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Plastic figure kits; ...are they kidding?
Topic Started: 25th June 2005 - 06:25 AM (236 Views)
Tilara
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I just got my first box of nightrunners today... are all the plastic kits this bad? I swear I spent 4-5hrs just to put 20 models together after cutting the pieces from the sprues and cleaning off the flash and mould lines. Is this normal for the new plastic kits? I mean... if I was in a hurry I probably could have nearly painted the whole unit in that amount of time.

I'm starting to dread the 2 more boxes of nightrunners (for my eshin army) and 2 boxes of clanrats I ordered. Its cool having all these possible poses and weapon choices and all, but man... for $30 (soon to be $35!!!) you'd think they could have somewhat better quality.
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prophet
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mold lines....

brrrrr...


I have the same problem tilara. Losing a lot of time cutting out all the bodyparts and trying to clean them...

The irony in this is that the plastic sets were introduced to make warhammer more payable (plastic = cheaper then metal) if I am correct.

However they're raising prices AND the figures need some major cleaning up..

Plus:
If I look at the left foot of the plastic clanrats, I always wonder why they didn't sculpt it as good as the right foot.

(might sound crazy... ^_^ )


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scrivener
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*sigh*... unfortunately, i think that's pretty standard for the clanrat and nightrunner boxes.

The mould lines, the pain gluing those tails on, and the left feet!! :angry: Beware the left feet, apparently every skaven under the world suffers from clubfoot on the left side.
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Tilara
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Jun 24 2005, 11:33 PM
The irony in this is that the plastic sets were introduced to make warhammer more payable (plastic = cheaper then metal) if I am correct.

I don't believe that for a second. I'm willing to bet the switch to mostly plastic figures was a way to reduce production costs to increase the profit margen, NOT as a way to pass the savings onto the customers, stockholders perhaps, but not customers.
$1.75 per plastic... ya right more playable. When I started, metal figures didn't cost that much. It was like $0.80 per plastic or $1.50 per metal. Now its $12 in some cases for metal... and there's less metal in each figure too. All the new rats are way thinner and a bit shorter than the old ones... they're cutting corners everywhere and raising prices at the same time! ...AND the plastic kits are worse to clean. =(

/mutter
/goes back to scraping mould lines
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FOr all their problems i have to admit i still prefer these over metal models, they just open up so much more variety and conversion obtions i can stay mad at them even if i have ccut myself numerous times. ^_^
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Jun 25 2005, 01:33 AM
If I look at the left foot of the plastic clanrats, I always wonder why they didn't sculpt it as good as the right foot.

These are called "palms" and because they have a long face I call every clanrat "duck"
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I actually like the plastic kits (ducks behind the table as Ratling Gun fire fills the air). I just paint them on the sprue, and never have problems with mould lines. I even like putting them together.

So, I cannot identify with your problem.
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i dont find the plastics to be that bad, either... cut em off, one slice with a good knife, and you're set. I rarely have to file mould lines, although i havent bought a night runner box in almost a year... clanrats werent bad though

and we ALL KNOW about the bloody left foot. stop agreeing on how bad it is before i have an anneurism. :wacko:
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hakoMike
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The quality of the molding has varied greatly with the different clanrat/night runner boxes I've gotten, and I've only been into this whole thing 7 months (has it really only been 7 months?!?) Some of the sprues didn't even really look like the two halves of the mold had been aligned correctly.

When it's all said and done, I prefer the customizable nature of the plastics. but GW, for the love of all that is warhammer, MAKE SOME TAILS THAT DON'T STICK OUT 2" FROM THE BODY!!!
So old. So so old.
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hakoMike
Jun 25 2005, 10:05 PM
but GW, for the love of all that is warhammer, MAKE SOME TAILS THAT DON'T STICK OUT 2" FROM THE BODY!!!

i stopped bothering with the tails on anything ranked a LONG time ago...
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