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Moose-Alini posted:The difference between ‘fine dining’ and ‘jury duty was fine’ Actually I think you’ll find that the obligation of the citizen to act as the final defense against the otherwise-unchecked punitive/carceral state is both cool and good, hth?
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Damnit your right “Hello, GW? I wanna order all the finecasts”
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Aug 13, 2018 17:34
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Finecast is a Three Stooges podcast.
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Aug 13, 2018 17:35
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Schadenboner posted:Space Balls is not a good movie. It was a fun movie if you watched it before the age of 15 or so, and you will probably therefore remember it as a “good movie” but it is not. Where was this post Friday night?
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Aug 13, 2018 17:44
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Finecast is a Three Stooges podcast. Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
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Aug 13, 2018 18:28
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Wolfsbane posted:I've been digging through old boxes and pulling out stuff I painted 25 years ago, so I should have some content for the thread soon. In the meantime please post this every time someone says finecasts was okay tia
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Aug 13, 2018 22:12
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Moola posted:please post this every time someone says finecasts was okay tia I don't think I have ever seen someone say this
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Aug 13, 2018 22:17
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The worst part about Finecast was that the material was so brittle, they had to add in supports to the sculpt to survive the casting process or transport. The detail on the models was also so low, you couldn't always tell if the random cube you were looking at was part of the original sculpt or added in to keep the model from snapping. Either way, you'd have to spend a lot of time going over the model with a knife in addition to any mold line cleaning you'd normally do cutting these supports out.  This image highlights what I'm talking about well. Source: http://www.leagueofpainters.com/?p=1110
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Aug 14, 2018 01:32
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Spaceballs is better than Finecast
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Aug 14, 2018 01:55
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StuG Jeebus posted:Spaceballs is better than Finecast That's a really low bar there bud
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Aug 14, 2018 11:10
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Atlas Hugged posted:The worst part about Finecast was that the material was so brittle, they had to add in supports to the sculpt to survive the casting process or transport. The worse part was after going through customer service to get a model that didn't look bent to poo poo, after cleaning the model by digging out chunks of the mold that got ripped out, after filling any bubbles, after assembly and priming and painting... the loving thing would either break or bend on its weakest point within a week. Finecast zoanthropes where especially poo poo at this
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Aug 14, 2018 12:06
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The worst was that Vampire Countess figure in Finecast. There was a terribly placed gate or vent which resulted in her having a goatee.
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Aug 14, 2018 12:35
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StuG Jeebus posted:Spaceballs is better than Finecast Yes, I mean, let’s not get stupid here or anything.
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Aug 14, 2018 12:47
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Wolfsbane posted:I've been digging through old boxes and pulling out stuff I painted 25 years ago, so I should have some content for the thread soon. In the meantime I know it's late I still want to quote this and go "lmao finecast"
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Aug 14, 2018 15:27
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So did they end up giving up on finecast? Is resin Forgeworld only now? I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to new releases since I stopped playing 40k.
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Aug 14, 2018 15:50
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I recently got some Thousand Sons that were csm with upgrade kits to serve as filler guys for the fancier ones I built for Kill Team. Clued me in pretty quick on why hams freak out at the mention of 'resin' when looking at other game systems. The Finecast components were some really wretched stuff with easily a handful of bubbles on every piece and the stuff is bizzarely soft; little firmer than cured green stuff.
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Aug 14, 2018 15:52
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They still have some resin models I believe, but it is definitely being phased out. The only new resin models Citadel make are occasional limited edition items.
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Aug 14, 2018 15:59
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OK, to make up for that here's some of my own work. My first GW game was hero quest, and I didn't buy any GW paints (I'm not sure they even existed in those days), but I had plenty of humbrol enamels and a can-do attitude. I should have the rest of it around here somewhere.
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Aug 14, 2018 16:22
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For humbrol enamels, those are pretty good, especially compared to the usual 'oh jesus christ no' stuff that makes hobbyists shudder in horror at those two little words.
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Aug 14, 2018 16:28
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One of these days I really am going to paint up that bag of Hero Quest minis I found at a thrift store in the 90's
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Aug 14, 2018 16:57
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Iron Crowned posted:One of these days I really am going to paint up that bag of Hero Quest minis I found at a thrift store in the 90's They are great minis  I too painted my first minis using hero quest and enamel paints but i dont have any of the results left
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Aug 14, 2018 17:03
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I've got an unpainted Chaos Warrior from HeroQuest on my monitor at work. I dig it.
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Aug 14, 2018 17:39
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Saw this, thought of this thread
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Aug 14, 2018 17:47
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I just found out HeroQuest was a GW thing. I loved it so much when I was a kid but only knew one person who would play with me. Never even occurred to me I was supposed to paint those minis.
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Wolfsbane posted:OK, to make up for that here's some of my own work. My first GW game was hero quest, and I didn't buy any GW paints (I'm not sure they even existed in those days), but I had plenty of humbrol enamels and a can-do attitude. These are proper old school, but it doesn't seem right without the bases painted Goblin Green
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glitchkrieg posted:Saw this, thought of this thread It's hard to be sure, but did the illustrator combine the MG42 and the RPG Launcher into one weapon, Cable-style? That is outstanding if so, still better than Finecast if not.
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StuG Jeebus posted:It's hard to be sure, but did the illustrator combine the MG42 and the RPG Launcher into one weapon, Cable-style? That is outstanding if so, still better than Finecast if not. That was the case on the official promotional art for the real movie 
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I think it’s supposed to be an M-60 not an MG42? ...crossed with an RPG, because: obviously that’s just what you do.
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Aug 14, 2018 18:56
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Did we have rifle-and-rocket propelled grenades in the 80s?
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moths posted:Did we have rifle-and-rocket propelled grenades in the 80s? I mean, grenades fired from rifles were a thing in the world wars?
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They were - I mean the rifle fires a grenade and then the rocket also propels it. I don't know how to phrase that clearly.
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Moose-Alini posted:I just found out HeroQuest was a GW thing. I loved it so much when I was a kid but only knew one person who would play with me. Never even occurred to me I was supposed to paint those minis. Same, but two friends. I still have it here, minis unpainted, along with the skelly and ogre expansions.
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It's sort of remarkable that I've never heard anyone say anything good or even neutral about finecast. The stuff is just universally reviled. I don't know why GW has such trouble with resin, resin I've bought from other manufacturers is generally good to great. Cleaning off mold release sucks though.
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NTRabbit posted:Same, but two friends. I still have it here, minis unpainted, along with the skelly and ogre expansions. My dad won't let me take it for some reason, bastard won't ever play it again, but he's got the game plus the skeleton expansion. I keep meaning to go and commandeer it while he's at work one day but realistically I'll never play it again and it probably didn't hold up as well as I want it to. Edit: I've only got a handful of resin things as part of the Shadows of Brimstone stuff I've gathered and it's weird. Am I doing something wrong that normal glue just doesn't work well with it?
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Len posted:My dad won't let me take it for some reason, bastard won't ever play it again, but he's got the game plus the skeleton expansion. I keep meaning to go and commandeer it while he's at work one day but realistically I'll never play it again and it probably didn't hold up as well as I want it to. Probably a stupid question but you are cleaning the mold release off right? If you don't super glue pretty much won't work.
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NTRabbit posted:Same, but two friends. I still have it here, minis unpainted, along with the skelly and ogre expansions. If its still in good nick, you can get decent money for the expansions on ebay. Source: My brother found a mint condition boxed copy of the ogre expansion in a charity shop for £3 about a month ago. Miniatures all on sprues and everything. Jammy bastard. Len posted:I'll never play it again and it probably didn't hold up as well as I want it to. It really doesnt hold up well at all sadly. By todays standards it is Not A Good Game. I think it probably was legitimately good for its time (standards were lower then), but for me at least it was really helped by the fact a) I was a dumb kid and b) it was the first game like that most of us had played at that point. I havent revisited space crusade since I was a kid, I have a sneaking suspicion that it'll have held up slightly better than Heroquest, but still not be a good game by modern standards. From GWs point of view it absolutely helped hook me into the hobby. Sadly most of the minis from my copies of those games are long cannibalized for bitz. I had a bunch of chaos marines running round with snipped hero quest orc swords for bayonets and stuff like that.
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The Moon Monster posted:Probably a stupid question but you are cleaning the mold release off right? If you don't super glue pretty much won't work. No? I've never needed it for miniatures before and then I just was shipped resin and it's different and I don't like it. Unless I've been assembling minis wrong for ten years? Because if so goddamn it Past Len for not learning this before now
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SiKboy posted:If its still in good nick, you can get decent money for the expansions on ebay. Source: My brother found a mint condition boxed copy of the ogre expansion in a charity shop for £3 about a month ago. Miniatures all on sprues and everything. Jammy bastard. Got two boxes from 7 or so years back, the ogres and wizards sets. Still in shrink wrap. I kind of wonder if someone really gave something like that to a charity store, and it's actually tat that they shrink-wrapped as some form of prank. I don't dare open them to find out.
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LashLightning posted:Got two boxes from 7 or so years back, the ogres and wizards sets. Still in shrink wrap. People throw away things they don't realize all the time. I got a complete unplayed copy of Axis and Allies for $3 at one point. A Facebook group I'm in had someone find Twilight Imperium the other day. I've got a copy of Myst on my desk with all it's packins + the guide I found for $1
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