by lastspartacus » Tue Feb 24, 2015 7:20 am
I just discovered proxie models, ordered some 15mm bases a couple months ago to proxy playtest with. Had no idea they did contract molding.
I'm very loathe to rely on China if I can at all help it, I'd like to exhaust all my options here first.
I'm aware that I'm looking at at least thousands of dollars up front. This would be for my ship bases/flight pegs, as well as the course ruler segments. Assuming I sold five hundred starter sets for my project, thats approaching twenty thousand ruler segments, and about half that of bases/pegs.
The only other options, that i know of, are resin, which has proven prohibitively expensive so far for such parts, and pewter, which could work for the bases and pegs, but just wouldn't work for the course ruler.
I guess a piggyback discussion would be to ask if there have been any advancement in mini productions lately that I'm not aware of. I know some things are made in acrylic, and I've heard of some new process called 'trollcast', which is spin cast plastic apparently, but I have no real knowledge of anything outside of what I consider 'the big three'.