clmckay wrote:To my knowledge, the only *single* piece (1), *hard* plastic (2) minis in the *25/28mm* (3) scale are the old HQ and Dragonstrike figures.
There are quite a few that meet 1 & 3, including by and large these KS ones we've been discussing.
The only ones I can think of that really meet 2 & 3 are GW - though Mantic offers some "hard" plastic minis' they're not what I'd call hard plastic - they bend and warp easy. There was another company....?Northstar? maybe, that also said the same thing - I didn't like them. Then there's the dude that does Avatars of War, his I thought were OK and a pretty close style to the GW stuff.
As far as all of them.....I can't think of any but HQ and Dagonstrike. KK is the resident mini expert, he could tell for sure, but none that I'm aware of.
That's about the long and short of it.
No competitor in the 2/3 area to Games Workshop's quality. Now you just have to like the style or make use of it, like I do.
The other bigger contemporary manufacturers use softer stuff and I hate it. Details are not evry crisp. Looking at you, Privateer Press!
I did hear and read about them and, for instance, Wyrd Miniatures (for the Malifaux game) now using a harder material,
but I haven't gotten my clutches on any.
1, 2, AND 3 were only EVER met around the HQ timeframe and, based on its success, shortly after.
HeroQuest, Dragonstrike, DarkWorld, Legend of Zagor, and of course the Games Workshop boardgames... all of these games used similar miniatures in a very hard plastic that we love,
but after them the material was seemingly lost in the ether, which only comes to my attention now that I'm typing it down. Or I forgot something.
Now, with multipart kits that are simply awesome in theory and in many cases practise, too, one-piece hard plastics have no market, pure and simple.
I guess they would be too expensive for all these useless and purposeless Kickstarter-based Nerdgasm-boardgames that have flooded the markets (well, they didn't did they?).
Big honor, that, being called the Resident Chief of Figure Research...
Wait, that wasn't it to the letter, was it?