Warlord Resin

[SimonC]

They do not seem keen to publicise the price of machinery and pieces though.

You'd need a few 10Ks to invest in this process.

[martin goddard]

I think you are right Simon.
That cutting edge is expensive.
Remember the cost of hard drives and their capacity  20 years ago.

martin

[martin goddard]

As an aside.
Do let readers know what acronyms mean, in case they are "out of touch" as I am, or there is confusion. I know it is difficult to judge which ones are common etc.   Thanks in advance. Please please do not take offence at this. I just want to understand what we are talking about.

MOAB= Mother of all bombs. Used by US forces to bust cave complexes in Pakistan Mountains.
QA= Question and Answer.
PP=Post and Packing.
TFL=Transport for London
TMP=The Mortgage People

TTFN/VR/BW/RTFQ


martin

[Antioch (Bob)]

"Out of touch", guessing it means i forgot my phone at home....phone is in the charger.. At the Nurimberg toy show & a bit too busy to answer ??

Interesting piece of kit.  Not a big fan of resin miniatures either. Definitely prefer metal.

Aside from cost on the machine  it seems it is a closed system.... buy there probably expensive machine, there moulding rubber, there custom resin, and the rest if the accessories.

Probably has some uses but not for everyone.

Bob

[martin goddard]

I concur Bob. But times may change?

martin

[Leslie BT]

Martin you left out the most important acronym.

PP    Peter Pig.
RCFM  Rules for the Common Man.

[martin goddard]

Indeed Les


martin

[alang]

MOAB  a games convention in Sydney Australia.  Mother of all Battles.  Supposedly from a quote attributed to the first Gulf War.  Alan

[martin goddard]

Thank you Alan.
That is good.



martin

[Spartacus]

By Fire and Sword---Tomasz is trying to do plastic horses also, I too am no fan. I like to change position of heads legs and tails wherever possible to add more variation to the mounts.

[madaxeman]

We (sort of) just did a podcast which touched on the slightly broader subject of "price vs quality" that migjht be of interest.

Martin I believe may already have listened to it, and has already commented on another forum (which shall not be named) ...

The core premise of the discussion was that for the rules we all play, a typical 15mm army comes in at 120-odd figures.

That means the price difference between buying an army of the most expensive figures on the market today (50p each = £60) vs the cheapest (31p each = £37.80) is a mere £22.80. 

For reference, the cheapest is the PSC army bags packs - so, to reference an earlier post in this thread, despite the hype the grab bags are  a very long way off being '1/3" of the price of even the most expensive metal figures, and some metals are pretty much the same price or even less if you pick them up in a sale.

Given figures are at the heart of everything we do as gamers – playing, painting, collecting – and we all keep our collections for years (decades even), we spend loads on paint, terrain, gaming mats (heck, even box sets of naval games from Warlord Games that we've still not assembled and which we all know that we'll be lucky to play even once) – in what part of our collective psyche does it make sense to spend ages calculating how to 'save' £22 on 120 figures we'll spend months painting and play with many times if that means we are compromising on "quality" by not just buying the figures we like the most? Why don't we instead spend the same time simply choosing the figures we like the best and then buying them, whether they are 31p, 40p or 50p a pop?

Podcast Link to Podbean , or search for "Madaxeman Podcast" using any of your usual podcast providers.

The "price vs quality" chat starts around 43:30 if you want to skip the rest. If not, there is also some painting, gaming and Gallic techno-driven military themed obscure general knowledge to fill your early December weekends and evenings as well as a quick diversion into airbrushing, a cough-assessment section (no, not like that..), a fairly comprehensive listing of those world museums displaying collections of "stand alone" military legs, many admissions of accidental purchasing, and a lengthy almost-feature on how to make an old rusty skip look like an old rusty skip using hairspray and fake rubble.

[Spartacus]

Haha--It`s Tim possibly the Man Porter now.

Hi old friend.

And I still hate resin.

Terry

[martin goddard]

Thanks for posting this Tim


Good topic!


martin

[John Watson]

Without wishing to comment on the whole price/quality thing I would point out that the prices Tim has quoted as most/least expensive are incorrect. My recent internet searches has shown that Eureka's AB range come out at 65p per figure and Warrior Miniatures are 21p a figure. Both are metal. 120 AB figures = £78. 120 Warrior = £25.20. Which figures you prefer is, of course, personal choice and there are some manufacturers and some ranges that I wouldn't use even if they were free.
John

[NTM (Nigel)]

I would not say the price comparison is incorrect as based on armies for an ancients ruleset for which Warrior and AB have very limited options. Using like for like probably the best option or can end up comparing AB Napoleonic against PSC WW2 which can work out as cheap as 15p each. Ancients also make sense as the MeG figures are in the ultracast material which is the subject of this thread.

Nigel