Sean Westberg
United States
Ventura
California
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So I finally cracked into this today in a mass-gluing of FFG figs.
I was, to put it mildly, disappointed. The lancers went into their stands... okay... with a few issues here and there. I don't expect high precision fittings, so I wasn't upset with that.
However, I was deeply upset with the knights. Not a single one fit in their stand. Before you suggest I was doing it wrong I had just finished 3 boxes of FFG figs gluing them and setting them up so I was pretty good at it.
On examination, one of the biggest issues was that the sprue that fit into the base was too thick by far, especially in the front. Due to the unusual figure pose, pressing down firmly wasn't much of an option, lest I severely bend/break the figure. Trimming the sprue turned out to be equally problematic. Without trimming however, the entire front half of the sprue stuck up out of the base, almost to the point of popping out completely. Eventually I had to take needle nose pliers and squeeze the entire thing while I waited for the superglue to set. And they still look terrible.
I'm not expecting perfection, but the entire run of mounted knights suffered from this problem. From what I could tell it looked to be a problem with the original castings: the base tab was simply too thick. Which means that nobody took the time to actually test thing before shipping it off for fabrication.
Usually FFG has excellent components, and up until that point their Battlelore stuff was no exception. However, those mounted knights are shoddy.
I"ll live with them because I believe I only paid 10 bucks for them, but if I had paid 50 dollars MSRP, I'd be insanely upset.
I guess this is half warning half question if anyone else had this problem. It still frustrated me. All the rest of the FFG figs took maybe 45 minutes to glue, while the mounted knights alone took 45 minutes to make serviceable.
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Antonello Piemonte
Germany
munich
Bavaria
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Good to know and thanks for sharing this. Will avoid purchasing this at full price then ...
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brian
United States
Cedar Lake
Indiana
Mourning the end of the Manning era.
Welcome baby brother Toby James, 03/24, 8 lb. 15 oz.
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I do want to say this: FFG does not have the original molds of the original figures. So when they duplicated "old" figures, they were allegedly recasting off of plastic. In all 3 of their latest expansions, the remolds had less detail because of this while the "new" figures were of much better quality.
I haven't gotten around to gluing CoC figures yet (but have completed HH and BB some time ago) and could tell that the Knights looked worse than the rest. Though I think some of the Dwarves had a similar issue, it didn't seem as bad as the knights.
So not trying to give FFG a free pass on this but they did the best they could with what they had to work with.
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Ryan Manes
United States
Chico
California
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I cam relate. My set is in similar shape. I might drill the bases to better fit the over-sized sprue...when I find the time to put them together...eventually.
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Sean Westberg
United States
Ventura
California
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ColtsFan76 wrote: I do want to say this: FFG does not have the original molds of the original figures. So when they duplicated "old" figures, they were allegedly recasting off of plastic. In all 3 of their latest expansions, the remolds had less detail because of this while the "new" figures were of much better quality.
I haven't gotten around to gluing CoC figures yet (but have completed HH and BB some time ago) and could tell that the Knights looked worse than the rest. Though I think some of the Dwarves had a similar issue, it didn't seem as bad as the knights.
So not trying to give FFG a free pass on this but they did the best they could with what they had to work with.
Yeah I had heard that too. I'm not concerned about the actual detail of the model. I can live with that.
What sucks and is amateur night is that the tab that slots into the base is about half a millimeter too wide, and it simply won't fit. The figs themselves are also in a funky pose that makes carving them down problematic.
This isn't a snug fit, this flat out is "doesn't fit", when all the rest of the figs in the box fit.
It's worth knowing that if you assemble these, you're going to have to do some extra work.
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Jay Sheely
United States
Pleasanton
California
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uhh....whoa, what? You have to assemble them now?
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