The addiction continues

londoncalling · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2014 11:19 am

Some folks can't help themselves...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lord-of-the-Rings-plastic-War-of-the-Ring-infantry-movement-trays-x6-/351123992542?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item51c09eefde

No other comment from me, as it seemed to have got the thread locked last time

Xintao · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2014 11:48 am

Holy cow, that's $6 a tray! God I wish I had a injection molding machine. I'd make a fortune.

Coenus Scaldingus · **Joined:** Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:14 am **Posts:** 1121

Ehm, don't think this really belongs in the News & Rumours section.
(Indeed, even the fact that people on ebay either ask or pay insance prices is far from novel.)

Rangefinder · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:51 pm

What I love the most is when something, in current production, is bid right up to full retail. :yay:

Sithious · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:53 pm

My company just bought a new machine. I think it was near $50K, and a mold would be another 10-15K. Then plastic pellets, to get a good price you would want a Gaylord or 1500 lbs at $2-3 per. You will need tooling to set the mold (forklift or cherry picker), you will want to pad some money for maintenance, hydrolic fluids and oils/greese, mold cleaner, ejector pins if they break. You will want hopper drier and all it's filters, an air compressor for the drier and for blowing off chutes and machines. You will need 440 power as well. then you need chiller/mold heaters to cool on half and heat the other on the mold, this is for setting up and to make sure it sticks to the eject half. Then run the thing and you will need someone there to catch parts unless you invest in a robot arm (we have them but they are fidgety things to get working but they do run consistent. Then buy packaging and start shipping to customers...well after you advertise and market that you have them and try not to get sued by GW.

But after all that, yeah, you could make some money eventually.

Sorry, couldn't resist... I have to do costing on plastic parts every single day here.

mertaal · **Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:26 pm

That's if there's enough demand for them to make it profitable- I suspect it's not, or GW would have continued to make them!

I just said in another thread, I buy the laser cut MDF ones on eBay, which here in the UK at least are pretty inexpensive.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2014 5:49 pm

Cheaper to mould them out of gold bars (allegedly)

Pindergorn · **Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:19 pm

Doesn't Gamesworkshop itself sell them cheaper?...Or are the WOTR bases OOP?

Sithious wrote:

My company just bought a new machine. I think it was near $50K, and a mold would be another 10-15K. Then plastic pellets, to get a good price you would want a Gaylord or 1500 lbs at $2-3 per. You will need tooling to set the mold (forklift or cherry picker), you will want to pad some money for maintenance, hydrolic fluids and oils/greese, mold cleaner, ejector pins if they break. You will want hopper drier and all it's filters, an air compressor for the drier and for blowing off chutes and machines. You will need 440 power as well. then you need chiller/mold heaters to cool on half and heat the other on the mold, this is for setting up and to make sure it sticks to the eject half. Then run the thing and you will need someone there to catch parts unless you invest in a robot arm (we have them but they are fidgety things to get working but they do run consistent. Then buy packaging and start shipping to customers...well after you advertise and market that you have them and try not to get sued by GW.

But after all that, yeah, you could make some money eventually.

Sorry, couldn't resist... I have to do costing on plastic parts every single day here.

A Gaylord?

mertaal · **Posted:** Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:01 pm

Yes, they're OOP.

aelfwine · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:23 am **Posts:** 508

King Ondoher wrote:

A Gaylord?

Big name in making of plastic...things.

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