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The thing that WENT WRONG was when I ORDERED MY GORKANAUT/MORKANAUT, I just build mine as the MORKANAut aND thE MorKanAUt LOOKS LIKE THE DAMN NERD EMOJI LIKE WTH BRO GAMESWORKSHOP PLEASE FIX THAT ORK KIT AND MAKE SURE IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THE NERD EMOJI.

I've mixed feelings about the GW product line. The "oldhammer" metal minis where in my opinion stellar - full of character & overall well sculpted, no flash at all, just a few sprue leftovers that where easily removed. Then on to the 2006 and onward type of design with finecast... I had a box of 16 quarrelers/thunderers + a dwarf cannon. Of the regiment, I made 4 quarrelers & 12 thunderers to build upon current regiments. The pros with the sprues is that they provide lots of opportunities for kitbashing. The cons of the sprues is that they're often designed in a way that some of the details of the models risk being damaged while removing them from the sprue. Many of the model parts are poorly cast, with lots of bubbles, warping, sprue lines, all of it. This makes assembly very time consuming, as you not only have to clean up the miniatures, you have to throw away some completely unusable parts & pick & choose among the leftovers which parts are the least damaged, and so on. It's a letdown and not at all a fun experience. Furthermore, the models do not fit well at all when assembled, putting pressure on the buyer to use green stuff to cover up huge gaps. The design where models are split into front/back/arms instead of legs/torso/arms/head makes kitbashing and general cleanup much, much harder than it should be. Many of the dwarf miniatures are also so poorly sculpted and lacking in detail that it becomes guesswork to see which is which among the parts. It also puts more strain on the ability of the painter, as they have to create much of the detail that the models themselves lack. I've never received a dwarf miniature from any other manufacturer where the beard looks like it is part of the clothing. Looking at some of the newer models (not AoS, still talking WF) like the later Dark elf editions, many of the issues with older finecast models are resolved, but the front/back split of models still cause misalignment issues, and the placement of the parts within the sprues still risk damaging the detail of the models when the parts are removed. Another downside is that the majority of regiment boxes contain parts to build one or another type of unit. This saves GW some production money, but it means collectors pay money for a lot of parts that they will never use, and it results in many different units having the same bodies or the same faces, which removes a lot of character from the army as a whole. They're kind of bland looking if you don't kitbash. I've never seen this with any other miniatures manufacturer, yet GW is supposed to be the biggest and the most successful. It's the reason why my WF armies are about 75% oldhammer, 20% third party proxies, and 5% finecast models.

Wenn ich zwischen GW und einem freiem Unternehmen, zwecks einer Bestellung, wählen kann, würde ich das freie Unternehmen bevorzugen. Ein Einkauf in einer Filiale von GW kommt nicht in Frage. Auch bei momentaner Covid19 Pandemie ist der Mail-Service inakzeptabel.