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Reply To: Open gaming mini license

January 2, 2021 at 2:15 pm #1593929

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I would just like to point out that yes, 3D printing is indeed currently in the “enthusiast” category, but so is the miniatures hobby for the most part. We are already enthusiasts and therefore more likely to dabble in other enthusiast-type endevours when it comes to our hobby.

To my eyes it seems that interest in printing miniatures are driving home 3D printer sales, at least a significant portion of them. I bought one myself for the sake of minis. I believe that this also will affect the 3D printing tech development for the home market, and we will see more tech developed specifically towards printing miniatures at home.

Yes, it is in it’s infancy. No, it should not be viable for an established mini company to move over to 3Dprinting as their main source of income as of yet. Still, we see examples such as Titan Forge and Raging Heroes doing just that.

But these are small companies riding on the coattails of GW, supplying alternative miniatures for GW’s games, the niche within the niche as it were.

The question is how large does the disruption this tech represents get before GW does something to try to get it’s thumb in that cake? It might be ignoring it as inconsequential for the time being, but does anybody remember what happened to Kodak?