May>August 2024: Operation Sun's Out, Guns Out, It's Time to Get Sweaty and Booty

CB putting wrong equipment on renders? wow, such a surprise...

 

Siocast just breaks on remotes, that material cannot be used for anything thin. All my remotes came broken, and then replacements sent by CB also broke either during transport or assembly. Horrible material.
TAGs are probably fine, though I had a broken arm on Squalo mk2...
Unicool has a superior material.
As for releases Wrecker looks like he escaped from a 1996 game, all blocky. Looks horrible, but it is not like anyone would be using it while Silverstar Prime exists in its current mega broken form.
Haqq resculps are questionable but look ok.
Ajax looks great.

 

I have not experienced such a failure rate myself, I have managed to break only one Nomads remotes leg in the many remotes I have assembled, I will agree though Unicool is a better material to handle.

 

Well, my experience has been pretty horrible with siocast. My stigmata took a fall, and broke horizontally across both thighs. It was a fairly clean break, so clean in fact that the surfaces just wanted to slide around on each other once glue was applied. Frustrating, but I dealt with it. Lizard was OK, not great, had issues.

Sqaulo mkII, and maximus are garbage. Mold lines tucked in-between armor plates and such. Some lines are so frustrating to clean because you can't really get in there with blade or file.

Tags were the major reason I got into infinity, I love them, I own 13. Squalo and Max have been so frustrating and time consuming that the only TAGs I will purchase moving forward, if any will old be OG metal tag. Its a bummer but I don't even want to finish those 2 TAGs. Im sure I will at some point, but God I hate working with that material.

TL;DR:
I want to buy more TAGs CB, but won't buy any more Siocast.

 

I have the new Marut and O-Yoroi. I rather like the lighter material. While there is something to be said for metal models that are actually physically dangerous, I'm not as nervous picking up a plastic TAG as I am with a metal one.

 

Why so? What is there to be nervous about? Properly pinned, epoxy applied, painted and varnished, it should last you a while. And if you drop any model from the 1.6m.height to the tiled floor, every model will get damaged.

I quite like the heft of metal myself. The only downside I see is that at the spry age of mid thirties, I can not lug around ten kilos of models day in and day out in addition to my backpack filled with all kinds of work related papers.

 

my 2ct for the july releases:

Yaoxie REM - I like very much, reminds my a bit of temple dogs - a worthy upgrade, hopefully they don´t mess up with the guns in the box, as they did on the renders.

At some point they have to start the change. From all what I hear and see this plastic is better than Siocast.
I hope during the year all new releases bigger then S2 will made from this.

Its not corvus if they do not mess something up.

 

The usual worst-case scenario is dropping the metal model on top of another (typically a fragile resin model). The metal model may survive, the unfortunate target may not.

Also, plastic model dropped from tabletop height are, in my experience, much more likely to escape unscathed than metal model.

 

Did he stumble?

 

now take a hobbyist that doesnt know how to pin, epoxy, paint and varnish (hey, that's me)

-Hey, if you do all of these extra steps, your figures will last forever.
-But i dont know how to.
-Git Gud

 

Personally I outsource priming and once done varnishing too, I cannot do it and would rather pay to get these steps done than be on the constant loop of priming> stripping primer> trying again...

 

The main problem with Unicool is that it's all outsourced to China, I believe, and that adds a lot of uncertainty to things.

If they're going to outsource, Archon Studios in Poland does great PVC minis and seem to be very reliable for their other vendors (they do the newer Conquest minis and some stuff for Mantic I think). He mentioned talking to CB before but they like doing everything in house, if that's not true anymore, there's other options too.

 

I thought the company they teamed up with for Unicool was a Spanish one?

 

Nope, they're located in Dongguan, China
https://www.unicooltoys.com/about/

I might add that I dislike the decision to outsource the production of parts of the essential model range of Infinity to China. This option should be kept for all the "vanity" stuff like Kickstarters, limited edition models, terrain pieces, etc.

 

The vanity things probably don't have the numbers unicool accepts.

 

Unicool already did the limited ITS TAGs, Ayyar, and Lasiq, and are going to produce Acheron's Fall, which was not a large Kickstarter.

I do wonder if this was a choice was made because a lot of their Siocast production capacity is currently being used for Warcrow's launch products.

 

Good point. I just hope it keeps prices going up even go down. I'm not buying for awhile because I just spent too much on too little. I don't know why I bothered getting the nightshade. I used him yesterday to great effect but he was on the table for all of two orders.

 

Doesn't this apply to any HD or Airborne Deployment unit? Or for the classical Ninja KHD button-pushing at the end of the game for a total of one order? Or for any Holomasked Lt tucked in a corner? Or for a Marker State Lt?...

... At the end of the day we purchase and paint miniatures not for how useful are them, or how much table time they have. But for how cool they look painted and how much we cherish painting them and seeing them on or collection.

 

Or we play Morats. Or Tohaa without a Clipsos :P

 

As we get a robot warcor, is there any info if there is going to be a change in the profile from wounds to structure or an additional profile or something to reflect that?