Call me a boomer if you want, but there's just something more tangible and serious about pewter, or any metal, miniature I think. I just can't take you seriously if you walk in with the foamy plastic stuff.
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I am yet to meet anyone who has ever worked with both metal and plastic minis who prefers the former.
>who has ever worked with
As in playing with, painting, or actually making? Ofc if I had to make them plastic is the way to go by far, it's cheaper and easier to work with. But as just a dude who likes well-decorated gaming tables.
Painting and assembling. I would argue it's "easier" to play with plastics too since they are less likely to chip. Metals do have the advantage of being far easier to strip however.
Not trying to shit on old metals, I still have plenty of the old metal LOTR character range. I just appreciate plastic far more.
I can respect that opinion, I just feel like it's part of tabletop history and metal figures tend to have a classic vibe to them. I mostly like them because of the care you have to take of them, makes them feel more important to the play.
The GOOD hard plastic which is the thing people actually want is not cheaper at all. Material wise? Maybe, yeah, but that's small fraction of product cost, technology and all the overhead takes huge capital.
If it was cheaper, how come barely anyone other than GW has got it?
Infinitygay here, good metal alloy is fantastic and I love it after years of being in the hobby and working with resin and plastic.
Except on remotes, frick assembling remotes.
spot the moron lmao. Metal casting in your garage is absolutely miles cheaper than investing in an industrial plastic injection molding machine. Why should I listen to a moron like you?
Me.
The metal figures were sculpted by hand using wire, epoxy, and hand tools. They are necessarily simpler, but what they lack in ridiculous four-dimensional capes and hair they make up for in charm. Sure, that charm is subjective, but I will take metal mid-hammer models over modern sculpts any day. Many CAD sculpts seem bland, cartoonish, and flat.
Plastic holds paint better, but metals feel better in the hand, metal detail stands up to the very best resins and plastics, and you can strip them as many times as you'd like.
Also, frick *assembly* in general. I'll take a brick of pewter, thank you, and will do my conversions with pins and greenstuff.
Material and sculpting method have little to do with each other, other than metal minis and handsculpting being way more popular in the past.
I much prefer metal
You sound like a dumb kid trying to sound old.
That's the new thing. All the kids at my local highschool dress like they are 30 (think farmersexual)
Better than all the 20 something at my work who dress like they're 15
Metal minis do have an undeniably appealing heft to them. But plastic minis are superior in all other ways, so just glue a metal washer to the bottom of the stand.
You can get sharper details with metal or resin as compared to injection-moulded plastic.
It's a shame most metals don't have those sharper details
Most of them are old.
Any modern metal manufacturer will do, like CB. Not talking about the amount of details but the sharpness, plastic forces you to have much softer details compared to metal so that the mini can pop out of the mould.
>You can get sharper details with metal
I've never seen metal minis with the detail you can get with injection-molded plastic. Resin is not metal, and thus irrelevant.
Greater effort to work with, greater reward to play with. Modern plastic GW minis have something toy-like to them, especially the larger ones, though it's certainly a big part nostalgia speaking.
>literally a single-pose blob of metal vs a dozen sprues worth of parts you need to painstakingly assemble
I was thinking about all the pinning you'll need to make sure everything stays together and the varnishing after painting but you're right. I loathe the massive amount of parts some plastic kits come with, usually it just ends up with the same few poses anyway.
Yes, plenty. You need good tools.
I you're just talking single miniatures/skirmish level games I'm good with whatever. But if you're talking about larger (army) scale games you bet your ass I'm at least going to prefer plastics for the majority. Lugging a suitcase of metal is a serious PITA/risk to the miniatures themselves.
I use metal bases for my printed battletech shit just because all plastic feels like crap. The weight makes em feel like game pieces, rather than little statuettes.
I have dealt with both since the 1970's. Oddly enough much of the hobby started with plastic, Airfix and such. When you had nothing else it was amazing. I prefer lead figures, though plastic paints easier for me. I see the value in both, plastic is quantity, metal is quality and variety. 3D printing is getting better every day though and eventually might become the standard. 3D printing is a lot like computer animation to me, it can be good or bad, but it almost always feels sterile. I tend to prefer older miniatures sculpted with a lot if character, Dragontooth, Asgard, early Citadel, early Grenadier, early Partha, etc. There are some new sculptors doing cool unique stuff too, Thunderchild comes to mind.
>I prefer lead figures
They undeniably taste better
I bought metal blisters as a kid. I hate metal models if you're trying to paint and play with them. Much prefer plastic or printed abs like resin models now.
>Call me a boomer if you want
Were you born between 1946 - 1964?
>metals
I like 'em. I like sanding them down. I like the smell they leave on my fingers before I prime them. I also like the heft. Plus you can bend them with a bit more confidence.
Don't like how they chip sometimes though.
I like metal more because it makes morons on /tg/ angry for some reason and everything I want ends up being in metal, but plastic's fine too.
Cant imagine living my life like this.
Yeah see, every time. I don't know why they're like this.
The weight is comfy, but have you tried converting them ever?
I will. OK BOOOMER
Shittalking on yourself doesn't make you invurneable to rdicule.
You're an old homosexual that think ugly, monopose metal is worth anything than being paperweight on instructions while you assemble plastic models
I agree. It's why I look down on scale modellers, plastic airplane kits are low quality plastic tat
I haven't gotten into 3d printing because I can still order metal minis for my games. Love how they feel, and they have less flash than other materials.
Nothing against hard plastic, but frick resin.
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I prefer metal. I often seek out old metal models for my groups campaigns when i can. I also play and paint infinity.
I like plastic more. It's nicer to paint, and metal sculpts can theoretically be more detailed but in practice it almost never looks good at such small scales. The fifth model in the second row (squatting with the buckler and sword) is the only one of those I'd call well done, and even it's no masterpiece.
I wandered over here from the front page and don't play any tabletop games but just wanted to say that pewter minis look so much cooler than plastic ones.
People use the front page?
I have the front page bookmarked, so I guess I do. It's kinda fun to see what people invested in hobbies I don't know much about are up to sometimes.
fella you should join us sometime