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Re: Mantic games

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Feb 04, 2010; 10:51pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Mantic-games-tp3990561p4516823.html

The other day 'Talsin' (Dan) was kind enough to let me photograph some of his Mantic Skeletons next to a few of my Citadel ones and having now seen the Mantic Skeletons in the flesh (so to speak) I will definitely be ordering a box or 2 for myself

Mantic/Citadel Skeletons comparison


1: Citadel Plastic Skeleton circa 6th edition
2: Mantic Plastic Skeleton
3: Current Citadel 'Vampire Counts' Plastic Skeleton

Please note fans of the classic Citadel Plastic Skeletons that I couldn't find any of my 'Skeleton Hoard' skeletons at the time of taking the pictures, sorry I will rectify this at a later date

As you can see the Mantic Skeletons are about the same hight as both the Citadel ones (taking into account the new Citadel Skeleton being in a silly-knees-bent-running-about-advancing pose)
The Mantic skeleton's weapons are smaller than both the Citadel ones and while both the Citadel Skeletons have separate shields, all but a few of the Mantic Skeleton come with the shield and arm fixed to the body. However most of the Mantic skeleton's weapons come separate and are glued into the skeleton's empty hand (this makes weapon swaps easier if you don't like the small Mantic weapons).
The Skeletal Hound from the Mantic Sprue (not pictured) is in fact a lot smaller than I expected, it's about the size of a smaller Giant Rat, because of this I plan to trim the collars off and use mine as Skeletal Rats (I have an undead Skaven Warrior, so why not?)
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