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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5065666" data-attributes="member: 463">Unpainted plastics are good for cheap mooks I can quickly slap some paint on; eg I recently got 30 em-4 orc minis (Crystal Caste distribute in US) for my game.  They're unpainted hard plastic and cost 20p each.  At around 20p/30 cents each I will buy lots of mook type figures, but I'm not going to pay the 75p I'd pay for a nicely painted plastic mook, or the £1.25 I'd pay for a nice painted Medium 'character' figure I wanted (eg the Cormyrean War Wizard).  I'm not sure if WoTC would want to produce at that kind of price point since I expect their Chinese painting services are pretty cheap.Counters are nice and I would buy a set of good thick counters, reasonably priced (Dungeon Tiles sort of pricing level is ok), with nice art on them.  Where for unpainted minis I'm looking for common critters like orcs and human soldiers, with counters the top priority is weird exotics, especially Large and Huge monsters.  I may well get Claudio Pozas' Paragon Tier counter collection at some point for just this reason.My experience of stand-up cardboard minis is *not* good.  They don't look right when set beside 3d minis; the effect is jarring where for some reason 2d counters and 3d minis mix fine on a 2d battlemat.  I think it might be an Uncanny Valley effect.  2d standups also have much poorer visibility than counters, from side angles they are nearly invisible.</blockquote>