They'd also look better, even mono-pose. Have you seen plastics these days?
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Definitely. Also, even with the most basic snap-fit figures like the Chaos Cultists from Dark Vengeance, it's a pretty easy to chop off heads and arms to swap around and give a unit some variety, even if there's only a handful of poses. Trying to do the same with metal figs is much harder, and sometimes there's no way to salvage the bits you cut off.
So I picked up a Canoness Veridyan over the weekend. Was pretty excited to be picking up my first new SoB miniature in years. Now I knew the figure was cast in resin, but it feels suspiciously like Finecrap material to me, and is extremely flexible:
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The sword can flex real easy. I'm sure it'll be fine, but for $25 I was hoping it would be cast in some slightly sturdier resin....
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O.o I thought she's in plastic. Now that's shocking me a bit that GW still does new Finecast minis...
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They were very open about it being resin. Slambo released this last weekend was also resin. I'm amazed you found one of those somewhere. I want a second one to use for modding and such, but they've been completely unavailable since launch.
The new Celestine model, however, is amazing.