What kinds of volume of sales do you plan to do? Based on what you described, getting a CAD designer to make you an injection molding form, and getting the act

What kinds of volume of sales do you plan to do? Based on what you described, getting a CAD designer to make you an injection molding form, and getting the actual forms made is about a $10K-$15K investment (caveat: it's been about 7 years since I last did much with injection molded designs and tooling for another project). If you are not planning to do huge volumes, this probably won't pay off the way you think it will. If you're going to do low volumes (hundreds of units) you could make changes to your prototype yourself and make a couple of castings of it and just do poured casting models. The problem is in the ~1,000-8,000 pice area. It's too many to do by hand, but most likely to low to make money on unless you can charge a pretty significant premium for your figurine.