mmm, plastics...
I really like them.
Yeah, I love the weight of metal, but I also hate the way it chips so easily and the often rougher texture of the surface.
As far as detail goes, I think it\'s not so much that plastic in-and-of-itself has less detail, but that it tends to be used for the less detailed figures, with the (presumably) smaller production runs of detailed characters in metal.
What I do really like about plastic is that a blade has an edge, and that a delicate bit of detail that comes separately and needs to be attached is actually delicate. Plastic multipart minis rock for that aspect of it - I hate that metal minis so often just have a big chunk between sword and cloak for moulding reasons, or the square edges on a lot of blades, or that banner poles bend and break if they\'re top heavy or packaged roughly.
Plastic, on the other hand, can have the wafer-thin blades (yeah, they can break, but imagine the same width object in metal and tell me it won\'t be fragile
) that can be attached to the figure separately to look much better in the long run. Banner poles will easily support the weight of a ridiculous amount of plastic on top (or even quite a bit of metal) - and they\'ll stay straight. I tend to run a pin all the way through things that\'ll have a lot of weight on them, but I find them infinitely preferable to metal poles that turn into s-shapes in the blister.
Also the detail is getting better and better, it\'s hard to tell the difference between (for example ) Jes Goodwin plastic marine faces and metal faces.
If more stuff was plastic I\'d be happy, it\'s lighter so the sculpts could be far more complex and delicate. No more 3mm thick cloaks and huge chunks of metal between oversized dragon claws . And heck, I can always just weight the base.
I really like them.
Yeah, I love the weight of metal, but I also hate the way it chips so easily and the often rougher texture of the surface.
As far as detail goes, I think it\'s not so much that plastic in-and-of-itself has less detail, but that it tends to be used for the less detailed figures, with the (presumably) smaller production runs of detailed characters in metal.
What I do really like about plastic is that a blade has an edge, and that a delicate bit of detail that comes separately and needs to be attached is actually delicate. Plastic multipart minis rock for that aspect of it - I hate that metal minis so often just have a big chunk between sword and cloak for moulding reasons, or the square edges on a lot of blades, or that banner poles bend and break if they\'re top heavy or packaged roughly.
Plastic, on the other hand, can have the wafer-thin blades (yeah, they can break, but imagine the same width object in metal and tell me it won\'t be fragile
) that can be attached to the figure separately to look much better in the long run. Banner poles will easily support the weight of a ridiculous amount of plastic on top (or even quite a bit of metal) - and they\'ll stay straight. I tend to run a pin all the way through things that\'ll have a lot of weight on them, but I find them infinitely preferable to metal poles that turn into s-shapes in the blister.Also the detail is getting better and better, it\'s hard to tell the difference between (for example ) Jes Goodwin plastic marine faces and metal faces.
If more stuff was plastic I\'d be happy, it\'s lighter so the sculpts could be far more complex and delicate. No more 3mm thick cloaks and huge chunks of metal between oversized dragon claws
. And heck, I can always just weight the base.
