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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 9336029" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>So my understanding with mini companies is that outside of GW its been slowly slowing down. Sales still up but receding. Some want to blame 3D printing on it but that is such a small and niche market that I doubt it at this point. </p><p></p><p>Reaper is doing well but Otherworld is bowing out as the owner is retiring, selling off stock and then selling off his molds. Reaper has slowly withdrawn their metals in favor of Siocast and Bones Black for smaller miniatures and using Bones Classic for larger ones. I figure they will be phasing out Bones white for anything but their larger minis.</p><p></p><p> Ral Partha Legacy is cranking out "new" models as they revive the old Tom Meier sculpts and Jacob offers some fantastic deals on his products. Iron Wind really doesn't get enough credit with Battletech and how they have kept the metal models cranking out with Catalyst doing plastics for about the same price. </p><p></p><p>A lot of my local stores aren't in the Wizkids game like they were. Nolzur's and Pathfinder Battles seem to have slowed down a lot in not just release schedules but the pre-painteds are really nice and we started buying them randomly again. The sets of "encounters" are great. Frameworks turned out to be priced too high for the market and they haven't really been pushing it that I can tell. If I see them they are at least 50% off.</p><p></p><p>I backed Bones 6 and Dungeon Dwellers RPG. I don't think I will be buying a lot of minis in the future unless it's Dunkeldorf or Bequest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teitan, post: 9336029, member: 3457"] So my understanding with mini companies is that outside of GW its been slowly slowing down. Sales still up but receding. Some want to blame 3D printing on it but that is such a small and niche market that I doubt it at this point. Reaper is doing well but Otherworld is bowing out as the owner is retiring, selling off stock and then selling off his molds. Reaper has slowly withdrawn their metals in favor of Siocast and Bones Black for smaller miniatures and using Bones Classic for larger ones. I figure they will be phasing out Bones white for anything but their larger minis. Ral Partha Legacy is cranking out "new" models as they revive the old Tom Meier sculpts and Jacob offers some fantastic deals on his products. Iron Wind really doesn't get enough credit with Battletech and how they have kept the metal models cranking out with Catalyst doing plastics for about the same price. A lot of my local stores aren't in the Wizkids game like they were. Nolzur's and Pathfinder Battles seem to have slowed down a lot in not just release schedules but the pre-painteds are really nice and we started buying them randomly again. The sets of "encounters" are great. Frameworks turned out to be priced too high for the market and they haven't really been pushing it that I can tell. If I see them they are at least 50% off. I backed Bones 6 and Dungeon Dwellers RPG. I don't think I will be buying a lot of minis in the future unless it's Dunkeldorf or Bequest. [/QUOTE]
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