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Actually, yes, Privasteer Press has been know to use different materials to get models out early.

For example, my Mountain King I bought at Lock and Load several years ago had resin parts, metal parts, and plastic parts. Yeah, resin/plastic. What I mean is, it had two different kinds of plastic. If you purchase the current version, you get the resin and metal. Also, I had more parts then the current model. It happened with eReznick and another Battle Engine that was released at L&L. I know my Stormwall I got at L&L has a different material to it from the Stormwall I purchased 6 months later.

What happens for Lock and Load is that Privateer decides what "special" models to pre-release. They then do an in house run with whatever material they have to get it out the door for Lock and Load. For Haley3, they didn't want to go full white metal, so they used some kind of new plastic for her. It's obvious they had the molds for her done, as well as the molds for Denny3. If they had the right material, don't you think they would have made more of them to sell at Lock and Load and through the online store? After all, Privateer Press can sell the models for full retail at Lock and Load and through the website and "pocket" the full price, rather then the lower prices they sell to distributors, not to mention paying the shipping costs for product. They just load the product into a van, drive the 1 1/2 miles from PP HQ to the convention center, and sell it to Lock and Load attendees.

FYI, the plastic on Haley3 has a bluish/grey-tint to it. If you look at the Denny3 model at the paint and take, it has a different tint to it. After handling both models, they have two different kinds of plastic.

It will be interesting to see the final production models and compare them to the "pre-release" versions.

As an aside, Privateer Press is really trying to get away from foreign companies making their models. They have been investing heavily into the plastic side of production. Exciting time ahead!

They're just different mixes of resin as opposed to different materials. I've had resin models where different parts were completely different colours. If they'd used plastic it would either be PVC and we'd have heard loads of complaints, or it would've been on a sprue.

Just because different parts are different colors doesn't mean they're different materials. Plastic/resin gets colored and variation in color can be due to different batches receiving different amounts of pigment.

OK guys, I give up. You win. Although I'm not sure what you win, but I'm done commenting on this thread. I've typed what I know, and ya'll keep coming back and saying I'm wrong. /shrug

Please continue with your pointless speculations and conjecture.

Sorry for correcting your errors I guess..?

There's 4 materials they use. Metal, PVC which is the crappy plastic, HIPS which is the good plastic on the sprue, and resin. You only get entirely metal models, metal and resin models, PVC models or HIPS models. They haven't done any metal and resin and plastic models, as far as I'm aware. Different coloured parts in a metal and resin model is just down to different mixes of resin. There's no plastic there. It would either be PVC, and people would've moaned about their collosal/Haley3 having crappy PVC, or it would've been HIPS in which case it would be on a sprue. So it was just a different resin mix, not a different material.

Genuinely not trying to be a dick, just trying to clear it up for people as there seems to be some confusion about the materials they use.

What ImAGeek said. No two Privateer Press resins I've bought have been the same color, and usually vary within the same model. This is normal, and is just a side effect of resin being mixed by hand before it's poured (and thus slightly different quantities of each component being used, as well as differing amounts and types of coloring agents), and is purely cosmetic. They're still all the same resin.