Day 26: Papercraft Old West miniatures (and 1 shrinky dink)
So I’ve got a whole bunch of the Whitewash City papercraft Old West buildings constructed, but no cowboys to run around in the town for when I run my game. Enter papercraft miniatures.
There are actually several vendors of these and some free ones you can find on the web. After checking out many of them, I ended up buying the Western Set from Arion Games. The pictures are high-quality and they came out good when printed on cardstock in color.
Jocelyn has been experimenting with shrink plastic, so I thought I’d try to make a shrinky-dink miniature. They shrink to about 5/8 of their original size, so in order for it to come out at the 28mm size like the others, I drew it about 45mm tall, as well as a cross-brace. I put it between two glass plates in the oven, to keep it flat, and it shrank down perfectly. I glued the cross-brace on and now I have a nicely-scaled, but pretty crappy-looking, miniature. Clearly my Old West illustration skills need honing. Still, it was a fun exercise.
I’ll probably end up gluing or sticking these miniatures to pennies to give them some added weight, which will help them stay in place on the felt mat.
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