End of Finecast!

[Servo]

Multiple sources are reporting the end of Finecast.

From Bigred on Bell of Lost Souls:

Latest reports coming in from multiple sources:

Lots going on behind the scenes at GW - Look for a public announcement in Q2 of 2014 regarding Finecast:

-GW Proper gets out of Finecast entirely.
-Forgeworld will take control of all remaining Finecast character models.
-These character models will be the only non-plastics in GW's line until they are replaced.
-These character models will be moved over to plastic (and GW control) in time with plastic clampack resculpts.
-There are internal tests taking place to cast some existing Forgeworld resin kits in a new plastic material.

It looks like the resin material is on its way out, and GW is sprinting as fast as it can to replace any Finecast non character kits from their entire range - leaving them as a 100% plastic manufacturer.

If you look at the past few releases, you can see the pattern.

My next question is WHY?

Word is Tyranids and IG are next armies, and they will have no new Finecast, with many or all current Finecast replaced by plastic.

I am excited by this, because I hate the cost and quality of Finecast. Good riddance.

[JohnnyDangerous]

Hah! Yah... fantastic! I have never bought one(a finecast model) and I never will.... The big question is: is this GW slowly giving in to fan feedback(awesome if yes) or is this strickly a buiseness move due to its unpopularity and its ability to lose profits due to returns of imperfect melted models

[tiamat]

>i saw this coming back when GW had to create "liquid green stuff" to fix holes and defects caused by the finecast moulding process. they knew they had a problem back then, don't you agree?<

[ghostwheel11]

I will say that it didn't make sense to have this other material, when it could all be plastic. I remember us talking about the "character box" that has the bits to make 1 of 3 special characters or a commander pack, make 3 special characters, but the bits for 5. Seems to be the theme of their "modular" less space on the shelf design they were looking for.

[JohnnyDangerous]

Zoinks! Where did you come from Ghostwheel?!!! Welcome back! or at least thanks for posting!!

Yep... My opinion is the same as Zaphods from the "Future of Gamesday Series." Black Snow. They could literally sit in their office in Nottingham and tout the virtues of fincast(lighter, easy to cut, well at least I tried) blowing huge bong hits of smoke up the ceo's ass... But by the time they see that the shipping alone on replacements was getting out of control... Its pretty much a serious reality check...

I am sure they were just hoping it stuck. I mean 20.00 for a finecast Daemon herald when 10 deamons cost 30.00. WTF. Or if you look at the competition 25.00 for 10 metal guys... Its a tough pill to swallow.

I just hope this is the early quiver of a Game company who just realized they need to clean up their act a bit to stay on top. The codexes have been really good... flyers are good possibly too much so... but every new codex has something to take them down so they are no longer unstoppable...

Its all looking good... except that huge company vs fans communication issue and obviously pricing...