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All in all I'm happy with my first task with fine cast. I'm doing some Incubi right now. Besides a lot of flash (easily removed) it is awwsome. I hate multi piece metal modles...especially big ones. To me this is the perfect replacement, well other than plastic.

Absolutely, Finecast is a great idea. I don't think that many will disagree on that. But....

I've never seen a finecast modle before...

Did i spell it wrong? Or are you serious?

Glad to hear it. It seems that finecast isnt bad unless you buy it right when it is released.


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swordbrotherjim wrote:Did i spell it wrong? Or are you serious?

You spelled it wrong.

As with any new product theres bound to be a few hiccups. However they seem to have it well under control now. So far I've bought 5 finecast models, And only once did I have to do a little gap filling. ( My new KFF Big Mek was missing part of his shoulder ) But thanks to some liquid green-stuff it was easily fixed. ( I think Liquid GS is the best thing since sliced bread ) I for one enjoy the finecast over the old metal. Now if only GW didnt make every finecast product 3 to 8 bucks more expensive then the old metal ones. But thats beside the point. Finecast is a "fine" product overall ( see what I did there )

brettz123 wrote:Glad to hear it. It seems that finecast isnt bad unless you buy it right when it is released.

Not always the case that

I bought my second finecast last week, chaos raptors, had to return one of them as its face had been destroyed and was covered in pink stuff.
I bought a pack at release too and that one was good, nothing bad apart from a few bubbles.

All in all im happy with them though, they were quick to replace it for me.

The ones that arrive intact are wonderful.

The majority of the finecast models that arrive at my FLGS are still defective in some way. Sometimes it is pretty trivial... but for that price it had better be perfect.

That's my opinion, anyway.

swordbrotherjim wrote:Did i spell it wrong? Or are you serious?

It's Finecast. One word. No big deal really.

I've only bought one Finecast model and it was in great shape. There's one little bubble under the cuff of his power armored pant leg and that's it. A vocal portion of the userbase have had bad experiences with the material, but my FLGS has only gotten good casts from what I can see. All the Finecast models in the blisters there look beautiful.

I've had issues with FW resin too, but it has never kept me from going back for more awesome goodness... I have been pretty fortunate with my finecast and all in all I think it's a decent product, though I question GW's claim the transition was to have a better product a a reduced cost to the consumer onside ring the cost went up...maybe they were figuring in for a percentage of defection?

I haven't purchased a finecast model yet. I will avoid it until the problems with the quality have been solved.

Do we really need another one of these threads? It seems we have 4 or 5 threads dedicated to Finecast pros/cons, contribute there.

The last one got closed after things took a turn for the worse in it.

While so many people continue to find issues with the medium, and Dakka is an important source of information for people buying GW stuff, I think some kind of feedback thread on the ongoing quality is essential.

There are some bad models out there, but I am very happy with my finecast models.

As a person who has put together two metall screaming scull catapults in mettal (they are the worts models to put together in the game second to the ogre scrap launcher) I am very happy with finecast. Also, if you have ever had a lott of metal wingson a moddel or if you have had big metal tyranids you will be very happy with finecast as those two groups tend to loose paint during transport.

So far, I've had a Dark Eldar Archon, a Bloodthrister, and Skulltaker.

The Archon and Skulltaker where mostly fine, both had bubbles on them, while Skulltakers sword and the Archon's horns where bent, each model was being used for a conversion, so it didn't massively matter to me. I know Skulltaker's skull perch was missing it's front two Skulls, but the model was being mounted on a base which covers the skulls so it wasn't a big deal, but in the end I spotted no difference from my metal Archon and Skulltaker in terms of detail and such.

The Bloodthrister was a mess, and since it was bought online, I had to replace the wings (paper thin) and Axe with spare parts. Though, it turned out very nicely in my opinion, but I'm quite wary of Finecast, and plan to refrain from such purposes in the future until some quality control instead of "Oh, its full of holes, warped, and lacking detail, better hope the kids don't mind!" which I assume is happening. Also anyone who claims that Finecast is being 'sabotaged', or these miscast where staged.


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I've had a pretty good experience with Finecast. So far I've bought:

2 Painboys
Imotekh
A Cocatrice
and a Shadowseer

all of which have been very good, a couple of bubbles on one of the Painboys and the Shadowseer but nothing major.

I also ordered a couple of Rune Priests which arrived on Friday. I was worried my luck would run out and that I'd get a dodgy cast but both were excellent.

I have had some great experiences and some Not so great, I find it people just put a little time into it the flaws are negligible.

So far i've bought a box of wracks and vlad von carstein.

The wracks were literally the poorest quality models i've ever bought, from any company. Only one sprue in the box of five was usable, and the command frame was just an ugly mess. The replacements were marginally better, and i managed to get a usable squad with A LOT of fixing up. Extremely unsatisfied.

However. Vlad was possibly the best model i've ever bought from any company, detail wise. There was a large bubble in his hand, so ironically i had to resculpt the carstein ring, as well as two fingers. Other than that one severe flaw he was pretty amazing.

I also considered buying urien rakarth, but after looking at all four clamshells in stock i couldn't find a single one that didn't have something quite badly wrong. I get the feeling that dark eldar finecast is worse than other factions, possibly due to all the thin/small details.

So since this is now the closes thing to a finecast complaints thread, my replacement chaplain;

Lhamean - hand detailless, got replacement

Crowe - banner mangled, (as in no banner... just the outline... no way it was QC checked) - got replacement bits in GW (manager had been keeping any extra finecast bitz for such occasions_

Necron Lord - leg missing, holes in cape, returned for replacement which was STILL HAS HAVE A CAPE MISSING IN A DIFFERENT PLACE RAAAAAAEG!

Kinda sucks really

jonolikespie wrote:So since this is now the closes thing to a finecast complaints thread, my replacement chaplain;

Thats shocking, someones drawn little red circles all over it.

I've had a few bits now, the 25th Anniversary model was pretty much perfect. Couple of very small bubbles that liquid green stuff fixed very easily. My WD model however was bad and I needed to open 6 copies in the store to find one that was right.

Overall however I feel that the casting is getting better, but still plenty of duff casts floating about, Best advice check the model in store if you can.

I do love the material tho, much prefer it to metal. I don't get on with metal models.

I've honestly had no major problems with infantry to character sized metal models, but now, when the ability to cast in plastic is wider scale, larger models such as Dragons, Catapults, Greater Daemons should just be done in plastic.

Vulcan wrote:The ones that arrive intact are wonderful.

The majority of the finecast models that arrive at my FLGS are still defective in some way. Sometimes it is pretty trivial... but for that price it had better be perfect.

That's my opinion, anyway.

I agree. I've had mixed reaction towards Finecast. I've had horrible luck with my Necrons (took my 4 Overlords before one was decent arrived). Though with Daemons I got a Skull Taker model and he was near perfect.

Here is my take on it. The idea is sound, metal has flaws. Now, where companies like forgeworld have perfected resin making (arguably), GW itself is just voyaging into it. However, being that it is a luxury hobby and that finecast is costing us (the consumers) more than metal, we should not have to deal with the bubbling, the flashing, the holes, or any overly major flaw.

riverhawks32 wrote:Here is my take on it. The idea is sound, metal has flaws. Now, where companies like forgeworld have perfected resin making (arguably), GW itself is just voyaging into it. However, being that it is a luxury hobby and that finecast is costing us (the consumers) more than metal, we should not have to deal with the bubbling, the flashing, the holes, or any overly major flaw.

forgeworld and GW are the same company, use the same type of molds and are located in the same place...
that said... i do notice that finecast is getting slightly better, but you still see horribly disfigured models now and then. metal models had less misscasts and airbubbles, but where way harder to convert and build.

i do think they should increase quality control on finecast, that would solve like 80% of the problems

jonolikespie wrote:So since this is now the closes thing to a finecast complaints thread, my replacement chaplain;

Its the complete opposite to a complaints thread isnt it?

Send it back, if you dont get a good one after a couple of tries, demand your money back.

If a lot of the finecast haters put as much effort into getting what they paid for from GW as they do in whining on here there wouldn't be a problem.

@Skippy: Yeah, there would. Thankfully FW have now remastered the Skinwolf for pressure casting, so I'm looking forward to getting a good one. :-)

DijnsK wrote: forgeworld and GW are the same company, use the same type of molds and are located in the same place...
that said... i do notice that finecast is getting slightly better, but you still see horribly disfigured models now and then. metal models had less misscasts and airbubbles, but where way harder to convert and build.

i do think they should increase quality control on finecast, that would solve like 80% of the problems

That is correct...to a degree. Forgeworld is the baby company of GW not the same company. Whole different set of people leading.