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[mahon]

Hi guys,

Our friend Ariakas posted a Forge World Chaos Decimator review. I thought you guys might be interested in it.

Here's a quote:

So, using my old habit when it comes to Forge World to order their releases early to get “fresh” moulds, and thus reduce the chances of miscast, I pre-ordered the Decimator and each weapon set right away. If I am not mistaken the release date was due on the 2nd of April and I received it on the 4th of April so kudos to them for shipping early (had I lived in UK I’d prolly had receive it before release so that’s a good point for them.)

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I hope you find it interesting.

[AyanamiKun]

Very interesting, especially the casting material part! Thanks for posting this

[mahon]

Glad to know it was of any use

Yeah, the material seems to be something new - so far Forge World used pretty hard resin and now, well, you know the rest.
Thankfully the quality was decent...

[Kurgan the Lurker]

There was a post (may have been on the FW fB page) where FW talked about using different resins for different kits and that included the same resin that GW uses for Finecast. So it seems depending on the kit will depend on the type of resin used. I'll see if I can locate that post again and link to it here.

[mahon]

I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

Anyway it seems Forge World casting specialists can do better than the FineCast crew

[Kurgan the Lurker]

Here we go, this involves an email to FW and response from March of this year:

http://natfka.blogsp...cast-resin.html

Suggestions on various forums isn't that FW is using finecast resin recipe but has started using the sprue type casting and that is part of the problem.

[Rik Lightstar]

The things in that e-mail from Forgeworld that seemed clear to me were:

"Finecast is a GW Brand (not a product or recipe), we don't/can't use that brand"
"Finecast uses a resin formula/recipe or recipes"
"We use more than one recipe"
"We neither confirm nor deny that one of our recipes is the same as the one used to produce the Finecast range"

Hardly conclusive, just "please don't call it Finecast"

Just my impression of it.

[AyanamiKun]

The things in that e-mail from Forgeworld that seemed clear to me were:

"Finecast is a GW Brand (not a product or recipe), we don't/can't use that brand"
"Finecast uses a resin formula/recipe or recipes"
"We use more than one recipe"
"We neither confirm nor deny that one of our recipes is the same as the one used to produce the Finecast range"

Hardly conclusive, just "please don't call it Finecast"

Just my impression of it.

That's also what I read in the emails, yes.

[mahon]

Hardly conclusive, just "please don't call it Finecast"

Just my impression of it.

"please don't call it Finecast" - sweetly amusing!

[DerekLee688]

"Please don't associate our products with Failcast. We actually know how to run a resin mini company."

My words not theirs.