Have you ever built an incredible diecast scene, only to realize it still feels strangely empty? The cars are there. The buildings are weathered. The lighting is perfect. But without the right people, your diorama can look more like a ghost town than a living world.
That is exactly why DoubleG Diecast created the Regular People collection. And with Volume 8, we are giving backers an even bigger role in deciding what comes next.
Five special Community Choice mystery slots are waiting to be filled. Backers suggest the themes. The community votes. The five winning ideas become complete figure sets.
Your suggestion could become the next collection on your shelf, in your photo setup, or inside your latest miniature story.
What Are the Five Community Choice Slots?
The five mystery slots are dedicated spaces within the Regular People Volume 8 campaign. Instead of selecting every theme internally, DoubleG Diecast is opening the door to the people who use these miniatures every day: collectors, diorama builders, painters, photographers, and 3D-printing creators.
The process is simple:
- Backers suggest theme ideas.
- DoubleG Diecast reviews similar suggestions and prepares the official ballot.
- The community votes for its favorites.
- The five themes with the most votes become full figure sets.
- Stretch goals can unlock additional winning themes from the voting list.
This is more than a poll. It is a direct way for you to help shape the collection.
What kind of scene have you been trying to build? A roadside emergency? A late-night diner? A working industrial facility? A gritty post-apocalyptic settlement? Now is the time to put that idea forward.
Your Ideas. Your Votes. Your Collection.
The Community Choice system puts the creative direction into the hands of the backers.
According to the Volume 8 campaign artwork, eligible backers receive five votes to use on the themes they most want to see created. That means you can support five different concepts: or focus your voting strategy on the ideas that would add the most value to your own projects.
The winning themes are not just quick add-ons or single character designs. They become full figure sets, giving you enough variety to build a complete scene with believable interaction, scale, and atmosphere.
That distinction matters.
A single miniature can add a little detail. A complete set can tell a story.
Imagine a group of workers gathered around a maintenance problem. A line of customers waiting at a laundromat. A diner crew preparing for the morning rush. A highway response team managing a dangerous incident. Suddenly, your scene has a reason to exist.
Campaign Artwork Shows the Possibilities
The campaign artwork includes several example ideas that demonstrate the range of themes the community can explore:
- Apocalyptic survivors for abandoned cities, emergency shelters, and survival scenes.
- Laundromat regulars for everyday urban storytelling and neighborhood dioramas.
- Parks and rec crew for public spaces, community events, and municipal scenes.
- Industrial maintenance for factories, warehouses, power facilities, and mechanical settings.
- Night shift diner crew for late-night roadside scenes and Americana-inspired displays.
- Hazmat team for industrial accidents, environmental response, and high-tension scenes.
- Highway incident response for traffic accidents, roadside repairs, and emergency service dioramas.
These are examples of the kind of direction your votes can support. The mystery is part of the fun. The final five themes will be determined by the community.
Why Community-Selected Themes Matter
When you build a diorama, you are not simply arranging objects. You are creating a moment.
The best scenes invite questions:
What happened here? Where are these people going? Why did everyone stop? What happens next?
That narrative potential is what makes realistic human figures so important. A carefully posed figure can communicate fatigue, urgency, routine, celebration, or concern without saying a word.
This is especially valuable in 1:64 scale, where small details have a major visual impact. A person carrying equipment, standing beside a vehicle, speaking to another character, or waiting outside a business can give an entire layout a stronger sense of scale.
Volume 8 is built around that idea: ordinary people create extraordinary realism.
And because the community is choosing the mystery slots, the final collection has the opportunity to reflect the scenes creators actually want to build: not just the themes they have already seen repeated elsewhere.
Built for Dioramas, Diecast Photography, and 3D Printing
Regular People Volume 8 is designed for creators who want flexibility.
The campaign supports STL-based workflows, giving backers the ability to print the figures at the scale that best fits their project. The campaign artwork highlights 28mm, 32mm, and 54mm options, while the detailed files can also support custom scale applications.
That makes the collection useful for:
- 1:64 diecast dioramas
- Scale model photography
- Tabletop scenes
- Historical and modern layouts
- Custom resin printing
- Painting and weathering projects
- Large-scale displays
- Story-driven miniature scenes
DoubleG Diecast specializes in high-detail human miniatures, with a focus on realistic poses and everyday character types. You can explore more options through the 1:64 miniature human figures collection or browse the 3D STL files collection.
The files give you room to experiment. Print a figure once for a street scene, then print it again at another scale for a completely different project. Paint each version differently. Modify the environment. Build a connected miniature universe.
Stretch Goals Can Unlock Even More Winners
The five Community Choice slots are the core promise. But the campaign can go further.
Stretch goals may unlock additional winning themes from the voting list. That means a theme that narrowly misses the top five may not be gone forever. As the campaign reaches new funding milestones, more community-selected ideas can be brought into the Volume 8 collection.
This is where every pledge and every share can make a difference.
The more support the campaign receives, the more room there is to expand the final lineup. If there is a theme you want to see created, helping the campaign reach its stretch goals can improve its chances of becoming a reality.
Why settle for five sets when the community might unlock more?
A Collection Shaped by Fellow Creators
The DoubleG Diecast community has already shown that realistic, everyday figures have a place in serious miniature work.
Customers regularly point to the detail and durability of the figures. One collector reviewing the company’s miniature collection wrote, “Didn't expect them to look so good!” Another praised the “outstanding” detailing, while other customers have highlighted the solid feel, careful packaging, and fast service.
That feedback reflects what makes this hobby special. Builders want miniatures that can survive handling, painting, photographing, and repeated use. They want figures with enough personality to make a scene feel authentic.
Community Choice takes that relationship one step further. You are not only purchasing the finished collection. You are helping decide what the collection becomes.
Back Volume 8 and Make Your Voice Count
The opportunity is here, but the mystery slots will not stay open forever. The campaign’s voting process depends on active backers, strong ideas, and community participation.
Do you have a theme that would transform your next diorama? Do you want to see a more specific working crew, neighborhood group, emergency response team, or slice of everyday life?
Suggest it. Vote for it. Help bring it to life.
Visit the Regular People Volume 8 Kickstarter campaign to learn more, back the project, and take part in choosing what DoubleG Diecast creates next.
Your voice can fill one of the five mystery slots.
Your votes can shape the collection.
And your winning theme could become the detail that finally gives your miniature world a soul.
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