Failcast? Not really

An unboxed Fennblades unit. Every model comes in its own compartment, can easily be snap fit together and requires almost no cleaning.

Being a Cygnar player since Christmas 2009, I have assembled many metal models and there was nothing slow curing super glue in combination with green stuff and the eventual pinning couldn't do. One thing that always amazed me how little flash and mold lines I had to clean off a Cygnar model if you compare it to one of the old GW metal models. If you have ever cleaned eCane and a Space Marine Librarian, you know the difference.

With the arrival of more and more Privateer Press resin products this has gone even better and I simply loved putting together the trolls in the starter box. I am really looking forward to doing my Fennblades next. All those models come with holes for snap fit so you may even put them together without glue.

So in the light of all this, everything would be perfect except for my Stormwall I just put together. I spent approximately one hour cleaning off flash and mold lines. Now this is nothing extraordinaire in comparison with other companies - if you ever ordered from Forgeworld, you know what I am talking about. However, compared to Privateer Press' standard of perfection, this was unusual.

Now the bitter pill in combination with the Stormwall really were the casting/assembling errors I have on it. Once again this is totally acceptable on a kit that big and it's nothing that can't be fixed, but once again it is unusual in comparison to Privateer Press' perfection on other products.

The upper torso of the Stormwall comes preassembled as the cast is made of two halves that are being glued together at the factory already. The Stormwalls right shoulder (not seen on this picture) is a perfect match, but here on the left shoulder the two pieces didn't align well. In the center you can see how I used some green stuff to fix one of the two plates above the railgun. You can also still clearly see where the two halves have been put together even after I cleaned the connection with a hobby knife. This will require some more filing at home.

Here we have a tiny little hole in the center of the picture. This will have to be filled with liquid green stuff. I also noticed holes in some metal parts, but they were already filled by Privateer Press with some sort of soft plastic. Those areas shimmer blue on the otherwise silver surface.

Here you can see Andrew show the individual parts of the Stormwall and how he puts it together. However, I assume that for the video he already cleaned the parts although he fails to mention it. You can skip to 3:20 as everything before is just introductory chat.