Ramilies Star Fort Part II
Posted by Mangozac on May 29, 2011Since becoming more familiar with the Ramilies kit I’ve reached the conclusion that I won’t ever be buying from Forge World again. Seriously I would be embarrassed to sell a model that arrived this generally terrible. I love the look of the Ramilies model and was so excited for it to arrive, but what I have been supplied with is absolute crap. Although I already phoned to arrange replacements for the parts most badly damaged in transit, I find the rest of the model less than acceptable. The problem is that I’m convinced it’s a mould issue, so don’t feel like a replacement could be any better.
Like I said, it seems like the moulds are just plain incorrect, perhaps to do with the pour sprues. See the picture:
This is the back of one of the four quadrants connected to a pier (pier on the left). This will butt up to an identically assembled pier-quadrant pair, and the same another two times to make up the bulk of the model.
See on the left side of the pier the step along the bottom of the side? See how the quadrant has a similar mating groove where it meets the left side of the pier? Well the side of the quadrant facing the camera doesn’t really have such a groove. It has a slight indentation, but nothing even close to what is required. I can get the pieces to align, but that means twisting things so that all four assemblies then won’t fit together. All four quadrants have the exact same problem.
I’m getting angry talking about it so I’ll stop now. Bottom line: don’t buy anything from Forge World. Seriously with the amount of cleaning up and repair required it would be quicker for me to scratchbuild and cast my own! I guess I’ll wait until the replacement centre towers come in before I have another go at assembly.