Broken News: Citadel Finecast

Here's a quick little article for everyone. Following in a timely fashion after my article on new Plastic Tau Kits, comes news of Citadel's Finecast product line. This is going to be the replacement to the now out of production pewter models, but what its made of, I don't think anyone quite knows yet. The obvious candidate is resin, though the folks at my local flagship store are on record as saying that GW seems to want to leave that lot to Forge World. We'll apparently be finding out more of the details on May 23^rd, and depending on whether or not I've uploaded any additional articles in the meantime, I may just edit the details into this one.

Regardless here's the link to the teaser article on Games Workshop's website, and here's a link to a list of first wave releases, courtesy of Gifts for Geeks.

The first wave is a mix of LoTR, Warhammer Fantasy and 40k models, seeing as how the pewter cancelation has affected all of GW's lines. A keen eye may have noticed two things. The first is that only two Tau units made it into the list, that being the Ethereal with Honor Blade, and the Tau Sniper Drone Team. The only thing I think we can really take away from this is that with the exclusion of Pathfinder and Vespid units, the rumor indicating they have plastic kits ready to go has certainly been lent some credibility. The second tidbit presented to us by the list, is the absence of any Necron or Sisters of Battle units – not a single one. There are a lot of ways that could be interpreted, but I think the most common line of thinking will say that it's evidence those two armies have recently undergone a model review, like the kind often associated with impending releases, and with a line up that would have been in flux, were simply ignored for this first wave of Finecast products.

Whatever the case, it's really too soon to tell anything for certain yet, perhaps the information that comes out in the next few days will clear up some of the mystery. Take care folks, and as always, thanks for reading!

Update – May 23^rd
Games Workshop's new blog went up today, and after a week of speculation, not a lot of surprises in there. One thing is official now, the Finecast line up is Resin, which just goes to show, never trust your local Flagship store to know anything.

The blog pretty much exists as one long pat on the back GW felt it needed, probably in light of the brutal criticism the recent price hikes have thrown their way. That topic aside, the models look good, and I think thats the key take away point. Personally, I'm not a fantastic painter, and my eye for detail only goes so far, despite this, I can't help but wonder, with models like the Blood Angel's Sanguinary Guard being as detailed as they are (remembering just how tiny these things are to begin with), was there really a need to jump to another median?

Citadel Finecast

Standard Plastic

Well there it is folks, anyone interested in a resin Ethereal? No...? What about a Sniper Drone Tea... no, not that either? Well then.