Mantic "corporation" plastic minis

[TheMightyFlip]

These figures are ok but a question keeps on nagging at me.

Why is the future (40K, Mantic etc etc) always fascist? Their spray on the Corporation is quite horrid. ("future Nazis", aarrggh)

If this is the future, it's going to be really boring.

So people dont feel to bad about slaughtering 100's of them in intreasting ways? When you play a computer game or watch a movie where evil stormtrooper types are blown apart or killed in amusing ways, do you feel bad about it or feel sorry for them?

[starkadder]

Fair cop. I suppose I'm just not that into random mass murder or computer gaming.

Anyway the Mantic figures are amusing. I'd enjoy painting them up as "Hello Kitty" marines.

 

[ATP Painting Studio]

I like them quite a bit, but then I'm an Imperial Guard nut and think these chaps will do stellar service as yet more grist to the mill of the 42nd Millenium.

Yes, 42nd. 

[Simlasa]

I think they're nice enough sculpts... nothing special in the styling though. So I'm kinda 'meh' about them. They don't look all that 'GW' to me though, which is a nice change of pace coming from Mantic.

[Agis]

Why is the future (40K, Mantic etc etc) always fascist? Their spray on the Corporation is quite horrid. ("future Nazis", aarrggh)

Well IMO Nazis are just the "perfect" bad guys. 
Think of Indiana Jones, when the main enemy was a Nazi it was just easier to dislike him, in part 4 I quite "like" the Soviets...
In addition so many wargames seem to like the fascist look. 

[Centaur_Seducer]

These figures are ok but a question keeps on nagging at me.

Why is the future (40K, Mantic etc etc) always fascist? Their spray on the Corporation is quite horrid. ("future Nazis", aarrggh)

If this is the future, it's going to be really boring.

You can't probably run a galaxy on peace, love and understanding.
Well you could, but in the end you'll get invaded by the evil fascists in sparkling black uniforms and short caps.

[starkadder]

You can't probably run a galaxy on peace, love and understanding.
Well you could, but in the end you'll get invaded by the evil fascists in sparkling black uniforms and short caps.

Oh, don't misunderstand me. I'm as keen as jumping up and down on evil alien overlords as the next sixteen-tentacled xenomorph. Given the restrictions on light speed and the relative (sorry) time lags, I wonder if it's just going to be a bunch of individual planetary civilizations making first and only contact with each other. By the time they get back to their Homeworld, everything's been fundamentally altered and no-one remembers them.  Which makes for an interesting scenario in itself. 

I apologise to Mantic for hi-jacking the thread. Christmas gives me some free time and access to quality claret.

[midismirnoff]

..what I have seen so far from Mantic does not really "ring" to me.
More or less an uninspired GW clone.
The above sculpts look nice, but how many more Imperial Guard trooper do we really need?
 

Ditto, all this Mantic stuff is so derivative I nearly prefer the Evil Empire ones.

[Glitzer]

Maybe they'll look better if one changes the "lasgun" to an assault rifle and the officers "powersword" to a slender cavalry sabre from the Perry's range

[dwartist]

they're very similar to Forgeworld's Elysian Drop Troopers (which I like) - the fact that they're cast in resin (great for converting) has persuaded me to give them a try...

[Centaur_Seducer]

I thought that they would go plastic on these.
Or did I just ignore the wall of text somewhere in the link?

[Steve F]

It says:

"Product Type: Plastic Resin Miniature," except for the officer, who is metal.  By the way, his alternative hand is a power fist of some sort, which isn't much of an improvement.

As I said, they look like perfectly decent minis.  I just don't care for the style (though they might make a basis for Forest Rangers from "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe", I suppose).

[Conquistador]

Maybe that's why they didn't appeal.  I absolutely reject anything that reeks of GW.  Besides, I am still looking to find 25/28/30 mm figures to fill very specific niches only (Historical and SF; Fantasy I pretty much have chosen to limit forces to Mice and Dwarf forces.)

Oh well, I m sure they will have a market - just not my pocketbook.  Resin, though?  Hmm, I am not comfortable yet with resin foot troopers.

Gracias,

Glenn

Who has no qualms with killing Nazi's, Communists, or anybody else for that matter when it's a game...

[Inso]

I think these corporation troops look pretty good and quite generic.  Everyone is saying that they look GW when all I can see is a lasgun barrel and maybe the front of the helmet being inspired by them...but I guess people see what they want to see.

I won't be buying any but I would never write anything off just because it looked like someone's style...I may need that rifle, helmet or backpack for any number of projects, for example.

The one thing that Mantic REALLY needs to get right is the scaling between their plastic and resin miniatures...The Forgeguard that I have are completely miss-matched, with the resin being noticeably smaller than the plastic stuff. If they can't get the basics right, then style/look is irrelevant.

[therepoman]

I like the General, but the others not as much... HOWEVER, the price can't be beat... a pound a figure if you buy the army set. Assuming that the sculpts are of the quality of the stuff they've already posted, that's a fantastic deal.