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Malifaux modeling rant (to keep me from throwing models)
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Brandubh:
enable rant mode: Who decided that the new Malifaux minis needed to be composed the way they are? That they need to have been split as many ways as they have? That they should be this fiddly?
I just recently started getting back into Malifaux and got a bunch of the Gremlins and some others... Lenny, a decent sized miniature: 13 parts. It went together okay-ish I guess. The Swine-Cursed? Not so much. Bad gap issues, even after trying to adjust. And heads composed of 4 different part? Really? Seriously?
Alt Barbaros for the Neverborn was painful: very small connection points for the sword/hands to connect to two separate arm pieces. th wings just don't seem to sit right and again with very small connection points.
I'm not even going to talk about the Alley Cats from the nightmare edition Curiosity Killed the Cat set. At least now I know why they are titled "Nightmare." (edit: the top right mini in the picture is 7 pieces)
I do feel sorry for any newbies that are trying this for their first miniatures gaming.
rant mode off: They are good looking minis once they are together. I do like the game, maybe not as much as V1.5 but I do like it.
-B
Inkpaduta:
With you bro.
Hate having to put figures together. Especially when there is no good reason to have them in so many parts. One giant pain.
goon3423:
Malifaux really lost me when they went to plastic. Their old metals had so much personality and I have found none of that in their plastic kits. The people look like dressed mannequins & I agree that they keep getting more and more unecessarily complicated. And maybe it's just me but I think the details keep getting softer as well.
dwbullock:
I have so many broken gremlin/goblin models - love attaching models at the ankles when the joint is larger than the tip of my glue bottle. There is no conceivable way to get a drop of glue that small on some of those joints.
Ninja gremlins (Moon Shinobi?) - 2 have broken. Rooster Riders - 2 roosters broke at the ankle, and after a quick fix to make them look like they were wearing chains and shackles, then a gun broke off the 3rd. Wong - can't keep his hand attached.
I have simply given up buying any more Malifaux at this point.
Daeothar:
I don't play Malifaux, but have bought some of their plastics for other uses, and even though I found them no big hassle to put together (a box of Hoar Cats(?)), I too was wondering about the unnecessary splitting of parts which could just as easily have been moulded in one piece.
This, I suppose, is the result of doing all design work in 3D software. There's no (actual) gravity when creating 3D models, so parts bending or being impossible to hold up through tiny connection points is not an issue.
Also, when the model is ready to be broken up for casting, mould considerations only come apparent then, and certain parts will not fill properly, unless they're seperate pieces. But it could also be that the cutting up of the model for casting is automatically done by a program.
Either way, I suppose there's a learning curve to find out what is practical or not. And maybe the designers just need to let go of the idea of making as small and detailed as possible parts. ::)
Again; just because you can, doesn't mean you should!
I'm almost starting to believe I'm well off with my Infinity antenna's, fins and other assorted small parts... lol
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