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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 9052934" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>If you want unpainted minis, there are options (such as the current Gloomhaven Minis) that are about $0.60 per medium mini. Alterntively, a one time investment in a 3D printer and a little time searching for free or cheap STLs may mean a huge supply of minis at a very low unpainted cost.</p><p></p><p>If you want painted minis, your best bet to get started it buying lots on Ebay - either entire collections or the extras that people decided they do not need.</p><p></p><p>I watched the prepainted plastic mini go from the very start with DDM to the present and saw how the price has ridiculously skrocketed. I bought Harbinger starters (with 10 commons, 5 uncommons and 1 rare) for $5 on clearance. Booster of 8 minis, were soon after ~$10, before going to $13. I remember buying up swarms of commons from online retailers at $0.10 to $0.50 per mini (including a lot of 100 dwarf skeletons for $10). By the time DDM was winding down I was really only buying minis for sealed events for their skirmish game and the occasional single because I already had everything I <em>needed</em>. And now I find myself buying the occasional single or a booster just for the thrill of it ... but I am still shocked that someone else is not doing the exact model they used back in 2003 and doing a standalong skirmish game with cheap minis with a few paint steps each that cover the basic fantasy tropes. The skirmish game can be real basic and still work - and even if the costs have quadrupled, they can still make cheap minis that they sell for $0.25 in a vending machine, so they can still make them elsewhere. It seems like undercutting WotC would be relatively easy these days ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 9052934, member: 2629"] If you want unpainted minis, there are options (such as the current Gloomhaven Minis) that are about $0.60 per medium mini. Alterntively, a one time investment in a 3D printer and a little time searching for free or cheap STLs may mean a huge supply of minis at a very low unpainted cost. If you want painted minis, your best bet to get started it buying lots on Ebay - either entire collections or the extras that people decided they do not need. I watched the prepainted plastic mini go from the very start with DDM to the present and saw how the price has ridiculously skrocketed. I bought Harbinger starters (with 10 commons, 5 uncommons and 1 rare) for $5 on clearance. Booster of 8 minis, were soon after ~$10, before going to $13. I remember buying up swarms of commons from online retailers at $0.10 to $0.50 per mini (including a lot of 100 dwarf skeletons for $10). By the time DDM was winding down I was really only buying minis for sealed events for their skirmish game and the occasional single because I already had everything I [I]needed[/I]. And now I find myself buying the occasional single or a booster just for the thrill of it ... but I am still shocked that someone else is not doing the exact model they used back in 2003 and doing a standalong skirmish game with cheap minis with a few paint steps each that cover the basic fantasy tropes. The skirmish game can be real basic and still work - and even if the costs have quadrupled, they can still make cheap minis that they sell for $0.25 in a vending machine, so they can still make them elsewhere. It seems like undercutting WotC would be relatively easy these days ... [/QUOTE]
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