These dragons are cheaper than dice.
This is a good product. The completed minis look amazing. The art style is fantastic and original and really eye-catching, with vivid colors that don't look washed-out from across the table. The dragons look great on the battlefield, or just as a decoration perched on your table. Considering the high quality of the art and the cleverness of the 2.5-D build, the price is an incredible bargain, at about sixty cents per dragon for the pdf, plus printing cost. The minis are easy to cut out, and easy to assemble. They require no special tools: Although a hobby knife is best, I tried using scissors and a glue stick and ran into no problems. The cheap cost of printing combined with how easy they are to build means that you could easily give the dragon away to one of the players at the end of the night as a memento or trophy.
There are some areas where this product could be improved: pdf layers would be very much appreciated, but there are none. This means that there is no option for lineart, and the color of the dragons cannot be changed. Also, there is no option to print guidelines for a cutter such as the Silhouette. This disappointed me: I would have had uses for all of these features, had they been present. I had planned to use the dragons as a color-and-assemble project for some grade-schoolers, but I was unable to. It's full-color printing, or nothing. It's a real shame that I can't change any of the color schemes, because I'd have liked to have been able to mix and match the bodies and claws/wings. There would have been so many combinations! And while I can understand if the author doesn't wish to put in the time to make cutfiles, the lack of guidelines means that it's difficult for the hobbyist community to create them, either.
I stress that the author is in no way deceptive: none of these features are promised. You can't recolor the dragons, you can't resize them, you can't mix and match them. You get ONLY what you see in the photo, no extra options. That being said, if you like what you see in the photo, I wholeheartedly recommend this product. It's fun to build, and looks great.
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