Mantic is a melting pot of all things awesome. Sorta like a pop culture smoothie. Start by taking the last thirty-odd years of wargames miniatures, throw in your favourite cartoons, films and games and booof you’re away.

The Goblin Mawbeast is a special edition model you can only get if you accrue a certain number of Mantic points. Before we chaps at Golem Painting Studio painted it up, we spent a while thinking about the colour scheme. First port of call was Mantic. Conversation went like this.

Tommie Soule: “How’d you like the Mawbeast painting Mr. Mantic?”

Ronnie Renton: “Taz. Taz. Taztaztaztaztaz. Taz? TAZ! TTTAAAZZZ!”

So after Ronnie had finished running around in circles I cracked out Photoshop and whapped together this big chart of colour schemes, including Taz. Click for bigger.

But since Taz isn’t instantly recognisable from his colour scheme (brown and, er, brown) I threw in some more colourful ones inspired by my inner 8 year-old nerd.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Battle Cat

Throughout the mock-up process I was working out how the fur would be painted. The same colour as the skin? A darker shade? A contrasting colour? Do they fade into each other? What I hit upon having done the Battle Cat one was the fur colour carrying through to the stripes. Mix Battle Cat’s markings with Taz’s colours and you get…

Mantic instantly jumped on this one. Tommie took the mock up and the model, and did a cracking job realising it. Phwoar.

The Mawbeast is a forerunner. Expect more Goblins from Mantic in 2012.