Further forward, towards the nose, four Air-Caste systems operators and two pilots control the prodigious amount of firepower that the Manta can bring to bear on the enemy. Once the Manta is near the ground, this whole deck drops down so the vehicles and Battlesuits can disembark and deploy rapidly. On the lower deck are eight Tau Battlesuits, two Devilfish troop carriers and two Hammerhead battle-tanks. They exit through doors that retract into the walls and then down to the landing zone via the hidden extendable ramp. The Manta has two decks: the upper deck is where you will find forty-eight seated resin Fire Warriors and six Gun Drones, overseen by a seated Tau Ethereal. More so that the Manta was always designed to have a fully working and detailed interior. The overall shape of the Manta was finished months ago, but adding all the fine detail to a model of this size was a task of Herculean proportions for Will. The Tau Manta is an exact 40K scale model and matches all our painstakingly drawn plans in every detail. Some people said it couldn’t be done, others that we could only make the Manta to a reduced scale. The Manta is by far the largest model that Games Workshop has ever produced, and by a long way too! The Manta measures 630mm/25 inches long and has a wingspan of 860mm/34 inches! Weighing in at 12.5 kilos/28 pounds, this beast weighs six times as much as a Thunderhawk Gunship, and that is before we put all the tanks and Battlesuits inside! Take a look at the pictures and you can see how massive this model truly is as it dwarfs the Thunderhawk sat next to it. This is the first of these ‘teaser’ newsletters and it’s one I’ve been looking forward to writing for quite a long time.įor over a year now, Will Hayes has been working on a 40K scale Tau Manta and recently he was finally able to say it was finished. With Games Day UK just a few weeks away, we at Forge World plan on sending out a newsletter each week with details on many of the new models and products we should have on display for you to drool over. Calling all hobbyists with lots of disposable cash!
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