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Cult Of Games XLBS: Wargamers Deserve Better Plastic Kits!
October 26, 2025 by crew
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Backstagers, CoGs and OTTers,……Happy Sunday.
No potatoes?…..No Bodger and Badger?…..What would be the point of anything anymore
have to say i made one order from Lancashire Games of their italian wars knights Venexia range… the products were awful when they arrived , with a large percentage of the casts being miscasts. the moulds were obviously old and knackered. getting them to replace them was a process and a half even with pictures of the mscasts the attitude was awful and only replaced then after a lot of back and forth. I will never order from them again.
I think there are quite a lot of reasons GW dont do the Bandai level of model.
GW models generally get stuck to bases so the posability is a one shot thing compared to the amount of effort it would take GW. Their target audience is more and more the new hobbyist so they want to keep things simple (this could also be an excuse to keep them simple)
The pre coloured thing, gundam is based off the anime whereas the GW stuff is your own colour scheme, plus they make money off selling paints and making you add the colour.
I do think the end product is miles different and the direct comparison does make gundam stuff look superb, at least on the engineering front. The target audience however is very different so makes sense they are very different products ultimately.
and yet GW do their best to convince you that there is only the one colour scheme for your army …
or the one pose …
except they have already done pre-coloured plastics for some games, if people want to paint them further they do but there is no reason to paint Space Hulk minis you could leave them red and blue, the cost isn’t any different to colour them and for new players having pre coloured miniatures makes more sense. Sticking them to the base isn’t an excuse either you can stick a titan to a base, or any of the ridiculous new models they’ve made that go on those giant oval bases, so making them poseable as well wouldn’t change whether or not they can go on a base, this is purely down to the fact they could make better models and they keep telling everyone they make the best plastic kits in the world and it’s patently not the case.
While GW has been trying real hard to groom children into little nihilistic hammerheads since the get go, Gundam attracts more kids and young folks than GW’s mainstay 40k likely ever will, plus it is far easier for parents who give a wood nickle about their children to approve of with open purse strings (even Iron Blooded Orphans and Char’s sexual shenanigans are more appropriate for kids than the 40k books written with kids in mind).
So the “simple for kids” excuse is hopefully delusional marketer fantasy at best if used here, also it seems a lot of gundam modeler use the plastic colors as paint guidelines (outside of see through “its suppose to be glass” bits, but its mostly the same for war game modelers).
The lack of action figure articulation your right is about the basing as well as size thing (28mm-32mm action figures while possible are a “just why?” thing), that said though both Dreamforge and Rubicon do Bandai level quality sculpts for their models at least and they are hardly the only ones, meanwhile GW often sells what could best be described as solid pose Fisherprice toys.
No the main reason GW gets away with lower than Bandai quality models is due to the hammerheads and their clubs being a collection of loudmouthed cultists who are unwilling to do the smart thing and ditch 40k and its tourny scene for different war games that are better crafted and from a less ethically questionable companies.
As to the question what to do without potatos, well there are other root vegetables:
getting to the root of the problem I see 😀
I would like to see the gundam build technique used on battletech a huge selection of designs to choose from
Happy Sunday
Haggy Sunday
00:00 Backstaaaaaaaagers
01:00 I read some of them. And that’s when I usually make a comment. When it’s about G’Wullu I don’t read it. And the final question of “will you buy these” is usually a big fat NO. And since mother raised a good boy: if you can’t say anything nice, keep your mouth shut. Or something along those lines.
09:56 LANDSKNECHTE Himmelherrgottnocheinmal! No snacks! XD
18:00 “hang long” oh my!
33:30 84 pages? oO Jeebus
36:00 Magnets are magic!
45:45 That is a chunky monkey
53:11 A doughnut army. hmmm….
58:00 All the Kampf-Karens
1:04:00 G’Wullu would like to their location for a search
1:13:00 Paint @brennon PAINT! Or I’ll call another terrain challenge!
Let’s all do a community Gundam build challenge. Grab a random kit and build it and who had the most fun wins!
Happy Sunday. Thanks for Golden , Button and before my big update this week!
Really got Anal, and punched out all thr cardboard terrain and bagged all the Token!
Yes Gerry Who are you and what have you done with Bob!
😁🤞🏻
Hurrah, Happy Sunday gang
I should post my stage. I ran a bunch of lights and did a custom drum kit. It’s a great centerpiece.
I really wonder how and why those gundam models can be so cheap with that kind of engineering.
With Bandai one could assume it was a simple matter of scale, but if 3rd party companies can do it as well ?
Then the associated skill and technology must not be as rare as it appeared to be.
Maybe Archon can get to this level at some point ?
GW sure as heck appear to be stuck in their comfort zone of charging money based on how many points their games tell you a model/unit is worth.
Well arguably its because model builders are a larger market, that said I actually blame GW popularity for keeping our hobby small. I mean knowing what you know about both franchises if your parent which are you more likely get your kid: a WH40k stater or a Gundam kit of equal value, know I would pick the Gundam kit every time (I mean Gundam at its worst lore wise is still likely less morally objectionable than 40k at its best).
HappySunday…..
Cool – thanks for the golden button!
Good chat on the comparison of wargamer plastic vs gundam. Given the differences in economies of scale I don’t see any scenario where it makes sense to try to make our sprues cheaper. Which is unfortunate
gumpla for win !
Nice one guy’s