Making Meeples

[Gwommy]

I haven't played any fan based expansions yet.  I also don't get to play it very often.  my friends around me aren't into board games.  The people I started playing with live in Canada (4 hour drive for me), and my best friend that likes the game is an hour away.  Last game I did play was last week and we played with all the official expansions which took about 4 hours.

And tonight I made 24 mini followers but I'm not going to bother with a picture unless somebody really wants to see them.  They look like the others only smaller and thinner to make them a little easier to tell them apart from a normal sized meeple.  I've still got about half of package of clay left for each color and only about 156 more meeples to make before I have enough meeples for all of the fan-based expansions from this site(total includes boats and tower pieces).

[CKorfmann]

I've still got about half of package of clay left for each color and only about 156 more meeples to make...

Oh, that's all? 

I have the same problem.  Too bad we don't live closer.

[weswac]

I was going to attempt to make some of the extra Meeple shapes out of clay. Can anyone provide outlines of the various shapes, that I can use as templates?

[Gwommy]

For my first few figures(Jester and Minstral), I didn't use any tools or outlines.

For the majority of the rest of the figures that I made, I used the actual meeples that came with the game.  A smooth and flat surface works best, my table is glass and it worked well.  I started by rolling the clay into a ball and then flattening it with the meeple figure I wanted it to resemble.  Then I used a wooden knife to cut around the edges. Once it was cut out, I then used the over-sized toothpick tool to smooth out the edges which is the most tedius part.

If you using the same kind of clay that I posted a pic of, then you're probably only going to want to use wood tools.  I used the 5th and 8th tools from the left in this pic:


I also used a tower piece from the tower expansion for the traingular gap between the meeple's legs.  It does not work to use tower pieces to make more tower pieces because the top and bottom of the towers are different sizes.  Does this help at all?

[TLP]

I just bought extra... but I like yours mo betta.. grim reaper rocks!

https://www.meeplepeople.com/index.php

[Queen_of_Carcassonne]

Would you be willing to make, and sell the custom made meeples? I think you did a fantastic job, and since I'm not an artist, mine would totally suck if I tried! lol  I would totally be willing to pay for them.  Saves me tons of heartache.

[CKorfmann]

Wow, the Missionary looks pretty cool!  Do you enjoy playing the expansion?

So, did you get a chance to play yet?  One note, especially since you play with purple meeples, you should paint the Missionary gold so it looks more neutral.

[CARC_Zoner]

That's a great idea, but I'm too OC to use clay meeples.  I think they would look too different from the originals.  It's true though that you could get really original if you wanted.  I think I'd like to see a set of meeples made from glass and/or polished metal.  They would be cool.

Hey, this seems to have turned into a prophetic statement, CKorfmann!

I played a game recently where we used clear coloured glass tokens to represent Carcassonne: The Phantom.  It is a very simple and fun addition to the game.  I believe it will really catch on, once the clear meeples are available in all markets.

CARC_Zoner