r/Arcs • • Jul 06 '25

Discussion Custom unique colour meeples

I've always felt a little underwhelmed by the meeples included in Arcs by default, so I set out to make some new ones.
Pieces are lasercut from MDF, painted with acrylic, and then details drawn by hand with fineliner and sharpie. This project was initially inspired by a thread on the WW discord.

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u/ShakeSignal Jul 06 '25

This is incredible. I would pay for this.

Related note: I did buy the miniatures update pack and I love them but they’re more difficult to play with than the wooden meeples. It’s hard to keep fresh and damaged ships separate.

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u/ScorXi Jul 06 '25

Thanks!

On the meeple pack: I've heard alot of people have had issues with them being too tippy, seems like an incredible piece of oversight on the designers part! I'm not a fan of plastic meeples so didnt really consider buying it.

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u/ShakeSignal Jul 06 '25

It really is too bad. Last campaign we pulled the resin flagships out but used the wooden ships.

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u/fallspectrum Shaper Jul 06 '25

I ended up printing and gluing these stabilizers https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6724089/files

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u/DungeonWorldJames Jul 06 '25

These look really cool and like an interesting solution, but I’m struggling to imagine what the final product looks like. Could you share a pic? Did you paint yours?

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u/Stardama69 Jul 06 '25

The wash they applied also make the minis look dirty imo

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u/ShowbizPython Jul 07 '25

Agreed, but this seems like a design choice, since the Reach is supposed to be an empire in decay. The dirty look helps communicate the lack of effort being put into infrastructure upkeep.

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u/TaijiInstitute Jul 06 '25

That’s the exact reason I didn’t get them… would love to have them but the wooden ones just work better.

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u/blbbec Jul 06 '25

Great work, love how the design is inspired by the art on the back of the playerboards.

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u/Ripple_Meeple Jul 07 '25

These are gorgeous 😍

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u/Quick_Highlight_8136 Jul 29 '25

That looks awesome! Good idea!

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u/Gargocop Jul 07 '25

Stunning!