Yes it's a Gundam head and I've since put the shield on his right arm. I've got to put fill in the neck are. It's sticking up a lot but I didn't want to be too low either. This the first Tag where it looked appropriate and easy to do.
It's a no brainer. CBs quality of Siocast is a joke. Not only is the quality poor but they can't design it for shit. Look where this gate is. Why?
Either to spite their customers or because realistically this is the only place the flow gate can be placed in order for the mould to successfully fill up without air traps when one considers the material viscosity, temperature, injection speed pressure and various other parameters I would not know of. one of the two is more probable than the other.
That is also true, this one just seems to be negatives other than cost. You can see the soft details and weird textures in that photo. It's just a poor quality of production that still asks for premium prices. You know what costs less? Those SW Legion hard plastics without casing issues behind it. Or GW plastics.
And a Gundam MG kit is cheaper (when one takes into account the sprews in the box) and better constructed compared to you mentioned, also comes precoloured, so what is your point? We all would love Infinity to sell in such great volumes that HIPS would make sense as a material, especially for niche and slow selling units such as TAGS and other big models, it does not and CB does not have behind it of one of the biggest (if not the biggest) boardgame multinational corporation to suck up the costs like atomic mass games do. CB improves siocast slowly and recently have announced they make their own mixture of siocast to improve it further, it is a slow process and incrementally provides a better product.
it cost less because is produced in China, what makes to the company have significant less margin of maneuver in all the process and can delay the production significantly.
The point is that they released a substandard product, continue to do it, all while saying "it'll get better, trust us". They should have just gone with metal (which is more expensive, but not as much as they claim especially considering you can get metal models pretty cheap from other companies). It should have gone through testing, rigorous QA, and when it was ready switch over. That or just move to Unicool which is actually pretty good.
GW plastics are done in the UK. I would also take a good material made in China over a poor material made in Spain.
You are, seriously and unironically, comparing CB with GW, you make no sense, why not compare GW with Bandai to show how trash is GW in all aspects of HIPS production if that is the logic? There are levels of history, nuance, market share, and target audience that need to be considered before comparing Companies.
GW is a world appart. They must not be taken as example. As a company, I would not be comfortable losing control over the manufacturing of my product, production times, shipping, budgets and depending on the pace of work in China (how many of the KS produced in China by CB arrived on time and without issues?) It happened with Shaterpoint early this year. Remember this monthly releases? Well, we lost out spot in the container ship, so they will be delayed until we found another one. i think Ramon is makin the ships for Acheron falls in Unicool and he said that is being several magnitudes harder to manufacture than the full european manufactured Takkure. Changing budgets, eternal adjustments to the sculps for making the plastic molds...
