Every figurine subculture, one platform. Warhammer painters in Manchester. Garage kit assemblers in Osaka. D&D sculptors in São Paulo. Designer toy makers in Seoul. Real makers. Real hands. Real paint.
Other marketplaces pick one IP, one game, one craft. The Spool List is built for the full eight-segment figurine economy — because real collectors and real makers live across all of it.
Warhammer 40K, Age of Sigmar, Horus Heresy, Kill Team, Bolt Action, Star Wars Legion. Mass painting, magnetization, conversion, basing.
$40–$80 per fig · $500–$3,000 per armyCustom party miniatures from sketches, HeroForge prints, character sculpts. Painters who care about your tiefling's eye color.
$25–$150 per figureWonder Festival drops, 1:7 and 1:8 resin scale figures. Airbrush, eye details, fabric folds, base assembly. NSFW-safe matching.
$80–$600 per figurePop Mart-style, Bearbrick custom, Sonny Angel adjacent. Resin and vinyl, blind-box production runs, one-off art commissions.
$50–$500 per figureMovie, video game, military, historical. Sculpting, weathering, OSL lighting, scenic basework. The pieces that anchor a collection.
$200–$2,000+ per piecePet figurines from photos, family portrait minis, wedding cake toppers. Photogrammetry, custom sculpt, hand-paint.
$80–$400 per piece1:35 scale, Flames of War, Bolt Action, Napoleonic. Weathering, pin-wash, oils, dust effects. For the detail-obsessed collector.
$30–$200 per figureReaper Bones, Stonehaven, MyMiniFactory creators, Patreon STL drops. Print-from-STL, batch paint, base-and-ship.
$15–$60 per figureEtsy buries you. Discord forgets you. Fiverr underprices you. The Spool List is built for both sides of a figurine commission, with the structure neither found anywhere else.
Ren opens The Spool List on her phone. Filters: Warhammer 40K · Tau Empire · tabletop standard · deliver by 12 August · ships to Shanghai. Twenty-two qualified makers across nine countries return.
Hiroki, Tokyo. Specialist in Tau XV-series suit weathering. Six XV85 commissions booked at ¥9,800 each. 30% deposit via platform escrow. Confirmed shipping by 28 July.
James, Manchester UK. Twenty Fire Warriors at tabletop+ standard. £640 total, 50% deposit. Lead time 14 days. James offers to magnetize the pulse rifle pose at no extra charge.
Sun-hee, Seoul. Twelve gun drones, batch-painted with airbrush gradient and OSL on the sensor lenses. ₩320,000 total. Ships out in eight days.
Bruno, São Paulo. Pathfinder squad with custom camo scheme matching Ren's army theme. R$1,400 total. Ships from BR but with international tracking via DHL.
Anika, Berlin. Display-tier Riptide commission with full NMM, OSL on the ion accelerator, and scenic urban base. €480. Three-week lead. Anika sends WIP photos via the platform.
Wei, Chengdu. Six MDF and resin terrain pieces — Tau-aesthetic comm relays and battlefield objectives. ¥2,200 total. Two-week turnaround.
Yuki, Osaka. Custom Commander Shadowsun bust with magnetized loadout swaps and freehand insignia. ¥38,000 with the platform's optional dispatch insurance.
Diego, Querétaro Mexico. Custom acrylic display case with brand-printed magnetic foam interior. MXN 3,200 with international ship-to-Shanghai included. Final deposit cleared.
Every milestone, deadline, deposit, and tracking number lives in one dashboard. Ren did in ninety minutes what would have taken three weeks of Discord-hunting and currency conversion math. The army arrives tournament-ready, four days before the GT.
AI generated the cover art.
A human painted the eyes.
The figurine economy is the rare creative field AI cannot replace. The deliverable is physical, the brushstroke is unrepeatable, the eye-dot on a 28mm space marine is the work of a person with a 000 brush and a magnifier and twenty years of practice. Games Workshop committed publicly in 2026 to keep AI out of Warhammer. We're committed to making sure the people who actually do the work can find each other, get paid fairly, and keep painting.
The Spool List is a fabrication-only marketplace where every listing is from a verified maker and every search is filtered by craft. Unlike Etsy, listings are discipline-tagged (sculpting, FDM print, resin print, paint level, basing, conversion) and commission-focused. Reviews are tied to verified completed commissions only, not anonymous resale or drop-shipping.
All of them. Warhammer 40K, Age of Sigmar, Horus Heresy, Kill Team, Bolt Action, Star Wars Legion, and other tabletop wargaming systems. D&D, Pathfinder, and TTRPG character minis. Anime garage kits and resin scale figures. Designer art toys in the Pop Mart / Bearbrick / Sonny Angel adjacent space. Display dioramas, busts, custom photo-busts and pet figurines, historical and military scales, and indie / Kickstarter miniatures.
Yes. Makers list their lead times and current commission queue capacity, and you can filter search results by your tournament or convention date. Whether you're hitting Adepticon, the Las Vegas Open, GenCon, Wonder Festival Tokyo, or your local FLGS championship, the platform only shows you makers who can deliver in time.
Two paths. Path one: use a sculptor on The Spool List who works from your written description or character art and creates a fully custom STL plus print plus paint. Path two: design your character in HeroForge or similar, export the STL, then commission a maker on the platform to print and paint it to your spec. Many makers offer bundled "design + print + paint" services starting from around $80.
Budget painters charge from $4 per infantry figure and $6.50 per character at the lowest tier. Tabletop standard sits at $15–$40 per figure. Quality and display-tier work runs $50–$180 per single piece, with masterclass display busts reaching $400 and above. The Spool List shows pricing transparently in each maker's listing, broken out by paint tier and scale. No quote chasing.
Yes — it's a core segment. Garage kit specialists on The Spool List handle resin assembly, seam work, airbrush gradient painting, eye and face detail, fabric fold painting, and base mounting. Most work in 1:7 and 1:8 scale, with some specialists in chibi and 1:4. The platform is multilingual from day one, with first-class Japanese, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, and Korean support for cross-border commissions to and from Japan, China, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Every commission on the platform uses milestone-based escrow. The buyer's deposit is held by the platform and released to the maker only when milestones (sometimes WIP photos, sometimes shipment confirmation, always final delivery) are met. Disputes are mediated by the platform, not left to PayPal goods-and-services arbitration. International tracking and optional dispatch insurance are built into the commission flow.
Portfolio review at signup, identity verification, and discipline-tagged self-classification. Reviews are tied to verified completed commissions only — meaning every star rating and photo on a maker's profile corresponds to a real job that closed through the platform. We don't allow review trading, anonymous resale, or unverified portfolio claims.
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