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2014/11/18 01:00:34
Subject: WETA does Smaug:- Yours for seven hundred bucks
Gragga Da Krumpa wrote: To be fair, you pay that for a Forge World model that comes un assembled, with bent pieces, and unpainted.
This is so spot on it hurts.
Except with FW you are able to customize, experiment and set it to whatever standard you wish without having to mutilate it with a hobby saw and dunk it in an oceans worth of simple green.
Wait all your FW models where customizable? most of my stuff was single pos or upgrades :/. several even requires a hobby saw boiling water and a hairdryer just to fit properly. Then you still have to dunk it in some sort a detergent to get off the release.
Gragga Da Krumpa wrote: To be fair, you pay that for a Forge World model that comes un assembled, with bent pieces, and unpainted.
This is so spot on it hurts.
Except with FW you are able to customize, experiment and set it to whatever standard you wish without having to mutilate it with a hobby saw and dunk it in an oceans worth of simple green.
Whatever the flaws on this piece, it's not a wargaming miniature.
Of course it's not. They both are big ticket items, discussed in both communities as things that might not be quite worth the investment, but which are quite popular nonetheless.
