holes in my Warlord Games plastic miniatures

[summsi]

I have a lot of WG plastic minis. Most of the figures have little holes in their plastic body. Prone figures in the back, standing and kneeling at the front side. What is the reason for this? And not all of the figures are suffering from that.

[moiterei_1984]

Sounds strange to me. Do you habe a photo?

[Westfalia Chris]

What do you mean by holes, exactly? Sharp, precise openings or soft indentations? If the latter, it could be a case of sinkmarks, where the plastic has sunken in during the injection process.

It usually results from poorly-engineered injection moulds, exacerbated when the mould was inadequately heated (a variant is the ejector pin mark) and was very common back in the day when injection kits generally had greater material thickness. Still happens a lot on short-run kits, but I've also seen state-of-the-art items where it happens.  

Here's a professional's article on the issue:

https://www.engineersrule.com/not-sunk-deal-sink-marks-injection-molded-part/

IIRC, the plastic on the surface cools quicker than within the piece, which may lead to a localised collapse. Alternatively, the mould wasn't filled completely - I recently bought one of Revell's brand-new M109G kits which was missing a roadwheel support arm.

[summsi]

sinkmark may be the right answer. When I cut one figure in to two pieces, I could see that the Figure is hollow in the center and that there is  a little "channel" running to the edge of the figure. (sorry, it ist difficult for me to explain in english and I can't send pictures)

[vodkafan]

It definitely sounds like something that quality control should have spotted and you are entitled to a refund. Oh dear everything I hear about Warlord lately seems to be bad news.

[The Dozing Dragon]

Poor quality, possibly running the moulds to quickly?

[summsi]

Tank's for your help, but as the holes are small, I think I can live with them!

[summsi]

no tanks but thank's!!!