Gaz Minis Miniatures UK: A Complete Guide to the Pin-Up and Character Range

If you have ever wanted a tabletop cast with a bit more swagger, Gaz Minis miniatures are worth a proper look. This is a studio built around characterful, larger-than-life sculpts, mostly female heroes and pin-up figures, that range across fantasy, sci-fi and everything in between. We stock a big slice of the catalogue here in the UK, printed to order in resin, and in this guide we will walk through who Gaz Minis is, what makes the range tick, and which models are a good place to start.

Who is Gaz Minis?

Gaz Minis is the work of Marco, a 3D character artist who has spent close to fifteen years working across games, film and television. He sums his own routine up nicely: a character animator and rigger by day, a pin-up sculptor by night. That professional background shows in the models. The posing has the confidence of someone who rigs characters for a living, and the faces and silhouettes read clearly even at small sizes.

Like a lot of the designers we license, Marco came to this through the hobby itself. He started painting wargaming miniatures as a child, and when affordable resin 3D printing arrived he had both the digital sculpting skills and the love of the craft to put them to use. The result is a steady monthly output of new characters, released through his Gaz Minis profile on MyMiniFactory and his Patreon, and stocked by us so UK collectors can order prints without dealing with files, printers or international shipping.

A house style: characterful pin-ups across every genre

The thread running through the whole range is character. These are not rank-and-file troopers designed to vanish into a unit. Each one is a personality, sculpted to be the model you actually want to paint and put at the front of the shelf. The pin-up label is accurate, and the studio does offer mature variants, but the catalogue is far broader than that tag suggests.

Genre is no obstacle. One month you might get a cursed fantasy reaper, the next a sci-fi operative or a squad of armoured commandos. Take the Cursed Reaper Morrith Soulrend, a brooding scythe-wielding figure that drops straight into any dark fantasy setting, or the Lich Queen, a regal undead centrepiece. On the science-fiction side, the Gantz Operative and the chrome-plated Living Metal Sentinels show how far the range stretches. There is even a touch of the monstrous, like the Female Beholder Oculana, a clever reimagining of a classic dungeon horror.

The themed ranges worth knowing

Marco tends to release in themed waves, and getting to know them is the fastest way to navigate the catalogue. Several have become firm favourites with our customers. Oni Assault and Monster Girls lean into fantasy creatures with a twist. Law of the Lawless and the Cirque De Letrange bring a wild-west and dark-carnival flavour, the latter giving us oddball performers like the Goblin Jester Kiki Knifetoss. Pin-Ups of the Apocalypse and the various warband and commando sets cover post-apocalyptic and military themes.

That military strand is one of the most useful for gamers. The Commandos Strike Squad and the Commando Veterans Squad give you ready-made fireteams in a single listing, which is exactly what you want when you are building a small skirmish force rather than buying ten separate characters. Squad sets like these start at around £19.99, while single characters such as the Commissar Commander or the Cowgirl Tessa Buckshot start at just £6.49.

Buying Gaz Minis miniatures in the UK: scales and variants

One of the practical strengths of the range is choice. Most single characters are offered in a spread of scales, typically 28/32mm, 35mm, 40mm, 54mm and a display-friendly 75mm, with the price rising as the model gets bigger. That means the same sculpt can serve as a 32mm gaming piece for the table or a 75mm showpiece for the paint station, and you simply pick the size you want at checkout.

Where a model has a mature edition, listings usually carry both a Normal and a Skimpy variant, so you stay in control of which version turns up on your doorstep. A handful of the most popular sculpts, including the Lich Queen and the Female Beholder, are also stocked as same-day dispatch prints, which is handy when you need a model in a hurry rather than waiting on a made-to-order run.

Everything we carry is printed on demand in quality resin, cleaned and cured before it ships. You can browse the full range on our Gaz Minis collection, which runs to well over two hundred models, with a separate Gaz Minis Specials collection for the bundles and limited pieces.

Where Gaz Minis fits on your tabletop

For roleplayers, this range is a goldmine of distinctive NPCs and player characters. A party of generic adventurers comes alive when the rogue is Cowgirl Tessa Buckshot and the villain is the Lich Queen presiding over her court. Because the sculpts are so individual, a single Gaz Minis model can carry an entire encounter as the named foe your players remember long after the session.

For skirmish gamers, the squad sets and multi-scale options make Gaz Minis easy to fold into a collection. The commando and warband releases work as proxies for near-future and post-apocalyptic systems, and the broad scale range means you can match whatever your existing force is built around. Collectors and painters, meanwhile, get exactly what the pin-up tradition promises: bold, expressive single figures that reward time spent on skin, cloth and freehand.

If you are new to the studio, our advice is to pick one character that grabs you, order it in the scale you actually paint at, and go from there. Once you have handled one of Marco's sculpts in person the appeal of the rest of the catalogue tends to take care of itself. Have a browse of the full Gaz Minis range to find your first one, and if you want to follow the new monthly drops as they land, his Gaz Minis Instagram is the place to watch.