My vote for best plastic kit this year would be the new multi-part Witchfate Tor from GW. It's a terrific, versatile kit, quite large and full of good detail. It's flexible enough to use with roleplay games like D&D with it's removable floor sections as well as wargames like 40K and Fantasy battle. When I refereed RPGs years ago I dreamed of having model buildings like Witchfate Tor. It's usable with so many different game systems and kinds of games, it deserves some recognition.
My favorite new plastic kit from a personal standpoint is the new Daemon Prince. I've already had a lot of fun [URL="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=12500016a"]converting that one[/URL] to a snake-bodied monster and have several more conversions planned.
Everyone should realize that the resin used by model manufacturers IS plastic, it's just a different kind of plastic than the polystyrene used for most mass market model kits by GW, Revell, Testors, Tamiya, etc. The resin is usually polyurethane. Both are polymers and are plastics.Would you class the plastic warjacks for Warmahordes as resin or plastic?