Reaper Miniatures seems to be done with producing new metal miniatures.
As Reaper and WizKids are both already licensed to produce miniatures, but they're only producing in plastics at this time, would Paizo consider licensing another miniature producer to make metal Pathfinder miniatures again?
I'd love to see more of the Pathfinder monster art brought to life as licensed metal figures and some miniatures companies still produce in metal.
I'm mostly just wishing aloud, I suppose.
Oh! I had no idea!
I’m a Bones fan (and plastic minis in general) not a metal fan, so I don’t keep up with Reaper’s metal minis.
A lot of customers are in your boat. But there are still some of us out here that prefer metal miniatures.
Reaper has a big back-catalog of metal that they're still selling, but the only new metal they've listed on their site in the last year was the Ed Pugh Tribute Miniature, which, as I understand it, was actually done by Darksword Miniatures, and Darksword wanted it in metal. This year even the Reaper seasonal miniatures were plastic--they used to do small run miniatures in metal but now they can produce plastic miniatures in-house instead of shipping them from China, so even the small-batch stuff is plastic, either Bones USA (which is their brand of Siocast) or 3D printed.
With Reaper not making new metal miniatures, that means they're not making new Pathfinder Metal either.
Pathfinder has a lot of unique monsters, and distinctive appearances for their non-unique monsters, so I'd still love to be able to get some of that stuff in metal. Personally, I'd love to see a metal Pathfinder-style Gug, for instance, or a metal large four-armed vrolikai demon, or even just a Pathfinder-style dretch (preferably in a multi-pack since they're small, like the metal goblins multi-packs). But Pathfinder has a number of monsters that aren't in D&D, and some of those don't have any good substitutes in metal.
Side note, why is it so hard to find a metal redcap miniature? It's not an obscure monster and exists in D&D with basically the same appearance. I found one, but I ordered it from the UK, and it wasn't a perfect match (no beard, no iron-shod boots).
Anyway, I hope there opens an avenue for new Pathfinder metal miniatures.