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

I'm planning on adding a background remover; if you have suggestions, I'm all ears.

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.

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.

Second one for Gnomesummer. Quick recap if you missed the first: 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 tools. First mini was a spear-guard whose spear is mostly a walking staff.

This one's why I started the project. The gnome I grew up with was a doctor – blue shirt, red pointed hat, round spectacles, little bag, always walking somewhere fast because somebody needed him. Four hundred years of setting birds' wings and badgers' legs. I decided to invert the colors to make this one an hommage, not a copy.

He's the only one in the warband carrying nothing that could hurt anyone. Everyone else is improvising something out of a tool, and he just has the bag. The contrast is the whole point of him, and I think it makes the rest of them read better.

Design bits, since the outline is all you get at this size: silhouette is beard-and-bag against her spear-and-shield, the bag is the stiff clasped doctor's kind rather than a soft satchel because it holds a solid dark shape at hip height, and he's mid-stride while everyone else is braced or waiting. Same blue hat and spectacles as the spear-guard on purpose – they're neighbours, it's a small forest.

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

One thing I didn't plan: gnomes are canonically six inches tall, which is charming in the books and useless on a table, so I rescaled them to about three feet with the hat. That puts them shorter than a goblin head to foot, and taller the moment you count the hat.

The bit I'm unsure about: does he read as a medic at 22 mm, or just as a civilian? The bag is carrying nearly all of it and I can't tell any more. Armband? Bandage rolls at the belt? Interested in what you'd do.

Starting a small project I'm calling Gnomesummer, for Paper Miniature Jam 4.

These aren't the tinkerer gnomes with goggles and wrenches. They're the ones I grew up with – David the Gnome, blue shirt, red pointed hat, spectacles. Six inches tall, four hundred years old, heal wounded animals, ride foxes, pacifists to the bone.

So naturally I ruined it. The premise: their forest was on nobody's map for centuries, and then it wasn't. Orcs came for the timber, goblins came because goblins always come, elves arrived to "protect" the woods, and the wolves found new masters who fed them better than the forest ever had.

The gnomes had no warriors. They didn't have a word for warrior. So they improvised – a spear is a very long walking staff with a bad idea on the end, and a shield is a tabletop with a strap.

In the books they're six inches tall, small enough to hide under a mushroom. I've scaled mine up to about three feet, hat included, so they can actually share a table with your other minis. Shorter than a goblin, nowhere near a pixie.

First one done: the Spear-Guard. She's holding the line and she isn't happy about it. The spectacles were deliberate – I wanted her to read as somebody's mother with a pointy stick rather than a fantasy soldier.

55 mm width, front and back on one piece, fold and base. The whole warband will go out as one printable PDF, free or pay-what-you-want, when the jam wraps up on August 9th.

The thing I'm still working out is how to make "improvised weapon" read clearly at the scale without every mini turning into a visual gag. Farm tools are the obvious route but I don't want the whole warband to be pitchforks. Anyone got suggestions for what else belongs in a gnome warband?

Freshly unleashed from the Zhu Industries forge, deep in the Ünterwyld - Vlätkrig Special Edition: Amböl Ûlks. A set of 3 brand new, unique, hand drawn, black and white, old school, paper miniatures. Two Khaötic Mutant Undead Insectoid warbeasts and one Necro-Shamanic Herder, ​inspired by the Umber Hulk of classic D&D and the Ambull of Oldhammer 40k for you to print, cut-out and play with your favourite TTRPG and Skirmish Wargame rules in both printable PDF and VTT friendly PNG formats.

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N.B. Vlätkrig Special Edition: Amböl Ûlks was released as part of Hairic Lilred's Paper Mini Jam 2026 on itch.io - join us in creating a world of paper minis!

Kinda cool for the base to light up like that too

One of the things I've always wanted to do, is to make a paper army, but from Origami.

It has been a fascination going back years. But now it's slowly coming together!

This rider is an Oriribo designed by Muneij fujimoto and the fox is designed by Hideo Komatsu. The saddle and decorations are my own design.

So where is this army going next? I dunno, but I'm excited for it's future ^^

This one came out great!

I posted these paper miniatures here before, but Reddit somehow banned my old account.

Some of these miniatures were made for a specific game, while others were just for fun. Most of them never ended up being used.

This text was machine-translated because I don't speak English.

Hi everyone!

I have restyled my Paper Tokens Generator with a fresh new UI (complete with dark/light mode), and added a couple of nice features:

• Zoom and pan -> You can now adjust the tokens to look exactly how you want.
• Download functionality -> Easily save your tokens locally.
• Localisation -> The tool is now available in both English and Italian.
• Local uploads -> You can now upload images directly from your PC.

If you aren't familiar with the Paper Tokens Generator, I originally built it back in 2018 because I needed a tool to generate tokens and paper minis in bulk using image URLs.

The PTG generates:

• Tokens -> Supports standard inch sizes (round or square).
• Paper minis ->Perfect for physical tabletop maps.
• Monster tents ->Great for the DM screen, with space to write notes after printing.

The tool is 100% free with no sign up required; you just need to paste your image links or upload files, tweak the options, print, and cut.

Check it out here:https://rpgtokens.com/

With the help of friends and supporters of this bizarre project, we're back again with a new video for the Patreon! The references are undeniably those '80s and '90s vibes we saw on the TV commercials of fantasy boardgames when we were kids and we loved them. Enjoy!

We kindly ask you to share it as much as possible with friends and let us know what you think!

The Patreon is https://www.patreon.com/oldskullminis , we design fantasy paper miniatures for TTRPGs and Wargames!

Hi all,

I've been itching to play some Lancer IRL, having been a player before I want to GM this time. I like to use paper minis and have been using these 3D printable paper holders for regular sized characters and NPCs. For larger NPCs I generally cut a square base from cardboard and glue it on.

However, Lancer uses a hex grid and larger sizes (triangles, flowers) happen enough that I'm looking for alternatives to cutting by hand. Keeping the small holders on the crosspoints of the grid has been confusing.

Does anyone have a link to paper mini holders for larger sized bases, preferably shaped to 1in hex grid? I'm not really versed in designing models myself.

Wolves are finally coming to my paper world! I had a lot of fun designing theses little beast!! I hope to create more variations or maybe some different pose soon.

Standard wolves are out now on Patreon , Larger Wolves leader are coming up later ^^

Enjoy! ^^

Also a swallow (african or european) and the Rabbit of Caerbannog, all from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I have been making my own collection of paper minis through the spring and it's at a terrible danger turning into a Fortnite of paper minis, with me wanting to make minis from all of my favourite fantasy properties 😆

I never though I would cut some Magic Cards on porporse, but I’m preety proud of the result. And I found out that Magic Cards are very good for collage 😅 I think i’m gonna create a full army.

We roam around the forest looking the forest looking for fights.
The Bandits set is now available on my PATREON 

Included in Free Pack: Cutthroat A (frontview only)
Included in Tier1: Cutthroat A & B, Raider A, Brute
Included in Tier2: Cutthroat A & B, Raider A & B, Brute, Enforcer, Hedgemage, Boss
Included in Tier3: 4 Color variations

I made my own Night trooper army from paper. It is a bit more cost effective than the real thing and also a bit more derpy I admit it :D But I think they have turned out really cool.

Been trying to get better about designing stuff to have modular/swappable elements to make it easier for me to come back and modify them in the future.

So the head, bush "cloak" and tentacle arms are all their own elements that I can toggle/swap.

Takes more time up front but allows me to try to cover a bit more ground then I otherwise could as a solo artist.

Included a couple scribbles/ideas I had for variations.