For anyone learning about finecrast he mentions a lot of good stuff but he left out how needlessly expensive they can be! $35 for the Krootox which is a 75 point model that’s barely better than a space marine!

Metal used to be the mainstay of gamesworkshop when I was growing up (though they had lead in when I started). Its superior to finecast by alot.

Something not mentioned in this video is the biggest drawback of metal is the paint chips off VERY EASILY. I'd love to know the number of consumers Failcast chased away from the hobby.

The best part of chinacast is where they've already fixed the models before they make their own casts and are just better.

Yes, the answer is yes.

yes finecast was really that bad

For the amount of money you're paying for one of these models they shouldn't be this much of a pain nor should there be as many blemishes/surface pits etc. I love the sculpts GW and FW put out but the price point + quality is just egregious.

If you look at the squiggly finecast sprue it's no wonder the model is bend too. Terrible material

Always thought people were just whining when I heard about finecast. Then I started playing and chose Aeldari. Three units of Fire Dragons and three Swooping Hawks later and I absolutely get it. Bubbles, craters, mold lines melding into the model, mold lines in impossible to reach places, entire details like fingers and nodes missing....

Reaper Bones miniatures are PVC-based, not polystyrene. This is why styrene solvent cement does not work on them.

There's a reason we called them FineCrap. The first several batches had models with partially completed casts. I remember buying a finecast space marine model and half his damn head was just missing off the piece.

First, and only, Finecast models I ever got were Dark Eldar Wracks. I believe they were a brand new unit at the time and some of the first to use the, at the time, new Finecast process. Along with all the issues you had, I noticed that even before getting them out of the box half the spikey bits had already broken off. A good amount of the rest of them broke off during construction and painting. It was all just so fragile. Anything that was even remotely spindly or thin would snap off. Don't know if they've gotten better since then, but after that initial fiasco I instituted my own personal boycott and haven't bought anything Finecast since.

I bought one Forgeworld model before and absolutely hated putting it together. I can't even imagine the frustration and anger I would have trying to put together a finecast model.

It's horrible stuff. I had a couple of flamers and a CM sorcerer figure from when it first came out that went really brittle over the years. I threw them out after they needed constant repairs.

Without watching the video I can say Finecast is that bad. I went to a GW Open Day where amongst other things I played a small game with Eldar Rangers. The long rifle of the ranger kneeling and firing had reacted to the heat and actually bent 90 degrees to the floor. It looked like an extreme case of brewers drupe. The Zoanthropes made from Finecast also suffered from heat problems with the creatures not being able to stand unsupported in the Sydney heat and humidity. And of course there were numerous casting problems with models being incomplete or suffering air bubbles disfiguring the models. The one time I think the material worked was with a throne for a Slaan Mage. The throne is represented as floating and the original model used solid metal which had a tendency to over stress the post it was mounted on and snap it. The Finecast was so much lighter and an easy shape to manufacture without problem.

Great video, keep it up :)

Man, I would really love to know what was going on inside GW with Finecast. They had to develop entire new hobby products just to deal with the problems in Finecast models, like Liquid Greenstuff. I honestly don't think there was a better resin formula they could have used for Finecast, because whatever resin they used, GW could re-use the moulds for metal models. But then GW could have had a different resin type for models designed ground-up for Finecast? It's all a mess.

I bought two kits of failcast Tankbustas without realising what I was in for. I took them along to a hobby weekend at a friend's cabin and thank Gork I did because at least there I didn't have to do that shit sober. Even beered up and hanging out with my buddy it was the most miserable time I've ever had building minis. 'Building Tankbustas' has actually become jargon for us for something that is really obnoxious and tedious.

I still remember the oddest thing i had with a finecast mini. Though i cant recall if the winged vampire hero was originally pewter or not. Sometime after i had started painting my winged vampire, i paused and put him on the shelf then a few months later i went back his leg started to split along where the mold line was, took me a bit to fix the gap.

Finecast is unacceptable. I think it‘s even understated how brittle it tends to be. And different to metal, warped miscasts can‘t be fixed due to it.