pick up a copy of 'Military Modeler, or Scale Aviation Modeler International, or Finescale Modeler, and look at the figures being done for that market....they make the 1/18 figurines look really, really cheezey.
Like I said, the talent is obviously there....why aren't the die cast community not getting the benefit of those skills ?
Even the Exoto figures were at best marginal compared to the stuff that COULD be available based on my comments above.