Printable Heroes is the biggest and the best, in my eyes. The website indexes all of the available minis with a wealth of search terms, there's tons of free offerings, multiple tiers for Patreon subscribers, etc. Just click through and see for yourself.
Paper Forge is right up there as one of the big suppliers of D&D/Fantasy paper minis. It's a little tougher to browse the selection than with Printable Heroes, but it's a great range, and the two creators mix well together on the table. It’s tough to find something in any of the major Monster Manuals that you won’t find represented between the two!
Kev’s Lounge is another Patreon with tons of good stuff. His style is a little more photo-realistic than others, but he also covers certain territory where others fail to tread, like mounted minis, or the mallards from Dragonsbane.
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Trash Mob Minis is fun, because they've got a very different, very gonzo style. There's a lot on offer, but it has a distinctly. perhaps comix/cartoon look to them? They're very different, but they mix decently with other minis on the table. And they have a very interesting, unique range of minis and monsters on offer. Not always my first go-to, but I always see some cool, wild stuff.
I don’t have a ton of experience with Papermini, but I like the dark fantasy look of their line, lots of grim stuff and undead to see, and its also well-indexed if you’re trying to look through the library.
OnePageRules is very popular as an up-and-coming wargames company, but most importantly, they also have an incredible range of paper minis for science fiction, a seldom occurrence among other creators.
Paper Mage is recently recommended my way — mostly a fantasy creator, but with lots of territory others don’t cover, like rare races/species, rare IPs like World of Warcraft-focused. stuff, and also lots of options for more mundane folks like villagers and blacksmiths and such.
I hadn’t heard of this guy, but this newer creator out of Italy has a really great, gonzo, old-school style that gels really well with art punk games, retro-clones, etc. Their Instagram is awesome, and it looks like they’re showing up in IRL gaming spaces with zines and swag and great design.
I wish them the very best, and am going to have my eye on this creator!
This creator has a ton of sci-fi, military, and historical minis — maybe the largest range I’ve seen in that category. The style reminds me of new trends in indie video games, like Darkest Dungeon, Cult of the Lamb, Castle Crashers , etc. They also appear to have their own games, theme packs, etc.
What a wide variety of minis David Okum makes! Everything from Warhammer 40k-style space battle minis you could use for OPR, to fantasy, even John Carter of Mars-style pulp mini ranges. I also like how he bundles them by theme packs for DriveThruRPG.
For more historical minis, we’ve got Peter’s Paperboys, which are the absolutely coolest-looking paper minis for that classic historical wargaming feel, especially if you’re doing classic Napoleonics. Frankly, when I first saw the photos of his stuff, I didn’t think I was looking at paper at all!
What’s more, Peter Dennis also appears to cultivate an online community for his minis, and publishes his own tutorials (since my tutorial won’t be a 1-to-1 match for his personal style of minis).
