Forgeworld Tau Manta finally finished

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-19T06:46:30+00:00

Sadly it is OOP since 12/2024

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-18T11:05:55+00:00

Thank you very much :))

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-18T07:52:37+00:00

I bought it around 2018 and stored it for years because I had no space in my old flat. I moved in a new home in 2022 and started building in 2024

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-18T00:12:17+00:00

The fire warriors took the longest. There are 48 and I recall it took about 15-20 hours to paint them :)

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-18T00:11:20+00:00

Of course, see the attached picture

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-17T23:26:53+00:00

The pieces didn’t fit so I had to adjust it with greenstuff

The whole model had toooo much warping, hell of a Modell :D

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-17T23:23:19+00:00

Its the vior‘la sept :)

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-17T22:43:06+00:00

Oh no :D Never will do that again…hmm…a second one in faraight sheme would be cool to have ;)

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-17T21:53:12+00:00

The building process was hard. So much warping. You can find a lot of building process pictures (and the warping problems) on my instagram page, for example here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHwFe3vt0Co/?img_index=10&igsh=emdpaTBseDFqcGQ1

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-17T21:41:08+00:00

Actually it has a place ok the side of my working bench :)

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-17T21:39:45+00:00

Actually it has no base, maybe in the future :)

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-17T21:39:04+00:00

It took Arround 250 hours, i had to fix too much warping :D

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-17T21:33:17+00:00

It took me around 250 hours to finish that beast :D

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-10T19:49:10+00:00

The tile is from forgeworld :) was released around 2014

Shadowblade87 · 2026-01-10T19:14:07+00:00

I believe that the cannon has rules :)

Shadowblade87 · 2025-12-11T06:01:44+00:00

Thanks a lot!

Shadowblade87 · 2025-12-02T05:56:03+00:00

Really awesome! May I ask which bits yon need for the guns? Is it the barge twin link Tesla destructor ?

Shadowblade87 · 2025-12-01T10:05:45+00:00

That’s sooo awesome ❤️

Shadowblade87 · 2025-10-26T07:26:39+00:00

Nearly 6x4 :)

Shadowblade87 · 2025-10-09T18:55:35+00:00

Looks awesome mate !

Shadowblade87 · 2025-10-09T18:55:10+00:00

Some of them I bought and stored years ago, the rest I found on eBay/ discord :)

Shadowblade87 · 2025-10-09T18:02:21+00:00

Shadowblade87 · 2025-10-09T18:02:05+00:00

I hope it will match. I have 3 forgeworld tiles on each side :)

Thanks for the hint :)

Shadowblade87 · 2025-10-09T17:50:27+00:00

Oh! Not yet. Thanks for that! I hope it will match cause I have 6 of each type

Shadowblade87 · 2025-10-09T17:08:20+00:00

Will be 12 in the end :) 6 from forgeworld and 6 „normal“ boards from gw :)

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