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Message: <blockquote data-quote="giant.robot" data-source="post: 5476583" data-attributes="member: 93119">I did this very thing this week, picked up some heavily discounted Rackham stuff off of Miniature Market. I love Rackham's AT-43 miniatures for sci-fi soldiers and robot suits and their pre-painted Confrontation miniatures are gorgeous. I intend to use them for PC minis in the 4E and Pathfinder games I play in.Overall I think pre-painted miniatures are a sticky wicket for manufacturers and resellers. For games like Warhammer or A&A every player needs to have their own batch of miniatures to play the game. With D&D miniatures (or any other RPG) individual players don't need more than a few miniatures so your main source of sales will be DMs.If the miniatures are not randomized DMs will pick up the sets they need and stop buying and there would be little need for a secondary market. If you randomize them individual sales to DMs will slow because they don't want to end up with 400 rat swarms but sales to the secondary market will increase. If the secondary market doesn't pick up DMs will grab miniatures from other companies or use tokens.For resellers the limiting factor is how many higher priced uncommon, rare, and very rare figures those they can expect to find and how much will people pay for them. It's the sales of those rarer figures that cover the cost of the case they cracked open to get the single minis. Their margins come from the sale of the more common figures.Unfortunately WotC decided to make the worst sculpts and the more useless creatures commons so no one wants to buy them. In my experience buying Star Wars miniatures I've got something like a billion Naboo starfighters, Geonosian starfighters, Sith Infiltrators, and Rebel honor guards that I'll probably never actually use. They're so distinct that they can't really be used in place of another figure without reminding players every ten seconds that the bright yellow fighter really is a Y-Wing.edit: removed a naughty word</blockquote>

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