Re: Citadel £ine Ca$t - what you really need to know!

Posted by Talsin on Jun 04, 2011; 3:34pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Citadel-ine-Ca-t-what-you-really-need-to-know-tp6396431p6439419.html

And now for another opinion..................

WOW.

Anger leads to hate, hate leads to fear, fear leads to suffering- Yoda

Just a few things I thought i would share, trying to be the voice of reason and all...

The finecast release seams to be a bit mis-timed, as GW ALWAYS have a June price increase.
This increase is not just on items that were metal but are now finecast, but on books, plastics etc, so the price increase may not have ANYTHING TO DO with finecast, but could just be GW sticking their foot in it with a really bad timing decision.

Secondly, i am looking to the future. My Dark Eldar Heamoncumlus coven will be finecast. There are not plastics for these at the moment, and the old metal dark eldar figures dont look to good compared to the new range. So i have a choice of finecast or spend more money converting them up.

Third, have any of you held a finecast mini or painted one? the one in the pic mort showed i have seen on a forum with a statement which in essence read, "dont ask how i got this, cos i didnt get it through the proper channels", and remember finecast is in its early stages, so there may be a few quality issues. that review also had many positive things to say as well. However if GW want this to sell they will need to deal with these, and sort them out for their customers. Metal has flaws, i remember buying an Azezal mini, and one of the wings was completely miscast at the joint, so i could not assemble it.

If anyone has assembled and painted some finecast themselves please give us your views.

Fourthly, A lot of people say they cant see any difference in metal or finecast. I have looked at one in the new blister and it looks a bit clearer, but i will wait until i have my heamonculus coven before making that judgement. However, what did you expect, that they would develop new molding tech AND resculpt a massive amount of the metal range AT THE SAME TIME?

They could have done this, but would not have released anything for at a long time while the sculptors were redoing the metal range. Focusing on one massive project nearly killed Heresy miniatures. Imagine if there were no releases from GW for a year? What would happen? Or if they had to remove each of these metal items from the shelves over a long period while they were redone? and then had to be redone when a new army book came out?

GW are likely in my opinion redo sculpts when they redo an army book or codex. You cant have your cake and eat it. By using the sculpts they have they can make the release of finecast a BIG thing, rather than release a few minis a month, which wont be a splash but a dribble.

Anyway to conclude, how can you make a judgement without the evidence? Innocent until proven guilty, dont judge a book by its cover.

As i said, from what i have seen the finecast looks good, but until i have held, assembled and painted finecast, i will make no decision about it.

And now you can all carry on with the petty hatred, voice of balance over and out.