Would you rather get a rare Nightwalker?
I use my extras for:
take off the arms, base them, and call them bigby's whatever
repaint and make a fire elemental (tried, didn't like my work, then they came out with one)
break apart, repaint grey, and mount (or not) as a broken statue.
yes, that minis was not my favorite, but I'm not sure I'd want a rare one. To make the model work, some minis needed few paint steps, to pay for the better ones.
That said, i agree with your general point on quality decreasing, though I decided much earlier not to be a completist (and I won more than 2000 of these things).
I use my extras for:
take off the arms, base them, and call them bigby's whatever
repaint and make a fire elemental (tried, didn't like my work, then they came out with one)
break apart, repaint grey, and mount (or not) as a broken statue.
yes, that minis was not my favorite, but I'm not sure I'd want a rare one. To make the model work, some minis needed few paint steps, to pay for the better ones.
That said, i agree with your general point on quality decreasing, though I decided much earlier not to be a completist (and I won more than 2000 of these things).