The rounded base

Assembling the Patreon Paperminis

Here’s a quick tutorial on what to do with the paperminis once you’ve downloaded them from the Hishgraphics Papermini Patreon page and printed them out. My free paperminis earlier were a no-frills, plain flat affairs which had no base for them to stand on. Those paper minis, when assembled, required a base assembly. For the Patreon paperminis, I thought I’d include something extra: several options for bases. Here are some thoughts on how you can assemble the minis. The above is a printout of the free downloadable PDF sample of skeletons and wraiths from my post at the Patreon page. It was printed onto white card stock. Then I sliced and diced it to extract the papermini elements. As can be seen above, each element folds back onto itself on top (towards the papermini’s head) along a blue dashed line. But it also has base tabs on the bottom (towards […]

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Hishgraphics Paperminis Patreon

I am happy to announce that the Hishgraphics Paperminis Patreon site has been live since Friday. Since I’ve been creating Star Wars paperminis and putting them on this blog for free download by the gaming community, why not go the extra mile by offering general (and not licensed-dependent) paperminis via a Patreon campaign. There will eventually be paperminis of characters for games ranging from high fantasy to science fiction to pulp to horror! You will be able to pledge for paperminis at different reward tiers from general mini designs to customised minis of your own characters for your games! Again, many thanks to a lot of my friends for their encouragement in one way or another, especially Ivan Tam for pointing me toward Patreon in the first place, and Peter Schweighofer and Miriam Robern for their diligent feedback of the Patreon page before it was launched. Check out the Hishgraphics […]

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