Hello. I am currently making a board game that requires different stacks of cards and miniatures. I am going to need to have a deck of 50 or so cards about 3"x4" and several decks of smaller cards, maybe 2 3/4"x 3 1/2" or so. In addition I am going to need to have several different sets of small minatures. Plastic would be best I think, these pieces would resemble the small risk minatures in size and dimention.
1.) How would I go about getting the cards? Could I design them on a computer program like photshop or somthing and then use a standard printer to print them up? Are there printers that will print on card like materials? Or are there companies I can just send my designs to and they will complete them for me? If so, does anyone know where they are and what their website is? Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing?
2.) The plastic minatures I will most likely have to have desinged and manufactured somewhere else, does anyone know of a company that does that sort of thing? If so what is the website so I can check out their policies and prices.
3.) The game board I am using is going to be pretty large, 22"x28" I would estimate. I would like to have a nice board like monopoly or risk or something like that, how is that done? Do you print out a large picture then glue it on to your card board or something? Does anyone have experience doing this sort of thing?
I appreciate anyone taking the time to read this post and I welcome any help or advice offered.
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Thanks for the reply. I figured that having my own moulds designed would be out of the question for the prototype, but that em4minatures.com site has lots of things I can use to get started and at a reasonable price, this will help me a lot, thank you.