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 GrimDork wrote:
I don't really care for resin much, but the walkers are supposed to be made of it. I think its pricier. Might make for nicer results.

Right now I intend to be in for WTF is my first shipment, if things pan out though I'm mostly looking at the HP kits and maybe terrain.

Maybe they'll have their gack together when they finally get around to your stuff and you won't be missing anything.

I didn't realize the mechs would be in resin, which is great by me provided it isn't too fragile. This does mark a change from before, right? What were Warpath Iron Ancestors made of?

I don't get the resin angle on the mechs, personally. The current Iron Ancestor is Restic (and the variant with metal bitz). Why not produce the DZ one in the same material, when it will share many of the same parts? Then it's idiotically easy to sell as an additional variant for the Warpath army.

Or...if it's going to eventually be a Warpath option, why wouldn't you just go ahead and make it hard plastic?

 Vermonter wrote:
I didn't realize the mechs would be in resin, which is great by me provided it isn't too fragile. This does mark a change from before, right? What were Warpath Iron Ancestors made of?

I'm excited to see the Goblin Stuntbot, but what I'd most like to see is the Asterians get a mech unit. Currently they're the odd man out.

I had NO idea the mechs were 'resin' either - I thought they were going to be 'restic'!

Can someone point out specifically where this was stated?

Because I can see myself picking up a few more in 'true resin'!

Let me dig it up ( if no one beats me to it) I've had that notion in my head for months so I'm pretty darn sure. As soon as kid let's me I'll try to fact check myself.

Update 88 covers the stuntbot

If we hit this goal, we will sculpt and tool the Marauder Stuntbot in resin and make it available for you to add on to your pledge.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/deadzone-the-sci-fi-miniatures-board-game/posts/498361

And 85 the striders

We will sculpt and tool the Corporation and Plague Strider in resin and make him available to add-on to your pledge:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/deadzone-the-sci-fi-miniatures-board-game/posts/498221

 DaveC wrote:
Here's the finished Deadzone Ruined Terrain Sprues taken from the Mantic forum

Nice. How many in a box? I assume these are half-sprues, so it should be 4 of each?

Do we think that Mantic really meant "resin" or is it a mistake?

Also, is it ALL the mechs in resin, or just the Stuntbot?

EDIT:

Never mind - just saw Dave's edit.

Thanks Dave!

Yeah 4 of each sprue (8 in total)

Only having DreadBall and DeadZone stuff, how does Mantic do with resin? Do they have any experience in producing resin minis? Multipart ones the size these will be?

Honestly, resin can be great for some minis, but looking at the QC issues they have with restic and the inability to maintain consistent quality even within a single product code, I really worry about how they can mess up resin.

No problem Alpharius

And on the Iron ancestor it's resin upgrade parts for the restic kit

If we hit this goal, we will sculpt and tool the Urban Pattern Iron Ancestor.

This resin kit can be used to upgrade the plastic resin Iron Ancestor with Heat Cannon, new backback and a new close combat arm. We will supply the whole kit - the resin upgrade kit and the Iron Ancestor - for you to add on to your pledge.

Even if they meant Restic (which I originally thought they did) the DZ Iron Ancestor is the same as a retail Warpath version. Only the ability to get discounts online makes the DZ versiion "more expensive" and it's a "unique to KS" sculpt at the moment, not to mention if it really is actual normal resin.

Ha! I finally have you, Scarlet Squig the well-informed!

I'm staking my entire, illustrious in its insignificance Dakka reputation on the proposition that the Mech vehicles will all be cast in restic as per normal, and not a single one will be resin. Which would mean that Mantic has no excuse not to do a bulk deal.

Why am I flamboyantly sticking my head in a noose? Because, my dear Watson, I just browsed update #104, and the very last sentence reads as follows:

"Note that all of the Mercenaries, Plague, Rebs and Marauders will still be in our Sprueless Plastic Resin as well."

Someone at Mantic using the term sprueless plastic resin for restic, eh? All the Mechs are going to be the same old restic they're already making the Goblin gun track etc. out of, mark my words.

Well it has an upgrade kit. Compare the dz urban IA to the doom storm pattern with the extra metal weapon.


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I could have sworn in discussion it was determined to be proper resin but I'm not at my machine and phone makes it hard to trawl the comments.

Vermonter - stop it! You're making me depressed!

I REALLY hope that they meant REAL RESIN and are sticking to it!

I'll let you all in on a secret...

IF Mantic can produce nice looking Forge Fathers that don't take 30min. each to de-flash and do mold line removal, I'll be using them as a "count as' IG army!

Aside from a Forge Father's army in Warpath, of course!

Mantic have dabbled with resin before, with the upgrade bits for the marauder raptor.

And of course they do a few resin casts for special edition minis. I have a unit of stormrage veterans in resin (won a naming competition by coming up with "Brokkrs") and they are rather gorgeous.

How did that turn out?

Because I've been rather spoiled with resin as of late via Mierce...

It's all cast in-house as far as I know and they have someone who really knows their stuff doing it.

I've got a couple of the Resin 3-Up figures from way back, they're rather nice.

It looks like my epic showdown with Squig ended the only way it could - with this bananaman crashing and burning.

I found the reference in the Deadzone comments section of Jun 2, 2013 that Grimdork and Scarlet Squig were talking about. Mantic are responding to a backer request for a discount bundle deal on multiple striders:

"@Ben - the mech will be made in actual resin, so we can't offer any bundle deals I'm afraid - the cost wouldn't allow it."

"Actual resin" is definitely very encouraging. I'm glad to be wrong this time.

I wish Mierce would do Sci-Fi.

There's a new video out about how to remove mould lines from restic, I know this was asked for earlier in the thread so I figured I'd post it:




I personally recommend it an excellent guide to cutting your fingers into ribbons when your luck runs out.

(seriously, get some good files and a brass brush instead, it'll be a little slower and a lot safer)

Brass bushes? FILES?!?!?

Half the fun of removing mold lines is gambling on whether or not I'll puncture my fingers for the umpteenth time.

Bonus points for using the same dull, rusty, barely held together hobby knife that really should have found its way to the rubbish bin many moons ago.

My hobby knife cherry got popped back in the early 90s, building an old Aoshima robot kit that had terrible flash all over it. Sliced my thumb open from tip to the first joint in it. Was quite unpleasant, but was an excellent conversation piece in junior high!

Just to confirm, the entire Enforcer faction booster bundle was delayed, correct? We should only have the 5 free guys and part of the starter.

^ Correct.

And we're supposed to get our "State of the Hard Plastic Union" address sometime between now and the end of the month.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
And we're supposed to get our "State of the Hard Plastic Union" address sometime between now and the end of the month.

Quoted for lolz.

Sort of. From the Update #129 on Monday, the survey launches on Friday. Then later on in the update it says "Because the second survey is your last chance to make use of the great Kickstarter offer, we’re going to be posting up a mega progress update so you can see where we’re up to on all things Deadzone related."

On Facebook they said to expect news within a month as of Jan 24 on the hard plastics, and that the survey will be open a long time.

I believe the survey will be open until the end of March.

I'll be waiting personally til the deadline to make sure I have as much pictures and information as possible

 scarletsquig wrote:
^ Correct.

Thanks man! Was trying to fill out my missing parts survey.

 scarletsquig wrote:

(seriously, get some good files and a brass brush instead, it'll be a little slower and a lot safer)

At first I was doing my cleaning by scraping and filing and it seemed to actually make an even bigger mess

Yeah, hobby knife is the way to go.