Nothing has been done on the Blight Drone since the last post but I have started putting the Dreadball team together. My hope was to get them done for the next meet up, however that starts this Friday so that isn't going to happen.
I picked the robots for my team. In all honesty I don't like most of the teams Mantic have done, esp the Xenos ones, I think in the main they are pretty horrible.
I have to be even more honest and say I really don't like Mantic models, I can't stand this material they use.
This team is not going to be brilliantly painted, I am going for a very basic build and paint job. I got so annoyed just putting the first three together I nearly chucked the whole lot of them and didn't touch them again for a week.
I have so far only got three in a PIP state and a further two assembled
I couldn't be bothered with the shiny look Mantic use, I wanted a battered, dirty look instead.
Still need to do more weathering on these three and also pick out some detail like the 'eye'.
Sooner I get them built the better, it's the only set of Mantic models I intend on buying and the sooner I can say I never have to clean one up again the better.
On a positive note the game itself is very good.
The teraton are superbs models, well compared to other mantics efforts. And hellish full to play with.
ReplyDeleteI rarely win but the telporting is fun :D
Don't like the look of them at all, like I said I think they do great games (from my experience of them) but i'm really not a fan of their models in design or quality of material.
DeleteI feel your pain. It is a fantastic game to play but i felt like screaming when assembling their models. The stuff they make it out of is awful and trying to remove the mould lines is a herculean effort that I ultimately failed at. Painted my robots in a rusty style to hide the scars from my mould line removal efforts. I really like the style you are going with yours and look forward to seeing them finished
ReplyDeleteGood to now I'm not alone.
DeleteI think it will take me a while to get them finished. With the basic team and the booster set there is a fair few to get through and I won't be able to do more than a few at a time without wanting to hurt something...