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on similar topic, have any one else than noticed the bad casting on some regular GW stuff too?

 

I got some shrinkage on stuff, and a big chunk of armour on a armoured horse missing, and so on... :lol:

 

I do however feel sorry for anyone that gets any casted after me in the same mold as one of the torsos had a fairly sizable chunk of the mold stuck on it still.

OUCH! hope they notice that! :lol:

Hmm i'm a little worried about the Culln my friend is getting me for my birthday now. My experience with FW is generally good i've had sw rhino doors and the sw termie kits both in great nick, however yesterday my MKIV dread arrived. The main body is beautiful but the dccw arm (the bit I was looking forward to most :lol: ) is in a shocking state and will need replacing.

It has a hole in one part a mould line that is over 3mm thick and feels like it's had a good couple of coats of roughcoat applied to it, it's so bobbly.

I've also been waiting three weeks for it. As buying experiences go it has been less than satifactory. The upside is I know they will replace it with a good one. Lucky i'm the patient type.

 

++ spoke to forgeworld today and the new arm is in the post, I get to keep the old one. The guy on the phone even suggested using it as part of a base. Luckily the claws are useable so I might try some conversions with them.

Hat's off to FW they didn't argue the point or get annoyed they just got it sorted. There are not many companies that have aftersales like it.++

on similar topic, have any one else than noticed the bad casting on some regular GW stuff too?
I had some miscast metal a while back. Called GW, no problem they sent me out new parts... in a padded envelope... got to my house all bent up and one part flattened out. I just sighed and laughed. I guess they tried? -_-

 

Any miscasts in blisters I just took back to the local GW which swapped them out no problem at all.

 

Forgeworld makes me sad. B)

Well , I am doing commissions for 4 years now , mostly 40K working with lots of Forgeworld stuff .

 

Quality is on the average bad , very inovative and well designed , but bad casts ore common.

Had whole bunch of chapter specific doors that did'nt fit , as well as many extra armour kits where the standard GW Rhino doors where to big.

 

It's a pain in the a.... .

 

Dont ever buy a Thunderhawk , there are better ways to spend without having a hard time assembling

This one was done for a client , 15 hours assembling , 12 hours painting ..

http://www.figuraobscura.com/festung/th3.JPG

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 11 months later...

I've had really good luck with FW. I've ordered some BT Term shoulder pads, LRC/Rhino doors, and some BT combat shields. All were very nice, but every one was warped a bit, and incredibly brittle (to my sadness). They came to the use in about 3 weeks.

 

If you are patient enough, you can bend them back with hot water... most of the time.

 

The only problems I've had were with my tau models (can I say Tau on here, or will I get shot... twice?), and the after-sale service of FW is ridiculously good. New shipment without any problems. I wonder if that is why everything costs twice as much as it should...

I havent ordered anything forgeworld... but i did have an incident where a T-sons box i bought had a head missing from one of the head sprues so GW replaced it for me with a whole new head sprue which was nice it gave me an extra Tson head free for my termie aspiring champ

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