jodyjohnson
Adventurer
Plastic for my small children (less likely to harm the figures and be harmed by them).
Need your thoughts on prepainted miniatures.
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diaglo
Adventurer
i love minis.
for me, there are several points made here that should be reinforced.
non random... either should be nonrandom, so you can see what you are buying and if the sculpt is what you want.
durability... plastic has this over metal.
cost.. plastic should be considerably cheaper. but oft times it is not.
and painted vs unpainted... if they look like something a five year old can do. leave them unpainted.
i prefer unpainted lead minis. i bought thousands of them for pennies on the dollar from a hobby store going out of business in the 80's. i haven't painted nearly 2.5% of them. but i like to paint and resculpt and make them my own. heck, back in the day i smelted my own with some of the kits you could buy.
for me, there are several points made here that should be reinforced.
non random... either should be nonrandom, so you can see what you are buying and if the sculpt is what you want.
durability... plastic has this over metal.
cost.. plastic should be considerably cheaper. but oft times it is not.
and painted vs unpainted... if they look like something a five year old can do. leave them unpainted.
i prefer unpainted lead minis. i bought thousands of them for pennies on the dollar from a hobby store going out of business in the 80's. i haven't painted nearly 2.5% of them. but i like to paint and resculpt and make them my own. heck, back in the day i smelted my own with some of the kits you could buy.
Odhanan
Adventurer
For me there's a difference between metal and plastic and the way I want to use them. If I want a precise creature/character, and paint it carefully, I'll go for metal.
If I want large amounts of minis for a cheap cost, I'll go for plastic. Thus, if you propose a line of minis comparable to D&D minis, I'd say plastic because of the final cost of the blister that should be the cheapest possible.
If I want large amounts of minis for a cheap cost, I'll go for plastic. Thus, if you propose a line of minis comparable to D&D minis, I'd say plastic because of the final cost of the blister that should be the cheapest possible.
the Jester
Legend
Plastic. In addition to the benefits noted above, they're lighter than metal.
Cthulhu's Librarian
First Post
Plastic. I'm not going to repeat what everyone else said above.
JVisgaitis
Explorer
die_kluge said:
Upfront prices on plastics are a lot more, but in the long run they would be cheaper. I'm just trying to gauge what people would be more interested in. It would be cheaper to release prepainted metals for us and the detail would probably be a bit better. However, I suspect that a lot of people would prefer to get plastics for ease of transportability and this thread is evidence of that.
As to what we are proposing its still all hush hush and I can't go into it (and it may not even come to pass). They will be prepainted, they will be non-randomized, and they will be very cost effective.
DM_Jeff said:
Thanks, we worked long and hard on that!
Li Shenron said:
Not exactly. That was a general poll on miniatures. This is a very specific question.
Thanks guys!
JVisgaitis
Explorer
You brought up a lot of good points. Seems I missed some of them. More answers below:
Your right we can't compete with WotC directly, but we're not going to be. Your the exact person that I want for our product. Our miniatures will fill a niche in their own market and won't necessarily be competing with WotC, Reaper, GW, etc.
Initial sets will consist of a lot of monsters and we will support large figures all the way up to colossal sizes. We got all those parts covered.
Li Shenron said:
Your right we can't compete with WotC directly, but we're not going to be. Your the exact person that I want for our product. Our miniatures will fill a niche in their own market and won't necessarily be competing with WotC, Reaper, GW, etc.
Li Shenron said:
Initial sets will consist of a lot of monsters and we will support large figures all the way up to colossal sizes. We got all those parts covered.
All things being equal (i.e. quality and price), I would prefer plastic over metal. Of course, there's no chance that all things *will* actually be equal...
Either way, I probably wouldn't buy them unless they are priced competitively with the plastic prepainted singles you can now buy from lots of places online. I.e., if you ask for more than $1-2 for a medium sized prepainted mini, it had better be worth it!
Either way, I probably wouldn't buy them unless they are priced competitively with the plastic prepainted singles you can now buy from lots of places online. I.e., if you ask for more than $1-2 for a medium sized prepainted mini, it had better be worth it!
Kalendraf
Explorer
JVisgaitis said:Your right we can't compete with WotC directly, but we're not going to be. Your the exact person that I want for our product. Our miniatures will fill a niche in their own market and won't necessarily be competing with WotC, Reaper, GW, etc.
Initial sets will consist of a lot of monsters and we will support large figures all the way up to colossal sizes. We got all those parts covered.
I've bought quite a bit of reaper and WotC minis, yet I suspect I'd be a perfect candidate for buying your suggested products as well. The things that keep me away from buying more WotC stuff is the randomness, and what prevents me from buying too many metal figs is that I don't have time to paint them or want to have to haul around hundreds of pounds of figs.
Please keep us informed on the progress of this product idea. I think you have a definite winner, and I'm eager to learn more!
Michael Tree
First Post
Plastic.
The more detailed sculpts that metal minis allow would be wasted on prepainted minis, which generally have only very basic paint jobs.
Plus, they're easier to carry around, and hopefully cheaper.
In addition to the monsters, I'd like to see boxes with many of the same creature. It's hard to build up a horde of orcs or hobgoblins with the randomized minis.
The more detailed sculpts that metal minis allow would be wasted on prepainted minis, which generally have only very basic paint jobs.
Plus, they're easier to carry around, and hopefully cheaper.
In addition to the monsters, I'd like to see boxes with many of the same creature. It's hard to build up a horde of orcs or hobgoblins with the randomized minis.
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