While I prefer the look of 3D miniatures I don't have the time to paint them nor the inclination to spend the money for the variety that I want. I scan in my paper miniatures so they can be altered for variety or rescaled depending on how much area the tabletop needs to represent.
I bought a couple of WotC Star Wars miniatures sets but I couldn't customize my collection to match my needs (I despise their CCG approach to sets), they lack variety, and they seem to think that females in the Star Wars universe comprise less than 0.5% of the population -- no wonder they're always fighting!. (The latter is important -- well, its really more of an entertainment issue -- since I'm running a game for my son and his friends and two of the guys get distracted when "women" are a factor. So, the chief protagonist is a female agent and her main associate is a female privateer captain which tends to lead them to overlook a lot of things and makes it easy to mess with their little minds.
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