Board game miniatures - fantasy enemy figures

Board game miniatures - fantasy figures of enemies / villeins.

Golem, treant, wolf, bear, god of nature, giants, dark lord, walking mushroom, skeleton hulk, skeleton wizard, terror bird and demon…

I am currently designing a board game and was looking for fitting fantasy enemies in a semi-realistic cartoon style. I did not really find anything with the style I had in mind, so I took up the task to design my own miniatures. 

I used Midjourney to get template pictures for the MakerLab Picture-to-3D-model app - a quite tedious process, as the designs should be simple, yet recognizable as fantasy characters/enemies of a certain type. I had to play around with the prompts to finally arrive at fitting templates that were also looking semi-realistic - in the sense that they did not show unnatural poses or extra limbs, fingers, etc. On top, the template pictures had to be “printable”. With Hunyuan 3D 3.0 and Meshy 6 I got neat models that retained all the details of the template pictures while adding missing elements from the hidden side - a step that needs quite a bit of luck to find the best options. For some of the models, I had to alter the base or improve certain elements to enhance the printing stability.

I printed the models in beige only and used standard/slim tree-type supports this time - surprisingly, this worked quite well with all of the models. Nevertheless, at the chosen scale of the models (with a height of around 4 to 7 cm), certain elements are prone to break no matter what - like the staffs of the giant/wizard or fingers and certain feet. I had to glue a few pieces, despite trying to be extra careful when removing the supports. A layer height of 0.12 mm in quality mode was chosen to improve the resolution of fine details. 

I quite like the resulting models and would be happy if other makers would try to print them, as well - maybe for your own board game projects?

If you like the models, I would be happy for your “LIKE” or a Boost. Thanks!