'We opened a Patreon and were still uploading things, making sure the text was looking fine. And while that may not come as a surprise, what happened next might. So, as you've probably guessed, Alex decided to create his own in a 'what's the worst that can happen?' bout of spontaneity. The Terrain Essentials: Interiors campaign offers a variety of scenery for your tabletop worlds (Image credit: Cast n Play)Īround that time, model subscriptions via Patreon had started to gain traction. They're also finishing up their latest - and, judging by the $156,000+ raised so far, successful - crowdfunding campaign ' Terrain Essentials Vol II: Interiors' with numerous props for your game table. Fast-forward a few years and Alex is now in charge of well over a dozen staff and a company that pulls in monthly subscribers for roughly 40 fantasy miniatures every four weeks.

So when a friend offered him a resin printer that they didn't have space for anymore, he jumped at the opportunity. Although it gave up the ghost less than a year later, Alex (then a 3D artist in the video game industry) had been bitten by the bug. But even so, he was blown away by what it could do. As a second-hand machine he bought on eBay back in 2015, it was, in his own words, 'very bad' - the pieces didn't fit together properly and he had to glue them down.

Alex Zaragoza's first 3D printer arrived broken. However, it wasn't plain sailing at the start. Each Cast n Play pack comes with a variety of creatures, terrain, and props (Image credit: Cast n Play)

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