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To be fair to finecast, I went and bought the new Cockatrice model on saturday, and despite the large amount of detail that the model includes (the skulls next to the tail, the wings and what-not), there wasn't a single imperfection on the thing.

Actually, none of the finecast models that me and my general gaming crew have bought have had any imperfections whatsoever, and in total we've bought quite a few.

But maybe we're just lucky.

Well yeah, I was thinking of avoiding finecast as well until the technology improved, that was until I started organising a storm of magic game and realised that I wanted to use a Cockatrice.

I suppose it's the luck of the draw really, and If you don't need a certain model for a certain time then avoiding it until the number of miscasts decreases seems sensible.

AvatarForm wrote:We are now waiting on close-up pics of 3 "perfect/flawless" Cockatrice/s?

The wait is over. After I took pictures and found out how to incorporate them into my posts I have finally posted them. The green stuff on the wing is there due to human error (me) when gluing the wing on, as I was doing it very late at night and needed it for a Storm of Magic game, so it's not a problem with the casting. I also realise that this first picture is not close-up but I'm too lazy to take a new picture.

Acardia wrote:I finally opened my finecast Cockatrice, and when I did I was impressed, there is a fair amount of venting bits on the tail that cleaned up pretty quickly. The details on the wings is rather amazing. I just need to decide how to paint it before I get it all put together.

There's something about Cockatrice's seeming to have less faults than other models, maybe the mould has been better produced/fitted.

Gymnogyps wrote:I bet once these folks with "perfect" cockatrices really get in there to paint every single scale or feather like I did, they will start to see issues and flaws....

Mine is now fully painted apart from the tail, although I have painted the skulls in the centre. It's all been fine and in all the checks that I made on the tail I haven't spotted anything but I'm planning on finishing it off tomorrow so will post again then.

Maybe you got unlucky, I certain that there isn't a model that hasn't got at least a few off castings. Either that or we all just got lucky.

Sidstyler wrote:

Overall, finecast is not as bad as you think.

I'm never very good at making analogies, but isn't that kinda like saying the unemployment rate in America must not be that bad since you have a job? "Things aren't bad for me, so everyone else must be exaggerating!"

It's no different to the people that say because they they've never had a decent finecast model the whole range must be terrible. But I would agree that in this case it is better to look at the wider picture rather than form a judgement completely from your own experiences.

Although I have been lucky and bought a rather good batch of finecast models myself, because some of them have had a couple of minor defects (eg, bubbly Shadowseer) I hold some stock in the statements that are made about dreadful finecast casts.

So whereas I don't think Finecast is dreadful, as there have been a fair few statements about higher-quality/non-miscast models, I don't think that at its current state it's amazing either, due to all of the appalling model allegations.