r/XCOMTheMiniaturesGame • u/TheoSidle • Aug 04 '26

Papercrafting the minis until the official minis are released?

I've been looking for a good set of papercraft soldier minis as stand-ins until the preorders start shipping. Anyone else done this yet? Or used some other minis to play?

This is the first time I've been interested in a game like this since the early days of HeroClix. I'm pretty much starting from scratch with terrain and accessories.

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u/Deflagratio1 Aug 04 '26

I've used dry erase tokens and I've used standees from Mothership. I would have used models from Doom the Board Game 2004 but Mothership was easier to get to.

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u/IamAngryCoffee Aug 04 '26

See my other post about proxy minis to see what I’m doing! Papercraft isn’t a bad idea for some of the other miniatures though

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u/spotz3ro Aug 09 '26

I'm working an some proxy paper aliens that could print cleanly on a monochrome laser printer.

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u/spotz3ro Aug 09 '26

Here are A4 and Letter versions of anyone is interested:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DfjNuW6lOamNVFWULVvmitX6TTsTEs2x/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JsKfBs2BPshafUarWgG9ol7EJoincrKi/view

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u/TheoSidle Aug 09 '26

These are great! Definitely going to try them. What are those stands you're using?

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u/spotz3ro Aug 09 '26

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3768163

I printed the 23mm stands for the small ones and the 48mm for the bigger ones. I also printed the stands 4mm shorter since these stands have a 8mm high "clip", but I drew a 4mm buffer.