Everything's bloody expensive these days!
For those in the UK I shall translate....
Soga miniatures, one 1/35th figure @E12 =£10.70
New World Miniatures, one 1/35th figure @$15 =£9.00
I couldn't find a UK distributor for Soga, but Firefly Models were offering NWM figures at £9.95 each, a difference of only 75 pence!
Once upon a time the pound was strong...(I only wish i'd bought Johnny Rosengrant's S&T 1/16th Kharkov figures back then for 25 quid a pop!)..but no more. Is it any wonder there's no new blood in this hobby?
For me the only plus side to this expensive hobby is that poverty = creativity. I wouldn't be sculpting now if I could just buy everything in sight!
A good example of creativity because of a frugal childhood is this interview with Vladimir Demchenko on Historicus Forma (Bravo-6) ....and look how extraordinarily talented he is!
http://www.hfmodeling.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2863
Military modelling, with a plethora of excellent manufacturers, has never been in a better state than now (Looking through old copies of Airfix Magazine and Military Modelling Magazine is almost laughable!), but it can be a very expensive hobby.
It's never been a better time to be involved in this hobby, and the figures in this post are some of the BEST I have ever seen! BRAVO!
Just my tuppeny's worth (but tupenny doesn't buy a 1/35th figure!)
cheers,
Jon.