Is Metal BACK?

[Mystery.Shadow]

January 2013 White Dwarf. Page 31. At the top, ALSO AVAILABLE:

Is this true or a typo?

[TheBitzBarn]

Yes they have not been converted to resin

[Houghten]

It's not so much back as they haven't got rid of enough of the existing stockpiles of Azrael / Ezekiel to make it worth shifting to Finecast yet.

[Mr Mystery]

I'd say Houghton has the right of it.

[Psychosplodge]

They don't need to though as they can always melt them back down...Suggests more a F/C quality issue with the resin version to me.

[OrksOrksOrks]

They don't need to though as they can always melt them back down...Suggests more a F/C quality issue with the resin version to me.

Melting down costs money, and as they're trying to limit their metal prroducts, they don't have a lot of use for the metal anyway, its cheaper to sell of existing metal models, finecast has been fine for at least 6 months now, the complaints have died away, they've got the quality under control

[Psychosplodge]

It costs no more than melting to cast any of the still metal models, it may even be cheaper as rather than melting an entire ingot they're working with smaller "lumps" of metal that should melt quicker as a result. Also just sitting on it saves them money as they don't have to buy more in for remaining metal models...and if they ever sell it back to market the price is generally increasing as well.

Maybe it has, or maybe people are used to it?> who knows?

[OrksOrksOrks]

It costs no more than melting to cast any of the still metal models, it may even be cheaper as rather than melting an entire ingot they're working with smaller "lumps" of metal that should melt quicker as a result. Also just sitting on it saves them money as they don't have to buy more in for remaining metal models...and if they ever sell it back to market the price is generally increasing as well.

Maybe it has, or maybe people are used to it?> who knows?

It still costs money though, you have to pay someone to melt it down. Finecast is great now, they messed it up at first, but now they have it under control its lovely, I just got a box of Ork Kommandos and Snikrot, they're flawless, literally not a thing wrong with them at all, its better than metal, cheaper than metal, why would they go back on it?

[Psychosplodge]

Better is a matter of opinion, but if they're using the existing moulds still, and still shipping metal models for those characters, to me that suggests a F/C failure rate unacceptably high.

They'll have the facilities on site still for their metal casting process that already exists, that cost is literally negligible in the grand scheme of things while ever they're still producing any metal models.

[OrksOrksOrks]

Better is a matter of opinion, but if they're using the existing moulds still, and still shipping metal models for those characters, to me that suggests a F/C failure rate unacceptably high.

They'll have the facilities on site still for their metal casting process that already exists, that cost is literally negligible in the grand scheme of things while ever they're still producing any metal models.

In what way does it suggest this? There are still a lot of metal models that they haven't made finecast molds for yet, it could be indicative of them making new models for these guys so not bothering to change them over for all you know.

You're just joining in with the now pointless finecast hate, stop being so negative.