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**TheKbob**

WayneTheGame wrote:
The problem I have with GW's "quality" is that it's often too much for a small figure. Do you really care about intricate detail on a 28mm figure where most of it isn't going to be visible? If it was Inquisitor-size big figures, then hell yes that level of quality should be there, but on a 28mm the minute details are more annoying than anything else and makes the figure that much harder to paint because of all the tiny fiddly bits that are barely visible.

Basically their figures are quality, but the quality is on the wrong things. I'd rather take Warmachine or Kings of War infantry over 40k/WHFB infantry not because the individual figures are better, but because there isn't 1000x detail where only 100x is needed. These are small figures; if you can't easily see it then it shouldn't be there. GW used to espouse the idea that if it wouldn't be visible at a normal view on the tabletop (i.e. not picking it up to scrutinize) then you could ignore painting it or just paint it a dark color. They should have followed the same concept with creating the figures in the first place.

GW only really has two things going for it: 1) the rich background (mostly 40k as WHFB is pretty generic) and the detail of the figures, but see above in that I personally think the detail level is too much for normal grunts. If it was only character models that'd be one thing, but regular grunts don't look ornate, and I think the level of detail is just another excuse for charging more than everybody else.

As one that loves pot shots at GW, that's more an opinion.

Really, if GW was a true model company, they would make a distinction between gaming miniatures and collector/painting miniatures. Metal is way better for actual professional painting, but GW has axed most of their metal, which makes me sad. As a gamer, metal blows. As a painter, it's amazing.