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Oh yeah these are definitely better! But I have put my mind on those Dark Eldar models. In general I'm not a fan of GW minis, but I really like those.

Ah we'll see.

Corvus wrote:But I have put my mind on those Dark Eldar models. In general I'm not a fan of GW minis, but I really like those.

Exactly:D dark eldars:D:D
I was hopeing I can do them as a squad and sf signle;p... but all those pics of failcast are realy discourageing.

But in FW range there is few quite interesting things aswell, so maybe I'll enter something this year after all;]

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The Tyranids dont seem to have so many problems

I'm still waiting for a replacement but wanted to clean the "good" parts of the sprue already. Turns out there are only 3 parts on the sprue without defects: the three small arms on the top right. I noticed bubbles in the other parts which I first thought were unaffected, but it appears they are after all

The material is surely something to get used to but not necessarily bad. I read things on the web that it is very brittle, but so can metal miniatures right? I wasn't very careful and snapped the hand off one arm. But this was easily fixed with superglue.

Replacement is here.... overall less bubbles, but there are plenty of other problems: deformed parts, a hole in the cloak and in other places it's so thin that it's translucent. A corner of the cloak is gone, done by a bubble, and also some spikes on the back of the spine.

And then there are bubbles in exactly the sames spots: pointy bits on the chest area, mechanical arm, feet/toes...

It's also interesting to see that the channels on the sprue have a different layout than the previous figure. How can they achieve a consistent quality if even the production process is different for every sprue?

I'm still playing the friendly and naive customer so I have asked Customer Support if there is a particular problem with this figure or this batch of figures. If this is not the case then I want a replacement. We'll see...

pictures coming soon

does playing friendly and naive help?

so FailCast stood up to its name and reputation, huh?

Well from all the stories of the finecast stuff, i'm pretty glad that i decided to move onto Privateer Press recently. I'll stay away from those GW stuff for a little bit i think until they get their quality back up, especially for the price.

mahon wrote:does playing friendly and naive help?

Probably not but I'm doing a bit of research journalism for the moment

If I get another failed replacement I think I'm going to call it quits, and try to get my money back.

arctica wrote:until they get their quality back up, especially for the price.

don't you mean: "until they get their prices up, especially for the FineCast quality."?

lol yes that is probably a more accurate description. I'm too much of an optimist ^^