Mantic Plague Aberration

 A Big Plague monster from Mantic. I think it is an Aberration, but this particular figure is discontinued.

It is a multipiece vinyl figure, which are a bit of a nightmare to clean up. 

I needed to fill in some of the joins and where there are some mould lines, this is why it has taken a bit of a while to complete.

The figure was undercoated with Army Painter Chaotic Red. Ant gaps were filled in with Chaotic Red. The figure was then dry brushed with Citadel Tyrant Bone.

It was then washed with Citadel Khorne wash.

Facing off against a trooper.

Anvil Zone Mercenaries

 Anvil Industries have recently released a Print on Demand range called Zone Mercenaries. with male and female figures.

They are equipped with reinforced armour, helmets and gas masks and AKM assault rifles.

The problem is, the weapons are rather large, partly due to the limits on the materials used for their normal resin ranges, but I suspect mainly to be in scale with their normal market of gamers who want something similar to but more interesting than 40K.

This is a bit of  problem as they do not look okay with my modern image type standard Empress figures' weapons.

However a plan emerged to use them as alternative figures for The Walking Dead: All Out War.

Size comparison between a female (left) and male (right) Zone Mercenary and TWD:AOW zombies.

Their weapons and equipment are a drop in replacement for The Commonwealth Trooper (you can probably build them using various existing equipment from the original range)

They are slightly shorter than the Commonwealth Trooper but look okay with the walkers and survivors.

To hide the height difference, I used Crooked Dice supplied slotted round bases and put a thin plastic card panel over the slot. It raises the head height slightly.

Commonwealth Trooper - The Walking Dead: All Out War

 With Mantic Games renewing The  Walking Dead: All Out War, the first faction they released was The Commonwealth.

The figures are in multi-part resin.

This Commonwealth trooper comes in three parts: body, gun and supporting hand ahead of the magazine, and head.

There are two identical bodies in the set, but two different heads, one bare-headed, the other in a helmet.

There is another two troopers with a different body.

The figures are supplied with the new Mantic round base (with magnet insert space) but I have chosen a slotted base from Crooked Dice.

Mantic Zombie Apocalypse bargain box: the Zombies

 After Mantic Games discontinued the licence for The Walking Dead: All Out War, they must have had a few Zombies left over.

They had a Summer sale in 2022 with a Zombie Apocalypse box comprising some random ex-TWD:AOW zombies plus some figures from their SF range and a hard plastic truck.

What I did not do was photograph them in sufficient detail to be able to reference what zombies were included.

I have made up for that.

Now I just need to identify the named zombies (the last two are from the Michonne set).

Nightstalkers

 Here are some assembled (and part assembled) Nightstalkers and Twilight Kin Void Touched.

Butcher

Void Touched

Reapers.

Nightstalker Ambush Starter Set

 The Kings of War Ambush Starter Sets are Mantic's introduction to the Kings of War fantasy battle game.

I have to admit to expect more than three stands in your starter army (Kings of War uses whole blocks of figures rather than individual figures).

However, as I was after the figures for other games, they are a reasonable source of figures that would require the purchase of two of the Regiment boxes.

I will have a look at the supplied rules at some point (I might need to get some sabot bases to convert the individually based figures back to blocks).

The instructions are not comprehensive.

Butchers sprue

Reapers Sprue

Twilight Kin Voidtouched

 As part of the recently released Twilight Kin (Dark Elves) range, the Voidtouched are humans and elves who have been mutated by contact with powers beyond their comprehension and control

As with many of Mantic's recent releases, these are more multi-part rather than multi-pose.

These are probably going to form the basis of opponents for When Nightmares Come games, together with the Reapers and Butchers in the Nightstalker Ambush Starter Set.

Prodigal Son - Walking Dead: All Out War

 Paul "Jesus" Monroe is an ambassador for the Hill Top faction and an accomplished martial artist.

The figure is made of resin (a photograph of the the unassembled parts were posted earlier).

The figure was undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black spray.

The coat and boots Citadel Dryad Bark.

The hat and rifle strap are Citadel Death World Forest.

The trousers are Citadel Death Korp Drab.

The hair is Citadel Catachan Flesh.

The shirt is Citadel Rakarth Flesh.

The belt, scabbards and straps are Citadel Steel Legion Drab.

The rucksack is Citadel Steel Legion Drab, with side pockets Citadel Snot Womble Green. the edges were highlighted with Citadel Morghast Bone.

The bedroll is Vallejo Blue Grey.

The rifle, belt buckle and scabbard reinforcement is Vallejo Black Grey.

The boots, especially the laces, were dry brushed with Citadel Golfag Brown.

The Walking Dead - Lilly Booster: Lilly

 In the comic and the novels, Lilly Caul starts out as a member of the Woodbury faction.

During the attack on the prison she does a Heel-Face turn and ends up as the leader of the Woodbury survivors.

Prodigal Son - The Walking Dead: All Out War returns

 With the announcement on the First of December 2023 that TWD:AOW would be returning to the fold, I thought it would be a good idea to have a look at the resin figures that made up the last sets produced by Mantic before they originally discontinued the game.

And what better figure to start with than the Prodigal Son himself Paul 'Jesus' Monroe.

The figure is in three parts with an additional moulded base.

The feeds are quite thick, but only the elbow and the rucksack require careful cleaning.

More Plague Zombies

 Another two plague zombies join the horde.

Mantic Zombie Apocalypse bargain box

 As part of Mantic's Summer Sale, they had a Zombie Apocalypse set.

It included a large number of "modern" zombies that looked a bit familiar.

They are sorted by design (there are a number of duplicates, but as this post shows, different colours make all the difference).

Some will receive replacement heads and arms from various sources.

Here they are all mobbed up.

The set also included a hard plastic model truck.

Two weird mortar, crew and creepy crawly piles.

Three largish monster zombies.

And one big Alpha Zombie.

Not sure about the mortar and crew, but the rest will eventually find a home.