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I like the new armbot/auxbot designs, but unfortunately they are siocast. Morat stuff looks fine, bakunin is alright, phoenix looks super cartoonish, but that might be the paintjob. I'd have hoped for a more dynamic pose on Yara after that awesome art we got for her, this is really unfortunate.

I've got both the metal and siocast Nomad remotes and while siocast definitely has probems, they are a dramatic improvement over the metal set and well worth picking up.

 LunarSol wrote:
I've got both the metal and siocast Nomad remotes and while siocast definitely has probems, they are a dramatic improvement over the metal set and well worth picking up.

What do you mean by dramatic improvement?

The new digital sculpts may be a dramatic improvement, but the material is a strict downgrade in every respect.

Yes, that. The quality of the digital sculpt is enough of an improvement to make the final model better than the metal one, even if the material is worse.

 LunarSol wrote:
Yes, that. The quality of the digital sculpt is enough of an improvement to make the final model better than the metal one, even if the material is worse.

So one step forward and 2 steps back.

Nah, the sculpt is far more than one step forward. Like, I get it, but its not like metal doesn't have its own problem, or resin, or hips or whatever. Siocast has problems and definitely isn't a selling point for me, but its not THAT bad either, particularly for something like remotes.

 BertBert wrote:
The new digital sculpts may be a dramatic improvement, but the material is a strict downgrade in every respect.

Hard disagree, I'll take Siocast over metal all day every day. Haven't bought a metal Infinity model since that first Nomad remote came out in plastic and I've been slowly getting rid of the hundreds of unbuilt Infinity models I own, paring down to just my 5 already painted factions. Siocast can be very annoying to clean, but I don't need to worry about pinning pieces together or clipping metal tabs off feet and pinning them to bases, don't need to worry about models breaking in transport or knocking them over during games, don't need to worry about paint chipping off or snapping tiny aerials. I recently picked up the Geralt/Yennefer/Dandelion set of Witcher miniatures in soft Siocast and they're awesome, they really make me wish CB would do normal sized models in Siocast instead of just the larger figs. I'm really looking forward to some normal releases in Unicool next year. The Ayyar looked fantastic from all the reviews, but I couldn't justify buying a tournament pack just for the 2 models and I'm eager to try out the material.

I play both Steel Phalanx and Bakunin, but none of the new S2 figures look good enough to replace my painted models with new metal models. If it was Siocast or Unicool I would've had the new models already. I'll probably pick up these new PanO attack remotes when they come out, even though my metal ones are painted. I'm 100% with Lunarsol on the new plastic Nomads remotes being a tremendous upgrade

I thought CB were moving away from siocast to something else?

Unicool, which appears to be much better but it won't replace Siocast. Siocast can be made in-house by Corvus Belli, Unicool models need to be manufactured by the parent company and then shipped to CB. So, probably mostly just for large sets and boardgames, etc.

https://infinitytheuniverse.com/blog/plastic-resin-miniatures

Also siocast has hundreds of blends that you need to play around with in house to decide what's best as it's just nylon plastic. The Siocast brand is more for the machines then anything else.

I don't have any of CB's stuff yet but I've got other nylon/thermoplastics and some are meh quality (bendy and so-so detail) others are amazing and you'd think they were resin if I handed one to you.

 .Mikes. wrote:
I thought CB were moving away from siocast to something else?

I believe they were using it in addition to siocast and traditional metal casting rather than replacing one.

Ah, righty. Thanks all.

Out of curiosity, what's the oldest sculpt around currently! I've been looking at the figs again for rpg purposes and some of the 2016 era figs (early n3?) look a bit dated. With their pace of releases, I don't know when to expect a potential resculpt since they also come out with so many seemingly new unit figs.

 warboss wrote:
Out of curiosity, what's the oldest sculpt around currently! I've been looking at the figs again for rpg purposes and some of the 2016 era figs (early n3?) look a bit dated. With their pace of releases, I don't know when to expect a potential resculpt since they also come out with so many seemingly new unit figs.

I'm looking to downsize my collections and looked at my Yujing still in blisters and boxes from back then and I cant find them on the new corvusbelli catalogue. Have no clue on how much to sell them.

 NAVARRO wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Out of curiosity, what's the oldest sculpt around currently! I've been looking at the figs again for rpg purposes and some of the 2016 era figs (early n3?) look a bit dated. With their pace of releases, I don't know when to expect a potential resculpt since they also come out with so many seemingly new unit figs.

I'm looking to downsize my collections and looked at my Yujing still in blisters and boxes from back then and I cant find them on the new corvusbelli catalogue. Have no clue on how much to sell them.

Good luck!

It as been my experience that it is very difficult to see Infinity miniatures, period.

Best bet is to put it out there on site's sales pages and hope that an interested party sees it and is...interested.

eBay seems like an awful place to try too - unless you're prepared to let them go for well under not only what you paid for them, but also well under what you think you'd be OK with selling them for...

 Alpharius wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Out of curiosity, what's the oldest sculpt around currently! I've been looking at the figs again for rpg purposes and some of the 2016 era figs (early n3?) look a bit dated. With their pace of releases, I don't know when to expect a potential resculpt since they also come out with so many seemingly new unit figs.

I'm looking to downsize my collections and looked at my Yujing still in blisters and boxes from back then and I cant find them on the new corvusbelli catalogue. Have no clue on how much to sell them.

Good luck!

It as been my experience that it is very difficult to see Infinity miniatures, period.

Best bet is to put it out there on site's sales pages and hope that an interested party sees it and is...interested.

eBay seems like an awful place to try too - unless you're prepared to let them go for well under not only what you paid for them, but also well under what you think you'd be OK with selling them for...

Yeah, I got nothing in terms of advice. I only own a few figs ostensibly for RPG purposes. Why do you think ebay is an awful place to sell them? I don't really see NIB selling for much lower than you can get the stuff for with online retailers but admittedly I don't look at whole collections but rather just individual boxes.

Well, from my experience, stuff just doesn't sell on eBay unless it is way, way, way below what someone could get it for at the usual discounts already available online for new product.

YMMV, of course, but basically Infinity just isn't popular enough to have that much of a market online in the second hand area.

People who buy collections on ebay tend to be those who are going to the split it up and resell so want to pay very little (similar to selling to your local gaming store)

There's a facebook buy/sell/swap group which will have fare fewer eyes looking at it than ebay but members will really want the specific stuff the group focuses on and can be very helpful if you don't really know what you have

https://www.facebook.com/groups/262411430814265

you could join and see what stuff has been going for on there, or post your stuff and see what the response is

(you may also be able to post ebay sales, but that tends to vary from group to group and i'm not a member of this one so i don't know)

As ebay fees went up and as people found facebook I've noticed a lot more general trading going on (at decent/sane prices) on FB over ebay. Forums have dried up - can be good people but much smaller populations; whilst the bulk are over in FB trade groups.

 Overread wrote:
As ebay fees went up and as people found facebook I've noticed a lot more general trading going on (at decent/sane prices) on FB over ebay. Forums have dried up - can be good people but much smaller populations; whilst the bulk are over in FB trade groups.

Ooh boy, this is the truth. I just sold a limited edition GW figure and my eyes watered at what Ebay charged me. Never again,

I haven't used ebay in ages but wow it changed for the worst, fees are extortionate.

BTW anyone wants a Mint caskuda!? XD XD

I know many units vanished or got new sculpts... The pace seems to be too fast for me to keep up with and that kind helped wanting to get rid of Infinity.

Gods I'd like a Caskuda and I did see one for sale being offered on FB recently - but I'm just totally out of budget for one. I just live in hope that one day CB remakes them.

To be fair they have turned a corner and seem much better and more focused on bringing back what they remove - the Morat update has gone pretty well for the pace of replacing models with new sculpts.

 NAVARRO wrote:
I haven't used ebay in ages but wow it changed for the worst, fees are extortionate.

BTW anyone wants a Mint caskuda!? XD XD

I know many units vanished or got new sculpts... The pace seems to be too fast for me to keep up with and that kind helped wanting to get rid of Infinity.

How bad are the fees now? It's been years but I think they used to be 12.5% of the final value plus some small amount (30 cents?) for the initial listing fee back when I would sell things. Obviously paypal fees were on top of that.

I think its still around 12%

Which to be fair is way less than some auction houses - one we go to is 20%. That's 20% of the hammer price that the buyer has to pay on top of the hammer and 20% of the hammer price that the firm keeps from the owner who they sold the item for.

 Alpharius wrote:
Well, from my experience, stuff just doesn't sell on eBay unless it is way, way, way below what someone could get it for at the usual discounts already available online for new product.

YMMV, of course, but basically Infinity just isn't popular enough to have that much of a market online in the second hand area.

Lol, I hope to find the figs that I want with that kind of discount! I agree with the second part. It took me over a year to find a fig that I wanted (unfortunately in plastic) when I stupidly passed on a good deal on a limited edition metal version for a reasonable price because it wasn't split and I'd have to sell off the others in the set.


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 Overread wrote:
I think its still around 12%

Which to be fair is way less than some auction houses - one we go to is 20%. That's 20% of the hammer price that the buyer has to pay on top of the hammer and 20% of the hammer price that the firm keeps from the owner who they sold the item for.

Fair enough and thanks. I did notice though that ebay itself stopped sending out the occasional 10%+ off of one item coupons that they used to which first came from their own fees when I read the fine print. I admit that I don't buy much on ebay (a couple times a year usually when new D&D/PF minis or heroclix sets come out just to pick up the cool commons and uncommons) but I always placed an order when I got one of those.

13.5 I think but its more visible if your item makes more money. Small sales you kind of dont notice as much but it's still a chunk!

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And Maximus fights against the Caskuda

I always thought Maximus was PanO from the Aristeia colors. The caskuda seems to have gone tech as well instead of just a big bug IIRC.

I think it always was a tech suit just really bug-designed the first time around whilst the second is going much more for the cyber side, but we can see some elements of the big in there here and there.

But yes quite a big sculpt shift