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Hello my dearest Hobby enthusiasts.

I guess I should introduce myself; I have lurked this board for many many years (along with several others). The last time I painted a complete army was when smelly primer was bought in a flip-top (before the screwtops which came before the more modern fliptops oh dear) but I've never lost my love of the hobby. Today I found out that the department I work for at my employer is going to be downsized (by half) and I am one of the casualties... This leaves me with some spare time for the forseeable future, but no money to buy little plastic soldiers.

So what does one do? Well first one has a beer, and then one stumbles accross Dsteingass' most excellent necromunda thread.

And that gave me an idea! I know I'm not the only one in a pinch and I used to love the Card terrain necromunda came with... and I'm pretty handy with photoshop!

I used to do more "artwork" type photomanips like the following (which you may have seen before)



But now, now I want to give back to the community which has supplied me (unbeknownst to them muahahaha) with years of browsing joy. I want to start making printable terrain. I know this kind of diverges from the usual "painting and modelling" you find in this section of the forum (please dont hurt me mods!), but painting with a wacom stylus is still painting right?

Anyways, I want to start making some flat pieces to get back in the groove, since my old job kept me from photoshopping as much as I'd like, so some space hulk-ish or Warhammer Quest-y stuff (or tunnels for your =][=-munda/killteam/special missions!) seems like a good start before moving on to buildable 3D papercraft toys (and ammo crates and bunkers and barricades and SHUT UP BRAIN) for you lot

Here's something I whipped up in about...15 minutes before logging in today as a small example:



If you guys like this, I need your help!

Most of my hobby stuff was destroyed/lost in several moves of the years (except for my old paint pots, which now contain glorious tentacle pink rocks and the like) and I need some specs!

So let's assume we're gonna make some spacehulk compatible tiles, I need someone to tell me the following:

-What is the size of a single spacehulk tile?
-What width is the border around each seqment?
-Can someone give me some good measurements on the connect-y bits on SH map segments so I can try to make bits compatible?

What do you say buddies? Will you help me?

wow thats a really neat idea i cant wait to see your take on more things.

sorry to hear about the job loss but a door shuts and a window opens and all that.

good luck with this little project of yours.

hello demonfae9... would love to help a chap but i am unfortunatly too poor to get me a box of spacehulk meself too...bloody hell...

but i do like your stuff... i am atm building up a board game that has some striking similarities to spacehulk myself... tho the scheme i am going for is more steampunk / victorian related... so more brickwork and cobblestone than steel and plaster... but i do apreciate the look and style you are chucking out!

the only question with 2D terrain tho is ... how does it work with all those height issues? what aboutr cover and such things?

anyway... i wish you luck and that you get enough airtime to get yourself the answers needed!


cheers, vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:hello demonfae9... would love to help a chap but i am unfortunatly too poor to get me a box of spacehulk meself too...bloody hell...

but i do like your stuff... i am atm building up a board game that has some striking similarities to spacehulk myself... tho the scheme i am going for is more steampunk / victorian related... so more brickwork and cobblestone than steel and plaster... but i do apreciate the look and style you are chucking out!

the only question with 2D terrain tho is ... how does it work with all those height issues? what aboutr cover and such things?

anyway... i wish you luck and that you get enough airtime to get yourself the answers needed!


cheers, vik

Thanks for replying Vik!

Well flat terrain is for flat gameplay, but I'm a bit rusty so before I get myself in trouble trying to make a paper basilica, I figured I'd make some flat thingies first.

Spacehulk/warhammer quest come to mind first of course, but I could easily make a set of cool tunnels to represent crazy-badass necromunda tunnelfights or killteam missions for 40k.

I used to make my own 3D terrain like this, long long ago, when vortex grenades were still in Vogue. But I'm way rusty. xD

paper basilika... now that sounds promising... so i will be waiting patiently with a can of rust remover^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:paper basilika... now that sounds promising... so i will be waiting patiently with a can of rust remover^^

That's a while away yet While I wait on spacehulk specs, I think I'm just gonna make a simple slanted-box-type bunker to warm up, like the one that was in every battlereport in the early 90s white dwarf mags

*furious clicking begins*

well i think i would always vote for totally self measured stuff.... that way no one could get you for violating any ip issues... keep it rather generic and you are safe and sound to present everything at your hearts desire...

well most old bunker from WW II are that strange pill shape so i don't see IP lawyers gutting him for that as long as he doesnt sell them i think he should be fine.

I was most excited about his crates tbh.

any way good luck with the bunker

Oh I'm not worried about "IP Lawyers" I'm not selling anything... and don't worry Alabamaheretic, there will be crates!

crates and tunnels sound great i look forward to them

alabamaheretic wrote:crates and tunnels sound great i look forward to them

indeed, but first.... let there be rivets!




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I just realized it is far, far past my bedtime.

So here is a WIP (I still need to do a lot of detailing and colour normalizing etc)

oi... that is looking very good already... and rivets... rusty ones... that is the charm us riveteers can always fall for^^

heck if done on the right paper... like for instance thick enough you could even then raise those details...

be sure...when you chuck that out i will be most delighted to try my best in trying these out

Viktor von Domm wrote:

be sure...when you chuck that out i will be most delighted to try my best in trying these out

ok, well if that is the case, here you go!

Now, I could have spent another 2-3 days detailing and perfecting this thing, but I really wanted something "out there" for people to try, so I'll call this one "done for now"

WARNING THE PDFs ARE HUGE!

So do not try to open them on your cellphone

Practice Bunker Page 1
Practice Bunker Page 2

preview pictures:

lookin good daemon. would make a fine addition to my table top

alabamaheretic wrote:lookin good daemon. would make a fine addition to my table top

print one out and build it

you may want to put a little 3inch tall cylinder of card inside it for sturdiness btw.

I'd love to see pictures of some assembled ones! (I am utterly out of ink at the moment :( )

lol.... i know that... seems i have to get out tomorrow to get more ink for my own printer too... i didn´t expect you to be so damn quick about it...

i really like the bunker... all the nice lil deatils... and the many effects... how did you acomplish these?... rusty streaks... burnt marks and the creaks ...gosh... if that was to be considered a fast job... i think you will spoil us with even bigger stuff for years^^

as soon as i am able to get this printed apropriatly i will build it... and then take pics... be sure about that!

ehehe this was indeed a quicky Vik

I'll have some matching barricades/walls to go with the bunker sometime tomorrow afternoon actually... Im glad you like them!

hell i just need some walls to make tunnels and vents for scenarios for inquisimunda

hmmmm...that sounds very good!!!

one can never have too much terrain!!!

I'll try and get the barricades up around 1pm our time vik, unless i sleep in

great ideas here, im excited to see what you come up with

sleep...there with that weird word again...^^ which brings me to look at my watch...argh... argh indeed... the wife said...:"don´t stay up all night..." yeah right...

Good morning my pretties, here's a page full of handy dandy cover walls to go with the bunker!
Print em out, stick em on a little base and you're good to go!



Full size download

As before, post me some pics if you build some

I really like the texture on these ones! Did you draw them yourself, or take them from some photo?

Rogue Wolves wrote:I really like the texture on these ones! Did you draw them yourself, or take them from some photo?

Bit hard to explain really, it's a mix of photos, brushes and painted textures I did years ago x)

Ahh well, I thin k it looks great, now as a suggestion I would be curious to see you attempt some posters as well..


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well, I just spent the past few minutes taking a very close look at your different structures, and damn I can say im highly impressed, this has got to be the most detailed paperterrain i've seen! and this is only your practice!... once you start on the larger pieces you are sure to have a wave of viewers here.... mainly because amazing quality + free! = amazing!

Rogue Wolves wrote:Ahh well, I thin k it looks great, now as a suggestion I would be curious to see you attempt some posters as well..


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well, I just spent the past few minutes taking a very close look at your different structures, and damn I can say im highly impressed, this has got to be the most detailed paperterrain i've seen! and this is only your practice!... once you start on the larger pieces you are sure to have a wave of viewers here.... mainly because amazing quality + free! = amazing!

Thanks man, that is quite the compliment!

Next up, sheets of crates! Should have those sometime tomorrow

Here is the first sheet of crates, gonna make more later in different sizes and with other decoration etc...

File: http://machine9.net/dakka/crates1.pdf

preview:




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Incidentally, I open to requests


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Double width crates!

File: http://machine9.net/dakka/crates2.pdf

Preview:



Tomorrow, flat crates and cube crates with metal fixtures.

uiiii!! these do look very cool...

i have to come up with a cool idea for you soon... hmmmm....


and tomorrow i will for definite get me some inks for my printer... by the way... what thickness of paper would you recommend for these builts? or rather the old trick with the cerial cardboard box underneath the printed paper?...

Viktor von Domm wrote:uiiii!! these do look very cool...

i have to come up with a cool idea for you soon... hmmmm....


and tomorrow i will for definite get me some inks for my printer... by the way... what thickness of paper would you recommend for these builts? or rather the old trick with the cerial cardboard box underneath the printed paper?...

I use heavyweight printing paper for my stuff, but it gets a bit expensive... you really do want some actual printing paper for the coating it has though, it takes the ink much much better.

What you could do if you're feeling fancy is use thin printing paper, and a can of spray glue. Glue the paper to thin card and hey presto!

I'd still recommend some heavy duty photo matte paper though (for reference, mine has the same thickness as magic: the gathering cards xD )