Rumor: GW to switch metal to resin

[Geep]

I was told that the Specialist Games moulds will be replaced and things will be made in resin, but not until their current moulds for metal wear out- so it may not happen for quite a while.

I heard this from a GW store manager, so take with the appropriately lethal dose of salt...

Having seen the resin models, I'm not particularly looking forward to WM scale resin models (bubbles, huge amounts of flash, easily broken pieces and warping/ models splitting).

[fracas]

Finecast indeed

[horizon]

urgh,
I have seen pictures of finecast models bought by people.

Flash, moldlines, airbubbles! Horrible things.

[captPiett]

Flash, moldlines, airbubbles!

I saw some in person at my local game store yesterday, and besides being 28mm (ugh - who cares?) I saw all these things as well.

[Carrington]

Received my Skaven and Araby units from the fulfillment center in Tennessee.  Mix of blue warmaster blisters and the white generic Citadel blisters, but otherwise nothing amiss.

[David Wasilewski]

Yup.

I received my Araby, Chaos, Empire and Orc and Goblin Warmaster blisters fine too.

I don't think it is going to be an issue until GW stock starts to run low. When (if) this is going to happen is anybody's guess - expect panic buying after the first two or three of posts of "Can't get hold of X anymore."

Dave

[Rolgan]

I would also note that after a month and a halfs delay I got my:

Demons, Bretonnia, Chaos and O&G Order in.

[DaveC]

I ordered a full Empire army about a month ago - just in case and there are fair few miscasts and the quality of the castings isn't as good as it used to be. GWs quality control has gone downhill recently. I also think these molds are on their last legs.

From what I've heard Specialist games will continue to be metal minis and there are no plans to convert them to Finecast (hate that name). The warhammer and 40K metal minis that have been recalled will be melted down and the metal used for Specialist games stuff. Now whether they replace end of life molds or not is another question for another day.

[fracas]

yeah, the old molds may be why there is no plan to switch to finecast for SG