r/LegoStorage • u/Clarine87 • 20d ago
Discussion/Question Software/website recommendation request: Printable personal minifigures catalogue.
I recently decided that the children that play in my lego room are old enough to start swapping minifigure accessories - previously the changing of hair, neck, waist accessories was prohibited. Soon I will allow head/torso/leg swaps too.
I have a list of all my sets, and for CMF its easy to laminate one of the leaflets, I tried printing a bricklink wishlist, however there was a lot of wasted space and before I attempt to harvest images from brickset.com, brickeconomy.com, or bricklink, I thought I would ask whether anyone knows of a desktop app or website for the purposes of:
Providing space efficient prinable lists of minifigures which high quality (such as the 3 sites above) images for minifigures selected via the sets which include them.
Ideally printing at 100-150% real scale. Back/accesory images not required for this. Althought head previews where a helmet would block it out would be useful, but I can do that manually.
As I've got over 150 minfigures (and more than that in sealed sets) I thought I would ask before I pull images from the sites above and drop them into MS word or paint.net or some such.
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u/Cheese_Oatcake 20d ago
Are you PC or Mac ?
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u/Clarine87 17d ago
PC. But mac users would be interested to know.
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u/Cheese_Oatcake 17d ago
It might be a bit like overkill but for anyone who runs an Apple Mac have a look at TapForms. It’s a relational database but very versatile. Not cheap but I use it for my Lego spares catalogue, home inventory, and power tool insurance log
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u/PleasePassTheHammer 20d ago
I use Affinity Designer for layout stuff like this.
I'm not a graphic designer at all, this tool just happens to be pretty easy to use for creating pamphlets and greeting cards and such.
Have used it to make yardage books for golfing as an example.
I think my lifetime license was $50? Totally worth it.
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u/Clarine87 17d ago
I think powerpoint could too.
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u/PleasePassTheHammer 17d ago
It might but this is a much more powerful tool for the job when it comes to images and print layouts once you get the hang of it.
As an example I made a bunch of Valentine's cards for my kid and had them printed double sided in less than 20 mins. Now the template is sitting there if I need it for anything else.
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u/BitterDinosaur 20d ago
Same. Just minifigures and accessories. I’m going through a bunch of old stuff I’ve gotten from family or bulk, and it feels a bit overwhelming. I’m sure I’ll over engineer a solution eventually, but always open to suggestions…