniature painting game for over two decades, and while I'm confident in my general artistic aptitude, I'm not going to rush in and have regrets later.

So far my list goes:

Enforcers: Like Squig, I'm planning black and silver with a 3rd color to keep them from being too boring. What the 3rd color will be is up in the air. Silver goes well with Black, isn't as difficult to pull off as white, and gives a more realistic vibe than stormtrooper white. (They do look good in white, though.)

Rebs: Like many, Browns and other subdued, earthy colors, with a uniform grayish metal for their chest armor to help tie the faction together.

Marauders: Not sure yet. I'd like to do either Red / Ochre or Blue skin tones, but part of me leans towards the traditional green. Not certain about their clothing yet, but I won't be doing black, as I like reserving that for the Enforcers. Final color choice also depends on whether I keep the commandos as-is or swap them out for other models entirely.

Plague: For the 3rd gens at least, not pink. Possibly a wasted looking white and grey combo, with yellowed bone highlights. Not sure about the 2nd and 1st gens, though - the "skinless" exposed muscle fiber seems to demand bloody reds and pinks. Final choice also depends on whether I keep the 3rd gens as is or swap them out for Sedition Wars strain or something else.

Forge Fathers: Not sure I'll even be picking these guys up. We all have our personal standards of what works and what is just too silly, and while I fully appreciate that Marauders or Veer-myn could be too ridiculous to field for some, I can't get my head around Dwarfs in space. Yet. We'll have to see what the final models actually look like. I'd be all over a faction of Space Abyssal Dwarfs / Helfathers, though. Why? Who knows? Just my taste.

Asterians - No idea yet. I'll be looking closely at what you fellows are doing.

Dont forget we have an enforcer captain in our army painter: http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/painter.jsp?i=1

I'm thinking some black and yellow scheme like the CCC Yellowjackets from Mercs for the Enforcers.

Yeah, i'm sold on clear acrylic bases, too, and I want to redo all my figs with 'em. (I still like scenic resin for fantasy) I'm only wondering how I'm going to glue/balance my old lead genestealers on acrylic bases, lol.

Enforcers - Pathfinder Scheme (Black and Yellow)
Plague - human colours, with green fatigues - trying to go for a 'thing' look.
Marauders - Green skin, and dark blue/grey fatigues, with black leather.
Forge fathers - Possibly red and grey?
Rebs - No idea.
Astarians - Alabaster white armour, with Dark red details, and blue/grey skin. Gloss black eyes. these are aliens, not pointy- eared humans.

 Vermonter wrote:


Forge Fathers: Not sure I'll even be picking these guys up. We all have our personal standards of what works and what is just too silly, and while I fully appreciate that Marauders or Veer-myn could be too ridiculous to field for some, I can't get my head around Dwarfs in space. Yet. We'll have to see what the final models actually look like. I'd be all over a faction of Space Abyssal Dwarfs / Helfathers, though. Why? Who knows? Just my taste.

Dwarfs in space just come from a planet with higher gravity than earth. I dont know if thats in the fluff (unlikely) but that seems more plausible than orcs in space. I suppose we all have different places things we find implausible.

 CptJake wrote:
Why was it approved?

Because Mantic.


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 Vermonter wrote:

Forge Fathers: Not sure I'll even be picking these guys up. We all have our personal standards of what works and what is just too silly, and while I fully appreciate that Marauders or Veer-myn could be too ridiculous to field for some, I can't get my head around Dwarfs in space. Yet. We'll have to see what the final models actually look like. I'd be all over a faction of Space Abyssal Dwarfs / Helfathers, though. Why? Who knows? Just my taste.

Consistently divergent human populations are already a thing. Just extrapolate from that.

They're not fantasy dwarfs, they're aliens based around norse myth. They're a caste system society with high technology and their own large stellar empire that the Corporation doesn't dare provoke open war with.

Considering that norse myth (which is actually quite sci-fi when you delve into it) states that the dwarfs shared the secrets of metalworking with humans there's room for a potential "forgefather landed on earth ages ago" scenario for those who want to rationalise it. I think they're quite well done considering, their high tech level makes them a little more believable then the marauders/ veer-myn who are entirely dependent on the scraps of the Corp for everything (and for their existence).

It seems a little unlikely that the marauders and veer-myn wouldn't have simply been wiped out by the Corporation, or at least reduced to the point of being a negligible threat, they're quite keen on making things extinct.

I think a lot of the background issues are grounded in the various races being introduced in drips and drops... with the Zz'or in the picture and full-on attacking the Corp a lot of the other factions being able to take hold amongst Corporation dominance would start to make sense. I'd really prefer it if they expanded on background a lot more, at the moment its entirely game or miniature based. Small fluff pieces written specifically to show off a game, units in a game or the backstory of special characters. Needs more of a general overview of the universe and a compelling tagline.

The core idea of greed and resource grabbing taking priority over everything else in a dystopian nightmare where humans are dominant but also evil is quite a fun one to play with. Just needs more development and more races introduced at the concept stage long before they get miniatures. Some of that has possibly already happened with dreadball and deadzone, would be highly interested in a Nameless army with bio-constructs and tech, but having them be an essentially good but often misunderstood race rather than the "mindless lobster/bug alien that only wants to kill" angle that the factions with biotech often end up with (the main thing that has made me lose all interest in both Dropzone and Total Extinction, the main antagonist race is this cookie-cutter aggressive no-negotiating purple biotech race that is the same as countless others in sci-fi media before it).

Judwan are probably the most interesting one for me that's entirely Mantic IP currently (as opposed to space skaven, space elves, space dwarfs, space orcs), a race of pacifists is a cool idea, and a very radical one for a wargame.

I do like the fact that Asterians primarily use drones rather than risking their own necks in warfare, it makes a lot of sense for an advanced race to do this.. I'm a lot more hopeful for the non-cypher minis after seeing nastanza (excellent mini, great armour design), the dreadball ones just look dull. I was kind hoping they'd break away from the "not 40k eldar clone" angle a bit more and have the (fleshy) asterian minis be thin, but 10 ft tall or something, that would have been very cool.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I have 11 sprues of bases coming from the PDC Kickstarter specifically for my DZ minis.

Those bases are awesome! You will not be disappointed, trust me.

Yeah SS, the Asterians using drones is a big ++ for me. One thing that grates me about Eldar is they send their civilians in with bad weapons and armour /facepalm

I do like a lot of the fluff in Warpath, but as you say it seems a bit disjointed. The Forgefathers are well thought out too as you say... and I *really* want to see more from the Z'zor ; p

I think you guys will be really happy with the Deadzone fiction anthology, if you're wanting world building.

The guys at Mantic were amazing about giving us freedom to build culture, religion, etc... up as we saw fit so long as it hit broad-stroke canon and world-building requirements.

As such, writing for it, had a bit of Mos Eisely Cantina feel... where I could just sense how diverse and interesting that universe is, and how rich with potential it is.

I'm hoping they have me back for Warpath, as I would love to play around in that setting, some more.

Deadzone fiction anthology you say, what is this heresy you speak of?! Please say it's something we get in the KS ; p

Yeah I'm pretty sure its a collection of short stories backers get in PDF form and in the compendium. Was an early stretch goal that caught some flak for not being more models.

 Yonan wrote:
Deadzone fiction anthology you say, what is this heresy you speak of?! Please say it's something we get in the KS ; p

It is. If you refer to the KS Strike Team graphic you will see it at the bottom as "Short Story Compilation" named "Containment Protocols". I don't recall what update added it though, but yeah...

I was really happy with the non-mini stretch goals in Deadzone, added acrylic counters and the hardback book to my pledge. The art upgrade stretch in Mars Attacks was well-received too, since it was an upgrade to have unique art on all the cards instead of just text.

James talked about the fiction compilation at length on Mantic Radio, the plans they have for it are really good, a mixture of established writers and new ones (anyone could submit a piece), they got about 20 submissions and picked the best 8 or so to print.

The limited hardcover, I BELIEVE also includes the short-story anthology. Don't take my word for it, but I am pretty sure it will be the only way to get a physical copy.

I wish I could share more, but I don't want to spoil anything. I just know that despite writing for fifteen years now, I have never had more fun, more freedom, and a better experience, than while working with the Mantic guys... and that says something considering I have had the good fortune to have worked with Marvel (brielfy), some top tier video-game developers, and so on.

Ex-cel-lent, that stuff will be in the delicious hardcover collectors edition thing too then. Looking forward to it!

edit: ninjaed. Yeah glad I went in deep enough to get that free ; p Glad you enjoyed it, I'd really love for more depth to the Warpath universe so if they want to hire you back for more come the Warpath KS, you have my vote (assuming you did a good job ; p)

Hey... if you want it, let them know. Ronnie, James, etc... are super receptive to what fans what. I was offered the opportunity in the first place because a couple KS backers were very supportive of me, and asked that I be included in the first place. :-p

Hopefully I did a good job as well. You guys will judge. Hopefully you're fans of space gypsies... is all i'll say. :-p

As I prepare for Mars Attacks, my copy of 'We will Destroy Your Planet' just arrived!

http://www.amazon.com/Will-Destroy-Your-Planet-Conquering-ebook/dp/B00G1IUP0A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384879478&sr=8-1&keywords=we+will+destroy+your+planet

Those nasty earthlings are in trouble now!