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Tallarns, oh yes

-Legio cybernetica models

-MkVIII marines done in the aesthetic of the old metals & concept art.

-A Stormbird, if dome right, but after the chibihawk and stormguppy I have little faith that would happen.

-A Hercules tank

-A sabre tank hunter, again if it looks right.

Edit:

-Also a ball drop pod like the ones from epic 40k

henchmen

Kid Kyoto wrote:Generic D&D character sets - I am shocked, SHOCKED no one had does them yet. A single sprue with a bunch of wizard, warrior, cleric, elf, etc options. Aim it at the fantasy RPG market and it should sell. It has to sell at least as well as War of Spanish Succession plastics right?

I've had a similar idea. If I had the sculpting know-how, I'd probably have tried it by now; I don't know if it's technically feasible at a low price point, but something like a sprue with multiple heads, two torsos (for gender), legs and different clothes and accessories would be really cool. A "build your own mini" set with the bonus that it comes with tons of bits for your other duders.

What I'd really want to see, though, is a plastic kit for sahagin, those fish men of the deeps that keep playing bit roles in D+D worlds. A larger kit with the hulking, four-armed mutants would be very much appreciated, too. I've been using Privateer's Bog Trogs, but they don't quite capture the bug-eyed alien feel that I want, and I've never seen a good kit that I could work into the large, four-armed varieties.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Adeptus Mechanicus.

What he said.

Plastic Sisters of Battle.
Plastic Inquisitorial Henchmen.
Plastic Mega Armored Nobz.

Plastic Thousand Sons
Plastic Sisters of Battle
Plastic Stormtroopers
Plastic Elysains
An actual model for Belial.

Squats (with rules to have them as part of the Imperial Guard Codex!)
Adeptus Mechanicus minatures (and a codex!)

Mewens wrote:

Kid Kyoto wrote:Generic D&D character sets - I am shocked, SHOCKED no one had does them yet. A single sprue with a bunch of wizard, warrior, cleric, elf, etc options. Aim it at the fantasy RPG market and it should sell. It has to sell at least as well as War of Spanish Succession plastics right?

I've had a similar idea. If I had the sculpting know-how, I'd probably have tried it by now; I don't know if it's technically feasible at a low price point, but something like a sprue with multiple heads, two torsos (for gender), legs and different clothes and accessories would be really cool. A "build your own mini" set with the bonus that it comes with tons of bits for your other duders.

I think you'd have to make a separate kit for genders. I think the sheer number of sprues needed is why this has never taken off.

There was an old line of 3 stage figures that took your warrior/wizard/whatever from scrub to demi-god... I wonder if that could be realized in plastic.

Anything Warmachine/Hordes. The scarcity of plastic PP kits is what keeps me out of that game.

Ok, Broadsides, First, Finecast isnt readily available in stores, and 40$ for a unit of models that is best done in more then one?
Ouch.

Sisters of battle as long as they stay away from finecast.

Stuff from the mass effect universe
Some halo junk, especially ODST
Marshmallow man 28mm
Star Wars terrain, Nar Shadda theme, practically everything from the universe
Old WWF wrestlers (superfly jimmy snuka, ultimate warrior...)
Exosquad

conker249 wrote:
Sisters of battle as long as they stay away from finecast.

Every time I look at this...



I ask myself if that will really sell better than plastic SoBs.

At this point I think we call agree GW has something against them.

What... the hell is that thing even?

It's.... It's... It's...

some kind of flying ghost stagecoach throne, vampire, blood vat, thing.

Obviously.

And apparently a much higher priority than plastic battle sisters or plastic IG who do not suck.

PS, how do you even store or transport that thing?


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This weekend I'm painting for the first time in over a year. 100+ necromunda guys I'm turning into a guard army (which I will never ever use).

They are so much fun to paint. They have so much character. the faces are just incredible, they youths actually look younger than the gangers, they're not just shorter.

Why can't someone make something like them. In plastic. With a ton of options?

Plastic 15mm sci-fi infantry of the quality found in the PSC 15mm kits. Do it for the same price and quantity in the box and I'd probably buy far, far too many.

Some things that GW could do with the plastics are sprues of weapons and accessories for each race with a few unique heads, bodies and legs for converting characters.

Plastic Star Wars sets would sell by the truck load; but I think the best bet would be generic, multi-part civilians with lots of accessories, including weapons. These would be perfect for everything from cultists in 40k all the way through to civvies and survivors in any other game system.

Space Above and Beyond figures and vehicles.

Space Marine Terminator character box(bits for a commander, libby, or chaplain). They would sell bucket loads.

 endtransmission wrote:
I think the best bet would be generic, multi-part civilians with lots of accessories, including weapons. These would be perfect for everything from cultists in 40k all the way through to civvies and survivors in any other game system.

that was a popular pick on Wargames Factory before the change in owners. The suggestion was a sprue of generic civilians in pseudo military gear with enough heads to make survivalists, terrorists, criminals, insurgents or whatever. Then another sprue of weapons. I remember a long debate about whether or not a chainsaw was appropriate.

But it never happened...

Plastic ork big guns

 scarletsquig wrote:
Multi-part Mordheim ruins.

Yeah, seconding this.

In terms of GW kits, I'd buy the hell out of decent upgrade sets for different traitor legions. Hell, I'd buy them in finecast as long as they were good.

Also, call it a boring dream plastic release if you want, but the thing GW could release that would make me happiest would be a redesigned CSM squad box with the new chaos aesthetic and design elements. I'd buy those like an addict. I'd really love a havoc kit along the lines of SM devastators, too.

Outside GW, I really want to see more viking-style fantasy miniatures.

 Hercule Pyro wrote:
Plastic 15mm sci-fi infantry of the quality found in the PSC 15mm kits. Do it for the same price and quantity in the box and I'd probably buy far, far too many.

+1 to this posting.....way too many bought

Mewens wrote:

I've had a similar idea. If I had the sculpting know-how, I'd probably have tried it by now; I don't know if it's technically feasible at a low price point, but something like a sprue with multiple heads, two torsos (for gender), legs and different clothes and accessories would be really cool. A "build your own mini" set with the bonus that it comes with tons of bits for your other duders.

I'm not even a DnD player and I would purchase kits like this, you could make kits for each class, and have (at least) 2 sprues of extras (or extras available in separate sprues) with scrolls, pouches, equipment, loaves of bread, cloaks, hats, etc on them. Kind of like how GW (and most other mini companies) used to make minis with separate weapons (remember how you got a space marine captain in a blister, with a 'space marine weapons sprue' containing a Bolter, BP, chainsword, PW, PF that you glued to the mini's hand.

Additional sprues containing suitably magic-looking weapons, extra equipment, additional heads etc could be available for those who wanted them (think 'mordheim accessory sprue').

Playboy playmates of the month.

 Achaylus72 wrote:
Playboy playmates of the month.

But only in life size full action versions.

They already do this, though.

Well, there's enough silicone in them for them to count as plastic, anyway.

A rogue trader model (the name of the first edition hasn't had a model in what, 20 years?)

A FAC/JTAC imperial navy aviator with radio operator. Waaay cooler than that 'officer of the fleet' model they have now.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Multi-part Mordheim ruins.

have you seen these, or must they be Mordheim(tm) ruins?

http://www.thewarstore.com/IMEXPlatformerHexagon.html









I built a whole city from their Gothic building kits, you get about twice as much stuff as you do in the Cities of Death kits, and since it's intact you can ruin it to your liking rather than have pre-ruined buildings.

asfar as plastic Mordheim buildings go, have you seen Warlord Games' Ruined Hamlet?

I want plastic independent and special characters. There's no reason to do finecast. The quality of the DV starter set shows they can do awesome miniatures in just plastic. The Librarian, Chaos Lord, and Chaplain are all awesome. The only thing holding the Captain back is the weird pose. Seriously, if they just stopped using finecast and made plastic ICs, I would be extremely happy.