Reply To: Metal v Plastic

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If it weren’t for the cost I’d lean into metal hard. Its hard to field larger forces with all metal models when you’re paying 4 times the cost and a bit of a cheap arse.

 

The people who generally like plastic more haven’t touched much metal. They tend to come from GW stock and either didn’t prime a model properly so the paint rubbed off once or they’re converters wanting an easier material to work with. Like a lot of stuff on the Internet rumours dominate the discussion and give false impressions. Metal minis have become heavily demonised and with most companies switching to resin first hand experience doesn’t change that like it used to. Personally if I got into the hobby with modern sprue lay outs I wouldn’t have lasted a week. There’s nothing more miserable to me than opening a box and seeing random bits of models with numbers near them. You spend more time looking for the left legs matching testicles part than you do building models. For all the faults pinning has at least you know what to pin when you open the box. A lot of the plastic boxes are still decently laid out but companies like Mantic are slipping down the jigsaw sprue path and then the cost of metal is less of an issue for me. I’d rather build something I enjoy building than fight a sprue.