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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9664154" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I'm not sure what you mean by "a more realistic price." I assure you that I track what I pay for miniatures and 1$ per miniature is my benchmark for whether or not to back a Kickstarter. And that is irregardless of size. For example, I am paying just under that for the recently closed D&L Kickstarter; would you like to see a list of the miniatures? For Reaper's Bones 6 KS I similarly received about 500 miniatures and terrain pieces , many of them large+, for my $500 pledge. And my last Cthulhu Death May Die KS delivered at about $1/miniature as well, again many of them large or huge; I posted photos in the Fighting the Gray Tide thread as I painted them. Although I have bought some Wizkids booster packs in the past for fun, the vast majority of my PPM came in bulk from Troll and Toad, back when they still did that, and if you were patient and not chasing rare miniatures, you could get a ton of plastic for next to nothing.So that price is entirely realistic because it is really what I pay. I seldom pay shop prices for miniatures because they are very inflated; though I do on occasion if there is something I desperately want. As I wrote, if you know what options are out there, the Hero Forge prices feel particularly egregious.Whether or not what HF offer is worth it is, of course, an individual choice. I agree that their customization options are super cool. However, we were discussing the pre-coloured miniatures in relation to Wizkids pre-painted miniatures; I think those are incredibly expensive for what you get, and are extremely low quality compared to almost anything else out there. I cannot comment on HF's plain resin miniatures as I have no experience of them. I do have a considerable amount of printed resin terrain pieces from other sources and the quality of those is almost as good as molded sculpts, through I have never encountered printed resin that is as resilient as molded plastic, so perhaps the HF ones are of a higher strength than the resin I have dealt with. I'll take your word for it.</blockquote>

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