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Post by cowboycentaur on Jun 12, 2017 19:09:06 GMT -9
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Post by jeffgeorge on Jun 12, 2017 20:01:22 GMT -9
Yeah, these are very nice. I signed up at the $2 level, which gets you all the minis, but not the spell and item cards, which I don't really need. The first five minis were a goblin tribe, and the $2 tier gets you five color variations plus line-art versions of each figure. The most recent one out is #6, a Goliath barbarian; at Tier 2, you get three color variations plus line-art, with options for totally bald, bearded, and bearded with long hair. Unfortunately, the hair variants are in separate files, so you have to print five bald ones, five bearded ones, or five beard-and-hair ones on a page--no way to mix and match. I made a post to their Patreon community forum suggesting they widen their black borders a bit, and flip half of the minis on each page left-to-right, so you aren't forced to print multiple identical minis on a page. For example, the Goblin warrior has five color variations not counting line-art, and the pdf has 8 minis on the page, which means that you end up with at least three pairs of identical minis. If they flipped half of them, you'd be able to print 8 unique minis on each page out of the printer: e.g. green goblin lefty and righty, orange goblin lefty and righty, yellow goblin lefty and righty, and flesh-tone goblin lefty and righty. Wider borders and flipped views shouldn't add much to their production time, but would enhance the value to patrons immensely. If you're as big a cardstock mini addict as I am, I'd recommend supporting this Patreon. And if you do, drop by the community page and like my suggestion, if you agree... .
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Post by lightning on Jun 12, 2017 21:35:32 GMT -9
They all look great, but I love the goblins!
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Post by cowboycentaur on Jun 13, 2017 8:55:10 GMT -9
They all look great, but I love the goblins! They do, they're gonna look fantastic next to my printable heroes ones!
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Post by cowboycentaur on Jun 13, 2017 8:59:56 GMT -9
Yeah, these are very nice. I signed up at the $2 level, which gets you all the minis, but not the spell and item cards, Yeah the spell and item cards seem really nice, but I've already invested so much time and effort into my Paul Weber ones, and I'm pretty happy with those ones already besides. TBH I prefer the png files as I can flip them fairly easily, and I can utilize more blank space on the sheet by arranging them myself in GIMP. I do the same thing with my printable heroes minis anyway for the same reason, and also I find them to be just a little bigger than I'd like, and I want to keep all my minis from other creators a uniform size.
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Post by jeffgeorge on Jun 13, 2017 19:02:43 GMT -9
TBH I prefer the png files as I can flip them fairly easily, and I can utilize more blank space on the sheet by arranging them myself in GIMP. I do the same thing with my printable heroes minis anyway for the same reason, and also I find them to be just a little bigger than I'd like, and I want to keep all my minis from other creators a uniform size. I totally agree that having access to .png versions of the minis is a great help to DIYers like those of us here at Cardboard Warriors. But I suspect that most cardstock miniature buyers are not so GIMP/Photoshop savvy, or may not have time for laying out their own pages of minis for printing. I expect that including reversed versions on the original, interactive .pdf are the only way they are going most users are ever going to have access to lefty minis. Maybe the published mini artists in our midst could share actual data, but kitbashers like us are most likely a small minority of the total potential market for cardstock miniatures products.
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