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Games Workshop is moving away from finecast. They haven't outright stated it but it clear they think it was just as much of a failure as everyone else does.
Forge World resin is not the same thing at all, either in process or execution and they seem fine with making characters and large statement pieces like Titans in it. Anything that will sell low numbers but can get a premium return.
Ofc. they would probably love to make everything in plastic because it would simplify their supply chain, cut material costs dramatically and so on. They aren't going to do that for Necromunda dramatis personae, or Blood Bowl star players for that matter, because they, quite sensibly, don't want to take on excessive debt to do so, and producing plastic moulds requires a lot more upfront money than resin or even metal.

These days the issue with resin vs plastic sprues is probably not cost, as they can do plastic sprues for store giveaway promos, but logistics and machine time. Promo models in plastic are one and done for production runs, but other kits that are meant to stay available run into the issue of when stock runs out, where do they fit in a production run compared to new kits and restock of bigger selling kits?

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
These days the issue with resin vs plastic sprues is probably not cost, as they can do plastic sprues for store giveaway promos, but logistics and machine time. Promo models in plastic are one and done for production runs, but other kits that are meant to stay available run into the issue of when stock runs out, where do they fit in a production run compared to new kits and restock of bigger selling kits?

There are well over 100 resin Necromunda character models, so cost would certainly be a factor at that scale.

And they did do Kal Jericho and Scabs in plastic, so I think their expectation of sales has some bearing on their decision.

I wonder if Kal Jericho took up a slot used for the black library characters that sometimes get releases

Could be.

Honestly the only way I could see GW maybe doing all the characters as plastics would be if they did a few character sets - so 10 characters in a single plastic sprue. However I doubt GW would do that as it would set a new standard for grouped "hero/leader" model prices that would be WAY lower than GW wants us to pay for such models.

Even then it would still very much be a "one pack per player" as opposed to at least two or three for most of the other plastic necromunda core faction sets.

Overread wrote:What's honestly impressive is that they've kept it small. Even with their experiment into vehicles they've not suddenly changed the game from a skirmisher into a wargame. They 100% Could do it and honestly maybe one day they will try a two rule system of mass-scale battles for Necromunda.

But right now they've kept it true to its core even whilst really fleshing out the game with a lot of content. It's honestly fantastic to see the game such awesome long term support and a crying shame that we dn't have an equivalent range for Fantasy

The Apocrypha Necromunda book does have rules for "mass battle". But they are pretty sparse, and AFAIK nobody ever uses it.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
I wonder if Kal Jericho took up a slot used for the black library characters that sometimes get releases

The initial Made To Order run with the metal Kal Jericho was very successful, which encouraged the later release of Kal in plastic, or at least this is what I heard.

 SgtEeveell wrote:
The Apocrypha Necromunda book does have rules for "mass battle". But they are pretty sparse, and AFAIK nobody ever uses it.

What rules are those? I am looking at Apocrypha right now and am not seeing them or completely missing them. I could maybe see the Arbitrator scenarios being used as mass battle rules. Maybe?

 Robert Facepalmer wrote:

 SgtEeveell wrote:
The Apocrypha Necromunda book does have rules for "mass battle". But they are pretty sparse, and AFAIK nobody ever uses it.

What rules are those? I am looking at Apocrypha right now and am not seeing them or completely missing them. I could maybe see the Arbitrator scenarios being used as mass battle rules. Maybe?

They mean the Apocrypha free pdfs not Apocrypha the physical book.

You want Hive of Blood for those rules.
https://assets.warhammer-community.com/necromunda_additionalrules_apocryphahiveofblood_eng_24.09-0huun8hz1l.pdf

DrankThePaintwater wrote:

 Robert Facepalmer wrote:

 SgtEeveell wrote:
The Apocrypha Necromunda book does have rules for "mass battle". But they are pretty sparse, and AFAIK nobody ever uses it.

What rules are those? I am looking at Apocrypha right now and am not seeing them or completely missing them. I could maybe see the Arbitrator scenarios being used as mass battle rules. Maybe?

They mean the Apocrypha free pdfs not Apocrypha the physical book.

You want Hive of Blood for those rules.
https://assets.warhammer-community.com/necromunda_additionalrules_apocryphahiveofblood_eng_24.09-0huun8hz1l.pdf

My bad. Too many Apos, not enough Munda.

Okay, yeah, I was wondering if I was completely missing something but that makes way more sense.