Showing posts with label Games Workshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Games Workshop. Show all posts
Friday, 23 September 2011
Random Miniatures Post
I find it very easy to get distracted by all the shiny miniatures that are out there. As my wife can attest, I have many boxes of unpainted lead that I've bought in the past on a whim. At the moment I'm trying very hard to only buy and then paint, miniatures I'm going to use. This is why I'm mainly painting Warmachine and Hordes stuff, but I have just bought some Dinosaurs for an upcoming D&D game I'm playing in.
Saturday, 4 June 2011
More GW Commentry, plus Mantic Games and PP.
I'm going to try and make this the last post I make about GWs recent price rises and move to resin. I think I've made my peace with it all, and am going to look forward to trying to convert more people to play Warmachine/Hordes and be thankful that I have a number of usable GW armies should I want them.
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
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.
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.
Monday, 23 May 2011
Seperating from GW
In the war gaming world, Games Workshop have managed to get themselves a lot of publicity for doing what they do best, putting their prices up.
In some ways it can even be seen as an annual event by GW, one that gets us annoyed every time and yet we still keep buying the stuff.
This time, I think they might have gone too far. Pulling a large chunk of the metal line and returning it as resin is ok, but coupling it with a price rise on all the mini's when they are nothing more than the same model in a different material is a bit much. On top of that, a wide ranging price hike on the plastic minitures, as much as 20% in some cases, is that last straw.
In some ways it can even be seen as an annual event by GW, one that gets us annoyed every time and yet we still keep buying the stuff.
This time, I think they might have gone too far. Pulling a large chunk of the metal line and returning it as resin is ok, but coupling it with a price rise on all the mini's when they are nothing more than the same model in a different material is a bit much. On top of that, a wide ranging price hike on the plastic minitures, as much as 20% in some cases, is that last straw.
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