Well, for all the problems they cause, GW has set a fairly high standard for
the flash and cleanup of SF models.
I've been buying a Foundry figures over the last year and the flash situation
has been noticeable, but not truly excessive (some packs are great, others,
like the Stealthy Tribal Archers II, are painful to work with).
I must agree with Jon that his gentle treatment of molds goes a long way
towards keeping customers happy. RAFM and GeoHex are two manufacturers where
I've mode a point of buying new releases because later purchases have
occasionally been drastically lower quality than the first wave. Bad Dog era
AOG miniatures were notable for how bad a fit the first run could have, and
even recent releases like the Poseidon are almost universally regarded as
horrible to assemble.
> "Tom.McCarthy" wrote:
> I must agree with Jon that his gentle treatment of molds goes a long
I have a pretty large collection of 20mm early-WWII models, many of
which are
resin. Often these models have come with small-to-medium size lumps of
rubber still embedded in the casting. This is obviously part of the mould that
has
broken off while the model was being none-too-gently removed. When
buying two or
more models, you always hope that the other ones were made _before_ the
one with the mould lump!
I'm assuming that Tony is pointing out that there is much worse problems then
flash and thread, I'm sure. My big pet peeve is misaligned mould (I
can even say colour) halves. You can cut off flash, grind/carve lumps,
putty fill voids, but overhang? *shudder*
Even at the most problematic, I must say GeoHex had few of these in the items
I got. On some figures I've gotten from other manufacturers, you have to
wonder if you should just cut the head off and sculpt your own, the offset
ridge can be so bad.
The_Beast