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Message: <blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4521659" data-attributes="member: 70778">But it could be feasible depending on the working model used to mold the minis.Take Games Workshop for example. While most models are sprues with all the parts on them made from that dull gray plastic, there were a few that were pre-colored.Taking the advantage to use the different color to make specific parts in the molds would allow less painting.The trees from the older Space Marines army sets had green plastic for the foliage parts, and brown plastic for the trunks of the trees.Easy enough for people to snip them off and to assemble and have a ready tre if you didn't even paint.Taking this approach for DDM isn't too much of a problem as all minis come preassembeled, so you end up with bucket of parts anyway that must be combined into a mini, so no real differences.The big problem is that the parts themselves aren't from the different colors of plastic. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />The arm has the shirt on it, so cannot be all green. MAtching the paint color to the plastic color could also be a bit of problem, but IF you could mold the parts as parts rather than whole minis, it offers the chance of using the cheapest color of plastic to make the part and less painting needed for the finished mini and the plastic is already the base color for the part save for the extra bit of shirt on the arm prior to connecting it to the torso. The torso will likely already be all the same color, and just ned those minor touch-ups for buttons IF added.It is what HASBRO did for many a year with GIJoe products so they didn't have much to do but mold the part the majority color and let the kids assemble it later and no paint required.This also means you don't have to worry with perfectly matching all the paints to the layer they are applied to and what is applied to them, and some parts don't get paint as they are already colored plastic.That aside on how to make the production cheaper by a little reorganization of the molds and ended sprues to use specific colored plastics for the parts..... I would still prefer you painting each minis...So get back in your dungeon cell and start putting them NMM skills to use! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Of course there are other options to paint the inside of the molds and when injected the minis will come out pre-painted for the most parts no matter what the original color plastic is and just need little touch-ups on spots to finish the paint scheme.....Still I expect a LOT better paint jobs with you there and the price going up as well. (Mailing me a Snowball Beholder or three may allow my expectations of the new mini line paint jobs to lower however. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</blockquote>

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