Reply To: Overpriced GW

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“GW are by no means the most expensive victoria minitures do an amazing range of guard figures they cost around 50 pounds, Ranging heros sisters models in some cases over 100 Euros for 10 figures. Their is often a very clear link in terms of the quality and the price you pay. If another company produced the quality GW did at a cheaper that would be great but at the moment you have to balance quality vs prices when you choose which ones to buy.”

There’s some um “slightly untrue” information in this. Firstly GW might not be the “most expensive” but the point is they are a multi-millionaire dollar company that COULD lower the price if they wanted to. They COULD NOT do annual price hikes if they wanted to. They COULD have NOT raised the cost of their products during a global pandemic when we all were hurting – but of course they did. From July 2015- Jan 2019 (yes, literally you can measure it, the GOLDEN AGE of GW) GW did not engage in the kind of abusive practices they have done before and after, they actually behaved like a normal company.

Victoria Miniatures: From a UK POV Arcadian Guard 10 man RESIN squad will cost $60 which is about £45-49 (the exchange rate seems bad right now) whilst the equivalent Death Korp RESIN from GW will cost you £50.50 for 10 same-sized humans. Keeping in mind the Victoria Minis are multi-part so they should be more expensive than the more linear DKoK. A likewise 10-woman RESIN squad from Raging Heroes will set you back 49.50 euros which is £39.29 right now, again multipart. Resin is expensive granted, and is always going to be quite high due to the quality control involved.

There are ample companies now that produce plastic kits that are just as good quality as the bulk of GW’s model range especially Victrix and Perry and are WILDLY cheaper. Warlord Games are now producing just as good plastics, in fact they arguably have since Gates of Antares; and Mantic now produce just as good plastics (compared to the bulk of GW’s line) now, finally – took them long enough! I’m not including Wargames Atlantic because their plastics aren’t as crisp – yet. All the other companies listed though are producing just as good quality models in at least their most recent releases, granted you’ll get less options I suppose but if Victrix and Perry wanted to compete with GW’s “painters” target demographic they could.

EDIT: Frostgrave’s plastics ARE as good as GW, I forgot but see others have flagged the above! And less prone to breaking thanks to the softer plastic they use whilst retaining just as good detail as GWs plastics,.