A Review of Mantic Game's Plastic Cases

As a miniature gamer of a wide variety of things, I find storage a premium. I have been using Pistol cases bought from a sports store ($20 a case, good price). But having seen the reviews of Mantic Games plastic cases, I thought they might prove worth while, so I bought 4 large cases and 5 small ones, it also cost me $20.

Upon opening a large case, you'll find three loose pieces of foam, to be fair, it is a little thin and I am concerned about how well it'll hold heavy pewter figures in place. But, I attempted it anyways, I managed to cram around 24 figures in a case, more or less will depend on the style of the figures. My test batch were my Chronopia Elves.

The Smaller cases are only gonna hold half that with two thin pieces of foam, they are a good size for holding a Song of Blades and Heroes warband, or perhaps a Mordhiem warband. The foam inserts are also very thin.

I am considering gluing the inserts into place as the flop around VERY loosely, this may help their stability a bit.

Now, there are some neat things about these, they look nice, especially since you can print your own sleeves (well when they upload them) you can also design your own, which is what I intend to do. They are a good price point, $10 for 4 cases, each holding 24 figures, that is 96 figures, not too bad at all. The cases do fit nicely into a messenger bag (Sorry Mantic, I already got a really nice one for $15, holds more stuff too . . . . ) I can probably fit around 6 cases and have space for my rulebooks army rosters, etc.

Should you buy them, well, that's up to you, will I get more, yeah, probably.

EDIT: I have whipped up a few inserts to use for my personal collection, they are not the best in the world, but I can tell what is in the boxes now, and in a fairly attractive fashion. Gives you an idea of what they'd look like on the shelf as well.

Finally, a TMPer requested the dimensions, so here are the dimensions roughly.

7.5" x 5.25" x 1.2" for the narrow or 2.2" for the thick.

Dwarven Horned Ones Blood Totem Pt 3

And here we are, in the final stages, all that is really left is to finish his base plate, and perhaps pick out any details I may have missed.

Later,

Glenn

Dwarven Horned Ones Blood Totem Pt2

So I started painting him last night, and here we are:

Also, between working on him, I worked on the Dirz Standard from Ragnorak, he needs a little work, but isn't too shabby.

Dwarven Horned Ones Totem PT 1

After much pokiness, I have finally managed to assemble the Horned Ones Blood Totem for Chronopia. This is the heaviest model I have ever assembled and the first I have ever pinned. I am thinking I've got a little filling to do, but really like the looks of this thing, can't wait to get painting it!!

Stay tuned for some More Chronopia goodness along with the rest of this figure!

Some Simple Modular Ruins

This is a little experiment to make some simple ruins that could be used to construct whatever I need for a game, so if I need some random LOS blockers these will work, if I need to construct a fortification around an objective, they've got that covered as well.

Onyx Repainted

Well, having already purchased the Throne of Stars box set, now having the Wolfen Army box as well, I had two copies of Onyx. So to solve this little problem, I chose to repaint the one that came in the army box. It isn't my best work, but I am still pretty happy with him.

Also, there is a little teaser in the background, got me some ruins to work on :D