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<blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 4609258" data-attributes="member: 46713">Ah, nope. It's more like the other way around:I started buying metal (well, lead) minis for the game and made some initial attempts at painting them. However I quickly found that even though the results were acceptable, it took way too much time for my taste and the minis were too expensive to get many (when they later moved away from lead minis they became so expensive, I stopped buying any).I also absolutely hated any minis requiring assembly. AND I noticed I was reluctant to transport and actually use my precious metal minis in the game because they tended to disintegrate too easily.For a long while I was reluctant to buy WotC's prepainted plastic minis because they were randomized. But after giving them a try I was quickly convinced they were exactly what I needed: cheap, robust, reasonably good looking (i.e. even a badly painted one looks better and more distinctive than an unpainted metal mini).And as a DM I can pretty much use any mini at some point. I'm definitely giving the new semi-randomized D&amp;D minis a try. They're still cheaper than their metal equivalent and if they're really painted better than the old ones, I'll continue getting them until I have enough minis for every conceivable encounter (i.e. until they stop producing them <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jhaelen, post: 4609258, member: 46713"] Ah, nope. It's more like the other way around: I started buying metal (well, lead) minis for the game and made some initial attempts at painting them. However I quickly found that even though the results were acceptable, it took way too much time for my taste and the minis were too expensive to get many (when they later moved away from lead minis they became so expensive, I stopped buying any). I also absolutely hated any minis requiring assembly. AND I noticed I was reluctant to transport and actually use my precious metal minis in the game because they tended to disintegrate too easily. For a long while I was reluctant to buy WotC's prepainted plastic minis because they were randomized. But after giving them a try I was quickly convinced they were exactly what I needed: cheap, robust, reasonably good looking (i.e. even a badly painted one looks better and more distinctive than an unpainted metal mini). And as a DM I can pretty much use any mini at some point. I'm definitely giving the new semi-randomized D&D minis a try. They're still cheaper than their metal equivalent and if they're really painted better than the old ones, I'll continue getting them until I have enough minis for every conceivable encounter (i.e. until they stop producing them ;)). [/QUOTE]

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