Reply To: Why isn't GW making New Astra Militarum

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It basically boils down to cost, the old days if they wanted a new guard army give a sculpter the design brief with  25 maybe 30 individual sculpts basic infantry squad some alternate special weapons and crew for heavy weapons as they all used the same lascannon,mortar etc and a couple of officers ,sargeants for variety your talking a month for sculting as they all be worked at the same time In between waiting for the putty to harden then making moulds for them depending on the spacing you could get 15 to 20 minis on the mould for spincasting at around £600 for the mould

now look at today everything’s in plastic so Im guessing design may take a bit more knowing how the current miniature sprues are packed and the cost for the  plastic mould is a lot more hence less updates for individual army