Just an FYI:
1. I believe the order of expense in casting things is: Resin, then white metal, then (waaaay more) plastic (styrenes). GW only does it on the sets they think will sell enough to justify the large expense and they're THE big boy in figures. So plastic is pretty unlikely. But ships like the scout courier I saw on Ted Lindsey's site could be easily done in resin or white metal with good detail. If you're as good with Resin as Armourcast or DLD Productions, you can produce phenomenally nice casts in resin. White metal is also good.
2. There are a lot of 1/300th minis out there, even in sci fi. But few that look as sharp as the astrin, trepida, etc. and nothing that looks like vargr or aslan stuff. These minis would be small, easier to sculpt, and more cost effective to produce than their larger counterparts. People could then use a modified version of Ground Zero's Dirtside or some other similar 1/300th scale sci-fi game or someone could work to do like the guys for Power Projection did to license a Dirtside variant into the Traveller flavour. Or just use Striker II, that works, though some vehicle designs and alien rules would be nice extensors. (Striker III?)
3. If making 25mm figures, the old Grenadier Imperial Marines were nice, as were the Adventurers. Reprising them (or things like them) in white metal would be good. Right now, if I want to simulate Marines in BD, I buy Ground Zero's United Nations hardsuit and Zhos can be simulated with Denizen/Ainsty's Ventaurians (just don't by the helmetless version or you get yoda headed aliens!). Dark star makes some of the 1/300th scale flavours of the Ventaurian line.
4. If ships were made, I'd like to see them made in 1/1200th scale. This should let you do a fair range of ships. I did like the older casts of the ships originally done (I have all of them), but they weren't in scale to one another (the free trader is heftier than the patrol cruiser!). That was a bit of an annoyance. Hopefully that part won't be repeated.
1. I believe the order of expense in casting things is: Resin, then white metal, then (waaaay more) plastic (styrenes). GW only does it on the sets they think will sell enough to justify the large expense and they're THE big boy in figures. So plastic is pretty unlikely. But ships like the scout courier I saw on Ted Lindsey's site could be easily done in resin or white metal with good detail. If you're as good with Resin as Armourcast or DLD Productions, you can produce phenomenally nice casts in resin. White metal is also good.
2. There are a lot of 1/300th minis out there, even in sci fi. But few that look as sharp as the astrin, trepida, etc. and nothing that looks like vargr or aslan stuff. These minis would be small, easier to sculpt, and more cost effective to produce than their larger counterparts. People could then use a modified version of Ground Zero's Dirtside or some other similar 1/300th scale sci-fi game or someone could work to do like the guys for Power Projection did to license a Dirtside variant into the Traveller flavour. Or just use Striker II, that works, though some vehicle designs and alien rules would be nice extensors. (Striker III?)
3. If making 25mm figures, the old Grenadier Imperial Marines were nice, as were the Adventurers. Reprising them (or things like them) in white metal would be good. Right now, if I want to simulate Marines in BD, I buy Ground Zero's United Nations hardsuit and Zhos can be simulated with Denizen/Ainsty's Ventaurians (just don't by the helmetless version or you get yoda headed aliens!). Dark star makes some of the 1/300th scale flavours of the Ventaurian line.
4. If ships were made, I'd like to see them made in 1/1200th scale. This should let you do a fair range of ships. I did like the older casts of the ships originally done (I have all of them), but they weren't in scale to one another (the free trader is heftier than the patrol cruiser!). That was a bit of an annoyance. Hopefully that part won't be repeated.
