Necromunda The Sump: General hobby venting thread (Beware: old men shouting at clouds)

It’s an unfortunate truth that the world keeps getting more expensive. Prices for food, materials, and transportation have been trending upward for a few years now, and Warhammer isn’t immune to that trend.
“…so we’ll up our prices too as it’s clearly the current fashionable trend.

We’ll ignore the fact that we could lower them at any time, as other brands clearly can operate at lower costs and still make profit and we made more money than ever this last financial year using the exact same materials they use but with the added benefit of it being mostly in house, unlike them, who have to get others to manufacture the products for them.

Plus we’ve outsourced some of our non-in house manufacturing to China to take advantage of their cheap labour rather than using local business which would help our economy and work forces but hey? That’s what big business does right!?!

Anyway, you’ve got a month to buy our overpriced model kits until we jack up the prices again.

Except paints of course, amazing how rising costs for materials, transport and manufacturing doesn’t affect paint and the plastic pots they’re in eh?

Of course we can’t raise prices on those as there’s shit loads of direct competition and we’re already more expensive per millilitre than they are and we know there’s no reason to buy ours if we price gouge them. Or tools.”
 
I built a model car kit this weekend and there are loads of corners that GW could cut to make their items cheaper. A standard kit has:
-Indecipherable instructions where the parts are distorted by the exploded view in the booklet.
-Flash, mouldlines and warped pieces making prep work essential but by no means a guaranteed method of the parts fitting together properly.
-Cheap polystyrene material, imagine an entire kit made from white plastic card
-Chrome parts!
-Fragile components that break upon contact with the earth’s atmosphere
-perfectly scaled, realistic parts that produce a machine that would actually work.
 
-Fragile components that break upon contact with the earth’s atmosphere

Ah, Revell kit was it?

"We have a piece here 0.5mm thick and 30mm long. We have attached it to the sprue at three points, each connecting point thicker than the part itself. Good luck."
 
If the pieces break, it’s your fault for not buying 190€ Japanese clippers to work on a 11€ kit

However, I was given parts to build one of three variations on the same car. A convertable, hard top or roadster. It was fun to build and a serious challenge.
 
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Believe it or not I used to twist the parts off the sprues in the 80s! I’m honestly surprised I managed to not mangle them all. They obviously built tougher kits back then!! 🤣 plus it wasn’t all GW, made a few airfix too!!

I used a xacto knife in the 90s/2000s and it wasn’t until the 2010s I even heard of clippers for model kits!
 
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I use nail clippers - the plier kind rather than the fiddly spring kind. I did have a nice pair of flat clippers but ruined them when I cut wire with them.

Like many, I just used to twist parts of sprues when I was younger. Didn't even file the nubs off afterwards :eek:
 
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I left Twitter because of all of the toxic positivity, encouraging people to leave them old lines on for example. “Ignore the haters” LOL. Have fun with your unsightly mini.

And for the record, if you see mouldlines on my stuff it’s because I screwed up. It’s like priming the model to me
 
So, the yaks on Facebook, Instagram and all things Meta owned - how do you feel about their announcement that they want to use our data, posts etc to train their latest AI thingy??

You can object and apparently this will opt you out of the scheme, otherwise you’ll be herded in after the 26th June.