"Decks Miniatures - Plastic "papercraft" minis." Topic

Starting at less than $1 USD per miniature, Lone Tree Games is launching a brand new style of mini. Designed to fill the gap between 2D pawn style and molded 3D minis, Decks Miniatures are a great and inexpensive way to start or expand your miniature collection.

Decks Miniatures Kickstarter

The price is right, they look great, and since they come in trading card form, they are easy to organize and store. If you're looking to expand your fantasy miniature collection, please give this a look!

That's a pretty spiffy idea.

If you're interested in how these go together, here are a couple videos showing the assembly process.

Decks Miniatures – Ogre Assembly‌

Decks Miniatures – Bugbear Assembly‌

since they come in trading card form, they are easy to organize and store.

Does that mean rebuilding them each time you take them out to play with? Seems like a lot of set-up to get a game started. Over time I would expect the joins to become looser with repeated assembly and tear-downs.

If it is important to you to always store them in sleeves, then yes, that would require disassembly. Regarding setup time, the first time a model is assembled takes about 2 minutes. After that, assembly only takes about 30 seconds.

Also, the joints, both the folds and the connection points, just don't get loose. The plastic these are made from is amazing! Not only does it hold it's shape when bent, but you can bend it thousands of times without any degradation! I know, I did it. It took a long time and I finally gave up.

Because this material holds its shape so well, the connection points don't degrade either. FYI, we have to laser-cut these because the plastic is too hard to die-cut! So it's not going to wear down with usage.

All that being said, you don't have to disassemble the minis when you're finished. It's just an option.

By the way, we've just passed the $1,000 USD mark! People are spreading the word and it would mean the world to me if you could help us too. We've made it so easy with this webpage.
bit.ly/DecksMinis
Every little bit helps!

I've wanted something like this ever since Pirates of the Spanish Main! Do want!

Excellent use of the medium, and a fantastic way to introduce gaming to people who are frequently intimidated (and rightly so) by looking at a blister with a single unpainted/unassembled miniature. I was curious when someone would do something like this.

Very cool. I'll admit I have no need for the product, but love to see stuff like this come around which can get more people into gaming with reasonable cost. Also, if you're going to keep the figures assembled – glue them.

My only qualm (same thing with the pirates' ships) was I wish I could see black plastic used, so that edges are not apparent. The white stands out sometimes. I know black would affect printing etc. Either way – awesome idea.

TurnStyle, try using a black, permanent marker on the edges. It is a common technique to dress up card stock models, which also suffer from white edges. It only takes a short time, for each figure, to go over the edges. Card stock modelers also use different colors, as needed for a particular model: brown, black, gray, etc. Cheers!