WotR WIP - unit of light cavalry added (21/1/13)

[Yankeepedlar01]

I agree, Phil. My recent experiences with 70 or so ECW foot reinforces the view as many had flash & excessive amounts of vent runs. Also hands were poorly defined and details like powder flask cords and apostle cords were often ill defined or missing. Perhaps having no one to answer to but themselves, and believing the fan-boy hype has lead to a drop in the standards of the finished metal product? Or perhaps it's that the move to plastic has lead to a disregard for customers who want metals? Either way, they really should address the issue.

[huevans]

As someone who is thinking about re starting a Napoleonics collection or getting into WotR with Perry Figures, this is quite off putting.

Are the casting and molding issues a problem with 100% of their metal figures?

What are they thinking of?!

[Captain Blood]

It's a longstanding issue which I don't think the Perrys can fail to be aware of. The quality of their metal casting (or whoever they use to do it) has, of late, earned a widespread and unhappy reputation for being downright poor.
It's not helped by the sculpting of some of the metal figures which look great from a few feet away (which, to be fair, is how they're intended to be viewed), but have a distinctly 'dashed off' look close up.
And yes - they inevitably do suffer by comparison with the Perry plastics which are (mostly) exquisitely detailed and crisply moulded by comparison...
I'm painting a mixed batch of WOTR metals and plastics right now, and have been thinking to myself all afternoon that the difference between the two is really very marked

And I'm a fanboy

[OSHIROmodels]

And I'm a fanboy

  Knew it 

cheers

James

[OSHIROmodels]

On the plus side it is entirely possible to build a substantive force from just the plastics

I'm assuming that you can build artillery crew from the plastics as well?

cheers

James

[OSHIROmodels]

Damn it! There's another reason to start buying boxes 

cheers

James

[Malamute]

Damn it! There's another reason to start buying boxes 

cheers

James

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

[OSHIROmodels]

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

Don't worry, not yet 

cheers

James

[marcusluis]

Was thinking of doing something like this but with Warlords ECW plastics...

[huevans]

Sad to hear about the poor casting of Perry metals.

Is there any pattern to this? For instance, the ECW casts are older at this point. Are the newer ones - say the WotR casts - a little crisper?

[Hupp n at em]

It all looks great 

[Captain Blood]

  . 

Good luck Steve!

[Mason]

Looking good, but you certainly seem to have your hands full!
 

[painterman]

Some really nice conversion work - love the new variants for the scurrors and guards  - looking forward to the painting stage.
Simon.

[Big Martin]

I share the opinion that the Perry Plastics can be a lot better than the metal figures. Bought a few more boxes at Colours to add some different commander stands to my ACOP based armies. Unfortunately, they'd had a "run" on the metal figures before I got there on the Sunday, so I've got plenty of standard bearers and musicians but no personalities yet.
Glad to see someone else has got even more WOTR figures to paint than me!