r/papermini Oct 16 '21

Discussion Database of Paper Mini Creators and Sources

35 Upvotes

People have previously asked for a list or database of people who make paper minis. I've thrown together this list so we can add and share. Definitely let me know if you would like any new fields, changes, etc.

For now, this is just for sources/creators, not for individual products. (That may come at a later time.) I also will be considering how best to add thumbnails/previews later. (It's not a technical issue, but a "what to ask for" one.)

View what's in the database: https://airtable.com/shr2f2IFzlxIr8P6L

Submit to the database: https://airtable.com/shrsOW3eNFMal9i1k

At this time, do not include board games that include standees. That is covered on BGG with this great filter. (If you find a board game that isn't marked, earn some geekcoins and submit updates.) BGG Family: Components - Standees

Other fields I considered, but decided is probably too much effort... What do you think? What about other characteristics in art traits ("pixel art")?

  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Sci-fi, Western, Historical...
  • Also makes: Maps, adventures, etc

If you're not fond of this list, please comment to explain why. (Reddit is reporting a considerable percentage of downvotes, but no one has said anything indicating why that might be.)


EDITS. If I revised fields, I'll need update submissions to get the new data.

  • I changed the URL field from 1 entry to multiple lines.
  • I added a new "pay methods" traits: "accepts commissions", "commercial use available".

r/papermini 6h ago

Paper Miniature FREE Set of paper minis! By Paper Club Minis

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48 Upvotes

First set of paper minis available on my Patreon!

See you in the Labyrinth...

* NO AI


r/papermini 12h ago

Paper Miniature [OC] I made some Modular Bandit minis

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90 Upvotes

Its times for bandit! I decided to create another modular kit, this times for bandit.

You can swap pieces around (torso, head, arms and legs ) to form your own Bandit. Also with magnets you can just swap the pieces around, Go from basic clothing to armored version ^^

Making each character unique and interesting was the best part really^^ I think they all turned up pretty fun!

I release 4 variations already on patreon , Basic clothing version, i will keep releasing them as i go ^^


r/papermini 57m ago

Paper Miniature Sci-fi Door Papercraft

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I need a file for a sci-fi style door in this double door model and in the single door model for scenarios like Star Wars and Alien, does anyone know a good file? Unfortunately, the image in this image is not available on the website.


r/papermini 7d ago

Paper Miniature Free napoleonic wars French paper miniatures 1:32

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Link for a free napoleonic wars French 1:32 minis.


r/papermini 7d ago

Paper Miniature The Labyrinth opens its gates NEXT WEEK...

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3 Upvotes

For those looking for paper minis... enter The Labyrinth.

New Paper Mini Patreon launching

NEXT WEEK

SEPTEMBER 2026

*NO AI


r/papermini 10d ago

Paper Miniature Lichfest Paper Minis | Space Crusaders

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167 Upvotes

I’m doing my part!
The Space Crusaders set is available on my PATREON 

Included in Free Pack: Trooper A (frontview only)
Included in Tier1: Trooper A & B, Flamer, Annihilator
Included in Tier2: Trooper A & B, Flamer, Annihilator, Paladin, Sniper, Field Magus, Commander
Included in Tier3: 4 Color variations


r/papermini 10d ago

Discussion Printing service

3 Upvotes

Is there a high quality printing service out there for custom minis, where you upload your designs and they handle laser cutting/ assembly?


r/papermini 12d ago

Paper Miniature Paper Tyranids, u/Mat7dominus

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63 Upvotes

r/papermini 15d ago

Paper Miniature Barrow Wights & Necromancer Paper Minis!

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127 Upvotes

4 Paper miniatures created for the Paper Mini Jam 4!

All of them with front and back designs.

You can download all of them for free here:

https://paperclubminis.itch.io/espadas-espectros-paper-minis

Hope you enjoy them! 😄


r/papermini 18d ago

Paper Miniature Foldable Legends - Customized Models Showcase

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Hi,

I would like to show you a few examples of customized models you can build with Infantrymen kit. For those of you who didn't see my first post showing a unit in it's entirity, I also added a few images which show that as well.

Also, I made major changes to the project. Let me summarize what changed:

- Subscription tiers are gone. Now you can just buy whatever kit you like from the shop and start enjoying the hobby.

- Prices are lowered slightly.

- I designed Quickstart Guides as quicker, summarized alternatives to instruction videos so you don't have to watch multiple hours of videos to start building your models.

- I clarified that materials absolutely needed to start building models are just any type of glue and a cutting tool(scissors, box cutter or whatever you already have).

You can find more info about the changes here.

I greatly appreciate your feedback so keep 'em coming. Thanks:)


r/papermini 19d ago

Paper Miniature Some Kobold minion and bandit paper miniatures

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62 Upvotes

Made some Kobold Minions and variant Kobold Bandit paper miniatures recently and wanted to share 'em here.

You can check out the additional color variations (one for each chromatic dragon) and download files from the website catalog here.


r/papermini 21d ago

Paper Miniature Pathfinder Paper Minis/VTT

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38 Upvotes

r/papermini 22d ago

Paper Miniature The Bad Boys

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58 Upvotes

These guys, all guys, can be encountered over a wide range of my campaign. They are horribly malformed, inbred and of small cognitive ability, they serve Mother. Mother is always hungry. I made these paper minis in a bit of a hurry, there will probably be a v2 someday this year.


r/papermini 23d ago

Paper Miniature Cyclops Fantasy Warband - Paper Minis

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81 Upvotes

Just released a new set of whimsical minis! These are Cyclops, but you could just as easily use them as Trolls or Ogres!


r/papermini 23d ago

Paper Miniature Gnomesummer #4 – The acorn-slinger

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32 Upvotes

Fourth one for Gnomesummer. Recap if you're new to these: David-the-Gnome style forest gnomes, pacifists, whose woods got found by orcs, goblins, elves and wolves, and who are improvising weapons out of whatever they already had. So far a spear-guard, a village medic, and a woodcutter who's a bit too good with an axe.

This is the ranged one. Her sling isn't a weapon, it's a shepherd's sling, the thing she's used for eighty years to scare crows off the seedlings. A pouch of acorns and hazelnuts on the belt. Same improvised logic as the rest of the band: nothing here was built to hurt anyone, it just turns out a rock at speed doesn't care.

She was the most fun to draw for a specific reason: the sling mid-whirl gives her a big loop of empty space above her head, and that's the most distinctive outline in the whole warband. At 22mm the silhouette is basically all a player reads, so I've been trying hard to make each mini unmistakable from the shape alone: spear-and-shield, beard-and-bag, axe-at-the-knee, and now this loop. It also means she won't get confused with the goblin archers I made last year.

Red braids, wide braced stance, oak-leaf on the acorn pouch. 55mm strip, 22mm boots to head, 29mm to the tip of the hat. Front and back, print, cut, fold, base.


r/papermini 23d ago

Paper Miniature Gnomesummer #5 - The Geese Keeper

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22 Upvotes

Last one for Gnomesummer, and it finishes the warband. Recap if you missed them: David-the-Gnome style forest gnomes, pacifists with no soldiers and no word for warrior, whose woods got found by orcs, goblins, elves and wolves. They defended it by improvising out of whatever they already owned: a spear that's really a walking staff, a shield that used to be a tabletop…

The Geese Keeper is the whole idea distilled. She runs the village stores, she has four hundred years of authority… and when the invaders came she grabbed a rolling pin and pointed the geese at the treeline. A rolling pin is the least martial object I could give anyone: not a soldier who found a weapon, a cook who ran out of patience. And nobody trains a war-hound in a hurry, but farm geese are territorial, furious, and almost as tall as she is.

On the sheet she's three separate figures (the matron and each goose on its own base) so the geese are reusable. Field a gaggle, or just drop them in as angry farm animals in any game.

She's also the deliberate bookend to the first mini. The spear-guard was "somebody's mother with a pointy stick"; this is somebody's grandmother with a rolling pin and two furious birds. The warband opens and closes on a woman defending home.

That's the set: five gnomes and two geese. 55 mm strip, gnome's 22 mm to the head, geese come up almost to her shoulder. Made for Paper Miniature Jam 4. Thanks to everyone here who threw feedback in on the earlier ones.


r/papermini 24d ago

Paper Miniature Red Baron

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80 Upvotes

r/papermini 28d ago

Paper Miniature Undead Paper Minis

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66 Upvotes

r/papermini Jul 27 '26

Paper Miniature The Brigand

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90 Upvotes

r/papermini Jul 27 '26

Software I made my own paper miniature maker

25 Upvotes

I was frustrated by the online paper miniature makers and how they manage images and how they usually don't add a base, so I made my own. If you want to give it a try, it's completely free on:

https://papermini.netlify.app


r/papermini Jul 25 '26

Paper Miniature The Cavalier

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101 Upvotes

r/papermini Jul 24 '26

Paper Miniature Gnomesummer #3 - the Woodcutter

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29 Upvotes

Third one for Gnomesummer. Recap if you missed them: David-the-Gnome style forest gnomes, pacifists, whose woods just got found by orcs, goblins, elves and wolves, and who are improvising weapons out of farm and workshop tools. So far a spear-guard (spear's really a walking staff) and a village medic who carries nothing but a bag.

This one breaks the pattern on purpose. Everyone else is making a weapon out of a tool. His tool was already a weapon. Two hundred years of splitting oak and birch, and an axe doesn't care what you swing it at. He didn't want to be good at this, and he is. The others are scared of the orcs at the treeline. A few of them are a little scared of him.

Design-wise he's the most grounded silhouette of the band: no shield, no hat point crowding the outline, just a solid vertical block with a heavy dark axe-head at knee height. The axe is held low rather than raised because I wanted the pose to read as reluctance, not heroics. a gnome who'd rather be back at the woodpile.

Also, he's the one gnome not wearing the warband's red-shirt/blue-hat colours: olive hat, grey smock, ginger beard. That's deliberate. These are civilians who grabbed whatever they already owned, not a uniformed unit, so I want the palettes to clash a bit.

55 mm strip, 22 mm boots to head, 29 mm to the tip of the hat. Front and back, print, cut, fold, base.

The thing I'm unsure about: does the low-held axe actually read as reluctance to you, or does it just look like a resting pose? That's the whole character riding on one arm angle and I've stared at it too long to tell.


r/papermini Jul 23 '26

Paper Miniature The Armored Knight

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84 Upvotes

r/papermini Jul 23 '26

Paper Miniature Hairfoot Jousting

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97 Upvotes

This is my first time making paper minis. The bases are foam and some thick cardstock that came out of picture frames.

All of the images were scanned from the book so credit goes to the original illustrator, Bonedust.