#Finecast resin

[thesixthchaosgod]

Bruh...

[audley-and-cherry]

I guess there's people that follow me for my minis? Or something? Weirdos.

TRAZYN IS FINISHED!! And I'm quite pleased with how he turned out.

The goal was to make him look worn and dirty, like he's been on a long campaign. Partially because, yes, I am coming to this (Necrons) after Death Guard and partially because the rest of my Necron army is in various stages of enyuckification.

Also, his base isn't done because one of my regrets with my Death Guard is that they *don't* have a unifying theme to their bases, so I'm going to tackle the Necron bases all at the same time.

Anyway. I'm having a vicious allergic reaction to god knows what, so I'm going to take like 20 Benadryl and go to bed.

(Hey @skinslip my love! Look!)

[howadzpaints]

Imotekh the Stormlord 25-Sept-2024

When the showcased the new sculpt for Bossman himself, I knew I had to grab one when it became available. I painted an old Finecast one almost exactly 3 years ago, and by comparison this mini is so so much better. The scale is more in line with current minis, the pose has barely changed, and because it's not Finecast resin the painting experience was infinitely more enjoyable.

Enjoyed myself a lot with him! I had struggles with edge highlighting the blades this time, I need some new brushes with sharper tips I think.

Video showing the process of painting him here.

[paint-goblin-peter]

I should Tumbl more often

That's how the diagnosed and undiagnosed introverts make friends, right?

I assembled a set of bomb rats for Necromunda. I haven't made a Forgeworld model before (have done finecast but not FW) I guess that the big difference is that the FW resin is still poisonous ... buuttt

Damn those little models are amazing. Amazing for resin/metal/older plastic. I think that contemporary CNC milled plastics from industry leaders like games Workshop are in fact up to this quality. But. To my knowledge forgeworld hasn't needed to update their process to stay competitive and is still using approaches that would have worked 20 years ago since they've already achieved maximum quality as far as their concerned. So well forgeworld models here are definitely prettier than the five cast models over on the other shelf, I can understand that sits find past was meant to replace the lower quality peer it was never going to be as high fidelity as forge World.

I did enjoy the lack of stringy air gates that I recall in Finecast, but, nearly missed the traditional flash all over the little arms. I would suspect that this is where the mold is separated in real life and that these particular molds are still some sort of hand cut silicone or rubber thing. Magical. I only frustration was the peace I missed on one of the four arms until I had glued the model down.

So.

So check all your models.

I didn't go super meticulous with a mold lines or sanding on the models. I actually didn't do any sounding because it was late at night and I didn't want to deal with the safety equipment. Much to my delight there were not a lot of noble mold lines no joins the model seemed absolutely perfect other than the flash around some of the arms. Lately I've been sort of giggling and embracing having some gaps and some old lines on my models to remind me that these are silly reports that bring us such joy - so you're feelings and results on this made most certainly be different.

I'm looking forward to painting these little guys starting this week. Here's a picture of them having a little bath in Dettol before I wiggled the box a bunch and eventually scrub them off with dish detergent. It would have been nice to have a strainer for this.

[barontyrwulf]

Here are my Exalted Chanpions of Khorne! Valkia the Gorequeen and Scylla Anfingrimm! How many battlefields have these two bathed in blood and broken skulls for their father? Countless! I’d love to get my hands on the other versions of of Scylla as well. Both of these minis are Finecast models and here’s the thing…. Finecast…. Was fine by the time they discontinued it in favor of Forge world resin. But the original Finecast was garbage. I say this in case you ever come across a Finecast model on eBay. An Age of Sigmar label is usually a good sign that your Finecast is the better stuff.

[divineerdrick]

Warhammer Day 2023

EDIT: This is almost a full week late! This week has sucked for many reasons, but I still can't believe it took me that long to get one blog post done!

I know I'm late on this one, but I crashed right after watching it. I noted my reactions down, but I'm going to file this under "Not So Live Blog." My attempt to revive this blog is off to a fantastic start!

Which makes it only slight worse than this set of Warhammer Day reveals!

I won't bury the lead hear. GW put a lot of marketing and hype into the 40th Anniversary of Warhammer. But I feel they definitely overhyped this. It's not that there weren't any big reveals, but nothing on the scale of Leviathan. I wonder if they were originally intending to announce Leviathan at Warhammer Day, but then things got changed to keep their summer launch cycle. I've started having more than a few suspicions and question regarding that release.

One issue is with the need to make sure there are regular news and announcements. I feel things that maybe should have been a part of something like Warhammer Day ended up preempting it. Leviathan may be the obvious one, being delivered at Adepticon instead of a GW event, but both new seasons of WarCry and Underworlds were announced less than a month prior. As a result, there was really only one big reveal for this 40th Anniversary blowout and I feel like it's half missing.

And it sucks, because what was revealed was great!

But enough preamble, let's see what was unveiled!

WARHAMMER 40,000

With all the major news for 40K happening this past summer, we're now into our standard Codex and miniature release cycle. For Warhammer Day, it was Necrons and AdMech!

Necrons

The greatest military mind the galaxy has ever seen returns! Imotekh the Stormlord is back and free from Finecast resin! This new model looks fantastic! While Immotekh isn't currently a very potent model, there are plenty of ways that could change with Codex Necrons. Speaking of which, we got some teases as to what the new Detachments will be, including a Stratagem and Enhancement. In addition to a Canoptek detachment and a Destroyer Detachment, we got a direct reveal for the Hypercrypt Legion.

The Hypercrypt Legion is all about movement shenanigans, using teleportation and gate technology to get your legions into position. They demonstrated this with Hyperphasic recall, which lets you take a wounded Necron unit and move it to a Monolith. It's 2CP, but there are lots of evil things you can do with this. Your opponent always wants to make sure they destroy your units, and with some Necron bricks that can definitely take a few units worth of shooting. Removing a group of Necron warriors out of the line of fire, only to then Reanimate them could be a frustrating trick. It'll be even crueler if you have the tools to then send them back into the fight.

Next we have the Destroyer themed Eternal Madness. As long as this isn't too expensive, this is another winner. Fight on Death is a powerful ability. Just the threat that a Destroyer Lord could be taking a unit with him will make opponents think twice. All and all, some fun previews for the Undying Legions.

Adeptus Mechanicus

I'm just gonna start by putting this right here.

This model is so crazy and I am so here for it! Eddie with Warhammer Preview described it as being "a little bit Marmite." I'm sure a lot of people are going to think this goes too far, but I think it's perfect. The Sydonian Skatros will also be a cheap Lone Operative, so it will definitely be a useful addition to nearly any AdMech army. AdMech will of course also be getting some new Detachments with their Codex, which are much needed. In addition to Detachments themed around Tech-Priests and Cybernetica, we have the Skitarii Hunter Cohort.

Unfortunately, the second part of this Detachment rule will rarely matter in game. But the first part will increase the durability of your Skitarrii and Ironstriders, the first of whom have already gotten a nice durability buff. Providing the Stratagems and Enhancements are good, I'd probably always take this over the Rad-Cohort.

And speaking of Stratagems . . .

Binharic Offence is 2CP to give two of your Skitarii units an additional pip of AP against one chosen enemy unit. This is huge! AP is at a premium in 10th Edition, and anything that improves it is more than welcome. All and all a great start to the Hunter Cohort.

With that, we move away from mainline 40K. Though we're not quite done with important reveals for my favorite game just yet . . .

AGE OF SIGMAR

And again, I'm gonna just put this here.

Do I really need to say anything?

I never dived particularly deep into AoS. I've read the Daughters of Khaine Battle Tomes for 2nd and 3rd Edition, plus Morathi, and I've read the 3rd Edition book. I also used to follow Warhammer Weekly pretty faithfully, but haven't caught any episodes since shortly before the reveal of 10th. I like the game, though there are a few bug bears I have with it (one of which has snuck into 40K.) But the models are just amazing! The writers and artists for this game have just done fantastic work creating a familiar fantasy setting that is still very much its own beast.

Just amazing!

These miniatures are part of the ongoing narrative arc, Dawnbringers. And here is where I have to reveal some of my ignorance. How long has AoS had Armies of Renown? I know they have Warscroll Battalions, but are these new to the current campaign?

Regardless, I am here for both of these miniatures! Alarielle is still my favorite plastic miniature, possibly my favorite GW miniature period, and I'm going to eventually want Belthanos to go with her.

KILL TEAM

After teasing us before the reveal of Belthanos by accidentally starting the wrong video, we got the reveal of the next Kill Team season and our first two Kill Teams. There's two big pieces of news here, while not a lot of actual detail about the new season.

The big reveal is that the first new Kill Team set will include the new Striking Scorpions. I was just talking to a friend the other day about the fact that Aeldari still needs to finish their range refresh. There's no sign of Uncle K yet, but this is still great news.

The second big reveal is this season of Kill Team will not be sold with huge terrain sets. GW isn't giving up on Killzones, but they'll be available separately now for all of us that already have a huge assortment of Kill Team terrain. Hopefully, this means the Kill Team box sets will be much more affordable, especially for anyone that wants to get their hands on either the new Scouts or the new Striking Scorpions.

On a side note, I never blogged about how confusing the whole Scouts thing was. They removed Scouts to Legends, then released new ones. Why not just update the Datasheet in the Codex? I thought Scouts going to Legends was weird to begin with . . .

What was surprisingly missing from the reveal is anything regarding what this new Season is about. The Gallowdark has fallen to this ocean world and now various factions have pursued it there. That's about it. We know the first Killzone will be set on a derrick in the middle of a hostile ocean. They even mentioned that the waters with be deadly, with a joke about SPEHSS PAHRAHNAHS! But there was no real mention of any overarching story or theme for this season.

THE OLD WORLD

At last we come to it - what could be considered the big reveal of this Warhammer Day.

The Kingdom of Bretonia!

And if you've been following GW reveals, you know why that's a bit underwhelming. We already know Bretonia is coming for Old World and will be one of the first armies we get. Still, let's start with the good stuff.

Again, just looks at it! The new Lord on Pegasus looks amazing, as does the alternate kit for a Baron on Pegasus. There's a lot of incredible detail, personality, and life in this new miniature. And we can see that in all the new miniatures.

But that's where the cool stuff stops. The new Kingdom of Betonia set is bringing some new models, but the bulk of it looks to be returning models from classic Warhammer. And as you can see . . .

Some of them just don't hold up well next to the new miniatures. While it's great that you can still use your old miniatures to play, one of the pains of having a game shut down is the loss of new and updated sculpts. I know there are plenty of classic Warhammer fans that were hoping for more.

The next bugbear to tackle is the Forge World kits. For various reasons, GW often uses Forge World to support their "Boxed Games." Despite originally being a mainline game, I think we all suspected that when The Old World released it would be supplemented by Forge World. But it looks like it's going to be a lot of kits. Anything new not coming out in the launch box appears to be Forge World, including that Handmaiden above. My guess is that anything that was a pewter kit will also be Forge World, since that's one of the reason GW still uses resin. We already know the Field Trebuchet will be returning as a Forge World kit. All and all, there doesn't appear to be anywhere near the plastic support for The Old World that The Horus Heresy got.

Finally there's the fact we're still getting drip-fed the previews, even though it's Warhammer Day. I don't understand why they couldn't just give us some more substantial reveals. We know basically every kit we're getting for Bretonia in the launch box, but we don't have the reveal of the launch box. While we're pretty sure who their opponent will be, they haven't official revealed them, let alone new miniatures. Finally we know that The Old World will release in "early" 2024, but nothing more solid than that.

Though, to be fair, that last one is consistent with GW marketing and their seeming refusal to give us launch dates until they're almost on us. Doesn't anyone in their marketing team understand the concept of saving up for things?

All and all, this reveal is taking away from the impact a final Old World reveal could have. It's weird because GW can be so good at maintaining hype through previews and teasers. Maybe they're hoping that when they announce the second faction and drop its new miniatures, it will make up for it.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Like I said, I feel for the 40th Anniversary of Warhammer, this Warhammer Day preview is just lacking. It needed something to help make it a celebration of these great games and this great hobby. Hell! As I'm finishing this there have been more products added to the Warhammer Day celebration. The best one wasn't even revealed during this Preview - a reprint of the original Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. I don't understand how they could build up so much hype and momentum for the 40th, only to let it hit so lightly.

The new miniatures are still awesome, especially for AOS, and I'm still glad to see The Old World returning. But as companies before them have learned the hard way, if you're going to build a ton of hype, you need to have a payoff for it.

[simon-newman]

We need some refreshed Necron characters. Most of them are still finecast resin.

Yeah, that's definitely a bigger, better version of Orikan the Diviner.

Kind of a scrawny, goofy looking guy. I guess even undead alien robots can eat their Wheaties.

The bigger takeaway is that there was a perfect opportunity to tie in a campaign release with a promotional video series and GW managed to squander it.

[innercircleminiatures]

I had intended to work on these three but the Finecast is so implausibly, cartoonishly, mind-bogglingly horrible I don’t know if I even want to bother

It is perhaps difficult to see, but typical of finecast, there are huge chunks of flash throughout the model that are so big you need not only to trim them but actually sculpt parts of the model to fill in missing details, in addition to the usual resin warping

For example, the face of this shield had huge chunks of resin between the rope things, not sure how I’m supposed to smooth that out

And then of course there is the quality of the mold itself. Is this supposed to be some kind of hybrid European straight / Cossack Shashka curve blade? Am I supposed to trim this to a point?

Maybe I’ll just throw them all out

[minisception]

A new, third incarnation of Mojo Jojo, the Mad Jokaero Warpsmith, contracted by the Dark Mechanicus to the Crimson Eyes warband of the Black Legion.

This version ditches ~most~ of the 2nd version's hated, fragile, temperature-sensitive finecast resin in favor of nice, high quality plastic, while preserving the hand sculpted green stuff head from the 1st version, and the lower quality plastic D&D mini gorrila right arm & left hand from the 2nd version.

I never did get around to painting the second version. Hopefully I'll be better about that this time around. No current plans to do so, though. Commission models & kill team stuff has priority.

[betabites]

Regarding @notoftheskaal's tags: #all of these are great#but Saruman and his robes and the palantir are just 'oh wow' material for me#Sauron's eye watching#that's a lot of orcs! Or more accurately uruk-hai as you say#I like the White Hand on them and the banner of it too#failcast being finecast/resin?#more minis built is at least half the battle to me#I can't say I care for building minis yet it's a necessary evil for the ones requiring it#hope you don't mind it

Yeah, Failcast is finecast/non-Forgeworld resin. I don't think Forgeworld resin is as bad, but I don't have any personal experience with it yet. I'm sure it'll happen when I bite the bullet and order Glorfindel.

I actually really like the prep work on minis, because it's generally something I can do while watching something else, so it's can be a communal space activity. The kitbashing, less so, but it's really good at occupying my mind. The painting, however, is tough to get started on. And It can definitely get dull when working on large numbers of units. I think 6-7 is like ideal batch painting size for me, assuming there's not too much detail. So of course I did most of these orcs in batches of 10-11. But they're done, and ready to hit the table.

The meat of Orktober: the Fighting Uruk-Hai!

I did some light modding: turning six sword-only uruk-hai scouts into berserkers (with two-handed swords) and ferals (with two weapons), a banner-uruk (the reverse has scrawlings in cirth that amount to 'middle-finger [at] everyone'), and a drummer and priest of Morgoth.

Conceivably, I could use another banner, but practically, I haven't been able to fit in a second banner in Lurtz's scouts before 800pts, which is well past their peak. Similarly, if I need a Scout Captain, I'll probably grab one of the berserkers.

There's definitely room for expansion on the side of the warriors/siege troops. I don't particular want to get siege engines, but some bombs, ladders, and enough uruks to credibly assail Helm's Deep would not go amiss. Not sure how I want to handle crossbows yet, whether that's bashing some together or biting the bullet and getting official ones... *goes and looks* ...oh they're failcast, to heck with that. Bashing it is!

For the other parts of Isengard: I have warg riders (not quite 400pts; would need a second box to actually field the Legendary Legion), and Dunlanders (about 600pt), but they've yet to be painted. All built, though.

[audley-and-cherry]

I came home yesterday after a decidedly weird day (been having a lot of those lately) to find that J had bought me my very own Trazyn the Inifite!

I love this terrible little antiquities thief.

[nightbringer24]

I actually built up one of my new chaplains just now. The dude with the bolt pistol and skull pauldron.

Have to say, despite it being Finecast resin, did not have any major problems that couldn’t be fixed by some scraping with a knife.

[nightscalestudio]

All miniature painting studios be careful, this man is a swindler.

fahad1964@gmail.com https://www.reddit.com/user/Whip_It64 https://www.instagram.com/torontofq

This "client" from Canada initially knocked on our Instagram. From the very beginning he behaved rudely, and demanded that he be given the maximum possible discount. He also demanded that we buy for him pirated products, for which the third world countries, including Ukraine, are so infamous. We fundamentally do not use pirated products, never under any circumstances, except for those cases when the client buys his own miniatures and sends them to us for work. All our artists are modelers themselves and they know very well that quality is above all. All resin miniatures we paint are original Finecast and Forgeworld. And so we refused the "client". After that, the "client" moved to an account in Reddit, and changed tactics. He wrote with respect and even came up with a tearful story about his son, who wanted our Carcharodons for his birthday. We did not suspect that this was the same person, as this time he agreed to the original miniatures and behaved carefully. After the painter finished work with his order, he paid for it through the PayPal. We sent the package and did not bode well. As it turned out, in connection with the Covid19 pandemic, Canada closed the tracking of parcels in its country, at least for Ukraine it is. The fraudster knew about this, and decided to take advantage of the fact that the parcel is tracked only to the Canadian customs. After that, he canceled the transfer and received both the money back and the parcel with the miniatures. Unfortunately, the administration of Paypal did not want to contact us at all, despite the checks provided. As a result, two artists of our studio suffered (one artist who painted miniatures, and the second one who provided bits from Forgeworld) and a PayPal intermediary with whom we work, since, unfortunately, there is no PayPal in Ukraine. The amount that may not be so significant for a resident of Canada is a serious blow for a resident of Ukraine. We may have to refuse shipping to Canada due to such scammers.

[glasratz]

This model... this model is killing me. I have limited experience with Citadel Finecast and after this one, I’ll try my very best to keep it that way. I can handle warped resin parts, bubbles and gaps. I can’t handle mold lines that destroy decoration and flashes so thick you have to carve a new surface out of them. And I only bought the model because I though it looked fun to paint! 

[paintnpending]

Commissar Severina Raine. I remember making a noise of vocal disgust when I unwrapped this mini and found out that it was Finecast Resin. It was fine after some filing and green stuff.

Enjoyed picking out all the details on this model, and I tried to go the extra mile on shading. It didn’t photograph well, but she looks nice as a centerpiece to my kill team.

[redshirtstabletop]

Techmarine finally finished. Not my best work OR my favorite model but an okay paintjob. Contact in bio #redshirts #minatures #warhammer #tabletop #tabletopgaming #warhammer40k #bloodangels #marines #techmarine #finecast #resin #konor #fateofkonor #painting #verven #paintingwarhammer #verf #paint #imperial