Mantic goes on the Warpath

[Konrad]

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I'm getting all misty-eyed and nostalgic. I looooved Thudd Guns. boomboomboomboom

[Primarch]

in general it seems like that's a zero-sum equation - you can either make good-looking plastic kits or really cheap ones. ]

Unless you are the Perry brothers. Great looking miniatures at a great price.

Lets compare some of the bigger plastic companies:

Mantic Elven Spearmen - 20 models - 14 GBP - PPM (price per model) 70p
Perry's War of the Roses - 40 models - 18 GBP - PPM 45p
Victrix British Waterloo Infantry - 52 models - 22 GBP - PPM 42.3p
Warlord English Civil War Infantry - 40 models - 20 GBP - PPM 50p
Wargames Factory Orc Warband - 24 models - 16.50 GBP - PPM 68.8p
Plastic Soldier Company WW2 Russians - 57 models - 18.50 - PPM 32.5p
Gripping Beast Vikings - 44 models - 20 GBP - PPM 45.5p
GW WFB High Elves - 16 models - 20 GBP - PPM 1.25 GBP

Funny, there is only ONE company more expensive than Mantic and most of the others make far superior models. Granted they dont do dwarves-in-space (though some would be totally ok for WFB), and the models are in a smaller scale being realistic 28mm rather than GW's 28mm, but come on.

And the Perrys are indeed gods of mini making. They work full time for GW and they still have time to sculpt their own stuff for something like 9 different periods of history. That is pretty gosh-darned impressive.

Coincidentally, the Perry's have a new website which looks far superior to their old one and is packed full of mouth watering minis as well as pictures of them hard at work in their 'studio'. Take a look.
http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index.php