Hi All,
Well yes that is the Price for being innovative. There are basically three ways of doing the medieval ship business:
1) Make a model of a ship and have it made as injection piece, Price for 1st sample about 10.000 euro
2) Make the models in resin, problem is that the material can not handle the Construction and Price pr. ship will be close to the current, and Money must be invested in a stock.
3) 3D printing, Price is rather high, but quality is great, no stock and Price for first sample is only design and actual print cost. And this allowed me to go to market with 6 totally different ships (more then Zvezda has done in 6 years) and also more will come. remember that these are printed on demand = no Cash tired in stock = Money to make new figures, ships etc.
...and the ships come assembled! So if time is Money
And 65 for a big model as the riverboat, 61 for a big ship as a Knarr, I actually think that this Price is fair (20% is actually the VAT). Then there is about 52 to cover the Development cost, the actual production and a Little profit... about 5-7 euro
But Again, if you do not like them, do not buy them