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Just curious.

Has anyone bought the DKoK since FW re-did the mold? If so, do you think the quality is better?

Thanks in advance.

Please note, for those of you who play Chaos Daemons as a faction the term "Daemon" is potentially offensive. Instead, please play codex "Chaos: Mortally Challenged". Thank you. 
   
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I'd reply with an answer if you didn't write thanks in advance. Don't be lazy - it's quite annoying and you're less likely to get a response.
   
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 Naix wrote:
I'd reply with an answer if you didn't write thanks in advance. Don't be lazy - it's quite annoying and you're less likely to get a response.


He's being polite - it's a common polite way to end a request. Of all the things to get worked up by...

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 JohnnyHell wrote:
 Naix wrote:
I'd reply with an answer if you didn't write thanks in advance. Don't be lazy - it's quite annoying and you're less likely to get a response.


He's being polite - it's a common polite way to end a request. Of all the things to get worked up by...


Yep, this man knows what he is talking about.

Naix that is.


Civility costs nothing...


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 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
 JohnnyHell wrote:
 Naix wrote:
I'd reply with an answer if you didn't write thanks in advance. Don't be lazy - it's quite annoying and you're less likely to get a response.


He's being polite - it's a common polite way to end a request. Of all the things to get worked up by...


Yep, this man knows what he is talking about.

Johnnyhell that is.


Civility costs nothing...



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So basically Niax, you don't know.

Cheers, gtfo (polite enough for you?)

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 Naix wrote:
I'd reply with an answer if you didn't write thanks in advance. Don't be lazy - it's quite annoying and you're less likely to get a response.


Take a chill pill bub.

And op, the molds are fantastic.

 
   
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 Naix wrote:
I'd reply with an answer if you didn't write thanks in advance. Don't be lazy - it's quite annoying and you're less likely to get a response.




 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
Just curious.

Has anyone bought the DKoK since FW re-did the mold? If so, do you think the quality is better?

Thanks in advance.


To OP, I can vouch as having the old and new casts - new ones are fantastic, have a lot less bubbles and imperfections and none of the new ones arrived with any broken pieces. If you're wallet can handle the shock, then definitely go for it.

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Great, thanks for confirming.

If only they would hurry up with the grenadiers as well then I can start on my siege list.

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Maybe you could be more specific though? Do you mean one of the three infantry squads, or the heavy weapons teams? Or perhaps the command squads, grenadiers or engineers? Vehicles?

In my own experience, in the past the standard infantry was frequently quite bad, but grenadiers, engineers, commissars and death riders were always sharp and of excellent quality. Command squads were variable.

Heavy weapon teams would sometimes be produced as finecast, which is an entirely different type of resin, that retained detail well, but was completely unsuitable for the delicate parts of a Krieg-kit. To make matters worse, the kit would come attached to the kind of sprue you associate with finecast, as well as being affected by most of the problems, such as mold lines and badly positioned molding gates. Because finecast resin is more brittle and not as flexible as ordinary FW-resin, parts of the weapon carriage would snap when you tried to assemble it, and really small parts, such as the pauldrons (which are approx. 4x2mm), as well as the entrenchment tool and bayonet set were just ruined by the finecast sprue. I don't think they use finecast anymore, I believe it's something they tried out in 2013-14.

I've purchased some new heavy weapons this autumn, and they were great.
   
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Unfortunately, they're still producing finecast style heavy weapon teams as I recently received some. I did return a few of them as they were appallingly mounded in finecast only to get the same teams except moulded in the proper, poured style. I have a feeling that they're waiting to get shot of the remnants of their own finecast experiments before switching back...
   
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 Zingraff wrote:
Maybe you could be more specific though? Do you mean one of the three infantry squads, or the heavy weapons teams? Or perhaps the command squads, grenadiers or engineers? Vehicles?

In my own experience, in the past the standard infantry was frequently quite bad, but grenadiers, engineers, commissars and death riders were always sharp and of excellent quality. Command squads were variable.

Heavy weapon teams would sometimes be produced as finecast, which is an entirely different type of resin, that retained detail well, but was completely unsuitable for the delicate parts of a Krieg-kit. To make matters worse, the kit would come attached to the kind of sprue you associate with finecast, as well as being affected by most of the problems, such as mold lines and badly positioned molding gates. Because finecast resin is more brittle and not as flexible as ordinary FW-resin, parts of the weapon carriage would snap when you tried to assemble it, and really small parts, such as the pauldrons (which are approx. 4x2mm), as well as the entrenchment tool and bayonet set were just ruined by the finecast sprue. I don't think they use finecast anymore, I believe it's something they tried out in 2013-14.

I've purchased some new heavy weapons this autumn, and they were great.


To my knowledge they only re-did the infantry at ease set, so pretty narrow. Just wanted to check the new mold quality against the old - of which I have a few sets and they aren't the best.

Cheers though.

Please note, for those of you who play Chaos Daemons as a faction the term "Daemon" is potentially offensive. Instead, please play codex "Chaos: Mortally Challenged". Thank you. 
   
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 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
 Zingraff wrote:
Maybe you could be more specific though? Do you mean one of the three infantry squads, or the heavy weapons teams? Or perhaps the command squads, grenadiers or engineers? Vehicles?

In my own experience, in the past the standard infantry was frequently quite bad, but grenadiers, engineers, commissars and death riders were always sharp and of excellent quality. Command squads were variable.

Heavy weapon teams would sometimes be produced as finecast, which is an entirely different type of resin, that retained detail well, but was completely unsuitable for the delicate parts of a Krieg-kit. To make matters worse, the kit would come attached to the kind of sprue you associate with finecast, as well as being affected by most of the problems, such as mold lines and badly positioned molding gates. Because finecast resin is more brittle and not as flexible as ordinary FW-resin, parts of the weapon carriage would snap when you tried to assemble it, and really small parts, such as the pauldrons (which are approx. 4x2mm), as well as the entrenchment tool and bayonet set were just ruined by the finecast sprue. I don't think they use finecast anymore, I believe it's something they tried out in 2013-14.

I've purchased some new heavy weapons this autumn, and they were great.


To my knowledge they only re-did the infantry at ease set, so pretty narrow. Just wanted to check the new mold quality against the old - of which I have a few sets and they aren't the best.

Cheers though.


As far as I can tell, while it's true the infantry at ease set was recently put into production again, FW continuously replace the molds for their most popular kits. In the last few years, the other two squads have also periodically been out of production.

I don't have any statistics to show whether or not the "at ease" set is any less popular than the other two sets, but I kind of imagine that it isn't. My feeling is that the "at-ease" set was retired, and then brought back due to customer requests.

I have purchased all three infantry sets, as well as all the other infantry-based DKoK sets FW has produced, and the at ease set doesn't integrate well with the others. All the other regular infantry-based sets appear to based upon the same selection of 15-20 bodies (with only the arms missing), and these same bodies will show up in infantry squads, heavy weapon teams, artillery crews, even the command squad has two of these guys. These figures appear to have been designed specifically to allow this sort of interchangeability, and to a large extent you can swap arms and armament on these figures and most of the time it will work for you. In contrast, the "at ease squad" is basically 10 monopose figures you won't find anywhere else (except as the OOP Gorgon passengers).

You can also combine the two other sets of infantrymen, and they won't look out of place next to one another. The "at ease" infantrymen appear to be slightly smaller than the other Krieg troopers, at least that's the case with my set, and the relaxed pose in combination with the scale issue make them contrast too much with the others, in my opinion. This might be another factor as to why that set might be less popular.

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If only they could bring back the Aquila Lander

I've thought about getting the "at ease" set for use as display models for my desk, but my painting skills dishonor them


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The Aquila is still on their website last time I checked.

Will bob a link in if I can figure out how to do it.

Well blow me, it aint. Damn

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I e-mailed them recently - it is gone for good.

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Another way would be to simply slide the landraider sideways like a big slowed hovercraft full of eels. -pismakron
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