Goodbye Metals

[wuffy]

Apr 21, 2011 14:50:53 GMT randoman11 said:

YAAAAY!! No more metal zoanthropes!!!

I was hoping for that, since I palced an order for 3 the other day, my retailer says they are out of stock and new ones will come in soon. I'm all "Sweet Resin plastic thropes... cool"

Explain how I heard from here no more metals, he asked his supplier. Newp.. the new ones coming out are still metals.

Foiled...

[Deathnid]

Apr 18, 2011 21:16:35 GMT Hellbreaker said:

Resin could, and would, be a change for the worse for inexperienced modellers however, as it is toxic. Not all people know this.

so i cant feed tau to my little brother anymore... or can i?

[tedstea]

Apr 20, 2011 8:19:37 GMT The New AIDS said:

I would support the switch from meatals to resins, but resin annoys me, as it is a thermoset plastic, and thus Ploystyrene cement (or plastic glue) doesn't function properly. And as for the acrylic thermo-plastics they use for most models, the models are getting much finer in detail due to new moulding and scultping techniques. It was just a matter of making sure the models didn't warp or break in the casting process, but now some plastic models are more detailed than the older metals. This is epitomised in the image in the dark eldar codex with the older banshee models (which look thick and lumpen) fighting some of the newer plastic wych models (which look lithe and graceful). Have faith in pastics. My only hope really, is that they make aspect warriors plastic, as they from the larger part of an eldar army, so it is ridiculous to have all but one squad in metal.

someone got word of the day toilet paper... forgive my Australian customs i couldn't resit. on the OT i think resin would be a refreshing change as metal is almost impossible to convert imo.