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All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby hunter101 » Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:47 pm

Well that's that.

All and I mean all of GWs old metal products/miniatures have now been removed. Rummer has it they were Melted down and weighed in Monday gone.

So Were dose this leave this company. With the removal of Fail I mean Fincast and now Metal And the ludicrous price rising?

Dark seams the future of a once proud company.
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby timewizard » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:09 pm

When was finecast removed?
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby RotweillerofJustice » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:31 pm

Has it been removed? I just did a quick finecast search on their website and loads of stuff is still listed say it usually ships in 24hrs. ????????
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby Baragash » Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:39 am

Removal is probably the wrong word, but interesting to note both Dwarf characters on pre-order today are plastic, and one of them's a special character.
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby timewizard » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:06 am

Maybe they're going to switch over from failcast to plastic?

Great, after I went and filled, snaded, primed and painted a failed Grotesque! Just my luck!
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby KInG » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:19 am

Ignore hunter, he's on another planet and soooooooo anti GW its depressing ;)

Ive 'heard' that they are moving away from finecast and going to make everything in plastic ... eventually.

That ties in with the other rumour that they will be re releasing models sporadically instead of in waves with new codex, so you don't have to wait till the next book for new models...

Ive also heard that those starter boxsets are going to be on sale all the time now as introductory armies deals to get people started on an army lot cheaper.

Maybe they are finally listening ;)
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby KInG » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:27 am

oh and the big thing for me that I've heard is the rules are going to be fluid, ongoing, updated regularly.. or something along those lines. that's massive.

I remember a conversation with Jervis at GW world when he told me personally and then repeated it in a WD article the following month: that the rules are only secondary, there to allow people to play friendly games with GWs great models. So they didn't need to be hard and fast and always correct.

I think this is the main reason other games are getting a foot hold. If GWs rules and codices were a priority, written to a very high standard and maintained, then I think they would still have the players they had. Ignoring that, letting other companies in, has been their undoing in the main. The knock on effect of not being able to get a game with another player for a lot of people, coz their friends have gone away from the hobby to try something else, or try 10 something else's, has lost them that catchment. People are less likely to buy into a game if they cant get a game.

A good rule set and army rules is they key for growing, and maintaining, a good following.
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby timewizard » Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:09 am

That's why I started in on Flames of War, very clear, well written rules.
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby Talus » Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:17 am

its why i started with Dredd, one rule book, no codex like books, and any changes/additions are released by .pdf free of charge (few and far between i might add, other than adding rules for newer models and throwing out some new campaigns, its still the base book for 95% of the game)


it was also a LOT cheaper! i picked up the entire Dredd range (minus the manta tank because it wasnt released at the time), for roughly the same as what i spent on my IG army which had half as many models
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby RotweillerofJustice » Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:36 am

If going over to complete plastic I hope some of the characters will get reposed then.
With regards finecast. I've not really had any issues with it.
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby hunter101 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 10:36 am

Just too clear up y comment on "removal from finecast" I ment it's going but not fully gone yet.

Maybe plastic is a good thing as it is cheep and re cycleable.

As for kings view. Anti GW. No. Well not from an old school point of view. Just like to ford over what's on Warsear and Bell Of Lost Soles.
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby KInG » Sat Feb 01, 2014 11:21 am

If you see anything there hunter that is interesting, please feel free to copy and paste it here but credit the source.

I for one don't have the time to travel round all the forums gathering information. And what I get from GW direct is usually old news nowadays.
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Re: All of GW Metals have now gone.

Postby hunter101 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 11:51 am

Get allot of it on my facebook news feed. Most of it is warhammer at the min. New dwarfs and questions on £7.50 for a monthly mag not called Whie Dwarf. :/
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