Talk:Hound's Tooth Expansion Pack/@comment-98.161.62.26-20150609181239/@comment-27666888-20170410151456

It's a repainted Z-95, yeah? Then FFG already has the mold in the factory set up to create the model. That wipes most of the cost right out. It's conventional wisdom in the field of the plastic miniature that your mold sets you back ~$10k alone, and then the models you print run in at cents on the dollar. Bloodlord's analysis above, I feel, hits the nail on the head, especially when he quotes '0.55c' as a post-mold production cost. Now I don't know what a new custom paintjob figures in at, but I imagine it's a number measured in cents when spread over a production run. Ten cents per unit might be an exagerration in the wrong direction, but so too is more a dollar or two in this specific case.*

That being said, I don't feel particularly aggrevied that the ship came without the Nashtah Pup. I think the reason for its absence does not have as much to do with the price-per-unit of the Z-95 as it does with X-wing design philosophy mid-2015. At the time, mixing Small-base ships with larger ships was an earmark of the Epic format, and it may have been too adventerous in Wave VII to try this out in regular play. Furthermore, the Wave VII scarcity of ships for the new faction meant that every Scum player owned Most Wanted - oftentimes more than one copy of it.


 * while the actual plastic model probably costs ~$1.00/~$1.50 for the Z-95, fully painted, it certainly costs more than a dollar to produce the expansion which encompasses the Z-95 in full. From shipping, to the cardboard tokens, right down to the pastic clamshell packaging, there are hidden costs that make any discussion of the price point of the plastic model alone kind of academic. By the time that model is dressed, packaged, and shipped, FFG's probably paying 60% of retail for it. Sure, they could have chucked a new Z-95 model into the Hounds Tooth box, but it would have involved a different process of design, and that definitely would have raised the cost. A nd the last thing a 2015 Scum player needed was to pay for  another  Z-95.  These companies operate on a knife's edge as far as profits go. I hardly think we're being gouged.