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aurynn
Incubi
Posts : 1626
Join date : 2013-04-23
 |  Subject: Current Incubi material  Sun Jan 08 2017, 15:35 | |
| Anyone has experience with current incubi models? Are they still finecast? Or is the resin and models quality better now? | |
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Squidmaster
Klaivex
Posts : 2219
Join date : 2013-12-18
Location : Hampshire, England
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Sun Jan 08 2017, 15:37 | |
| They're still Finecast.
GW never advanced the Finecast project or changed the quality of resin. They just jumped right away from it and moved into plastic, but there ares till many models like the Incubi still available only in Finecast. _________________ | Kabal of the Eternal Night | Modelling Blog | | The Squidmaster Distractathon | Notes on being an RPG Gamesmaster |
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aurynn
Incubi
Posts : 1626
Join date : 2013-04-23
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Sun Jan 08 2017, 17:32 | |
| Thanks. Cant wait for plastic ones... | |
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Cherrycoke
Kabalite Warrior
Posts : 139
Join date : 2015-12-03
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Sun Jan 08 2017, 18:30 | |
| You can pick up the metal variants on ebay once in a while, you need to be patient though.  | |
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aurynn
Incubi
Posts : 1626
Join date : 2013-04-23
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Sun Jan 08 2017, 18:40 | |
| I have 11 metal ones. But want more for a fun army list I want to try. :-) | |
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Squidmaster
Klaivex
Posts : 2219
Join date : 2013-12-18
Location : Hampshire, England
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Tue Jan 10 2017, 10:04 | |
| If you're interested (and located somewhere I can post to with ease) I'm planning to sell my old metal ones. One or two got a tiny bit ocnverted, but I have a good handful of them to unload. I never use them anymore (because I converted replacements).
(EDIT: I have 12, plus a metal Drazhar) _________________ | Kabal of the Eternal Night | Modelling Blog | | The Squidmaster Distractathon | Notes on being an RPG Gamesmaster |
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alexthearchon
Slave
Posts : 17
Join date : 2017-01-18
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Thu Feb 02 2017, 01:19 | |
| I wish i had known they were finecast before i ordered mine. I hope they are not miscast like my grotesque were | |
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Evil Space Elves
Haemonculus Ancient
Posts : 3717
Join date : 2011-07-13
Location : Santa Cruz, ca
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Thu Feb 02 2017, 03:06 | |
| I've had decent luck with what little Finecast models that I have purchased in the last year or so, but I wouldn't hold your breath! _________________  "Solutions are good, how many dark eldar archons can you find sitting in their throne rooms whining that they used to rule the universe? Exactly." -The Burning Eye Splintermind: The Dark Eldar Podcast My Dark Eldar Project Log | |
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Ynneadwraith
Twisted
Posts : 1236
Join date : 2016-09-21
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Thu Feb 02 2017, 09:50 | |
| Looking at the Incubi sprues I do wonder what's stopping them from just casting them in plastic using the same molds... _________________ Check out may pan-Eldar projects  Exodites, Corsairs, Craftworld, True Kin, Croneworld (soon) and one Shadowseer!: http://www.thedarkcity.net/t14405-corsairs-exodites-craftworlders-and-hopefully-kabalites-soon | |
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Count Adhemar
Dark Lord of Granbretan
Posts : 7610
Join date : 2012-04-26
Location : London
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Thu Feb 02 2017, 11:02 | |
| - Ynneadwraith wrote:
- Looking at the Incubi sprues I do wonder what's stopping them from just casting them in plastic using the same molds...
That would be the fact that plastic models use steel molds whereas metal and resin use rubber molds. Possibly the most annoying thing about Failcast for me was that GW did it so they could move away from metal due to the hideous cost of metal. So they moved to resin, which is ridiculously cheap. They used the exact same molds, a far, far cheaper raw material AND PUT THE BLOODY PRICES UP!!!  _________________  You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly beat me? | |
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Ynneadwraith
Twisted
Posts : 1236
Join date : 2016-09-21
| | Subject: Re: Current Incubi material Thu Feb 02 2017, 11:40 | |
| Ah I thought it would be some form of manufacturing issue. I know from car manufacture that the vast majority of manufacturing costs are actually in the tooling costs, rather than materials.
Putting the prices up with a cheaper material is just criminal. Makes me even more firm in my insistance that I will never buy another finecast model (bought 1 Spiritseer, never again). _________________ Check out may pan-Eldar projects Exodites, Corsairs, Craftworld, True Kin, Croneworld (soon) and one Shadowseer!: http://www.thedarkcity.net/t14405-corsairs-exodites-craftworlders-and-hopefully-kabalites-soon | |
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