New miniatures company

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:28 am

http://www.manticgames.com/Home.html

Someone from the Poole league posted this one their forum.
Looks interesting - could do with some more details pics, but it looks like the Elf Scouts could be used to make a decent HE team.
http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Ki ... op-10.html#

Craigtw · Post by **Craigtw** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:06 pm

Checked it out and it does look good - plastic no less!

The spearman might have been good - but it looks like the shields are attached to their left arm. Bummer...

Podfrey · Post by **Podfrey** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:06 pm

The models look painfully thin! But worth keeping an eye on in future. Good work DS!

lerchey · Post by **lerchey** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:32 pm

Hm. Assuming that the shields might be easy to cut back to make into forarm guards, and that weapons are easily removable, it looks like it would be easy to make a full team out of one box. I kind of like the fact that they're thin compared to a lot of other minis. Elves should be light, thin, and agile looking. And those are pretty nice designs. I'll wait to see how the minis end up being reviewed, but if I ever decide to build elves, that might be a nice options...

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:31 pm

I like those minis a lot actually, plus they are plastic too.. nice!

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:46 pm

According to the answer to my post on their forum, more pics should be forthcoming, but in the meantime, some pics of the spearmen linked to on Warseer.
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217031

lerchey · Post by **lerchey** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:55 am

I have a sample sprue of the scouts. The minis are very nice (as can be seen by the photos that Darkson provided the link for!). Very slender, but tall enough that they look good beside other 28mm minis. I compared them with some Perry Minis figs and they looked much more frail and slender, but very compatable.

The scouts arms have one with a sword and one with a bow. Both look to be easily removable. Unlike the spear sprues, the scouts do not have attached shields, which should make them much easier to modify into BB players.

I'm going to think about it for a bit, but fully expect that I'll order enough scouts to put together a team. Likely go with HE or DE.

But overall, I'm impressed with how cool these are.

Takoda · Post by **Takoda** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:36 pm

I am currently employed by Mantic on an internship as part of my education, so feel free to ask anything you like

I'll answer the best I can without breaking any agreements I have with the company.

Currently I am painting an Elven army to be used for Warhammer and you can view them at my blog. The link can be found in my signature below