BlastScape Craters are made to a really poor Quality... [Photos]

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**dietrich**

GW won't get the message until the pre-orders for their next pre-release of limited edition (and vac formed) terrain craters (pun intended).

**BrookM**

Most of the casting is done in the UK.

**DrunkenSamurai**

Hey all!

I am about halfway through my project to paint up the Moonscape and Blastscape sets. You can follow my progress (if you care) on my blog.

http://dspaintingblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/moonscape-and-blastscape-part-1.html

http://dspaintingblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/moonscape-and-blastscape-part-2.html

I hope to have my Moonscape set done and posted tonight and the Blastscape done later in the week. I am fairly sure this is off topic as we should only be talikng about how bad the Blastscape is but I hope you will not flog me too badly

Enjoy!

**TobyDog**

Al the ones we got at the store were of the crappy verity , but people still wanted them...
which I could not believe

**grizgrin**

Kirasu wrote:
I expect I'll get a appology letter and a refund, Which I'll put towards either a battlescape or Planetary Emipre Tiles, both of which 'look' Awesome!

I doubt even the chinese fabricators can mess up a bunch of hexagon pieces! Not like you need detail for that

THere are people out there who could foul up a wet dream.

**Kilkrazy**

hammerofulric wrote:
Agamemnon2 wrote:I think buying anything at all from GW is indefensible, whether directly or via discount retailers. I believe the company deserves to die.

And where would the hobby be then? Without a high street company, this hobby would so niche that it would be all but impossible to get into.

In the days before GW, this hobby was a lot easier to get into. There were a lot more general games/miniatures stores around than there are now. I don't know there is a causative link.

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Nash Trickster wrote:Just contacted the (french) Direct Sales via phone. I was told that they were aware of the problem as some of them had ordered the Blastscape too and were quite disappointed, and that my only option was to get a refund by mailing them the "faulty" item back at my own expense... (Something which wouldn't make much sense to me, since sending it back would, with the prices of the french post, cost me about half the price of the item itself!)

I think I'll pay a visit to my local GW shop, a 5min walk from home, where I'm quite well known by the redshirts, when it opens tomorrow (it's closed on Mondays) and see what they will propose...

Well, unless they propose me a refund "on the spot" then I'll probably keep it just as a reminder never ever to advance order anything from GW again.

You are legally entitled to deliver the defective product to a company shop yourself, and avoid paying postage. There is absolutely no law that you have to post the product back.

**Qiqel**

Schepp himself wrote:What, that's not the same model!

Greets
Schepp himself

It could've been remodelled and cleverly painted. For example the red dome on the crashed spaceship capsule looks as if it was set deeper in - that could have been achieved by cutting the original out and placing a plasticard tube and a part of a ping-pong ball within. The engines look hollow on GW display model, but I think it's just an illusion created by clever painting.

What would be the most challenging, for me at least, woud be splitting these rocks nicely, but I suppose the studio guys can deal with that easily.

It may be very well the same model - just painted and converted by a pro. I agree they shouldn't advertise modified terrain pieces as showcase of the product though.

**rzsanguine**

My local FLGS had made an announcement about these on the yahoo group email. I went in there today and they had some on floor with other terrain. These things look crappy. When the Bastion and Aegis defense came pit the employees pointed these out to me said they were nice. I didn't even mention the blastscape at all.

**firebat**

I finally saw the cause of all this rabble the other day at my FLGS. I have to agree. They look like garbage. lol.

**Tek**

I went to my GW this weekend, the dude in there tried to sell me this.
After seeing it in WD I was almost sold on the products, although when he showed it to me, I remarked "Eww, that's really badly vac-formed plastic, I don't want that."

fething terrible. Bad form GW.

**Alpharius**

DrunkenSamurai wrote:Hey all!

I am about halfway through my project to paint up the Moonscape and Blastscape sets. You can follow my progress (if you care) on my blog.

http://dspaintingblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/moonscape-and-blastscape-part-1.html

http://dspaintingblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/moonscape-and-blastscape-part-2.html

I hope to have my Moonscape set done and posted tonight and the Blastscape done later in the week. I am fairly sure this is off topic as we should only be talikng about how bad the Blastscape is but I hope you will not flog me too badly

Enjoy!

Hey!

I'm glad to see someone making a go of it.

Any chance you could post your efforts in the Painting and Modeling forums? Particularly, the Dakka P&M Blogs Forum?

I really liked the crashed pod piece, but I didn't buy the set after seeing the shoddy final product.

If you can put lipstick on that pig, maybe I'll change my mind!

**Sidstyler**

DrunkenSamurai wrote:Hey all!

I am about halfway through my project to paint up the Moonscape and Blastscape sets. You can follow my progress (if you care) on my blog.

http://dspaintingblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/moonscape-and-blastscape-part-1.html

http://dspaintingblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/moonscape-and-blastscape-part-2.html

I hope to have my Moonscape set done and posted tonight and the Blastscape done later in the week. I am fairly sure this is off topic as we should only be talikng about how bad the Blastscape is but I hope you will not flog me too badly

Enjoy!

Hell, looking at a moonscape crater and a blastscape crater side by side you can still tell the difference. The blastscape crater in the last photo on part 2 looks really "mushy" in comparison.

**Howard A Treesong**

H.B.M.C. wrote:Manager opened up the latest issue of WD and pointed out the tiny fine-print disclaimer where it says that promotional picures are for display purposes only, and that products may vary from those shown.

Not good enough. The photos are clearly misleading and a little bit of fine print that "products may vary" doesn't excuse it. It's an obvious attempt to fob people off. Simply stating that the photo may not be representative of the actual item does not allow you to advertise something with grossly misleading photos as these are. It's clearly not the same product at all.

**H.B.M.C.**

Well he fobbed me off, but still gave the refund. I can't exactly complain other than to say I wish it had never come to that in the first place.

I mean, FFS, put them for sale in resin. I'll buy 'em.

**BrookM**

Well, WD's are written well in advance so they probably realized that this would pop up and just go with it.

**Oshova**

I can understand people being angry that below-standard products are being sold . . . but you can get a refund if you don't like it, so it's not as if they are taking your money away from you forever =]

**Tek**

The point is they should be giving us decent products. I mean, I can make vac-formed crap for free, why would I pay for it?

**Thorgut**

That isn't the point as no one is forcing you to buy these, Tek.
If you feel they're not up to standard, you could e-mail GW or simply not purchase them.

**barlio**

Yeah, but then again if people are ill-informed of the product they are purchasing then they are not going to be happy. If i drive x amount of miles to my FLGS, purchase a product, and return home only to find out that I purchased a product that is not the quality product I saw in an advertisement then yeah, I'm going to be pissed. The whole purpose of this thread is to spread the word that GW created a product that does not meet their typical standard.

@Thorgut: What would you have Tek (and others) do? Be silent and hope that over a period of time GW will issue statements regarding the quality and please ask that you had better investigate your product before you take it home.

**Kirasu**

Thorgut wrote:That isn't the point as no one is forcing you to buy these, Tek.
If you feel they're not up to standard, you could e-mail GW or simply not purchase them.

Yes putting fingers in ears works well I hear for getting businesses to change!

Goal = to get GW to produce a higher quality product
Method = get as many people as possible to be angry and email them

By each person silently emailing GW or NOT buying it (which btw is fairly useless form of protest when GW has no idea you were going to buy it in the first place) you're limiting the impact. By posting on a huge message board and gathering LOTS of people you stand a MUCH greater chance of success

Therefore your advice is far from the most effective and thus more people should post in this thread to spread the word

Businesses rarely EVER do the right thing unless forced

**Thorgut**

Kirasu, you're taking my point out of context but I'll respond anyway. I am not offering advice on how to get Games Workshop to change how they operate.
I didn't say that ignoring this apparent "problem" is the only way to solve it.

Kirasu wrote:Method = get as many people as possible to be angry and email them

Thorgut wrote:If you feel they're not up to standard, you could e-mail GW...

You seem to have conveniently ignored that part of the sentence.

Businesses rarely EVER do the right thing unless forced

These posts won't force Games Workshop to do anything.

**Danny Internets**

These posts won't force Games Workshop to do anything.

Hence,

Method = get as many people as possible to be angry and email them

Emphasis mine.

**BrookM**

What's the proper protocol for waiting for an email reply btw? I don't want to come across as the shouting and foaming idiot who is impatient.

**Kirasu**

yeah I did say to email them :p Your suggestion was to do it in a vacuum.. Mine was to get LOTS to do it

Magnitude is all that matters when dealing with public companies

**Thorgut**

Kirasu wrote:Your suggestion was to do it in a vacuum.. Mine was to get LOTS to do it

Which is why I said you took my post out of context; thanks for making it that bit clearer.
I was suggesting two options to Tek, not every poster on this forum.

**Panic**

yeah,
I let GW know I didn't want sub par products.
I got a refund today.

Panic...

**Thorgut**

Has it already been posted that GW updated the product page?
They've painted one of the "real" ones up rather than a resin copy:

**BrookM**

Oh those sneaky bastards, think they can sneak that one out from under our noses.

**H.B.M.C.**

Pathetic. Rather than admitting fault, they'll just pretend it didn't happen. Now I'm glad I made a profit with my refund.

**Sirius42**

You know what that's just plain rude. If i'd seen the pics on thier sites first i would'nt mind the inferior product (Would'nt buy it but would'nt care). Its the false advertising and the messing around thats annoying.