Finecast Miniatures

[shadowhawk2008]

Finecast Skulltaker! Damn metal Skulltaker I got on Daemons release *grumble*grumble*

[Raziel4707]

Aye! I'm not a chaos collector, but they be some damn fine miniatures! Got my eye on a few space marine bits (sternguard, possibly Calgar and definitely the Emperor's champion as an alternate general for my non-codex army) and I can't wait to see more new-release stuff in finecast.

If only they would offer Calgar as a single model. Please, GW? Pretty please?

[shadowhawk2008]

Aye! I'm not a chaos collector, but they be some damn fine miniatures! Got my eye on a few space marine bits (sternguard, possibly Calgar and definitely the Emperor's champion as an alternate general for my non-codex army) and I can't wait to see more new-release stuff in finecast.

If only they would offer Calgar as a single model. Please, GW? Pretty please?

If I was still playing I would definitely get the BT Sword Brethren, the Jump Chaplain, the SM Vanguard Squad, Astorath and Dante. And then remove the BT insignias and play them all for my BA successor chapter

[Colonel Mustard]

I hope they'll release some of the other Inquisitor models aside from Coteaz; seeing as the metal model of the Inquisitor lady with the impressive beehive hairdo has multiple weapon options that come randomly in the blisters, a frame with all the options on them would work quite well for that model.

[Pyroriffic]

I may have treated myself to the Finecast Huron Blackheart.

*looks slightly embarrassed*

[JackCrow]

[Colonel Mustard]

Jack: How did you make that? That's awesome!

Also, Pyro, what was the model like? (Aside from heretical, blasphemous and betrayal of your Silver Skulls roots?)

[JackCrow]

new issue of White Dwarf says new Fc releases will be:

The Fellowship of the Ring (Gandalf, Boromir Pippin and possibly Merry )
Harlequin Shadowseer
Commissar Yarrick
Brother-Captain Stern
Abaddon the Despoiler
Canis Wolfborn
Vampire Counts Blood Knights
Thorek Ironbrow
Gulavhar, the Terror of Arnor
Dark Eldar Archon
Tomb King w/ Great Weapon
Tyranid Zoanthrope
The Avatar of Khaine
Chaos Exalted Hero
Eldar Autach w/ Power Weapon
Dwarf Gyrocopter
Ghazghkull Thraka
Tyranid Hive Tyrant
Grimgor Ironhide
Astorath the Grim
Gandalf the White
Caradryan
Vampire Lord
Lord Kaldor Draigo
Savage Orc Great Shaman on War Boar
Goblin Spear Chukka
Wood Elf Highborn w/ Great Weapon

Tomb King Finecasts release on June 11th, look on GW's advance orders section for WH.

June 18th:
Haemonculus
Grotesque
Dark Eldar Wracks

Is that all of them? There seem to be a few races missing off that list..... *cough*Tau*cough*

Unofficially this would be all of them for the moment, release dates are mentioned one week prior to the site release in White Dwarf ( coinciding with the White Dwarf release ):

41-60 COMMANDER DANTE
53-60 LOGAN GRIMNAR
55-61 THE EMPERORS CHAMPION
48-63 SPACE MARINE CHAPLAIN WITH JUMP PACK
44-60 DARK ANGELS COMPANY MASTER
48-61 SM LIBRARIAN IN TERMINATOR ARMOUR
53-61 NJAL STORMCALLER
41-61 ASTORATH THE GRIM
43-60 ABADDON THE DESPOILER
43-61 HURON BLACKHEART
50-61 ORK WARBOSS WITH ATTACK SQUIG
50-63 ORK BIG MEK
50-65 ORK PAINBOY WITH GROT ORDERLY
46-61 ELDAR AUTARCH WITH POWER WEAPON
46-62 THE AVATAR OF KHAINE
46-63 HARLEQUIN DEATH JESTER
46-64 HARLEQUIN SHADOWSEER
47-61 COMMISSAR YARRICK
47-63 IMPERIAL GUARD LORD COMMISSAR
51-61 TYRANID ZOANTHROPE
51-63 TYRANID TYRANT GUARD
51-64 TYRANID HIVE GUARD
51-65 TYRANID BROODLORD
57-61 BROTHER CAPTAIN STERN
57-60 LORD KALDOR DRAIGO
57-62 CASTELLAN CROWE
57-63 INQUISITOR COTEAZ
45-60 DARK ELDAR ARCHON
45-64 LELITH HESPERAX
45-63 URIEN RAKARTH
45-61 DARK ELDAR SUCCUBUS
56-60 TAU ETHEREAL WITH HONOUR BLADE
83-62 CHAOS EXALTED HERO
83-63 CHAOS KHORNE EXALTED HERO
86-60 EMPIRE CAPTAIN WITH HAMMER & PISTOL
92-60 WOOD ELF HIGHBORN WITH GREAT WEAPON
84-60 DWARF LORD WITH HAMMER & SHIELD
84-61 DWARF RUNELORD WITH GREAT WEAPON
90-60 SKAVEN WARLORD
90-61 QUEEK HEADTAKER
90-62 DEATHMASTER SNIKCH
91-61 VAMPIRE LORD
89-60 GRIMGOR IRONHIDE
89-62 BLACK ORC BIG BOSS
87-60 CARADRYAN
85-61 DARK ELF ASSASSIN WITH TWO HAND WEAPONS
81-60 MALAGOR THE DARK OMEN
10-61 URUK-HAI WITH CROSSBOWS
10-62 URUK-HAI BERSERKERS
08-61 GOTHMOG (PELENNOR)
05-60 ELROND AND GIL-GALAD
10-60 SARUMAN AND GRIMA
02-60 GANDALF THE WHITE
04-60 ARAGORN (THE BLACK GATE)
04-62 THEODEN (HELM’S DEEP)
04-61 BOROMIR (ITHILIEN)
09-60 SULADAN THE SERPENT LORD
08-62 THE DARK MARSHAL (RINGWRAITH)
05-61 DAIN AND BALIN
97-60 SKULLTAKER
48-40 MARNEUS CALGAR AND HONOUR GUARD
48-41 SPACE MARINE TECHMARINE WITH SERVITORS
55-40 BLACK TEMPLARS SWORD BRETHREN SQUAD
48-42 SPACE MARINE STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD
48-43 SPACE MARINE VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD
53-40 CANIS WOLFBORN
43-40 NURGLE DAEMON PRINCE
43-41 CHAOS SPACE MARINE RAPTORS
43-42 DEATH GUARD PLAGUE MARINES
50-43 BOSS ZAGSTRUK
50-40 GHAZGHKULL THRAKA
50-41 ORK TANKBUSTAS
50-42 ORK BIG MEK WITH SHOKK ATTACK GUN
46-41 ELDAR RANGERS
46-42 ELDAR DARK REAPERS
46-44 ELDAR STRIKING SCORPIONS
46-40 ELDAR FARSEER AND WARLOCKS
51-42 TYRANID LICTOR
51-40 TYRANID HIVE TYRANT
51-41 TYRANID PYROVORE
45-40 DARK ELDAR INCUBI
45-41 DARK ELDAR MANDRAKES
56-40 TAU SNIPER DRONE TEAM
83-42 ARCHAON THE EVERCHOSEN
83-43 CHAOS LORD ON DAEMONIC MOUNT
83-41 CHAOS DRAGON OGRE SHAGGOTH
86-41 LUDWIG SCHWARZHELM
86-40 KURT HELBORG
82-41 THE GREEN KNIGHT
82-40 KING LOUEN LEONCOEUR
92-42 WOOD ELVES TREE KIN
92-40 ORION KING IN THE WOODS
92-41 WOOD ELVES TREEMAN
84-40 THOREK IRONBROW
84-41 DWARF GYROCOPTER
84-42 DWARF BOLT THROWER
90-40 SKAVEN WARPLOCK JEZZAILS
91-40 VAMPIRE COUNTS VARGHULF
91-42 COUNT MANNFRED
91-41 VAMPIRE COUNTS BLOOD KNIGHTS
88-41 KROQ GAR
89-44 GOBLIN SPEAR CHUKKA
89-43 SAVAGE ORC GREAT SHAMAN ON WAR BOAR
89-41 ORC WARBOSS ON WYVERN
89-42 GOBLIN ROCK LOBBER
89-45 GORBAD IRONCLAW
89-40 AZHAG THE SLAUGHTERER
85-41 DARK ELVES REAPER BOLT THROWER
08-40 THE DARK LORD SAURON
08-42 GULAHVAR THE TERROR OF ARNOR
08-43 MORDOR TROLL CHIEFTAIN
02-40 THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
97-42 FLAMERS OF TZEENTCH

Chaos
CHAOS EXALTED HERO
CHAOS KHORNE EXALTED HERO
ARCHAON THE EVERCHOSEN
CHAOS LORD ON DAEMONIC MOUNT
CHAOS DRAGON OGRE SHAGGOTH

Empire
EMPIRE CAPTAIN WITH HAMMER & PISTOL
LUDWIG SCHWARZHELM
KURT HELBORG

Wood Elves
ELF HIGHBORN WITH GREAT WEAPON
WOOD ELVES TREE KIN
ORION KING IN THE WOODS
WOOD ELVES TREEMAN

Dwarfs
DWARF LORD WITH HAMMER & SHIELD
DWARF RUNELORD WITH GREAT WEAPON
THOREK IRONBROW
DWARF GYROCOPTER
DWARF BOLT THROWER

Skaven
SKAVEN WARLORD
QUEEK HEADTAKER
DEATHMASTER SNIKCH
SKAVEN WARPLOCK JEZZAILS

Vampire Counts
VAMPIRE LORD
VAMPIRE COUNTS VARGHULF
COUNT MANNFRED
VAMPIRE COUNTS BLOOD KNIGHTS

Orcs and Goblins
GRIMGOR IRONHIDE
BLACK ORC BIG BOSS
GOBLIN SPEAR CHUKKA
SAVAGE ORC GREAT SHAMAN ON WAR BOAR
ORC WARBOSS ON WYVERN
GOBLIN ROCK LOBBER
GORBAD IRONCLAW
AZHAG THE SLAUGHTERER

High Elves
CARADRYAN

Dark Elves
DARK ELF ASSASSIN WITH TWO HAND WEAPONS
DARK ELVES REAPER BOLT THROWER

Beastmen
MALAGOR THE DARK OMEN

Daemons
SKULLTAKER
FLAMERS OF TZEENTCH

Bretonnians
THE GREEN KNIGHT
KING LOUEN LEONCOEUR

Lizardmen
KROQ GAR

How did you make that?

Knowledge is power, guard it well.

[Pyroriffic]

@Jack - that's awesome!! LOL!!!

The model's LOVELY. Really. The detail is outstanding. And I may as well complete my fall to Chaos. I have to say that I'm a fan of the new packaging compared to the old metal packs. At least you can see what your model is meant to look like. Seriously, I'm rubbish. Huron's arm would have ended up attached to his head if I was left to my own devices.

[Athelassan]

Why on earth are they producing that Mannfred model in Finecast? It's pretty much the most hideous figure Citadel have ever produced!

Ath

[Mossy Toes]

@Jack - that's awesome!! LOL!!!

The model's LOVELY. Really. The detail is outstanding. And I may as well complete my fall to Chaos. I have to say that I'm a fan of the new packaging compared to the old metal packs. At least you can see what your model is meant to look like. Seriously, I'm rubbish. Huron's arm would have ended up attached to his head if I was left to my own devices.

Yeeees, jooooin us...

[Colonel Mustard]

I just got myself and Emperor's Champion and converted him to represent Gaius from Hammerhand. Absolute joy to build, and so very easy to prepare and convert.

Finecast has my wholehearted approval. Now bring the resin Greater Daemons!

[Jeff_Preston]

Yay! Lightweight, non-top-heavy Raptors!

Huzzah! (I've always hated that)

[BL Graeme]

I picked up the resin Fellowship of the Ring yesterday.

Main reason for getting them first is that they're all models that I have painted before at least twice (I worked for GW retail during the Lord of the Rings years; I painted all the LotR store models and did them all for myself too), so they are a good point of comparison for me.

The reaction: mostly very impressed.

The level of detail is definitely improved over the metals. Particular delights:
Gandalf's staff
Legolas's quiver
Boromir's horn (snigger)
Gimli's chainmail

The Frodo in the kit is the one that originally came with the metal Ringwraith on Fell Beast, putting the ring on his finger, and you can actually see the ring on the Finecast sculpt.

I also like how easy it is to bend misshapen parts back to the way they should be. Aragorn's sword came quite badly bent, but a minute in a bowl of hot water was enough to get it where it should be.

Cleaning the models up was also a joy - the mould lines come off even easier than on plastic models, and don't seem to be as pronounced as on plastic anyway.

My niggles:

The resin seems to be somewhat brittle, making the models very fragile. Just clipping the hobbits from their frames, the tabs cracked, and a part of Frodo's foot came away. (He's now Frodo of the Nine Toes...)

There are some minor miscasts in there, notably the tip of Gandalf's sword. It's probably an isolated case, but it's irritating.

Anyway, I have them assembled (took about two hours to clean them all, glue them to the bases, and apply sand to said bases, covering the nasty Frodo's foot issue in the process!) and undercoated, and will begin to apply paint tonight. I will post a progress report on how they are to paint later in the week. Maybe with pictures.

For the interested, the models you get in the new box are:
Gandalf, Boromir and Pippin from the original 2001 "Fellowship of the Ring" metal set.
Aragorn and Gimli from "Heroes of the West".
Frodo from the metal Fell Beast box.
Legolas from "Heroes of Helm's Deep", with the cool shoulder armour.
Sam from the "Gollum, Sam and Frodo" blister pack.
Merry from "Attack at Weathertop"

Interestingly, these are more or less the models I would have chosen for a "best of" Fellowship box...I'd maybe have switched Boromir for the "Breaking of the Fellowship" model, but that's it...

[The Hillock]

The Wrath struggles somewhat to give a monkeys about finecast but will go and see what all the fuss is about this weekend anyway. Unfortunately I'm not after any of the CSM models they've done yet (the raptors may be more detailed but they're still awful looking models) so I doubt I'll be buying any.

Randomly, I really took umbrage to the tone of voice the GW blog ('astronomicon', whatever) used when bigging up the models. "which finecast model will you buy first?" was the question repeatedly posed, which got under my skin, seemed really presumptuous and immediately put me off the idea of buying any at all. But then I am a moody git.

Moody Wrath.

[Mossy Toes]

I'm really waiting for them to announce that they're doing Obliterators, myself.

[The Hillock]

I'm really waiting for them to announce that they're doing Obliterators, myself.

Oh yes, that could be worth it, although hopefully they'll be less cartoony than the current ones. They're on my list to buy, I think I might hold off thinking about it and wait to see if there's finecast.

[Xisor]

As a Dark Eldar/Salamanders/Tau player who's mighty short on time, is there any Finecast model you lot'd especially recommend for my purposes? I'm more'n willing to have a crack at converting something from another model line, but as I've been out of the models side of things for a while, I'm not wholly clued up on what's available.

So, suggestions?

[schaferwhat‽]

I think the Dark Eldar have the best part of the finecast for the three armies you mentioned (no Salamanders that I think of).

Archons, Sucumbui, Incubi, Mandrakes and some special characters depending what you want for the army.

[Athelassan]

After spending all weekend trying and failing to assemble a steam tank (the Mk2 metal version from about 2001) the idea of a less heavy material is rapidly growing on me. But I'm not sure I could bring myself to spend the amount of money such a figure would inevitably cost- finding a reasonable price on eBay was bad enough. Also I know the degree of satisfaction in picking the thing up will be immeasurably increased (once I've finally got the damn thing assembled) if it weighs half a metric tonne.

Ath