Baz

Weight seems to be a factor that keeps getting mentioned. Resin is much lighter and cheaper to ship but for gaming models I prefer metal as the weight means they are less likely to be knocked over and damaged.

Well resin tends to pick up detail better and is a lot safer to work with (in the casting stages anyway) and is a lot easier on the moulds than metal. I takes a bit longer to harden but this is balanced out by the fact that people expect to have to clean up a resin kit themselves so you save time on cleanup. Cost wise there's no reason that a resin kit should cost more than a metal one. Weight for weight resin is about the same price as lead and the moulds are made from similar materials that have a similar cost. In fact given that most manufacturers use large expensive centrifugal casting machines to cast metals means that resin should be cheaper. The main reason that resin manufacturers give that resin kits are more expensive than their metal counterparts is that there is less demand for the kits and that they may not sell as many as a metal kit. This just depends on the size of the company. I'm sure forgeworld sells more of one of their resin kits a year than a metal manufacturer of a comparable size sells. In short resin is the better material to work with if it's manufactured well, but whining companies that don't have a very good technical grasp of how to work with the material are pushing the prices too high for it to be accepted as a viable replacement for metal.

Still a few posts to go before I can get into the arcade. And a few hundred crates to unpack before I can get some minis posted.:laugh:

Nope Scotland, but I do travel to London regularly as my girlfriend has a flat there.

Still got a lot to unpack but I may have something in a case that will fit the theme. I knew it would pay off to get the old citadel night horrors!

Hi there, I spotted some references to the iron painter comp on coolmini and decided to come over and check it out. Love the look of the site so I decided to join! Hopefully I'll be able to enter some of the comps over here. Well a bit about myself, I've been painting for about 15 years with a few gaps here and there. Just moved house (again) so I'm trying to get back into the swing of painting again. I was an in-house painter for Games Workshop for several years but decided to leave to pursue freelance painting. Anyway I'm liking the nice varied minis on his site and hope to get to know you all!