My paper army, let me show you them

Busy week at work, little energy to finish a post on Demigod Marketing, so you get a different post this weekend.

Over the past few months I've been printing and cutting and glueing veritable hordes of paper miniatures. End not in sight, but pretty happy with the result so far. I like how they're hugely affordable and take a bit of effort to put together (which also gives the freedom to modify them a bit - check out the 2.5D minis of trees, ropers and barrels below).

SOURCES

There are many paper mini makers out there - here's the two I've used material from so far.

• PrintableHeroes.com has swarms of minis - many for free, some reskins for a couple bucks per month on patreon. 
• Paperminis' patreon takes a bit more searching for the freebies, but has pretty little gems in there.

BANDS

Need some way to store these light-weight little bastards. (Makers advise sticking washers on the bottoms, will make a trip to the hardware store at some point...)

Egg cartons for storage

I've posed these guys in A vs B battles. Here's a bunch of witch friends (trolls and ogres) going up against a snake cult.

Troll ambushed by snake cult

Which is also taking on an ogre

...but reinforcements on the way: three witches get involved

with a rat army

and spiders

and so. many. wolves.

Next up is a horde of goblins and their barghests getting surprised by a bunch of bandits.

I like how the trees turned out: take two copies of the same tree, cut vertical slits at the top and bottom, slide into each other and mount on a base.

One sheet of paper gives you a nice hordlet of goblins. I didn't stop at one sheet of paper. You always need Moar Gobbos.

Meanwhile, in the tap room...

Printableheroes does cool props as well, like these cupboards, tables and barrels. I took one side of left-over barrels and made them into bases for a 2.5D effect.

Tired of fighting cults? Then get them to fight each other. Here's a bunch of fire worshipers harrassing ice culties during a big summoning. Note the cool little props again. The Krampus "mini" makes an excellent ice demon.

Like that fight with your office mate over how high to turn up the heating.

All hail the lord of Air Conditioning.

Whoops, forgot to showcase the pack of hell hounds. Here we go. I thought the city watch looked a bit out of their depth going up against a bunch of demon summoners. Luckily two summoners staggered out of the tavern to help out with an angel and an elemental:

Check out the dead-eyed freak front right. This is how I imagine our party cleric.

Next up is two kinds of things-that-shouldn't be. The fae lady Sister Autumn rules decay and corruption. Big on fungus and oozes and slimy things. Which of course messes up the tidy tomb complex that these three liches have going:

Keep the noisome glooping down, will ya? Fun detail is the purple Grasping Hand model on the right. Zoom in for a look at the liches - two of them are from Paperminis. These guys have a lot of energy!

Again, it's the little things that count: like this flock of disgusting stirges. The roper (had to make it 3D like the trees) and oozes are nice and goopy. I love how dynamic the Aboleth model (in the back) is. Will definitely reskin and use as a water spirit.

Finally, look at this guy leading the ghouls and zombies. A dried out mummy with a fiery sword? He's got to be crazy. Stay clear.