C27 Studio Miniatures UK: Pop-Culture Superhero Proxies for Marvel Crisis Protocol and More

There are plenty of designers releasing fantasy heroes and grimdark soldiers in 28/32mm resin. C27 Studio do something different: pop-culture proxy miniatures, each one given a punny alias that sidesteps the obvious while making the source unmistakable. If you have ever wanted Huge Ackman, Planet Bulk or Low Key on your table without the premium of an official licence, this is the range. We stock a wide selection of C27 Studio miniatures at TabletopXtra, printed in resin and shipped across the UK.

Born in Hong Kong, Sculpted for Tabletops Worldwide

The name C27 Studio comes from Flat C on the 27th floor of an apartment block in Hong Kong, where the studio's founder grew up. That was the flat where action figures got taken apart and put back together differently, where craft foam and cardboard became accessories for heroes, and where an obsession with superhero design first took hold. The address stuck as the name when the sculpting started in earnest.

Today C27 release over ten new character miniatures every month alongside a selection of terrain pieces, all available as presupported STL files through their MyMiniFactory profile and official website. We licence a substantial portion of that catalogue and print it in resin here in the UK, so you can order individual characters or assemble an entire team without needing a printer of your own.

The sculpts are clean and presupported, with enough detail to read well in 28/32mm resin. The range now runs from street-level villains right through to cosmic-scale centrepieces well over standard figure height.

The Art of the Alias: C27 Studio's Signature Naming Convention

Ask anyone who has browsed the C27 catalogue what they remember first, and it is almost always the names. Each proxy alias is chosen well enough that working out the reference is part of browsing the range.

Wolverine is Huge Ackman. Galactus is Planet Eater. Thanos is Grimace. Loki is Low Key. Kingpin is The Godfather. Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is Lenny The Shell Leader. And Optimus Prime arrives as Amazoon Prime. Every name earns a smile and tells you exactly what you are getting, without ever using the actual character name.

The convention holds across the full catalogue, covering Marvel heroes and villains, the TMNT crew, Transformers, Hellboy and more. Browsing C27 is a bit like doing a pub quiz with a very specific comic book round.

Worth being clear: these are unofficial fan-art-inspired sculpts. C27 state this openly on their own platforms, and the proxy nature of the range is exactly why they have built such a following among gamers who want particular characters in resin without paying official retail prices for them.

Perfect for Marvel Crisis Protocol and Superhero Skirmish

Marvel Crisis Protocol is the most obvious home for C27 models. The range covers enough of the character rosters to be genuinely useful: Avengers, X-Men, Guardians and more are all represented, alongside a villain bench that runs deeper than you might expect.

A Noir-inflected wall-crawler (Arachnoir), a cosmic threat that towers over everything else on the table (Planet Eater at £24.99), a steel-grey android (Roger Roger, the Ultron proxy), or the clawed berserker (Huge Ackman at £8.99): there is a solid selection waiting regardless of which roster you are filling.

The TMNT side of the range is also worth noting separately. Lenny The Shell Leader (Leonardo), Grumpy Turtle (Raphael), Tech Shell Genius (Donatello), Pizza Lover (Michelangelo), Rat Daddy (Splinter) and Yellow Jumpsuit Lady (April O'Neal) give you the full crew in one go, ready for a sewer-crawling narrative campaign or a complete faction in a custom skirmish game. Most C27 hero sculpts sit at the 28/32mm standard; centrepiece models scale up to match their in-universe presence.

Highlights from Our C27 Studio Miniatures Range

We stock a large selection from across the catalogue. A few models worth starting with:

Planet Eater (£24.99) is the Galactus proxy and the range's centrepiece model. It will not go quietly on any table it appears on. As much a painting project as a game piece.

Huge Ackman (£8.99) is the Wolverine proxy, claws out, instantly recognisable silhouette. Under a tenner for a sculpt of this quality makes it an obvious first pick.

Grimace (£11.99) brings Thanos to the table, with the armour detail and sheer physical presence the character demands. A natural villain anchor for any superhero roster.

The Godfather (£8.99) is the Kingpin proxy: a hulking organised-crime boss with serious presence on a 32mm base. Well suited to street-level games and narrative campaigns.

Lenny The Shell Leader (£9.99) leads the TMNT crew. Pair him with the brothers and the rest of the sewer gang for a complete faction.

Beyond these, the range takes in X-Men proxies, Avengers heroes, cosmic characters, street-level fighters, Hellboy-universe sculpts, and the occasional original fantasy character for when you need a cockatrice or a goblin between cosmic outings. We update the C27 listings as new releases arrive, so it is worth checking the full C27 Studio range for what is currently in stock.

Ordering C27 Studio Minis from TabletopXtra

Every C27 model we stock is printed to order in resin and shipped across the UK. No printer, no STL subscription, no setup: pick the characters you want, add them to the basket, and we handle the rest. Most orders are dispatched within a few working days, packed carefully so the resin arrives in good shape.

C27 add new characters regularly through their MyMiniFactory page, and we aim to keep our listings current. If there is a specific character you cannot find on site, get in touch and we can let you know whether it is something we can add.

Huge Ackman at £8.99 is probably the easiest starting point if you are new to the range, and Planet Eater is the obvious choice if you want something that will stop people in their tracks on the painting table. Either way, the full C27 Studio range at TabletopXtra is well worth a browse. There are a few dozen proxies in between those two extremes that are just as worth your time.