When the Votann came back to 40K I spent a lot of cash buying a number of models.
I wanted a decent sized force that I could play in my local Warhammer store.
Unfortunately 40K is a miserable experience so while I have the army mostly assembled and painted, they won’t see any action anytime soon.
I collected a lot of Forgefathers in the early days of Warpath and have a few kits since then but I decided I wanted to build another force for Firefight as the rules are very nice.
Space Orks have been something I’ve occasionally purchased over the years (I still have my 40K second edition starter models) and from my Warpath days I had a huge bundle of the original Orx frames. I dug these out of storage and purchased a new Marauder Strike Force.
Coming back to Mantic hard plastic models after a couple of years of assembling the League of Votann has been a blast. The models have the right level of detail with the right amount of pieces to assemble to keep me interested while also giving me a good looking army.
I spent some time last weekend clipping all of pieces off all the frames and sorted them in a plastic fishing tackle organizer. This lets me assemble a handful of models whenever I have spare time from my stressful day job.
Well, I got laid off yesterday so now I have no excuse for a few weeks before I get back into interviewing for jobs for the first time in nearly a decade.
That’s great!
I haven’t really gotten into Sci-Fi, so I can’t help with what to get next. Looking good so far in any case.
Sorry to hear about the reason for you extra hobby time, best of luck with job hunting.
That’s good to hear! It’s not just me then.
I often hear that GW models are the best, but I prefer Mantic (also Northstar/ Wargames Atlantic).
GW make exquisite plastic sculptures, but they’re terrible for gaming. I want models that I can customise, get painted for tabletop (i.e. just enough detail) and then transport in a box to push around on a table.
The new GW stuff is far too intricate and fragile.
I thought sci fi would be good with low model count.
The best ever space ork models are the ones from GW where you have a bunch of legs, a bunch of torsos and arms and heads. The second best are the Mantic ones where the legs and torsos are one piece. Third best are the second edition 40K starter set monopose orks and Gretchin.
GW stuff is very pretty and technically impressive but the number of pieces on a single infantry model is absurd nowadays. One of them has a single finger to be glued on to one of the hands. I want a big box of easy to assemble plastic infantry and then save the detail for a resin centerpiece model where all the detail can be captured without the need for gluing individual fingers on.
