Finecast

When Games Workshop decided they wanted a new way to screw over their customers, they switched from pewter to Finecast models. Finecast is a type of plastic resin that is supposed to offer "finer casting" than the pewter models do, but the real reason that they switched is because the price of pewter has gone up as the price of most metals has gone up lately, while the price of plastic resin has stayed the same. Thus, each Finecast model costs them only a fraction of what making a metal one would.

However, GW, being the money loving trolls they are, they decided not to pass on these savings to the consumer, despite the switch in production actually cost very little, as they simply used the same dye that they used for the metal models for the Finecast ones. This means that the profit per model for Games Workshop has gone up quite a bit.

However, there are other problems associated with Finecast. The most notorious problem is that this first batch of Finecast has apparently come out with lots of bubbles that destroy detail or ruin the model entirely. This could be due to any number of reasons, such as the fact that they're still using dies made for metal models to make plastic ones, or that they're just not giving much care to QC. In any case, Finecast has caused quite a bit or rage among 40K'ers in /tg/