However, I've been going over the quality of the infantry units. For starters, seems like tactical squads were all done to a half-ass degree. Paints were caked up in the crevices, the pieces were very unclean, lots of runners and globs. I had ordered 3 tactical squads; all of which were posed exactly the same way. I decided to break off the arms to re-do them. To my surprise, my hunch was right... the models were self casted resin... paints started chipping as they didn't bother with surface priming on resin. A very big no no...
To begin with, all power fist models were posed like so with the same powerfist being used over and over again.
Once I broke off the arm, I noticed the chest piece had no mould lines. It was a single piece casted with both front and rear ends as one.
This is the reposing mock fit with pins (silver bit on armpit)
Finally, still no expert at this, but i attempted to sculpt in greenstuff on the joinage gap between plate armor.
Here's another example of trying to make the most poses out of what I got.
And another one...
Be expecting more updates on my endeavor to "correct" this army... Trust me, it gets better... this is the least of my problems. I guess nothing is ever as good as they market it as... sigh... lol
Question is: would you use them again?
ReplyDeleteThat is a million dollar question... the answer is yes, I would but I would probably send them my own models built and assembled to my own specs. That way even if they do cast them, it will be a newer cast and chances are all details will retain... I gotta admit, the resin based sanguinary guard pointy bits are a lot stronger than the gw plastic ones...
ReplyDeleteSo you have found a company knocking out fake GW miniatures and your only concern is that the paint job isn't so great and they're all posed the same way?
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Who are these guys? I take it they're cheap?
The paintjob looks great from the pics, considering they are mass painted. And i could not tell the difference from the originals lol!
ReplyDeleteWOW they look great except for the standard pose. My dream of owning a thunderhawk, warhound titan and reaver titan may come true very soon...
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@GDMNW - yes I believe these guys are "replicating" models. My work experience has taken me around China to quantify the worth of costs for commodities and materials. For the price I paid which is cheap, I still believe these guys should be painting better. I will post more of the flaws in their craftsmanship later.
ReplyDelete@Skanwy - The paint job sucks on about 1/3 of the tactical squads, the real eye sore is with the casts... lots of unsmooth lines on detailing work which is evidence of overuse on that specific mould. I will post more to show.
@crazy rat - I can hook you up with a thunderhawk and lucious pattern warhound both brand new for a very attractive price shipping out from hkg. Give me your email. Both Ethrion and I own those models. Well... i only got a titan but he has both lol... You can see my paint job on it with the chaos titan I posted up a while back.
i dunno... piracy just makes me feel dirty...
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