Finecast fragility

[blackrainbow]

I just finished assembling, priming, and putting the base coats down on my first finecast, a zoanthrope. The whole time all I could thing of was "omg don't break omg don't break omg don't break".

Of my three old metal zoes, one has broke and been easily fixed over the years. This finecast feels like it will break to a stiff breeze. Do I just treat it like my little princess zoe, or can it handle basic use?

[creatureboi]

I found the model itself to be fairly hard wearing but that join between the base of his tail and the little spire thing he sits on us just asking to be snapped. I had two fine cast zoes and even though I was super careful in handling them and custom made foam carry case slots for them to sit in both snapped off their bases at this point. They spent a brief time floating on top of massive balls of epoxy resin before being replaced with the new plastic version

[bolk]

+1 to the join between the little spire thing and its tail, although they never broke off for me, but the Zoanthrope head is too heavy for the join that the model slowly bended sideways until it looked like they were drunk flying. So in the end I snapped off the little spire thing and put steel wire between the base and the tail instead. So glad they made the Zoanthropes/Venomthropes plastic kit.

[mattblowers]

Find another way to attach it to the base and you should be fine. The finecast venom has been better for me than the metal ones. The springiness has been more forgiving than the metal to gaming damage. Am I the only one who liked finecast? Easy to work with and light. My son's necrons have been a problem with the weapons breaking, but otherwise, other than the first run they have been great.

[WestRider]

Jun 28, 2015 11:53:15 GMT mattblowers said:

Find another way to attach it to the base and you should be fine. The finecast venom has been better for me than the metal ones. The springiness has been more forgiving than the metal to gaming damage. Am I the only one who liked finecast? Easy to work with and light. My son's necrons have been a problem with the weapons breaking, but otherwise, other than the first run they have been great.

You're not the only one. All of the Finecast I've picked up has been great, requiring relatively minor cleanup compared to even new plastics, and not a bit of it has broken on me.

[blackrainbow]

I like working with it, scarping and cleaning it up have been super easy. Using a paint-on base was oddly tough, as filling all the nooks seemed to repel it - perhaps that is just my old brush saying put it out to pasture. Have not had other problems with it.

bolk, thanks on the bit for securing it. Once all done, it already has a lean to it that I'm wary of.

If I ever go beyond four, I'll pick-up an older kit and put a newer head ridge on it I think.

[N.I.B.]

Pretty much all my finecast models are still intact, including 4 Zoans.

[blackrainbow]

How often do you use them? Zoanthropes are pretty regular in my lists, though only two on average. The finecast is a different model, so I can more readily play around with a dedicated neurothrope, other than saying "its' the one with the brown spots".

[N.I.B.]

I use a Zoan once a week.

[BattleMetalChris]

I have a failcast Venomthrope and it's horrible.

It snapped off just above the ground after about two weeks and the model is typical standard - full of bubbles and the two halves of the mould were out of alignment by about half a millimetre.

[glitchrr36]

this is why I won't buy any non fw resin models. I refuse to use gw biovores until the duel kit with poyrovores comes out.

[nikh]

All my fine cast Zoanthropes have broken off their spires, I just have them glued to the base now. I swear Chinese recasts are made of stronger material.

[mattblowers]

Jul 4, 2015 20:43:34 GMT glitchrr36 said:

this is why I won't buy any non fw resin models. I refuse to use gw biovores until the duel kit with poyrovores comes out.

Most issues are from first run models. If you get one that is a problem ask for a replacement. When I called to asked for a new head to for my sons Zagstruk they asked what was wrong. I told them the whole right side of his face was a big bubble. They said I could just GS it and sculpt it. I laughed out loud and asked them if they thought I'd pay $20 for a single model if my sculpting abilities were that good. I also said that if that was their solution I wouldn't be buying anymore finecast. He connected me to a supervisor who apologized for him and shipped me the parts I asked for. He also assured me that newer models would be better. So far, they have been. I always look in the blister, if I see messed up parts, I don't buy it. It's old stock. The finecast pyrovores I have are some of the best in my collection.

[WestRider]

I think the fact that I didn't pick any of it up until something like a year after the changeover had something to do with my good results from it, yeah.

[rpricew]

Jul 5, 2015 16:48:46 GMT nikh said:

All my fine cast Zoanthropes have broken off their spires, I just have them glued to the base now. I swear Chinese recasts are made of stronger material.

Chinese resin is a little more stronger, but it is more brittle. There is a trade off.