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[Gilladian]

I believe they're now made of something called "ralidium", whatever that is. They stopped using lead-tin (aka pewter) a good many years ago. Lead is poisonous, you know. And thousands of little kids would just naturally pick up and ingest those hard, pointy, nasty-tasting metal objects their big brothers and sisters left lying around.

Gilladian

 

[Emiricol]

Out of curiosity, are you only doing RPG minis, or wargaming minis?

 

[der_kluge]

Emiricol, my interest is really only in RPG minis. And my product is actually cheap, plastic minis which I can cross-market to a small segment of therapists (strange bedfellows, yes). It's a completely viable product idea. Whether I actually create them or not, I don't know.

And another bump for the Tuesday crowd. Assuming that the Tuesday crowd is somehow different than the Monday crowd...

 

[eris404]

Just to get more people to respond, it is a very short and painless survey.

 

[Henrix]

Metal minis are generally made of tin alloys, with or without lead. (There was a lot of talk about lead being used in minis a couple of years ago, so most manufacturers stopped using lead. A few (mostly makers of historical minis) continue to use lead.
Pewter is an accepted name for tin alloys. Ralidium was a (marketing ploy) name used by Ral Partha for their alloy.



And back to the topic.
The survey might need some clarifications regarding whether the questions only relate to use of minis for RPG purposes, or for any purpose. (I'm thinking of question five, primarily.) As I play fantasy, horror, modern and SF minis games (not to mention historical, which should be an option if talking about miniature games), but only use minis in fantasy RPGs, it has some relevance.

Perhaps there should be an option for 3d terrain in the last question, i.e. scale models.