Kera foehunter:
wow ouch!!
see i told you metal better than plastic. Kera lean down and pick up the figure
LOOK it a dwarf slayer figure AHA!!
Tallhat:
*Throws back an ungodly amount of plastic minis at Pyro Stick preferably lots of Morley minis for added visual pain * Have at ye scurrvy Landlubber!
- Tallhat
angryboy2k:
I’ve said it before on these forums and on Warseer, but aside from the fact that a lot of us here are basically using plastic figures as ARMATURES for our greenstuff conversions, plastic really (really) is crap.
I hate it, I really do. I challenge anyone to look at this example of the new Chaos terminators (ignore the modifications) and tell me that it’s better than the old metal ones (which, incidentally were the same price as the new plastics recently and MUCH cheaper not too long ago.)
You guys don’t really need me to tell you how poor this sculpt is. Do you?
Steve
Tallhat:
Oh… Oh my word… Thats is utterly disgusting… We are still sure they fired Gary Morley?
- Tallhat
wallacer:
Plastic figures just feel like little kid’s toys.
At least metal figures feel like something collectible.
Kera foehunter:
yea plastic green army men everyone had them
Tallhat:
I still have them. I even paly games with them. 
��- Tallhat
Willmark:
Is anyone really that suprised of they failing quality of GWs minis, specfically the plastics? GW is starting to become a company I can’t stand sometimes. Starting to rank up there with Microsoft and Dell.
Theory_Man:
I think that GW is trying to completely swich over to plastic because the price of metals has gone up crazily in price in the past 4 years. I prefer the look of metals but my wallet prefers the cost of plastics.
Bill-117:
I still have them. I even paly games with them. :)o_O Strange child.
- Tallhat
Tallhat
*does not mention he re-enacts Saving Private Ryan with his army men in a puddle of gasoline he then lights* :~
wallacer:
I’m sure that the cost of metal is the main factor behind GW switching over to plastic.
Some people seem to think it is also some kind of conspiracy to switch over to pre-painted plastics, but I just can’t see that happening.
Kera foehunter:
i have seen some of the reaper prepainted figures there not bad
wallacer:
Companies like that can get away with it.
GW’s problem is that they have so much invested in paints and the hobby side of gaming that if they switched to pre-painted plastics they would be killing off a chunk of their own revenue stream.
Kera foehunter:
i dont think they care about making money. They just want to show a proffit or losses
But the lotr will same there bottom line.
Willmark:
i dont think they care about making money. They just want to show a proffit or lossesNot so sure about that I've heard that GW is taking a bath on LoTR. Could be wrong but I can't imagine too many people play it. At least around here they don't.
But the lotr will same there bottom line.
Kera foehunter
Kera foehunter:
Well at first there was a lot of people playing it but not since the movie were done .
i haven’t see anyone playing at my store
AGPO:
i think LoTR will become a specialist game soon. They can’t get too far away from the movies with mainstream releases, and people will get bored of the system. They’ll also want to do some more specialist stuff before long
Kera foehunter:
i wished that they would of keeped the lotr same scale as warhammer
Ronshank:
Plastic.cheeper, convertable etc etc
The only advantage I see to metal is that if you want to change the colour sceme you just get to it with nail-polish remover. Unfortunatly for me cheeper will win everytime
wallacer:
The best thing about metal is that it gives the sculptors a chance to show what they can do.
With plastic everyone will just end up with armies that look the same. Sure there will be different paint jobs and some conversions but ultimately the variety will diminish.