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Hi all - new to the forums and to Warmachine!

Been wanting to get started painting a few of the Warjacks - so I'm shopping the kits and watching and reading as much as I can about it. Seems some of the kits are metal (Pewter?), some plastic or resin and some are a little of both. What's a bit frustrating is that most of the online retailers' item descriptions don't mention which. Since I'm also a scale modeler (cars, planes, etc...) I would rather work with the plastic or resin. How can you tell before buying what material the kit will be? Is it by brand? I bought the Mercenary Mule Heavy Warjack by Privateer Press and it's metal - that's cool but next kit I would like to work with resin.

Thanks for any advice!
Daf

Go to the PP website and click on the store. The description at the bottom should tell you if its plastic, resin or metal.

Making a list in the appropriate section (and stick it on top) would be cool.

Also be aware some kits are a combo of resin and metal like Conquest. Newer stuff tends to be plastic. Personally I love the feel of metal minis and seeing as how you don't need 200 of to play a game it isn't too bad to transport.

 darefsky wrote:
Go to the PP website and click on the store. The description at the bottom should tell you if its plastic, resin or metal.

Thanks, darefsky - I see that now on the PP site. What was confusing was that retailers like Amazon did not specify. At least now I can cross reference with the PP site to find out.

Thanks again!
Daf

Glad I could help.

Okay - just as an update in case anyone else has this issue - I was still having some problems determining metal or plastic (turns out the PP store doesn't "always" list the material after all) . But I called PP and they directed me to this pdf file on the site in the retailer support section :
http://privateerpress.com/files/Product%20Sheet.pdf

It does a much better job of sorting out the metal/plastic kits.

Thanks!
Daf