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Heeey,
This might be the silliest question on here for some time but what the hell is resin? I bought a pleasure daemon off ultraforge (quite excited - going to be a Daemon Princess or KOS) but I don't know what resin actually is. What I mean is, it isn't the plastic or metal made by GW in their models is it? Is it heavy (white metal heavy) or light? Durable? Easily paintable?

I only ask because every time I try and find any serach with the word 'rsin' in it on google I get nothing, or just links to resin models. It may seem obvious but i've never done any casting/modelling myself and so really don't quite know what to expect. I'd like it to be heavy like metal (most people do I think) but I think it'll be more like plastic.

Anyone know? Thanks

Resin is a polymer, like plastic. Compared to the plastics usually used for modelling it is hard and brittle.

Check out wikipedia for it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin

It is harder than plastic.
It is softer (in many cases) than metal.
It can retain detail like a metal model, yet be almost as light as a plastic one.

It can be cast much easier than plastic, and requires similar procedures and techniques as metal casting.

It is generally cheaper to produce large models in resin than metal (materials cost is cheaper) and has long been used by "niche" model manufacturers and producers for years to produce certain models.

also ive notice some glues tend to break down the resin models, unlike the plastic.

I've also heard that the resin in the models is poisonous if you breath it in, so if you plan on filing you should wear a surgical mask. However, I've never actually bought any resin models, so I may be wrong.

Most dust is bad for you if you breathe it in - resin included - hell, water will kill you if you breathe enough of it in. It's not the resin itself but the particles.

ALL sanding/filing should be done with a dustmask. A surgical mask won't stop much. They're open at the sides and being one-size don't do a lot of good in modelling. Since I do a bit of resin-casting myself, I use a respirator (but I use MEK solvent catalysed resins which are far more dangerous than the resin used by companies like FW.).

Some glues will break down the resin, true, but those same glues will generally work on plastic worse. Polycements sometimes WILL soften/dissolve some resins (but that's due to the toluene solvent - toluene is some nasty stuff.).