Privateer Press Plastic models finally revealed

We finally have pictures of Privateer Press’ first plastic models, the Exemplar Bastions. This new plastic box set comes with a full unit of 5 Bastions (normally these medium base Warmachine units come with only 3 modules and cost more money). It was accidently leaked a few months ago that the company was going to begin producing some of their units in plastic in an attempt to keep down their production cost. This development has caused a large amount of controversy within the Privateer Press fan base and the official forums have been filled with declarations of keep PP all metal. The controversy has mainly stemmed from the facts that the company has always mooched the use of plastic miniatures and presented its products as “full-metal fantasy”. I personally have mixed feelings. I do like the “feeling” of playing with metal models (I still remember frowning the first time when I picked up a plastic Space Marine Dreadnought from GW) but I prefer to build plastic models over metal. Plastic is just so much easier to work with. I have mixed feelings on the cost of this new set. On one hand the units is five dollars cheaper than a unit of five plastic GW Terminators and is about thirty bucks cheaper than what a full unit of five would have cost if made of metal. On the other hand I was expecting the box set to be a bit cheaper. I’m not saying that the box set is overpriced; I was just thinking it would have been slightly cheaper (like $40 or under). I don’t know why because the unit is still cheaper than the industry standard (let’s face it, like it or not, Games Workshop sets the miniature game industry standard). How do these new plastic models look? Take a better look for yourself. The front page of the Privateer Press websight has a 360 view of the models.