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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9645958" data-attributes="member: 725">Siocast is Spanish, they use a thermoplastic for casting. They use specialized thermoplastic pellets (from SioCast), maybe they can get a replacement that works the exact same in the US... I've also heard from certain manufacturers that the SioCast machines are a PITA to operate/maintain/repair.I would suspect they would use these for lower volume minis, as there's a lot more manual labor involved then running the injection molding machines for PVC. The metal molds are just extremely difficult to produce, the reason why they still went to China for those. Shipping over large blocks of metal isn't cheap either, nor without risk. Especially now...Heck they are even moving over to 3D printing miniatures, for their Dungeon Dwellers RPG miniatures they are going 50/50 for 3D printing and SioCast.Source: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperddrpg/reaper-miniatures-dungeon-dwellers-roleplaying-game/posts/4294853" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperddrpg/reaper-miniatures-dungeon-dwellers-roleplaying-game/posts/4294853</a>The last Reaper KS I backed was Bones 5, they already did a switcharou with materials with their Bones Black without going into much details what that was exactly... With Bones 6 it was completely unclear which mini would be produced in what material. That, getting even less bang for you buck (compared to previous Reaper KS), and the fact I was already drowning in Reaper Bones minis was a good reason not to back anymore. Apparently I wasn't the only one as they only raised about $1.8 million vs the $3.3 million from Bones 5...I'm seeing old PVC sets for for example Pathfinder being out of stock and in the Bones Black material it's about 2x as expensive then the PVC stuff.</blockquote>

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