Reply To: Are older miniatures better ?

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> It’s nostalgia as you just said the majority of young people will not agree

56-year youngster here. (:

With plastics, today’s digitally sculpted plastics have *much* more detail than earlier models, and you have more opportunities to customize miniatures with multipiece. I have some 80’s GW plastic terminators, and they in no way compare against recent ones. And, with boardgames, plastic miniatures have also vastly improved. You can even compare FFG’s Runebound 2nd edition vs 3rd edition miniatures. However, monopose miniatures are limited by undercuts.

As for metals… I have plenty of junky metal miniatures from the olden days. I have the Grenadier AD&D sets from way back when, and many of the monsters were terrible. At the same time, metal’s lack of undercuts and smaller runs means they can have more expression than plastics and can have more unusual models. So, yeah, you can cherry-pick miniatures from the old days — I like them GW squigs and snotlings, myself.

3D printing might be more interesting, since you yourself can customize the miniature even magnitudes more than interchangeable multipiece miniatures. I’m certainly seeing buildings with quite a bit of personality in some KS.