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Originally Posted by Buzzardo
Just out of curiosity, what portion of the project's expense is the tooling?
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Tooling is almost always the most expensive part of this type of project. The minis are relatively inexpensive, but even that isn't free since there are factory minimums to meet.
Also, every color change adds to the cost. Each time the plastic color is changed, the factory has to clean everything using gallons of cleaner. Running all of the minis in black plastic has allowed us to keep the goal as low as possible. If we were to add a second color, that would have increased the goal. A third color? Another increase.
At the moment, our focus is on cutting the steel that makes it possible for us to even create the miniatures. Sticking to black plastic keeps the project as simple as possible and keeps the costs as low as possible.
In the future, if this campaign is successful, we can explore other colors of plastic, perhaps as another crowdfunding campaign. The good news is that such a campaign would have a lower goal.