Another note on GW policy.

Just reading forums and /tg/ and seeing a lot of  'finecast is a moneygrab'. This is true. Harkening back to an earlier post I made on the subject; the reason it is a moneygrab is because the market is saturated with readily available models. At a discount.

So now people are saying that the switch to resin will just promote the piracy effect of casting your own models.
Wakey wakey this is what they want to happen because it's easy to sue people and generate money from fines than it is to peddle metal/plastic/resin to a tight market. Lawyers get it good because it's like finance. They don't actually have to produce any kind of good that gets sold. The pen truly is mightier than the sword.. by perception.

I think that we're about to see GW downsizing its model production immensely. The fact that their products are at an unsustainably high price over their production levels is no secret, what is a secret is that it doesn't matter because all you do is close stores, shift the product to independant retailers and reduce the size and number of your production facilities. In a sense, GW could have and maybe should have opened localised production factories in its major centres. Especially now since they've switched to resin.

NZ has oilfields. It can supply the very minimal amounts of resin/plastics needed to GW plants. The US? Detroit hello? Large population of impovershed ex-factory workers in a society that celebrates the implied slavery of 'working for what you're worth' and 'the invisible hand of the market' even though most historical evidence suggests that conditions will never improve for the larger population unless they murder their social superiors. The US could very easily manufacture, locally, the required levels of product-X and pay fuck all to the employees there as well. The UK? Forgeworld already exists. Expand it. Problem solved. Greater Europe? I imagine Serbia wouldn't mind the work.

Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and if that's true its most likely legal issues rather than ones of purely production/markets/sales.