i got my self a ORDINATUS ARMAGEDDON the other day off ebay and man was it a crappy quality. I thought it had just been owned by a few too many people or maybe just a bad GW cast to begin with, but on closer inspection I noticed what i think are double mold lines (see pic) can any one here deny / confirm? didn't really know were to put this so move it if u can think of better place.

1,2 - metal air bubbles, ie during casting some of the mold broke off so now the metal fills in
those area's creating out wards air bubbles, signs the mold is breaking down.

3. kinda hard to see in the pic but this is one of the worst cast things i'v ever seen

4. a bit too many people used this thing theory

5. the support here is (again if looking from the right angle) half of what the other ones are.

6. general crap quality for the entire part. one thing i didn't point out is the top 2 inside
tracks. a good millimeter difference in height were those funny angled lines are.

7,8 - ya, double mold lines...

10- entire cannon looks like it has a half dead mutant brother, half sticking on the side of the
gun that runs along the entire top and bottem.

yep that's a recast imo

*edit, dunno about double mould lines, but looks to have been poorly cast in a gravity hand mould with cavities from air bubbles in it.

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ya.. that's what i thought. worst part is who I bought it off of - Craftworld Games. Now thankfully it was on ebay, and not direct from them so I can return it. also when I talked to them about it, they said they haven't even looked closely at the model.....ya...

It looks like a recast IMHO.

I've seen quite a few a long time ago, I knew a guy who was doing recasts (and trying to sell them, at least "honestly", not pretending those were originals, back when I was in school. Funny how it looked similar in the general aspect (no sharp edges, shinier metal, etc...) 20 years ago.

I also happen to have all three ordinatus models (they're somewhere in the line of stuff to repaint), that I originally bought in a GW store, and the details are much sharper on the original (panel edges, etc). Sorry but this does really look like a counterfeit.

looks like a recast to me, and the thing that first caught my eye was the metal its mix looks far to shiney compared to the duller metals i get from GW products, maybe the ratio of tin etc is different ? could jsut be me, that aside all the other ofactors just point at a recast.

Tim NZ

One thing you can do is contact GW and then send the model in and get them to confirm. They then give you the means to recoup your costs from paypal and they'll destroy the model.

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To be fair if craftworld games were not aware it was a recast (if you consider a lot of OOP GW metal moves through them, would be easy to miss something) they will probably take it back and destroy it/report it to GW themselves. Didn't somebody get a bag of recast stuff from chaos orc a year ago or so on here? seem to remember they took it back and destroyed it.

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