Probably dump question .. but are they real plastic now or is it the same resin PP uses for Warmachine? Had little to complain about those, except some warped staffs, halberds and the like. Nothing you couldn’t fix yourself with a wee bit effort tho

But damn I suppose it’s really about time to visit my local store again…

yeah I always found it confusing that PP labels their miniatures as plastic when they clearly aren’t, since no plastic glue will work on them. Love the resin material tho, so much fun to work with, even if you have to correct some stuff from time to time

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Well, that’s the thing about tastes =) The quote is certainly meant to be provocative, as british humor tends to be. I am German myself and we generally tend to “overdrama” on anything related to WW2, so I like how stuff like this stirrs things up a bit
I do apologize tho if that quote came accross as offensive, insulting or anything, as that was clearly not my intent

On the Styrene comment, absolutely! It’s actually one of my bugbears seeing the stuff labelled as “plastic glue”. When I were a lad (oh no! here I go…) anyone that had ever had an airfix kit as a kid knew it was polystyrene cement. It only works on styrene and it’s not actually even a glue so to call it “Plastic glue”, and I’m looking directly at you GW, is both erroneous and perhaps a little misleading rather than it being Privateer Press’s fault.

The magic substance is called butanone and it’s an organic solvent which just happens to be particularly good at dissolving polystyrene and that’s how it works. A thin application dissolves a little of the polystyrene on each surface, or melts it if you like, and when it dries you have a weld. There is no glue holding it together, the two plastic parts have fused. You could probably get a similar effect with a lighter or a soldering iron but that would be messy, dangerous and it wouldn’t have that wonderful smell.

Anyway, rant/lecture over and to be fair if I bought a plastic miniature I’d expect it to be polystyrene and sit scratching my head for ages wondering why it wasn’t working before reaching for the superglue. Also to be fair to GW they’re not the only ones using the “Plastic Glue” shortcut – it’s not glue and most plastic you encounter day to day is either polypropylene, polyethylene or PVC so you can’t really say it’s for “plastic” either.

Dang I said rant over didn’t I? Rant is really over now