Okay for real: will you be purchasing finecast regiments?

[Stimpson J Cat]

No, I already felt GW was getting too expensive, this simply means second hand only because, like Jind, I simply love most of their stuff. But I have great hopes of the new Avatars of War Dwarf project to fill out my dwarfs with good minis at an acceptable price :-). See here: http://www.indiegogo.com/aow-dwarfs (and no, I have no business interest here whatsoever. Just love the inititiative)

[Artinam]

I agree with the rest, the risk for bad quality, higher prices and large model requirements is not something I will get very soon.

[someone2040]

I voted unlikely.
If we are talking about the new infantry finecast regiments, then it's unlikely that I will be purchasing these units. I would probably track down metal models if I could, but at the end of the day, it would depend on availability of the metals. It wouldn't prohibit me from buying them completely, but obviously not the best medium (Luckily for me, most of it falls under Dark Elves and I wouldn't intend to start a Dark Elf army for a while, so hopefully plastic by then!).
But overall, pretty appalling to make expensive models even more expensive. This isn't 40k where 5 models of some elite unit is a unit (and probably takes up like 10% of your army). This is Fantasy, where 5 models of some elite unit is still only 5 models, and you need at least 15 more more like 25+ more.

[Echunia]

The only saving grace for finecast is that it will be available from independent stockists. Which means discount prices and what not, but since you asked specifically about gw prices... Then no

[TsukeFox]

Praise be the Horned Rat that Skaven is a plastic army!! (almost anyway)

But to answer the question-NO.
I feel bad for any Chaos Dwarf players that do not have any old school goodness.

And it is BS that there is not a GW factory in Australia.

[Athelassan]

Absolutely not. I don't buy many metal or plastic figures from GW at the moment anyway on the grounds of price and get most of them from other retailers or eBay. I don't consider Finecast to be worth the extra moolah even on character models and for regiments there's not a chance I'll be spending that much. I probably wouldn't even purchase them at the "standard" discount of most secondary retailers.

I would/will still buy from Forge World, but that's a different kettle of fish.

[Gertjan]

I don't want to buy finecast characters, let alone entire regiments . I am lucky in that I have two fantasy armies, OK and O&G, and with both these armies it's easy to make characters form the plastic kits they provide you with so it's no big deal if I don't have access to finecast characters. If they were to turn entire units into finecast I would simply disregard them, they are both to expensive aswell as the chances of spending a lot of time (and therefor money, my time is expensive as freelancer) on the return carroussel increase dramatically. No thanks, this hobby is for me relaxation and enjoyment. If I want aggravation I'll go work for my former boss again. I can always try to convert those units or look for alternative sculpts, and if neither is an option (highly unlikely) then I shall just do wthout that unit, even if it is the best, most awesome, must have, autowin button unit for my army. I refuse to buy finecast, that is more important than any other argument to me.

[Mr_Foulscumm]

Wait...

What am I missing here?

I thought GW already made units in Finecast for 40K. Ok, the model count is way up for most units in Fantasy compared to 40k, but it's not like this is unexpected is it?

My answer would be, depends on what regiment. I wouldn't be totally opposed to the idea, but Finecast really is 2nd on my list to everything plastic.

[Ratbeast]

in short, no. At the moment my 40k and Fantasy armies are pretty much complete. I do occasionally buy the odd GW figure to fill out my lists, but it's not something I want to do.

Being in Australia and paying ripoff prices compared to the Northern Hemisphere, there's no way I'd start a new GW army. It's 2nd hand or not at all. Gives me an excuse to use my old stuff that's laying around anyway.

Fully agree, i would of voted hell no if i could, not only do we pay rip off prices, but this finecast stuff melts in british sunlight/heat, hate to see what happens when some good old aussie heat gets too it, some 45 degree days etc things be turning to blogs of finecast in no time

[Noserenda]

Im a fan of finecast but when a forgeworld army is looking cheaper you have pricing issues...

[Freman Bloodglaive]

This. Forge World seems to use the same resin but obviously their production methods are better.

[Rogue Star]

I only find the £20 price acceptable when its a near or complete unit; Dark Eldar Incubi, Mandrakes, Necron Flayed Ones, etc. Finecast is, regardless of the technical issues with it, purely for extremely small units or characters. While I don't play WHFB, I've seen enough pics to know that units are anywhere between 10-20. £20/25 pounds for a quarter of the regiment isn't acceptable, so Very Unlikely.

[Morkash]

I cannot afford a Finecast regiment, so I voted "Very Unlikely" meaning "No". I do not have any trolls (Yes, they are plastic, but to field a unit I need at least 2 boxes ) or a Squig unit or Chosen for the same reason, I simply cannot afford them. The technical issues come in addition to this, so I really cannot see myself buying a regiment. If I feel the need to have for example Squigs in the future, I'll buy them from eBay or second hand, but never at the price GW is asking.

[IcedCrow]

10-20? Try about 30-40 lol you're paying 20/25 pounds for 1/6 to 1/8 of a unit. Units are now approaching the $200 range. When I started playing they were roughly $1 a fig. My skeleton warriors were $20 for 20 models.

[Montegue]

10-20? Try about 30-40 lol you're paying 20/25 pounds for 1/6 to 1/8 of a unit. Units are now approaching the $200 range. When I started playing they were roughly $1 a fig. My skeleton warriors were $20 for 20 models.

Mantic. Not only are their models cheaper and more numerous, but you generally get a bonus war machine along with the purchase. The game they are producing is pretty fun, too.

[snottlebocket]

Not a chance in hell. Metal is expensive raw material and plastic moulds are expensive to make. So GW saves money by settling on a resin based compound that combines the worst qualities of both materials while actually raising the price above that of metal? There aren't enough expletives to express my contempt for both the business practice and the end results.

[DruidNei]

I will buy anything I need (and that won't be more than 20 eternal guards) before GW turns any of remaining WE regiments into finecast. If I fail to do that there is always ebay.
The prices are outrageous for 5 models of dubious quality. Maybe GW will realise their mistake soon, but before that happens, more power to other companies - Mantic, AoW, Raging Heroes (their blood vestals will sell, I'm sure of it).

[Aergren]

I voted unlikely meaning no. Over the last year I have slowing become more of a historicals player then a WHFB player. One of the big things that I have noticed is that I can get high quality metal miniatures, like from the Perry Brothers (who have sculpted a large number of the GW ranges), for around a $1.84 and plastic for around $.73. These prices come from a much smaller company with a much smaller customer base. A person would think that a large company like GW would be able to produce their models for a similar price point or less. The huge price increases they are going through are only weakening their company.

[IcedCrow]

Mantic and Kings of War is looking pretty sweet.

[Reticent]

At the price-points some of those units are heading toward, I can't imagine GW selling enough to break even.

I'd honestly rather they left some units without official models and put their resources to something more worthwhile to both themselves and the consumers (us).