Matt Gee Minis

Another day, another report of slow progress on armies but more shiny things to work on. Most Exciting is the chance to paint some Circus of Corruption resins from Old School Mini's upcoming Kickstarter . I'll be cracking on with them next week with a hope of incorporating them into my Kings of War Army as maybe fleshlings.   In the post I've also got the great fan sculpted Squat Berserker. I have no idea what colour scheme I'll do but I'm torn between the traditional Orange hair and something a bit different like White. We'll see how it goes. Amazing work by Jason and The Marcocosm casters to get this turned around in a few days from green to metal. It's a nice crisp figure.  I've finally got my Titan stripped and ready to go. Now to decide on a House . No actual use for him in a game at the moment but I love the old chap as it's one of my first ever minis. On the plus side I have painted something chaotic as It's for my ...

The fish are in the freezer for a bit. I've got horribly distracted by other stuff. Namely: The need to finish my KoW league (Cok17) and tournament (Cok18) lists for my abyssals. With the changes to molochs and formations I'm hastily painting up a wingless archfiend and some chums (old GW Chaos Ogres) to accompany them. I'll finally then be able to take some group shots. With the points cost of Abyssal Heroes it gets pretty easy to get the total army points cost so I think I'm running at about 5k of options, just not all painted. Thankfully yet another challenge is helping out on this the Monster March. Next up is a stowaway gnome that came with my Abyssal Dwarf Cannon from Old School Miniatures . Couldn't say no to a quick paint and it's fun to paint something that isn't a daemon or a fish. The Cannon is on the list along with the second one I have to form part of my Abyssal Dwarf Allies/Force. Which leads onto.... Monopose Challenge . Having ...

Both the regular army and mega army come with a shoal of Naiads to contend with. In both cases they are provided as part of the large cardboard boxed sets and within this are individual bagged on sprues of 5. Interestingly the sprues contain the arms, legs heads command bits and weapons. The bodies themselves (and a mysterious extra part to be explained later) all come lose and pre clipped from their frames. There is one exception to this being a leg and torso combo that comes in two parts. This made me feel a little uneasy as it reminded me of days gone by where I would twist (!) models from sprues before I learnt of clippers. However they have managed it though, Mantic have ensured that there is enough material left not to impact the sculpts.  There are more than enough heads to go round but as with the other mantic hard plastics I’ve seen the arm combos are exactly the number you need. I have no idea what I’ll do with all the extra heads but I’m sure I’ll figu...

Now everything’s arrived I can slightly belated end start talking about what all the goodies look like. I’ll take each box in turn and give my unasked for opinion on first impressions, quality etc. It’s my first really foray into Mantic produced minis so I was intrigued by the packaging they arrived in. Being used to small blisters and boxes of sprues or polystyrene separated metal parts I was met with cardboard boxes, bags of metal and what appeared to be large DVD cases. Undaunted I pressed on.  I’ll start with one of the first boxes that turned up, the water elementals. They came in one of the plastic boxes and inside were bagged up in zip lock bags with some thin foam padding and 50mm MDF bases. The bases are pretty straight forward and I’ll be putting them aside as I plan to multibase everything I can so I won’t bother assessing them in depth. They’re squares. I prized open the seals and tipped out the contents of the elementals.  The first thing i not...