Profoundly red I would add . <| sep |> Ben , je vois pas bien la logique non plus . Si c ' est un second tour FillonMLP , je vais trs logiquement mettre un bulletin blanc dans l ' urne en fait . <| sep |> Thanks I didn ' t intend to be rude , but it ' s one of those stories that people halfknow . Details like the women being prostitutes tend to be forgotten . <| sep |> So much debate on all this recently which is both a good and a bad thing . I do think this guy posting stuff about recasts will drive people to search them out who previously had no idea what they were , if thats you and you just found the sub , hello ! I ' ve posted multiple times about the costs of producing originals from the amount paid to sculptors through to tooling and initial runs . Essentially , their sculptors designers are paid terribly , I mean just terribly , they are completely taken advantage of by a company who knows they own the market . Look on Glassdoor and you ' ll see 1819 k , that has been bourne out by ex employees repeatedly , the highest earners maybe getting 23 k , thats ridiculous . So as far as this taking money from sculptors and artists , please stop . GW are doing that already . Back in the day before being a PLC artists got commission and royalty on models and books sold , now they don ' t , its a flat salary and a fck you . So the cost of sculpting is actually operational cost as far as GW are concerned so we can basically sadly drop that as a part of the argument . As far as getting a cast done goes , well , have a look on DHGate , Alibaba etc and find the really well known molding companies on there there are tons they will give you a price for making a mold right through to having your own production unit with a quality guarantee and fixed unit cost or the option to run the molding and purchasing of resin yourself . If you don ' t want to do that there are companies in the UK who will recast if you make small changes swap a gun for something not an option from GW and they consider that fine . A mold is anything from 50 for a recast of a small infantry unit with 3540 in the mold through to 1500 for a complete new model from CAD to test to molding something new . I could break this down into costs for molding , QA , packaging etc but I ' ve done that before on here and won ' t go into it again , search is your friend . In short if you look at what FW are charging for resin I don ' t know much about plastics its pretty clear they make 100 % plus on each model sold yet still fail to make significant profit due to other operational inefficiencies and costs . TLDR GW is not hugely profitable not due to recasts or competition but due to crappy management and poor stock control . That much is very much apparent to anyone who has a reasonable business head and looks at the data yes I ' m a data nerd .