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[Official Announcement] Injected Thermoplastic miniatures

Discussion in 'News' started by Koni, Jul 29, 2021.

  1. UpirLihi

    UpirLihi Well-Known Member

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    Potentially unpopular take - just because you can, doesn't mean you should. The crazy poses and compositions that GW pioneered are inferior to a detailed sculpt and a well-chosen pose that conveys the strengths of the model.
     
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  2. Knauf

    Knauf Transhumanist

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    No to mention that they tend to be impractical in terms of actual gaming and transportation.
     
  3. Mob of Blondes

    Mob of Blondes Well-Known Member

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    Right, paraphrasing Goldblum in Jurassic Park:
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    The world already has too many cases where that quote applies with minimal adjustments. :( No need of adding more.

    A joke model in Bootleg range composed of three models trying to impersonate another, fine. But that is a different thing. Even so, the Nomad remote has chunky legs, so I wonder how springy the models would be with sillier (than current) tactical rocks.
     
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    Arschbombe Well-Known Member

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    Gurutz29 Well-Known Member

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  6. toadchild

    toadchild Premeasure

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    Other reviewers got production sample boxes with the same "FINAL PRODUCT" label, but then they made a last minute edit to the molds anyway to detach the head part. Anything you buy in a store should have a separate head.
     
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    Lawson Well-Known Member

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    Google autotranslate seems to work pretty well on this converting it to English. Very thorough review - thanks.
     
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  8. chromedog

    chromedog Less than significant minion

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    ... Only to *bin* ALL of them when the newer Haqq bikers came out (replaced ALL of them with the newer models).
     
  9. Pierzasty

    Pierzasty Null-Space Entity

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    Nah, Magno was the one who filmed throwing his old Kums into the bin after seeing new ones. The all-Kum-army dude was basing his on new ones from the start.
     
  10. chromedog

    chromedog Less than significant minion

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    One of the guys in Melbourne did an entire kum army on the old bikes as well.
    He tossed them all and redid them with the new ones.
     
  11. UpirLihi

    UpirLihi Well-Known Member

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    So, Bostria has indeed confirmed that the Megabeast is too big for their SioCast machines, which is the reason it will not be siocast -

    MuadDib did predict that correctly.
     
  12. Nuada Airgetlam

    Nuada Airgetlam Nazis sod off ///

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    :speak_no_evil:

    OMFG, that Vostok 360 just hurts to watch. I hope the separate head and adjustments to the process resulted in better casting.
     
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  13. Pierzasty

    Pierzasty Null-Space Entity

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    Pics of the old ones? If you mean TheFatDamien, I was only aware of the new-style conversions.
     
  14. UpirLihi

    UpirLihi Well-Known Member

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    A couple of pictures from WGC Infinity from Facebook. Not mine, I'm just the messenger (No kill, pls).

    Seems most of the issues that we've already noticed are still around. The irregularities on the surfaces are pretty concerning, but imho fixable with patience and some experience. The misshapen grill definitely concerns me a lot more. Similar elements exist on quite a lot of models and it is not something that you can fix by spending tons of time on sanding.

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  15. Nuada Airgetlam

    Nuada Airgetlam Nazis sod off ///

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    Yep, area around the head was fixed, the rest still looks like shit.

    The Bearpode is going to be one fugly piece of crap. Such a shame.

    Small wonder they've finally decided Chinese PVC is still a better choice for TAG RAID.
     
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  16. Nuada Airgetlam

    Nuada Airgetlam Nazis sod off ///

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    OK, I'm honestly starting to lose patience with CB "Quality Control". Just got Beyond Crimson Stone, the Vostok they've sent is the non-production variant, the one without the detachable head, with melted down "neck". It's absolutely god awful and now I have to subject the guy I've split the box with to even more waiting. What the hell, CB.

    Guys, this is the CB survey from the thermoplastic flyer's QR code. Tell them what you think!
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  17. UpirLihi

    UpirLihi Well-Known Member

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    Nuada, this is the old sculpt before they split the head. It'd be more useful to confine criticism only to the new vostoks.
     
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  18. Nuada Airgetlam

    Nuada Airgetlam Nazis sod off ///

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    This is the old sculpt they weren't supposed to sell to people, they said they would sell the separate head one - why the hell did I just get it in a Beyond box that premiered last Saturday?
     
  19. UpirLihi

    UpirLihi Well-Known Member

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    Oh, then that's a packing mistake. This is annoying but easily solvable.
     
  20. Daireann

    Daireann Well-Known Member

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    I thought about to order Crimson Stone with friend, but I didn’t want to pay the same price for Beyond part because that plastic things...
    It is sorry, but I can’t used to the fact I should pay the price of metal for this.
    So, for now we chose not to buy it.

    I think, I would avoid to buy plastic miniatures. :(

    Today we discussed in town local chat about budget miniatures made with bread. You are killing unit - you can eat it! Of course we were not serious, but I think this version sounds good. (tags would be made with caramel by the way))
     
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