Miscasts

[Parus major]

I hate my first post on here to be negative but just how prevalent are miscasts in this range?
I've received a Klingon squadron box and to say I'm heart sunk disappointed is an understatement.

 

[scuy]

I bought 2 fleet boxes, the Federation and Klingon. Both set's the miniatures were in good order in my view.

issues I have had thus far:
1. minor pits, on the front of the fed engines.
2. without looking at image references to klingon ships alignment of engines was slight an issue.
3. klingon ships I had to some filing to get the engines aligned.
4. bent front end of klingon ships, was able to bend back.
5. strange texture from casting but was able to clean up.

With basic cleaning up, xacto and filing down errors. filling minor holes.

What do you consider as a miscast? I would say if the alignment of where the mold line was bad or major missing parts were not enough metal was put in that would be a miscast in my eyes.

 

[Parus major]

At first glance all the warp nacelle castings are fine, it's the main ship hulls, mostly distorted right sides of the engineering module and two are affected terribly by frothiness on the rear impulse detail to the point where half is just metal bubbles.
I was aware the resin ones had issues so when I opened the box to find a resin one I did get a little worried and I did find issues with it but I thought if that's the worst I'm happy. Out of the five only the smallest one is what I would call "good" and the largest is as acceptable as resin generally is so those are fine, the three middle are beyond help, really.

 

[Da Boss]

If they are that bad they should def sort out replacements for you - contact them directly and request them.

I have not had any problems with the ships myself

 

[Parus major]

I think I'll have to. On the upside, the resin C8 is actually brilliant. There's a bubble on brow of the head which is easily fixed. What is amazing is once I removed the injection points the warp nacelles are so well fitting that they stay put hanging there without glue. Amazing stuff.

I'll phone in about the fuzzy ones on monday.

Cheers everyone.

 

[Da Boss]

the Klingon warp engines are an issue as they are designe for resisn rather than metal and so are a Absolute pain to keep fixed to the wings - the resin dreadnought on the other hand has the groves to hold them well

 

[Parus major]

I had a look, it does seem like a thin edge that could cause issues. I'm thinking along the lines of grafting the underside together with tin foil and epoxy which would work, I think.

 

[billclo]

Chronic minor issues I've seen:

Pits on front of Fed engines, easily fixed with some putty.

Roughness on the casting for the Fed nacelles, requiring significant smoothing out, along with some mold misalignment. This is less common than it used to be with the resin models which were horrible in this regard.

Some roughness in the texture of the Fed saucers. Some have needed some minor putty around the bridge area to smooth out a bit.

EVERY E4 model I've gotten had major problems with the right engine and wing; I suspect the mold is to blame here. ALL have needed significant TLC to get looking barely acceptable.

MOST Fed CA/CC/BCH/DNG have needed major work on the engine pylon ends and hull socket to get them to fit together well enough to be glued. The Fed POL are horrible in this regard.

Fed DNG attachments for the center engine have been difficult as well.

Some Klingon cruisers have been problematic getting the engine/wing on; the D6/D7/C7 series usually need some work. Sometimes I can superglue-gel the engines on, sometimes I have to resort to epoxy. Generally the D5 engines go right on with superglue gel (tighter fit). I have noticed the D5's engine/wing seem to have nicer molding/even has grooves for the glue to stick to.

The Klingon C8 has needed the most work, with the holes in it, removing the injection sprues, and fixing minor bubbling. BUT it also is better than the early resin one, which took alot of work to fix up.

 

[Parus major]

Chronic minor issues I've seen:

Pits on front of Fed engines, easily fixed with some putty.

Roughness on the casting for the Fed nacelles, requiring significant smoothing out, along with some mold misalignment. This is less common than it used to be with the resin models which were horrible in this regard.

Some roughness in the texture of the Fed saucers. Some have needed some minor putty around the bridge area to smooth out a bit.

EVERY E4 model I've gotten had major problems with the right engine and wing; I suspect the mold is to blame here. ALL have needed significant TLC to get looking barely acceptable.

MOST Fed CA/CC/BCH/DNG have needed major work on the engine pylon ends and hull socket to get them to fit together well enough to be glued. The Fed POL are horrible in this regard.

Fed DNG attachments for the center engine have been difficult as well.

Some Klingon cruisers have been problematic getting the engine/wing on; the D6/D7/C7 series usually need some work. Sometimes I can superglue-gel the engines on, sometimes I have to resort to epoxy. Generally the D5 engines go right on with superglue gel (tighter fit). I have noticed the D5's engine/wing seem to have nicer molding/even has grooves for the glue to stick to.

The Klingon C8 has needed the most work, with the holes in it, removing the injection sprues, and fixing minor bubbling. BUT it also is better than the early resin one, which took alot of work to fix up.

Hmm, cheers, seems like this is just me being unlucky. In Mongoose's defence, there's one resin one in there and it did come from a stockist and not directly so the box could be the border of the shift to metals?

I was expecting nacelle fit problems but only because I've build a few of the AMT kits and it's an obvious fit point of the D7 original design.

 

[billclo]

The C8 models are going to continue to be resin, so you should have gotten a Squadron box of 4 metal and 1 resin C8.

 

[Parus major]

Cool, that's what I have.
Looking at the dodgey three, it appear to me that sections of the mold were damaged or missing when casting.

 

[Halfbat]

Do contact them directly as they are pretty good at sorting replacements out.

 

[Nerroth]

Which country are you based in?

If you are in North America, it might be worth considering ordering from ADB; they double-check each mini that comes in from Mongoose before putting it up on the cart, have a solid reputation for dealing with customer orders, and the proceeds are split between both companies either way.

(It probably wouldn't help this time around, but may be worth noting for next time.)

 

[Parus major]

Cheers. Good info there. I'm in Scotland so I'm in the Mongoose quadrant.

 

[Clanger]

I have had no major problems with castings bar one. A warp nacelle bump on my RoyalHawk was missing, no biggie.

 

[McKinstry]

Nothing major and Mongoose has been very good about sending fixes.

I did notice on my last C-7 that one side of the cooling grid on the back left deckhouse was getting rounded. It is possible some of the early molds are getting a bit worn.