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Thanks for that, Compel, although I find the juxtaposition makes it easier to spot the new design tweaks that Mantic have added to the rendered Cyphers.
And thank you partisan nick for showing your hot water work with the dogs and 3rd gens. I'd love to see more pictures - maybe at a higher magnification - as you do more Deadzone figures and Plague 3rd gens particularly. I'm not a fan of the 3rd Gens as they are but would like to see if they can be salvaged at all with conversion and reposing.
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DaveC wrote: Well that's disappointing to hear but not wholly unexpected. I hope they let people who picked them in the first survey drop/change them if that's the case as they paid for resin. $20 is expensive for Restic the Dreadball mech was $12 KS price (it's $20 full retail price)and the only difference between it and the Strider is the gun - that's an $8 gun
Agreed!
It seems a bit "bait and switch" right now...
Ugh...
partisan_nick wrote: I don´t like the Asterians as much as i thought i would. Somehow they seem too blocky and toy-like now? It might be the 3-D images, we will see when they are produced. The concept is sound.
I'm not a fan either... I mean, come on:
Certainly not anything to swoon over...
partisan_nick wrote: About restic: In my view the wibe here on Dakka towards the material has become a bit too negative. I prefer hard plastic but I don´t think that restic is worse then metal to clean up, at least not by much. Going on 35 + celaned and assembled Deadzone minis. (And the game is fun too)
And then I discovered the "hot-water trick". It is extremely easy and a stunningly effective method for conversions. I'm a bit sad that I didn´t discover it until I had glued both rebs, enforcers and most of the plauge. For any organic model one can easily twist and rotate not only arms, legs and heads but also entire torsos! A real boon for modelers and fun and fast to do. No 2 restic miniatures need ever look the same. Here are some examples of doublicates in one stock version and one water-bent. I am particualry pleased with the dogs:
Spoiler:
We can agree to disagree on restic, but I just think companies need to clearly point out that they're talking about PVC... not hand-cast resin, and not injection molded "hard" plastic.
2014/01/31 20:26:27
Subject: Mantic Games - Sci-fi News & Rumors: Mantic Digital is now live.
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Dead Figures
Characterful, fun pieces that denote the battlefield casualties of war, add this metal set of miniatures to your pledge and get 1 casualty for each of the first four races.
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Dave, you are uncanny. I was just checking my email account a second ago, and there was no survey. Came here, read your message, went back to the ol' inbox, and lo, there it is.
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2014/01/31 21:02:14
Subject: Mantic Games - Sci-fi News & Rumors: LOTS of new Deadzone pics p170
NEW! Forge Father Jotunn Urban Demolisher - $15
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2014/01/31 21:03:31
Subject: Mantic Games - Sci-fi News & Rumors: LOTS of new Deadzone pics p170
I'm not sure that sprue has as much going on as the fantasy zombie kit, but it doesnt look too shabby, at least from what I can tell at that size. I like that the arms are all separate, its a PITA changing the fantasy zombie arms around. Looks like a couple of extra heads, two spare arms, an extra torso and two bits I can't seem to Identify... Unless it's another pair of torsos..
March 30th? I may have paychecks in from my real job by then... maybe I WILL be making a bit of an order
2014/01/31 21:03:51
Subject: Mantic Games - Sci-fi News & Rumors: LOTS of new Deadzone pics p170
Dammit, no option for additional pledge levels. (i.e. no '+1 Strike team package')
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2014/01/31 21:06:25
Subject: Mantic Games - Sci-fi News & Rumors: LOTS of new Deadzone pics p170
The zombie sprue looks pretty nice. And I love the peacekeeper renders. I hope they look that good once they're produced. Those could give termies a run for their money.
Is this a typo? * 2 Corporation/Plague/Rebs Striders- $20
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2 for $20?
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2014/01/31 21:08:37
Subject: Mantic Games - Sci-fi News & Rumors: LOTS of new Deadzone pics p170
@Squall if those peacekeepers go the distance and look good at production... my marines will be dead to me, terminators are the only *cool* thing the space marines do that I don't like something else better.
Holy crap! That peacekeeper on the bike is amazing I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it's so full of win. Zero-cheesecake, totally serious, sick-ass monobike
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2014/01/31 21:09:24
Subject: Re:Mantic Games - Sci-fi News & Rumors: LOTS of new Deadzone pics p170
pretre wrote: Is this a typo? * 2 Corporation/Plague/Rebs Striders- $20
Plastic Figure with options to build 3 variants. Please enter the quantity of this item that you would like.
Holy crap! That peacekeeper on the bike is amazing I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it's so full of win. Zero-cheesecake, totally serious, sick-ass monobike
Agreed. This just became a must-buy.
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2014/01/31 21:11:57
Subject: Mantic Games - Sci-fi News & Rumors: LOTS of new Deadzone pics p170
HOLY CRAP! a SPRUE where I can see all the parts for a model are provided and I can remove them from the sprue using my own tools to avoid damages!
Awesome idea!
Does seem like they could fit more in if they wanted. Most companies don't enclose every part in an entire frame.
Seems like a movie in the right direction!
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2014/01/31 21:12:32
Subject: Re:Mantic Games - Sci-fi News & Rumors: LOTS of new Deadzone pics p170
With the time/quality constraints we face, we are going to make both the Asterians and Forge Fathers in Resin Plastic as we first announced during the Kickstarter. We did suggest at one point they would go hard plastic too, but with the amount of hard plastic we’d need to do now we’ve seen the Zombies, the delays would be unacceptable.
