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Here's something I made earlier...

mantic and GW together!?!? thats heresy...

looks good AOV

Did a little conversion work and posted it to my model blog. Take a look and give me your feedback if you will.

http://azwargamer.blogspot.com/

 jlong05 wrote:
Did a little conversion work and posted it to my model blog. Take a look and give me your feedback if you will.

http://azwargamer.blogspot.com/

You should really post at least one picture here.

The GS around the waist is a bit rough, but I am assuming there is tidying up still to do there. The idea is fantastic, however. Consider it duly "borrowed".

~Eric

 Taarnak wrote:

 jlong05 wrote:
Did a little conversion work and posted it to my model blog. Take a look and give me your feedback if you will.

http://azwargamer.blogspot.com/

You should really post at least one picture here.

The GS around the waist is a bit rough, but I am assuming there is tidying up still to do there. The idea is fantastic, however. Consider it duly "borrowed".

~Eric

Eric, good point. I didn't want to spam the pile of pictures, but one should have been posted. Original post has been updated now with the Engineer group shot.

Yeah. I still have a little cleaning to do on the GS. I used the paintable stuff as the space was really close. Once that drys fully I will likely need to do a little tight smoothing/sanding and maybe a second coat of gs on it. All should be done with the cleanup of the flash as well.

I'd like to see the reverse conversion.

 Riquende wrote:
I'd like to see the reverse conversion.

Do you mean the step by step on how I did it or the conversion I will be doing for the Missile Launcher Enforcer? I actually have a lot more GS to do for him and so his conversion is not quite started yet. I hope to get him started this weekend though.

If you mean the step by step, I don't have another Engineer/Missile Launcher guy to cut apart. :( And I didn't think ahead to do the step by step shots. I 'know' what I did though and can easily replicate it again with the pieces. One thing I will say is a nice hot water bath made these guys cut like butter for me.

I mean a kneeling missile launcher guy.

I like the Engineer figure. I wish I could get a bit more versatility out of his sculpt and not have to have him kneeling all the time. What you did definitely works well. I just wish I had another engineer and missile dude to try that out on.

 Barzam wrote:
I like the Engineer figure. I wish I could get a bit more versatility out of his sculpt and not have to have him kneeling all the time. What you did definitely works well. I just wish I had another engineer and missile dude to try that out on.

Engineer torso with the leg bits from the regular Enforcer figures would work too. Might even be ultimately easier to pull off. That is what I intend to do since I have bunches of Enforcers and will likely never field a full army of them.

~Eric

Yeah, that probably would be easier. Then I'd only have to cut one figure in half. The downside is of course that I don't have a spare engineer to try it on. Hmm, maybe I can grab one for round 2.

 Taarnak wrote:

 Barzam wrote:
I like the Engineer figure. I wish I could get a bit more versatility out of his sculpt and not have to have him kneeling all the time. What you did definitely works well. I just wish I had another engineer and missile dude to try that out on.

Engineer torso with the leg bits from the regular Enforcer figures would work too. Might even be ultimately easier to pull off. That is what I intend to do since I have bunches of Enforcers and will likely never field a full army of them.

~Eric

Second this idea. I think it'll work quite well and give some nice versatility.

Well, quite possibly the last box to be shipped from Mantic has arrived. Anyone in the last 1% who's still waiting can look forward to a lot of "we ran out of this so you'll get it later" notes all over your order form. Helfather, Chovar, Boomer, MVP, accessory sprues are all out of stock. I also got Plague instead of Enforcers for my bonus faction and no deck for either. Still inventorying the rest.

That is disappointing, and odd.

Also, I think Boomer was pushed to Wave 2 for everyone, wasn't he?

Upon closer inspection, it's even worse. It seems I only got the $20 boosters instead of the $50 booster bundles that I paid for and I got about half a Plague starter for my freebie that should have been Enforcers. That's without even diving into the baggies to check for individual component errors.

In compensation I got one extra half-sprue of fortification bulkheads. And I found my MVP at least.

Got a game in with my kid last night. Really high level, skipped cards and command values but just tried to get a feel for it. It was pretty cool although I don't think we got any damage applied. lol

really annoyed with UPS right now the local depot got my pack on Tuesday it's then been scanned in and out each day rang this morning to be told it would be delivered today and I've now just got an email to say it never left the depot for the third day in a row.

Double post my phone is quietly easing into old yeller mode =\


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Double post miraculously cured itself after my edit.

At least you got a halfassed package LBF, I'm still sitting here with a dumb look.

 DaveC wrote:
really annoyed with UPS right now the local depot got my pack on Tuesday it's then been scanned in and out each day rang this morning to be told it would be delivered today and I've now just got an email to say it never left the depot for the third day in a row.

Couriers, shudder

Waiting on 3 orders from the states I think may well be courier bound I feel your pain even more than normal

It's bad enough going off to the Royal Mail sorting office and at least there you get your box to take home again

(I'm sure that because UPS didn't put it on a van it's now buried under Xmas boxes in the deopt and they're unwilling to do the work needed to dig it out until it surfaces naturally)

Ahh well, dumb look sorted. As I had started to figure my shipment got missed somehow, one of a very few out of 4400ish. My best guess is to be seeing my stuff sometime around when they start sorting out everyone's mispick/packs after they've restocked. Got a nice email from Clive about it. Happy to know, is much better than waiting and watching the road for the mail truck.

So, I humbly ask you folk to keep sharing your dz paint jobs and creations, I'll be enjoying dz vicariously through you all for a little bit yet.

Has the Asterian faction deck over on quirkworthy been mentioned here yet? Looks interesting for sure!

Anyone else getting the urge to paint 1st and 2nd stage Plague up like traditional Genestealers?

I started off with a pink base coat and now I want to go grab some purples and blues and go all Space Hulk on them.

I really hope to sit down and get a game or two in next week since I've got nothing going on work wise.

Guess I'll have to go check out those Asterian rules when I get home.

Well they finally found my box although how you lsoe a 21kg box I'm not sure but I've been upgraded to Saturday delivery - another day sitting around waiting for a courier to call. This is why I didn't opt for courier to begin with as Orlando says far easier to just pick it up from the local postal sorting office which is 10 minutes from me (not that I'm not grateful to Mantic for upgrading everyone to courier shupping at their expense)

 GrimDork wrote:
Ahh well, dumb look sorted. As I had started to figure my shipment got missed somehow, one of a very few out of 4400ish. My best guess is to be seeing my stuff sometime around when they start sorting out everyone's mispick/packs after they've restocked. Got a nice email from Clive about it. Happy to know, is much better than waiting and watching the road for the mail truck.

So, I humbly ask you folk to keep sharing your dz paint jobs and creations, I'll be enjoying dz vicariously through you all for a little bit yet.

Has the Asterian faction deck over on quirkworthy been mentioned here yet? Looks interesting for sure!

Wow, they look even more expensive than the Enforcers..

Now.. at the risk of sounding like a spoiled Brat, Jake please release the Forge Father rules!

The first asterian list had them slightly cheaper, and not vulnerable. They look interesting to be sure.

I think the forge fathers come soon. Looking forward to those.


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Forgefathers up, actually.

Awesome, really pleased to see the beta lists all up.

Tough + Life support + (4+ Survive minimum on all infantry) makes them really durable. Possibly even moreso than the enforcers since AP can't negate Tough, only armour.

I'll definitely be going for a brokkr theme list, regardless of tabletop effectiveness. Having seen all the minis in-person, they are just plain awesome, all skinheads and all looking mean, the style is much closer to the dreadball forgefathers than the warpath plastics.

from facebook


Mantic Games

Happy holidays from everyone at Mantic! We're now closing for the festive period until 6th January so we can eat too much and rummage through pressies like a bunch of sneaky Zees.

Full details are over at the blog!

http://manticblog.com/2013/12/20/happy-holidays/

For those that do not get the newsletter, the shop is closed until january 6th, but their online sale starts Boxing day. From february Deadzone wise they will have:

" We’ll have the boxed game back up for sale, along with faction starter sets, booster packs that let you customise your force, scenery packs (hooray!) and more Mercenaries."

And for Dreadball they have this little tease for January:

http://manticblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ateo.jpg

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Anyone else getting the urge to paint 1st and 2nd stage Plague up like traditional Genestealers?

I started off with a pink base coat and now I want to go grab some purples and blues and go all Space Hulk on them.

I really hope to sit down and get a game or two in next week since I've got nothing going on work wise.

Guess I'll have to go check out those Asterian rules when I get home.

Well, I for one do have to work next week, so it wont' be me you'll be playing with.

However, I have been steadily painting up my Plague. I even started basing them. Once I get a few more of the bases painted up, I'll post some pics of them. So far, I've tried painting three of the four initial factions and I find the Plague to be the most fun to paint. I'm very curious if we'll have a regular Plague faction for Warpath proper and what kind of units it'll get.

 GrimDork wrote:
The first asterian list had them slightly cheaper, and not vulnerable. They look interesting to be sure.

I think the forge fathers come soon. Looking forward to those.


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Forgefathers up, actually.

Forgeguard are the just the normal steel-warrior guys? If so that is going to make a bloody small force! 21 points each?!

Forgeguard could be considered not-terminators. They're the forge father elite, you don't really need 5 but that number will be nice for wp. Steel warriors would be closer to a brokkr with more armor and a rifle than a forge guard.

And only the fg trooper with rifle is 21 points, the leader weighs in at just over 30 pts