The Citadel Finecast metal to resin change thread.

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**Swordwind**

Howls of joy at jump pack chaplain, autarch and ASTFGL PLASTICY ASPECT WARRIORS.

Less happy about increased prices.

**Swordwind**

Cadaver wrote:
I'm not aware of a price increase for one fantasy kit, no. I don't play fantasy and it's not relevant to me or this thread. The pricing I referenced is directly related to this thread and most increases were $2-3 more for character models most people would only need one of, a lot more had no increase in price at all. Not exactly a budget shattering increase.

I would just like to point out that more or less all the plastic kits have gotten price raises, and some have seriously been boned (Eldar Falcon, thanks to a 20% increase, I shall never have you...

)

Nothing to say about the rest of your post though.

**Swordwind**

Grimtuff wrote:
Cerebrium wrote:
Ajroo wrote:You know what?

Take my extra £50 per army, i dont care, just don't disappear.

Just for saying that, they'll now charge you £100. Just because they can.

GW: We Just Don't Care.

I prefer: Games Workshop: Our prices discriminate, because we can't.

Or maybe: Games Workshop: Economics? What's that?

**Swordwind**

It hurts me to see the Avatar and Scorps become more expensive.

**Swordwind**

Suffering sucatash! Just realised the blood knights are 61 pounds. Man, GW must really hate VC players.

**Swordwind**

yakface wrote:
And GW have posted the finecast announcement:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=16700019a

Hmm... No mention of prices yet... Is there hope?

Probably not.

Must... Resist... Autarch....

**Swordwind**

I'm just dreading pinning mine.

**Swordwind**

Thrax wrote:lol, finecost displays melting!! This is almost like a bad satire skit. You just can't write this stuff.

Like I said, I lost a squad of krieg due to heat - finecost is really not that different. Unless they reformulate, this isn't going to bode well over the longterm for those with the finecost models.

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I'd LOVE to see how the GW stores in Texas and Arizona even stock the stuff in the middle of summer.

I live in the tropics. I really pity the people who still buy GW and want to get Finecast.

**Swordwind**

Imagine the Norwegians and Icelanders in winter. May be cold, but the 24-hour sunlight would probably do damage.

**Swordwind**

Vladsimpaler wrote:The part that I am failing to understand is how it's ok for even 1/10th of the models to have minor problems.

I've purchased probably 100's if not thousands of Lego sets over the years. I've only ever had a problem with 1.

inb4 "oh but it's a new material!"
Well GW should have tested it better

inb4 "GW isn't a huge company like Lego!"
GW is a publicly traded company, and touts that they're like a Cadillac of models (whatever that means). they need to prove it.

Come at me, haters

+1 to this. I was an insane Lego collector when I was younger, and every single time Lego tried a new material, every single time there was a new big set, it was always of a high quality. I still have those sets, they still do as they are intended to do, and if anything did break they have great CS. Why can't GW be more like Lego? :(

**Swordwind**

aka_mythos wrote:
Swordwind wrote:
+1 to this. I was an insane Lego collector when I was younger, and every single time Lego tried a new material, every single time there was a new big set, it was always of a high quality. I still have those sets, they still do as they are intended to do, and if anything did break they have great CS. Why can't GW be more like Lego? :(
In fairness to GW, LEGO is regarded as having some of the most advanced injection molding equipment in industry as well holding the actual tolerances of their molds to high standards. There is little to no drafting angles on their parts. At the same time legos are geometrically less complex, with the volume of legos produced orders of magantude higher in volume than anything GW produces.

Touche my good man.