Metal to Plastic?

[thesilverback]

First would be Deff Dreads and Killa Kans followed quickly by Sisters of Battle.

[Sitnam]

I would make a non-special characters into plastic like the current SM commander, that would allow for us to easily model every option that commander can take. I mean, the SM codex allows a HQ to take bikes, jump packs, and termi armor. But only the Chaplain has an actual bike model, and the Jump Pack and Terminator models are all metal. Or take Eldar Autarchs or Exarchs. A huge plethora of unique equipment for them, all conveyed by metal models? I know plastics woulds sell well for HQ's too, so whats the deal in not making a simple $17-20 plastic box for all HQ's. The SM Commander and CSM Termi Lord appear they were popular.

[Dia]

Everything.


It's not that I hate metal models, it's just that I find plastic so much better. I wouldn't mind too much though if some of the special characters stayed metal (with a plastic version available ).

[CAPTAIN SPAGNOULO]

Everything. So much easier to work with. If I had only one choice - Grey Knights

[Xas]

I would be happy enoguh if GW would convert all their metall-idicy to FW resin-a-like.

or to spell it other: FIRE PRISM. the dumb crystall is too heavy to hold and to dumb deisgned to even pin in place!

[Drunkencorgimaster]

Sisters and Gargoyles would be great, but for me personally I would LOVE to see plastic Valhallans. It is hard to build a Soviet style human-wave army with figures that cost buckets and weigh even more.

[BloodDemon]

Plague Bearers and Greater Daemons!!! The pewter versions of these models look horrible.

[Logan]

Tyranid Gargoyles are nasty to put together so I would start there,
After that all infantry that is listed in the respective codex as having options with these options available in the plastic kit.
40k is a miniatures based game and the miniatures are there to represent the forces deployed in the game (to the extent that many people stand by the WYSIWYG rule) yet options are often overlooked on the models. Plastic kits could and should resolve this (I am aware that pre Black Reach SM Dreads did not have a multi-melta available for the model, and other such omissions). Having to rely on Forge World for non "specialist" additions to your force seems unfair to me.
"Plastic For All" should/ could mean a far more varied assortment of armies being played, as are available in the codices.

[Old_Paladin]

Special Characters will likely never be made into plastic; because of pricing problems.

People will pay $30+ for a single solid metal guy, but they would be paying the same price for plastic too (which would make people feel ripped off). The reason the price wouldn't change is because special characters are priced to pay off the molding costs. A mold is expensive, you can usually only sell one unique character per buyer and not everyone will buy a special character.
Space marines are the top seller, and you know people aren't buying a boat load of special guys; maybe one in 3 or 4 are buying Vulkan, one in 6 or 7 buy the Calgar set. But every single space marine player is buying 3 boxes of tact marines, so that pays off the mold at least 10 times faster then a special character pays off his.

Would you really pay $40 for a plastic Calgar, or $30 for a platic Vulcan?

[mathhammer]

sigh I would rather see it go the other way...

some nice multipart metal tyranid gaunts.