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I've had Forge World models which looked, felt and behaved just like finecast resin models. Over the years, the resin I've had from Forge World has varied massively; enough to make the idea that there's a "Forge World resin" meaningless.

Early FC models were bad for air bubbles. I honk that was because they were designed with metal casting in mind, not resin. The more recent ones (Games Day Blood Angel captain, Canoness Viridyan and some others) have been fine. I'd much rather clean up a Finecast resin model than a metal one.

Finecast was really only a stopgap while everything got redone into plastic.

 Ginjitzu wrote:
What's the difference between ForgeWorld & FineCast? I thought FineCast was just Games Workshop's name for all of their Citadel resin.

Forge World, like most other resin casters, cast their resin in vacuum chambers, to force out the gas bubbles in the liquid resin before it cures. Finecast uses, IIRC, the spin-cast machines that are normally used for metal casting to force resin into the extremities of the mould cavity.