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Well I would assume but the question was asked so I made the suggestion.

I realize avoiding 'lego-hands' is an admirable goal and all... but I still kind of prefer the space marine left hand, sometimes you can do something else with it like a grenade/magazine or goofy butt-scratching pose, with arms like the Enforcers have you gotta do some cutting (and come up with a spare left hand =/). Not necessarily a 'bad' way to do it, but not my favorite either.

 pretre wrote:
Doesn't everyone dry fit first?

I certainly try, but things fit a bit differently when I am trying to hold a little tiny gun to a smooth stumpy torso and using my pinky to keep it centered while also matching up a tiny flinder of a wrist and the left shoulder all while making sure the right shoulder didn't slip cause it doesn't want to stay and gak it did gak gak now where did that little fether go it looks like I need some more left arm slivers.

God my junk last night! Busted out my wave 2 Forge Fathers and then spent several hours assembling them plus my Forge Guard! (Mainly as a Warpath army)

Love 'em!

 judgedoug wrote:
God my junk last night!

Er, what?

 Alpharius wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
God my junk last night!

Er, what?

Seens like some praise to Nurgle...

 Alpharius wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
God my junk last night!

Er, what?

God finally got over Mary and gave judgedoug some "divine intervention" by the sound of it...

Haha, aww, youse guise.

 judgedoug wrote:
Haha, aww, youse guise.

Says the guy with the saintly junk.

Divine manhood aside, I really am impressed with the new hard plastics. My final tally was 50 Enforcers, 15 Peacekeepers, and 10 Forge Guard (and 85 space zombies). The Enforcers and Peacekeepers fulfill the itch of generic hard plastic high tech sci fi looking dudes I've wanted for about twenty years, and space zombies are always useful. The Forge Guard are a very specialized market but I can easily see people using them as Squat proxies (Space Marine lists). Also a good jump onto Warpath.

If Mantic keeps this up they'll erase the horrible taste left from the melty Goblins and Basilean Mens. (They should also have to steel molds cast into the fires of Mount Doom, and record it and post the video)

Maybe it's the Restic Knight in me talking, but painting those gorilla-armed Basilians made me feel like I was painting up my first GW stuff back in 91 or 92.

Does anyone have any photos comparing the restic Enforcers to the plastic ones? Curious how they stack up painted and unpainted to each other. Maybe I'll do it myself if I can keep my paintbrush away from those Men at Arms...

I don't have any unpainted enforcers atm. Actually I only have warpath enforcers... wait really? Yeah I guess aside from the kneeling sniper, I haven't put together any of the restic deadzone enforcers yet (I mean six is plenty to play the game and I had 5 together already before DZ hit =/). Huh ok challenge accepted. I guess I need to get the assault and missile enforcers out since they're standing tall, and put them next to my completed HP enforcer. And then do another HP enforcer and paint them all huh. Cool. Consider me on it.

Yeah I'm definitely going to have to make a trip to Miniaturemarket to get the Forgefather box. I never got in on the KS (damn you crappy Sedition Wars for making me gun-shy about any more kickstarters- especially with anything restic), but I really want to get a small force together for some home games of 40K second ed., and after waiting until other people have got their stuff, I feel safe getting some for my Squats.

I really, really (really!) hate restic with a passion, but at least in the small amounts you get with Deadzone boxes (and Forge Guard being hard plastic so they lighten the load) it won't be the same gulag of a task as the Sedition Wars restics. Those Forge Guard are going to be really awesome Squat exo-armor, and I definitely want to get the Urban Iron Anscestor too, so I can have a plasma cannon dread for them.

New Dreadball pics incoming.

First painted pics of the new teams:





New batch of MVP painted pics, spoilered due to size:



The Mantic Web Store has individual pics of the new MVPs as well.

Glad I switched my season 5 team (or whichever it was) to Brokkrs, the DBX variant looks like they'll match up well and give me some variety. Just gotta get them some extra guns (good thing I have a bucket full of steel warriors ).

Frogs look like they've plucked the eyes from other frogs and stuck them on their shoulder pads...

Lol wow, If I ordered any of those I'm definitely not painting the shoulder bumps as eyes

Does anyone else think the Enforcer rifles and heavy lasers look a lot like the Samaritan equivalents from Sedition Wars? Were they sculpted by the same person?

The similarity means I will be likely to use Samaritans as Corp Marines or Enforcer scouts. I might also use some of the spare Enforcer "Chappie" heads to finally give my Sedition Wars heavy gunners some damn helmets.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Does anyone else think the Enforcer rifles and heavy lasers look a lot like the Samaritan equivalents from Sedition Wars? Were they sculpted by the same person?

The similarity means I will be likely to use Samaritans as Corp Marines or Enforcer scouts. I might also use some of the spare Enforcer "Chappie" heads to finally give my Sedition Wars heavy gunners some damn helmets.

That's a damn fine idea. I was wondering what I was going to do with my $300 worth of Sedition Wars just sitting in a dusty corner.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Does anyone else think the Enforcer rifles and heavy lasers look a lot like the Samaritan equivalents from Sedition Wars? Were they sculpted by the same person?

Same concept artist Roberto Cirillo did both the Enforcers and the Samaritan designs so I guess he has a style that he uses regardess of the range.

Never noticed that similarity. Good eyes.

If I ever get around to putting paint to Enforcer or Samaritan, I might try to tie their schemes together.

Might look good.

If anything the new HP rifles are even closer to the Samaritan concept gun.

Sedition Wars figures also seem to fit better in terms of scale. Instead of pinheads, the Enforcers just look like big tall guys with normalish heads.

All the DBX stuff looks lovely.

I was under the impression that there would be no shipping notices for DZ wave 3, but I just got one that gives the 14th as the delivery date.

My experience is they tend to send ship notices when they do courier, perhaps to get it to you they had to send courier? Otherwise, no clue

 Alex C wrote:
Frogs look like they've plucked the eyes from other frogs and stuck them on their shoulder pads...

That's in the fluff for the frog guys (Ralarat). They actually have arms on their deltoids (helps explain their having highest non-MVP Skill stat in game).

I got a UPS tracking notification myself. - Wave 3 is arriving on Monday at some time.

5.5kgs apparently. - My mate got a little overexcited when I said he could add some things to my order...

Is anyone doing head swaps for the enforcers? I'm struggling to find an alternative that isn't too big, but is bigger than the current pinheads...

barnacle111 wrote:
Is anyone doing head swaps for the enforcers? I'm struggling to find an alternative that isn't too big, but is bigger than the current pinheads...

I'm in the same boat, but struggling to find some as well. I really like the medic visored helmet but can't stand the regular, thinking I might just have to greenstuff them till they look like visors then paint 'em up

I'll take the spare heads if you don't want them.


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Dreamforge Valkir kits will have lots of spare knightly heads when they come out. Or you can use the proxie visored heads if you don't mind their simplicity.