Mantic isn’t blowing me away with the quality of their sculpts. Most of them are alright, some of them are just plain strange. Here’s a play-by-play.
The humans are much smaller than you would have expected, if you play certain other games. There are 3 poses total. The game comes with 10 models – 4 strikers, 2 guards and 4 jacks. The strikers have slightly different poses because their right arm is either behind their backs or behind and to the side (the latter shown here). I think the strikers look pretty bad ass.
The orx (yes…) are identical torsos, but interestingly have two different arm/head positions which serve to make it look like there is actually two poses. These guys are mean and brutish looking, which is their job, but I’m not certain about the face helmet thing. You get 4 of them in the box.
The goblins have two different poses and you get 6 of them in the box. The arms from the different poses do fit on each other, but be careful – the guy leaning back (on the left) will fall over if you give him the right arm from the other guy. On my models, their attached-bases were warped a bit, so I had to cut it to glue them flat to the clear acrylic.
Wildcard is an MVP that comes free if you buy the box from a store. The concept art is sexy as hell, but the model is a little strange. Both arms stretched out and one leg crooked backwards. She’s kicking something? She’s…running at something? She’s throwing something? It’s not a kicking game, that I know of… I think I like her, but that’s despite the strange pose. She’s apparently a “season 2” MVP, so her rules aren’t finalized yet.
Lastly the refbot and ball. The refbot is a robot that has a face on both sides of the head. The ball is a ball.
The models were relatively easy to assemble. Very little flash/mold lines (I saw one post that had 3mm deep of it). Each model is at least 3 parts – usually a torso, arm and head. Some models have two arm pieces. From this set, there doesn’t feel like a lot of conversion opportunity.
Despite the “meh” sculpting, I took a look around the Mantic site and saw some pretty damn cool models. I’ll have to head back there for potential conversion ideas…
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