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Reply To: Open gaming mini license

January 11, 2021 at 3:56 pm #1596131

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@ced1106 there are plenty of companies who either have or could develop the products and the infrastructure required to really improve the home 3D printing experience to the level that it needs to be for it to compete with GW for miniature sales. None of them will because return on investment for doing so would not be commercially viable. I can’t think of any other use beyond printing stuff for tabletop games and that particular market isn’t that big.

@horati0nosebl0wer Not all 3D printable miniatures are single piece, some of them are multi part and you can often find pieces that don’t fit together so well. GW’s fittings on their hard plastic miniatures have been very good for a long time now. I would go so far as to say their tooling probably rivals companies like airfix and Tamiya.

@limburger I suspect that GW aren’t doing anything at the moment with regards to 3D printing because they don’t have to. That’s not to say that they never will but right now it’s not a serious threat to them so they don’t need to do anything beyond monitor the progress of the technology.