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Reply To: Metal v Plastic

February 8, 2025 at 3:38 am #1914887

hutch

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I like the feel and weight of metal, but I am starting to lean more towards plastic. I am most certainly not from GW stock and started out in this hobby sometime in the 80s when there were only metal figures. Even GW was metal at that time, ah the old days of paying 1 pound 95 pence for 5 metal men at arms figures. I have played some GW stuff in my time, but other than Blood Bowl, Dark Future, Battlecars and the other ‘boxed games’ it has normally been because friends have wanted to play it. These days I would rather clap with crap in my hands than have to play 40k, but that’s just because it’s not my thing and just a personal opinion.

I hate assembling figures, pinning and glueing metal figures together is something I would willingly pay someone else to do.

Also, the older I get the clumsier I get, and plastic figures don’t chip as much as metal ones do. Resin, I am not too much of a fan of, it’s still too fragile for my mind. I would rather sacrifice some small details in models for something more robust.

Having said all of that, I have Metal, Plastics and Resin in my collection and appreciate them all.