You remember shrinky dinks.  Those incredible plastic sheets you would spend all day coloring on and then have to wait for someone to cut out and then bake.  You remember sitting at the little oven window trying to peek in and watch them curl up then flatten back out.  You know exactly what I’m talking about… and if you don’t then perhaps you were deprived as a child.

Well the other day my husband and I found a fun cartoon style avatar creator.  We were making up characters for our new web comic when the idea struck us.  It struck us jokingly first.  We thought it would be a great idea to create avatars for our new Forgotten Realms campaign on the site.  

Then we took it one step further and said, “how cool would it be to trace these onto shrinky dinks and use those as our miniatures?”  My response was why trace if you could just print them.  After that I went on the hunt to find shrinky dink paper that you can use in a laser printer.  Apparently, I wasn’t the only one with this idea because they carry it in just about any craft store!

Therefore, for the next campaign we are going to use the avatar creator and print off our new/improved/way cool shrinky dink miniatures!

What creative sources have you used for miniatures in your own games?  We’d love to hear… Did they work?  Did they not?  Were they amusing?  Were they not?  etc. etc. etc.