My second biggest beef with Finecast after quality must be the lack of perceived value for money over a metal miniature.
A metal miniature has a higher materials cost but that value stays (increases?) with the miniature, a resin miniature is and always will be worthless lump of resin, your only really paying for the craftsmanship and quality used to create said miniature which is already lacking (In my Opinion) over an older metal miniature.
This will in time be reflect in the resale of used miniatures, would you really risk buying a used Finecast miniature from ebay? Imagine how many metal miniatures were sold on ebay in 2011. Examples of which are usually poorly assembled and painted by over enthusiastic teenagers, improperly stored and mistreated for years. Is a Finecast miniature durable enough to survive this and still be in good enough condition to be worth selling?
Is Finecast in part a tool created too control the used miniature market of the future?
Only time will tell...
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I agree on your speculation that finecast is a way to limit the 2nd hand market. I dont want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but the finecast models do have many fragile bits.
ReplyDeleteFor example, the Necron overlord models. They are beautiful models, but they have many fiddly bits on them that would not last the typical shoebox transportation that many models are subjected to by some players.
GW's plastics are so good. I don't know why GW would bother with anything else. I hated their metal models anyway. They were too static and too hard to pin. Privateer Press on the other hand, has excellent metals and I prefer them to their "plastics."
I don't want time to tell! I'm not prepared to wait! Lepuke! Go and create a time machine and then report back on the future of the used miniature market! Jump to it!
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