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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pogre" data-source="post: 1760869" data-attributes="member: 6588">Insight into the miniatures market is very difficult unless we know whether you are discussing pewter or plastic/ pre-painted or "plain." The start-up costs for Wizkids (WK) style plastic figs is significant - it's one of the reasons WK uses varying paint styles on the different poses - creating the figure molds is expensive. Start-up for pewter is much less so - a decent small set-up could be done easily for $12,000.00 or so.The cost of tin is on the rise and shows no signs of slowing. Tin is a major component of the pewter used to create most modern metal miniatures. Even the ever-reasonably priced Reaper figures are going for a minimum of $3.99 retail. I do not know much about the plastics market - I never buy them, but they are made of materials that are not significantly increasing in price currently.The major player is Games Workshop, period. The second tier is Reaper, Rackham, Foundry, Old Glory, and others. Privateer Press has a hot game right now, but it remains to be seen whether they can maintain meaningful sales for over a year.Games Workshop is rebounding from sales slumps from the last couple of years. They are tightening their corporate structure and continue to agressively market their goods outside of the traditional channels. They want people in the "Games Workshop hobby", not to promote miniatures in general. The interesting thing to me is that most of their designers are great guys who are really historical enthusiasts and just do the fantasy and sci-fi to pay the bills.</blockquote>

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