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Yeah, it is expensive...

$500 to a $1000 for a mould blank, a couple hundred hour's of a machinist and pantograh machine's time at around $50/ hour, so say$10,000, for a sprue of 10 to 12 figures. Can make several thousand sprues or more, but eventually integrity of mold is ruined, so need to make another mould bank...

And your masters need to be flawless and designed to lift out of the mould without undercuts. After that you're running under several cents a figure ($1 a sprue ) even at current plastic costs. The packaging on those GW miniatures very likely runs way higher than the actual figures.

So that $30 box you bought might cost gw $5 to 10 to make....


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Look at this comparison-

Gears if war board game, 200 cards, 30 plastic figures and 75 tokens... $80. Lets say 50% for cards & tokens, that means 30 figs (28mm scale) cost $40.00, in essence, for a bag of toy soldiers.

Gw 20 termies, 280 components with which to make 20 Termagants. $44.00. However, all those bits allow you to make alternate models. Sell left over bits on ebay....




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Btw, I remember the days when 1k army would cost me $200, and my 2k army was about $400ish....