Your diorama has the cars. It has the buildings. It has the streetlights, signs, tools, and weathering.
But does it have people with a reason to be there?
That is the challenge every diorama builder eventually faces. A road can look beautifully finished and still feel strangely empty. A diner can have perfect countertops and menus but no late-night crew behind the counter. A delivery van can be parked outside an apartment building with nobody carrying the packages inside.
That is where Regular People Volume 8 comes in.
The latest DoubleG Diecast Kickstarter is live, and this collection is being built around the people who make miniature worlds feel real. More than 300 new miniatures across multiple eras are planned as STL files, with stretch goals designed to keep expanding the collection.
And this time, you are not just backing the project.
You can help decide what gets made.
You suggest. You vote. We create.
Support Regular People Volume 8 on Kickstarter
This Is a Collection About Real Life
Regular People Volume 8 is not about fantasy armies, exaggerated heroes, or imaginary worlds.
It is about ordinary people doing believable things.
That focus matters. In a realistic 1:64 scale scene, the smallest human detail can change the entire story. A worker leaning against a service truck suggests a long shift. A diner server carrying a coffee pot creates a sense of movement. A pedestrian waiting near a storefront makes the street feel occupied rather than staged.
Volume 8 is designed to help you build those moments.
The planned lineup reaches across multiple eras and everyday environments, including:
- Night shift diner crews
- Highway incident-response workers
- Urban delivery crews
- Heavy equipment mechanics
- 1950s small-town pedestrians
- Urban street folks
- And more realistic, narrative-driven character sets
Think about your next scene. Is it a quiet highway just before sunrise? A busy city block at lunchtime? A 1950s main street on a warm summer afternoon? A construction yard winding down after a hard day?
The right figures give your vehicles and structures a sense of purpose. They add soul, scale, and story.
300+ New STL Miniatures for Your Projects
The Volume 8 Kickstarter is built for creators who want flexibility.
Backers receive the collection as STL files, giving you the freedom to print the characters yourself and adapt them to your own workflow. You can choose your preferred resin, printer settings, scale, supports, and finishing process.
Although the core focus is 1:64 scale, STL files also give you room to explore other scales and applications. Want a larger figure for a display piece? Need a smaller character for a wide establishing shot? Digital files make experimentation possible.
You can:
- Print figures for 1:64 and S-scale dioramas
- Test different orientations and poses
- Prime, paint, and weather each figure your way
- Create variations for different scenes
- Use the files in diorama photography
- Scale characters for other miniature projects
- Build a large population without buying every figure individually
The sculpts are intended to capture the details that matter at miniature scale: natural body language, clothing layers, occupational gear, and believable proportions.
At roughly 1:64 scale, even small choices become important. A clipboard, hand truck, mechanic’s tool, diner apron, or reflective vest can communicate an entire occupation in one glance.
That is the difference between placing a figure in a scene and creating a character.
Five Community Choice Mystery Slots
Here is where Volume 8 becomes genuinely different.
The campaign includes five Community Choice mystery slots. These slots are reserved for themes shaped by the backers themselves.
The process is simple:
- You suggest a theme you want to see.
- The community votes on the strongest ideas.
- The winning themes get created.
What would you add to the collection?
A municipal road crew? A courthouse crowd? A regional bus station? A 1970s shopping center? A group of farmers at a county fair? A warehouse crew during a midnight unload?
This is your opportunity to move an overlooked idea from the comment section into the official collection.
The best miniature libraries grow by listening to the people who use them. Collectors know which gaps are frustrating. Diorama builders know which scenes are difficult to populate. Diecast photographers know exactly when a background figure can make a composition work.
Your suggestions can help fill those gaps.
Stretch Goals Keep the Collection Growing
The core Volume 8 release is already substantial. But Kickstarter stretch goals create a path for the project to become even more useful to creators.
As the campaign grows, stretch goals can unlock additional figure packs, expanded themes, and more opportunities to populate your scenes. Every new milestone can add more context to your miniature world.
That matters because a convincing diorama rarely needs just one person.
A highway scene may need the stranded driver, the responder, the tow operator, and a passing pedestrian. A diner may need the cook, server, customer, and delivery person outside. A small-town street may come alive through a mixture of shoppers, workers, children, and people simply going about their day.
The more variety you have, the more believable your scene composition becomes.
Will you build a single cinematic moment? Or an entire neighborhood with its own rhythm? Volume 8 is designed to support both.
Built for Painting, Photography, and Storytelling
DoubleG Diecast figures are made for hobbyists who want to take their scenes further.
The digital format gives you a practical starting point. Print the figures in resin, clean the supports, cure them properly, and begin the finishing process. From there, your painting style takes over.
Use subtle color variation to separate uniforms. Add dust to work boots. Apply oil stains to mechanics’ clothing. Weather reflective gear. Give a 1950s pedestrian a period-appropriate coat, hat, or handbag. Tiny finishing decisions create authentic visual continuity.
The figures also work beautifully in diecast photography. A car photographed alone can look like a product shot. Add a person reacting to the vehicle, loading it, repairing it, or walking past it, and suddenly the image has a narrative.
That is why realistic human figures are essential. They give the viewer a point of connection.
DoubleG Diecast already offers a broad selection of 1:64 miniature human figures, including highly detailed resin figures made in the USA. Individual examples are also available through the 1:64 miniature figure collection.
The response from fellow creators reflects that focus. One customer wrote, “Didn’t expect them to look so good!” Another praised the figures’ “outstanding” detailing, while a separate review described the quality as “top notch.”
That is the standard Volume 8 is continuing in digital form.
Why Back Now?
A live Kickstarter campaign is the best time to join because the collection is still expanding and the community choices are still ahead.
Backing now gives you the chance to:
- Get access to 300+ new miniature STL files
- Benefit from campaign stretch goals
- Help decide the five mystery themes
- Suggest characters and occupations missing from your library
- Join a community of collectors, painters, printers, and diorama builders
- Start building a more complete population for your miniature worlds
Later, you may be able to find individual figures or related releases. But the opportunity to help shape Volume 8 is happening now.
Why settle for another empty street when you can help create the people who belong on it?
Visit the Regular People Volume 8 Kickstarter, choose your pledge, and bring your ideas to the campaign.
You suggest. You vote. We create.
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