More on GW's Finecast Range

So, Games Workshop's Fine Cast range was released on Saturday, and so far reaction has been very poor.

There have been a lot of reports of very poor quality control, with pictures of very badly moulded pieces coming out of blisters and boxes. A few air bubbles are understandable, but these a large sections that would require a significant amount of re-building. Not something that a novice gamer is going to pull off.

Perhaps the most annoying thing has been the general attitude from GW. The initial press release announcing the line had already gotten peoples back up, now the poor miniatures on sale, and the internet is up in arms!

I'll be fair, it may be due to the wish to get a silly number of these miniatures out to the shops world wide that has caused them to be a little lax on the quality control. However when you are paying more for these mini's than there metal equivalent, you do expect not to have to rebuild sections.

As for the claims of better detail and that its better to work with, generally it seems that people are happy with that. The resin/plastic mix they are using seems to be very light, and cleans up well. It takes super glue really well, and people have been saying that they have found they didn't need to undercoat either.

I think I'm going to have to pick up one of the new mini's and see for myself. I'm hoping that the miscast problems will disappear once they are producing them at a sensible rate, and not trying to push for a massive world wide release.