The end of metal ??

there a rumours sliding in some forums (warseer included, from Harry) that GW will soon mold their heroes and HQ in resine instead of metal, making metal totally desapearing from GW.
2 facts could re-inforce this rumour :
1/ there's no possibility for the retail and the associated sellers of GW product to command metal references since a month and a half ago (in France anyway).
2/ the big boss of GW, Mr West (not Herbert, nor James ) forbid all his staff to go on vacation on May, because he has an "important annoncement to do"
What do you think guys ??
imho this is true ! (and a shame, even if i like resine too)
Aubec

An important announcement?

"We are no longer going to run this company purely for profit, and start trying to really build our community and create a balanced game"

I like resin too, but it will be a shame.

I've been disappointed with the decline of metal, I remember when I worked for GW and our shop has 30ft walls filled floor to ceiling with blisters.

Even as a child one of my favorite things was to work my way through the blisters to find models.

will be the end of an era when it does happen, but times and technology march on!!!

Zealadin wrote:An important announcement?

"We are no longer going to run this company purely for profit, and start trying to really build our community and create a balanced game"

LOL! Good luck with that one Brother!!!
This maight be true.........FW is really uping their production these days and troops are being produced through them as well, not just HQs/characters.......Not sure why no one would be allowed to take a vacation during this time though .....riot control?

Riot control!! can't imagine the finance or sales team putting up much of the fight! back in the days of real mail order, the mail order Trolls might have put up a bit of a fight!!

To control any Riot, GW would need Arbites, whitch are made of metal! lol

Very sad to loose metal, but if the production process is cheaper, be sure they won't hesitate!

Its just sad the fact its cheaper doesn't get passed back to us!
GWS Products here in Australia are seriously overpriced already, and they aren't cutting us any slack, its a total joke. I think a squad of 5 PAGK are $55, while GKT are $74.
I can get them delivered to my door for half that from the UK!

I dunno if they will make the move to resin or not... I guess we'll have to see. There is a whole of speculation out there, as there always is...

I like resin in general, so if they do go for it, cool. The only problems I have with resin is the small/thin stuff... swords, antenna, etc... they always seem to break off.

Zealadin wrote:
"We are no longer going to run this company purely for profit, and start trying to really build our community and create a balanced game"

If we lived in a perfect world where money didn't matter, I'd be sure to agree with that one. Unfortunately, they have to make money in order for them to keep making the game. <sigh>

Zealadin wrote:
Its just sad the fact its cheaper doesn't get passed back to us!
GWS Products here in Australia are seriously overpriced already, and they aren't cutting us any slack, its a total joke. I think a squad of 5 PAGK are $55, while GKT are $74.
I can get them delivered to my door for half that from the UK!

I can't say I know the conversion rates, or how the rest of the economy is working down there... but one thing I have noticed, being right across the border from Canada in the US, is there is still a lot of Canadians coming over to buy stuff because prices there didn't adjust with the drop of the US dollar. Before the economic crash, it was around $1.50 Canadian to $1 US... right now, the dollars are, for the most part on par. I work in an electronics store and have people coming in all the time complaining that the same thing in the US is a lot more expensive in Canada. One person was buying a $350 vaccum cleaner that was nearly $700 in Canada (plus 16% tax in Canada vs. 9% here). It just seems to me that the different countries aren't making the adjustment... which may be the case with Australia and other nations as well... at least with companies that are based outside of the nation they are selling in.

Yep thats pretty much happened here.
The pound was worth about 3 AUD a few years ago, and now its barely worth 1.5-1.6 and the price of models etc has probably doubled across the entire GWS range in the last 10 years. (Well it feels like it anyway).

A friend and I did a combined order a while back that was about 800 AUD, and I think the actual store value over here was somewhere in the region of 1550 AUD.

Then the GWS store people say its the taxes and stuff.... total bollux if you ask me since the US gets it almost on par with British prices!

I can vouch for the Canadian difference. For a box of GK's here it's $39.50 compared to $33 in the US and our dollar has been on par for quite awhile now. I don't mind paying the bucks for my hobbies but what pisses me off is if the Canadian dollar took a dump right now there would be an immediate price increase to compensate for this. And I mean immediate. Nothing ever changes when it involves prices that should be coming down. Even if plastics are cheaper to make, don't ever expect GW to pass on the savings. It just ain't happening.

Looking at the new price list on BoLS the price hike depends very much on the model. Some are going up 5%, some by as much as 30% apparently. But nothing definite is out yet...

I imagine everybody saw the "Citadel Finecast" new range annoncement on GW website... Is this what this post is about?
Does anybody have a spy report???

http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=15272

It's not exactly secret. No idea how accurate it is.

Wow!
And I thought the hobby was expensive already

Yep... They are going to explain us that minies are better and sharper than they were and so on... blablabla....
In fact GW is just deleting a step of production... They are going to sell us green stuff 28mm 3ups....................
They are overall more expensive!