The reason for this post is mainly good news. Today I phoned our local supplier of my crack addict, and heard that our order is delayed. GW is officially scrapping finecast, and I am over the moon about that. I got a few finecast models, Grimgor Ironhide and an Orc Warboss on his wyvern, now the problem I had with Grimgor was that his axe was slightly bent to one side, and to this day I cannot get it the way I want it. After his paint job, now he looks good enough, the only complaint I have left about him is the fact that when you pick him up he weighs practically nothing. Previously all the other models were mostly pewter models, and what I loved about them, you pick them up and you know there is something special about them. Complaints aside, I do get compliments about his paint job.
My other model I have quite a few problems with. Firstly once the model was assembled you could easily see that the parts did not nearly fit together nearly as well as my river trolls, which are plain old simple plastic may I remind you. Now look at the images below to take a look at my wyvern and black orc.
* As you can see when you enlarge this image, the joint between the front and rear of the torso is highly visible. Finecast showing us again why it is to be hated.
Now over here you can see some of my work in progress with my River trolls, and I have to say, I love the detail on these models, and when it comes to painting them, putting in extra time and effort really shows.
So now we just hope that finecast gets chucked into the 7th dimension of chaos for nurgle to play with.
