Re: [DSII] Genre

The mould required for plastic miniatures are far more expensive - the
actual material is much cheaper. Hence the higher start-up cost but
lower
production costs. Metal has the advantage that any mis-casts can be
chucked
back in the melting pot and used again.

Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:

> Michael Llaneza wrote:
> >
> > IMHO the best thing GW ever did
> > was the plastic Epic-scale infantry. Plastic is expensive to set up
a
> > production run for, but dirt cheap over a long production run.
>
>	  I was always curious about that.
>	  An uninformed layman would think that metal miniatures
>	  would be more expensive to produce than plastic ones.
>
>	  I guess plastic is less forgiving a medium to work with.