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Post by gilius on Feb 11, 2011 16:20:36 GMT -9
I've finished the "first generation" of my set of 15mm minis and terrain pieces to play Song of Blades and Heroes. I know that many people hate miniatures with white borders but, printing at half size, I would need to increase the border width to compensate for misalignments (and even then, they would probably be hard to cut out by hand). Additional pictures can be found at my blog: fantalonia.blogspot.com/2011/02/ready-to-play-sbh-in-15mm.htmlIt is far from perfect (some terrain pices are *very* far) but I thought I would share since I'm using lots of figures from OneMonk and the forum hoards, allowing the creation of varied warbands.
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Post by Mike H "Chugosh" on Feb 12, 2011 7:12:05 GMT -9
Those look pretty good! I actually prefer to cut my minis with a lot of white border. They may not look precisely as great in some eyes, but I cannot cut so many models so finely, and they look pretty good anyway. Moreso for the 15mm scale, I imagine.
Why 15mm? Is that just the scale the game is made for, or is it a choice based on your available room and so forth?
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Post by gilius on Feb 12, 2011 13:35:25 GMT -9
Those look pretty good! I actually prefer to cut my minis with a lot of white border. They may not look precisely as great in some eyes, but I cannot cut so many models so finely, and they look pretty good anyway. Moreso for the 15mm scale, I imagine. Why 15mm? Is that just the scale the game is made for, or is it a choice based on your available room and so forth? Thanks for your comments! As for the scale, Song of Blades can be played at 15mm or 28mm (or any scale, by adjusting the measurement sticks) but the basic book states that it was created having 15mm in mind. Available room is a big factor, as a game in this scale can be played on a 2'x2' board and I can fit lots of minis and terrain in little space.
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Post by Mike H "Chugosh" on Feb 12, 2011 22:19:34 GMT -9
I will say that 15mm is a great deal easier as paper miniatures than as lead. My eyes have gotten so bad that I cannot even see the details of my 1/72 scale minis well ennough to paint them, and if I could, my hands shake too bad to paint them.
In any small scale, paper minis rock! So cool that OneMonk has their bases for all sizes of mini.
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Post by wabbitwampage on Apr 5, 2011 1:25:41 GMT -9
Hi, I'm making some 15mm fantasy too. At first I only reduced the size via the print process (4 pages per sheet) but the result was too dark due to the black border line. With The Gimpshop software (or equivalent) you can reduce the black border, reduce the size (to 15mm) and copy the same mini several times to print sheet with many of them. The second aspect problem of the 15mm minis is the lack of thickness; So I glue them on beer mat (1mm card stock):front side first, then cut , then glue the backside. The final look is pretty cool I mean. I will put some pics soon.
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Post by gilius on Apr 5, 2011 3:34:56 GMT -9
Cool, I'm waiting to see the results! Two things I didn't do on these minis but on the 15mm sci-fi I printed later were: 1. Adjust the color curves (more specifically, the value curve) to make the colors lighter while preserving black. It takes some experimentation to see how much is enough. The attached picture shows the setting I use and which gives good results for my printer. 2. Fill the white border with a sharpie or other black marker after cutting them. On the other hand, I can imagine that if you reduce the front and back contour lines down to thin lines, the white border might look as good or better.
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Post by wabbitwampage on Apr 14, 2011 6:30:41 GMT -9
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