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Thanks for the input guys. Frosted for the private areas, clear for everywhere else. Pix in a moment...

 monkeytroll wrote:
Ditto here....the judicial use of both works best

Nice link....I've downloaded that for my dad, he should enjoy that.

Glad to hear, and get him to take some photos for you to post. I'm finding that papercraft is quite time consuming, but in a fun way.

Here is a WIP of what I started, a 1:43 piece of construction equipment, just to learn the ropes.

It is definitely a different style of doing things, and I am enjoying it so far. Although I may 'cheat' a little bit, here and there. Like with the wheels.

Finished the windows for the building, and the doors-- minus the handles. Clear 'glass' for everything except the bathroom windows-- there are 3 of those, 2 small ones over the toilet and the shower, and a large one by the bath-tub, shown here in these photos. The clear glass window is over the kitchen sink, or will be, when I put in the interior details.

Here is the front

And a close up of the porch

I do like how those tiles turned out. Now just a few more exterior details, and a bit of paint and boom! done with the exterior. Then re-do the interior, using what I learned from building the Comfort Station. Like making the interior easily removable...

Thanks for stopping by.

Nice warming up project, will be following how it goes along.

The house is coming about great, not much to add there

Nice work on the house. It's looking great.

Good luck with the papercraft work.

Tried catching up yesterday, got two threads done before I was pulled away . Really loving the guest house and comfort station. It's the type of thing you should take to a realtor and say "infant this......but obviously much larger, and without the commandos in the bathroom ". The papercraft stuff looks interesting, especially the excavator .

As usual, another fantastic building

When can I move in?

Looking great dude

Stunning, inspiring work as always.

Thanks all. Progress is really slow. I'm squeezing out half hours blocks of hobby time every so often these days.

 JoeRugby wrote:
When can I move in?

Looking great dude

When you shrink yourself to 30-32mm tall. And get approved for the mortgage

Added the Vigas...

Which isn't much, I know, but it gave me the chance to make a pun in the thread title. Couldn't pass that up, now could I?

More work on the papercraft, which is a nice leisurely thing.

I had no idea it would turn out as big as it is. Maybe I'll scale one down for 1:55 (28mm) so It fits on a gaming table. After I finish this. it is interesting stuff. I found a few other, quicker projects too, just to get the skill levels up.

The tower needs a top, and the top needs work to make it decent. So, Some digital editing then I can print those images.

Really simple stuff from Ebbles. And the iKubes from Topo Solitario. Mostly did these so I can figure out the lining process to hide the paper edges. Somehow, I think a sharpie will not do the job as well as I want. I think I'll need to use paint. No problem. Painting skills I have, atrophied though they may currently be :(

Thanks for stopping by.

modesty does not suit you sir. Love a bit of papercraft, it's what got me back into the hobby!

 Red Harvest wrote:

 JoeRugby wrote:
When can I move in?

Looking great dude

When you shrink yourself to 30-32mm tall. And get approved for the mortgage

Damn, mortgage application denied, I think the bank manager may have thought I was pulling his leg when I showed him what I Wanted the mortgage for

 JoeRugby wrote:

Damn, mortgage application denied, I think the bank manager may have thought I was pulling his leg when I showed him what I Wanted the mortgage for

Rent?

 inmygravenimage wrote:
modesty does not suit you sir. Love a bit of papercraft, it's what got me back into the hobby!

It does have a charm all to its own. I am enjoying the ride. There are some nice sets out there for Fantasy style stuff too, from World Works and Fat Dragon, that I may buy, when the skill level is higher, and I've built all the neat free stuff I've found. My little gaming group is planning to play some of this new D&D 5th edition. It has been 20 years since I last played. Man, that game has changed. Should be fun though. Having some quick to assemble and lightweight terrain will be nice. We are probably too addicted to tabletop gaming to go entirely *theatre of the mind* with it.

And on the subject of skill levels.

Three tries to get the skylight right, as the photo shows, and two tries for the vents. The canopy style skylight, albeit an interesting idea, did not work in reality. The other one was too large and top heavy. The first vent was way too large. I show this as an example of "if at first you don't succeed..."

Which leads to this.

The wall vent for the shower. Gotta have one, unless you want to turn the bathroom into a sauna You can see I tried for a small covered vent. I failed. It is crude. The next step...

More vents. I use those plastic ties. Rough up the edges with a nail file and a drop of superglue to hold them together. Instant vents

And for real life inspiration for my cellar door

Pretty close eh?

All in place

I like that vent much better. There is another one on the wall behind the toilet stall. Ventilation is a good thing there too.

Not much other progress, but I take what I can get. And Woot Woot, this is post 1001 for me.

Thanks for stopping by.

Nice idea for the vent.

that and the basement door thing look great.

Ditto Dr H's comment. I love that idea for the vents!

Vent looks brilliant. Basement door is great. Could make several of those to just add to various buildings, adds a new dimension. All great stuff as always.

The basement trap door looks spot on.

But the plastic ties for vents, that's brilliant. I've struggled myself to get some decent looking grilles more than once, and never quite got it right. Those just do it. And I even have a bunch of cut-offs of those, various sizes as well, saved don't know for what (had though only of a possible ammo belt of sorts?), and never saw this. Good call

Got some questions. Is the vent recessed in the wall? And if so did you carve into the finished facade to fit it? Did you use paper or plastic to create the white frame over your zip tie vent? Did you glue the vent in before painting it or after? Everything is awesome, hence the reason I'm picking your brain. One builder to another, your stuff is always inspiring to me.

Yes, recessed. Yes, cut out a slot for it to fit. Paper for the frame. (From a cereal box) Painted the vent and the frame separately, then glued them together, then glued the piece into the slot in the wall.

I am finding that painting things as I go makes life much easier.

The vent idea from the ties... I first used it in the HVAC unit for the Comfort Station. I was in a hurry to get something done for it and

 Camkierhi wrote:
Vent looks brilliant. Basement door is great. Could make several of those to just add to various buildings, adds a new dimension. All great stuff as always.

I like that idea

I will repaint that vent frame though. The off white is too much. I'll paint the frame a brown, so it blends in a bit better.

Jeesh.... I'm still here, just still dumbfounded by all of the awesome so I rarely have a point to make by commenting This latest building is really excellent, and your papercraft stuff is top notch as well.

No worries. I find that I lurk quite a bit too. It would be nice if we had some way to indicate that we looked in, some sort of 'like' button which I know other forums have. Perhaps a 'just dropping by' button?

Anyway, I mentioned in the LoER thread that I used a plexiglas floor like Theo is doing with his Star Warts trench, so I figured I'd post the image here. It's the lower right photo.

The rest of the photos show the re-arrangeable interior walls for the bulding.

Just dropping by. Good work.

So much win. If terrain makers were rewarded like other artists such as actors, you would be on Clooney money

Thanks guys. Well, I think most folks would say we are craftsmen and women, which is compliment enough for me. Movie star money would be nice though, just not the rest of the nonsense that goes with it. Ugh.

Oh, Darkjim, that nice blue you used on your Pan-O? I decided to borrow your idea. You can see the start of mine, and the blue on the bases, which I will use on the minis too.

The Nomads get the red, the Haqq turquoise, and the Civvies get green. This is a fraction of the total minis, but progress is slow.

Slammed in RL. So, just a few dribbling of stuff. The papercraft took a strange detour now that my little gaming gang is going to play some 5th ed D&D. WotC had some nice papercraft stuff for free a while ago, but sadly gone now that they redid the web site (bet it did not cost 4 million GB pounds either. Lol.) Fortunately I downloaded most of the files. I think I am missing a townhouse and a tower, judging from some of the photos. Ah well :(

A tavern and a tower. They are huge! I had to reinforce the things with foamcore, and had to edit the tower top to make it fit.

Here compared to some of my other buildings. A nice road from Fat Dragon. A little work with that and a few other images and I could have a pretty little gaming mat. Have to figure out printing though. Something to check out.

I found some nice furniture from Fat Dragon too.

Those are Pathfinder minis from Reaper, BTW.

For practice, a couple of spaceships/dropships

Not well assembled. I tried reinforcing the Disney ship (the orange thing) during assembly. Not a swift move. The other ship, the chickenhawk, from Topo Solitario ( a name well known to the Infinity crowd) it has its problems, like being too small IMHO, but it still looks pretty cool.

I have plenty of lining to do on them, and on the rest of the stuff. I find this a nice learning experience. And a source for some interesting hybrid projects that involve elements of the papercraft with more traditional building. Should keep me busy this winter. That and the minis I need to paint. And the bigger papercraft projects.

Thanks for stopping by.

You have to PM me your email address, I have many templates and ill gotten plans.

Man, your paper-fu is pretty strong, guess it's a side effect of being so good at terrain in general

Cam, PM sent.

Grimdork, I think it is more of a cutting-fu thing at this point, so yeah, a side effect of scratch building in general. Amazing how folks have trouble cutting straight lines. The photos of the dropships make them look better than they actually look.

Finally got all the Infinity minis based as I want them based.

Turns out I had more than I thought. Of course, getting 15 more in the Icestorm box had an impact. Now to paint them. All of them. I can do this. Willpower, Discipline...

Hey look I'll just assemble one little papercraft building, just for grins

But it needed reinforcement

And now I'm thinking about ways to make it 3d, since it seems so simple.

Now you know why I have trouble getting minis painted.

The front end loader is huge, moreso than I expected.

I don't think the loader is supposed to be curved like that at the bottom. I may end up re-doing it.

See what I mean by huge. ANd with moving parts

and really tiny bits

Oddly, these things were no so tough to put together. I may have *cheated* though, like I am doing with the wheels. Reinforcing the shapes with inserts.

I need to figure out a better way to assemble the wheels though. This is not acceptable.

And find time to finish all the exterior details of the adobe guesthouse so that I can get to work on the insides.

Thanks for stopping by.

Fantastic. I dunno I think you guys just have a gene or inborn talent for this stuff, cutting in a straight line is tough for me, and I'd never have gotten that paper dozer thing together.

Who cuts in straight lines? Most of my stuff is curved Just use a straight edge. I find a Carpenter's square works wonders.

And, little bits of things done. Some Objectives for Infinity ITS scenarios... papercraft supply crates on custom bases. Easy to see on the table

Also some planters, WIPs of course. The crates are not fixed to the bases, so I can use the bases for other objectives, like antennas ( or antennae if your name is Gaius Iulius or somesuch).

Decided to try again with the hill plus building idea.

I like the idea of 'contour' buildings. We'll see where this goes.

Oh, and yeah, a Fence. First the form,

Never can have too many clamps. Never can say that too many times either

Then the result


When put side by side

The plan is to make 8 of these 6" pieces, and 4 corner pieces, 2 with gates, 2 with something else. Then decorate all the stuff somehow, fountains, planters, who knows.

Thanks for stopping by.

Looking forward to this. other bits looking great, distinct lack of water towers though?! JK

Landscaping looks good, and always good to see your methods, going to have to try some out soon.

Yeah I like your curvy stuff it's neat. No... that was not a poorly thought out pickup line either. Clamps you say? Looks like something to look into