It appears that Finecast may be officially dead, as there are no new Tyranid models releasing with this material! Finecast was also notoriously absent from the last few releases of 2013 as well ( Space Marines, and Dark Elves).
It seems pretty unheard of for nearly half a year of new releases to go by, one of which was HUGE sales wise (Marines) and neither had any Finecast models included.
Which begs the obvious question; Is Finecast finally dead?
It appears so, in fact it almost seems that Finecast models have been replaced with new multi-part plastic clam shell packs.
So what’s next for Games Workshop as far as it’s Single Miniatures business plan? More clam packs for new releases, or just skip single miniature market for releases in favor of $50+ kits (like this months Tyranids release)?
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