Outdated products?

[martin goddard]

Many of the members here are getting quite old (soma are not  though).
What materials did you use but do so no longer. Ether because those materials cannot be found any longer ora  better version has come along.

Materials and reasons.

For myself Plasticine and banana oil. Since then I use Duro or Milliput . Easier to work with and far better results.


martin

[Si B]

Humbrol enamels. I doubt I need to explain why.
Modroc for terrain building, heavy, difficult to sculpt and still needs texturing. I use Luke's APS sculpt a mold confection now. Much better.

[Smiley Miley 66]

Humbrol Enamels, I gave a local wargammer my entire stock 300-400 a while back to make room for my Acrylics, which does amount to several Hundreds.
I must admit I am glad that plastic card is now shaped into tubes and squares etc, that makes my converting and scratch building easier to do these days.
Miles

[Colonel Kilgore]

Humbrol and Airfix enamels. Acrylics - particularly Vallejo - were a revelation.

Beer mats for basing (MDF and plastic card are much less prone to warping!).

Cheap paint brushes for detailed work, now that I can readily get hold of decent ones.

Simon

[martin goddard]

I remember mod roc. Transparent bag with blue writing?  A real mess.
Vacuum formed scenery. Big, light but delicate and no sharp definition.


martin

[Mike6t3]

Mounting board for bases, difficult to cut accurately, pre cut MDF so much easier and doesn't warp.

Oil paints, take ages to dry and messy. Acrylics so much more user friendly.

On a more controversial note - will metal figures become outdated ? I hope not but there is an increase in plastic and resin ones :-(

Mike

[martin goddard]

I think  plastic rescued 25mm from extinction?

martin

[pbeccas (Paul)]

Felt.

The green felt with one tree on is a Forrest.  The brown felt is a swamp.  The blue felt is a river.

[John Watson]

I still use mounting board for bases so I would contest that it is outdated. Cheap as chips and I can cut them within a mm tolerance. Never had any problems with warping once I've put the base of PVA and sand on them.
For outdated though how about Prince August moulds? The figure definition was awful and I never worked out quite what scale they were.
John

[martin goddard]

Yes Paul, agreed,  I have not bought felt for along time.

martin

[Nick]

I still find felt useful for templates in gridded RFCM games in particular.

Nick

[Si B]

Mounting board for bases, difficult to cut accurately, pre cut MDF so much easier and doesn't warp.

Oil paints, take ages to dry and messy. Acrylics so much more user friendly.

On a more controversial note - will metal figures become outdated ? I hope not but there is an increase in plastic and resin ones :-(

Mike

Metal figures outdated?
I doubt it. 3D printing is the emerging threat but not there yet. I think the tooling involved in injection moulding makes it workable for serious mass production, but unviable for the sort of variety we want.

I'm not sure resin offers much over metal for smaller scales. Don't have any figures so had to say. I do like resin for wheeled vehicles as they're considerably tougher than plastic, and my metal ones all ways end up with wonky wheels.

I like plastic for AFVs but can't love the figures. Flat poses, fragile weapons. I'm not sure that the multipose approach would work on 15mm. Wargames Factory did some limited figures but they didn't work for me. Bottom line, I think metal will be around for a while yet.

[martin goddard]

I agree Simon.

3D printing is the next big thing (I guess???).
Maybe, one will buy  a file and be able to change the animation of the figure.
Thus, you buy a file to print napoleonic infantry. Then there are options within the file to change the animation a lot  or a little.

Like action man??  Then you could have his scar as an option.


martin

[Sean Clark]

Yes for me artists mounting board for bases, now replaced by MDF or plasticard.

I think I was quite clumsy and could never cut a straight line, but could always manage to slice my finger. I did hundreds and hundreds of card bases for both ACW  and Napoleonics back in the day...(mid 90's) and now don't own a single one of those figures ☹

[John Watson]

Is that why they call you "No Fingers" Sean?
John