grit
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Post by grit on Mar 19, 2013 10:51:37 GMT -9
Does anyone have a Background they use for their Terrain? I've been wanting to build a background for sometime. Build the city, display a bit of it, and instead of a plain wall behind it or something, and a to-scale image that makes the city seem to go on. Anyone ever make one, design one, want one? How did you do it, what would you want your background to be?
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Post by dcbradshaw on Mar 19, 2013 11:59:47 GMT -9
Worldworks does that for some of their set promo pics--look specifically at the solid background board for the Mayhem Services set: www.worldworksgames.com/store/index.php?view=product&product=191It looks like it's just building sides put on foamcore. I think there's also in the Hinterlands set, a generic "tree background" that is the same idea but for a wilderness setting. I've thought about making one out of scraps. It would make a pretty picture--not necessarily the best setup for access to reach and move figurines and models.
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Post by oldschooldm on Mar 19, 2013 13:29:50 GMT -9
I'm lucky enough to have a 13"x19" printer, so I just print something from google image search on a sheet of watercolor paper (which is pretty stiff) and prop it up. :-)
But a photo isn't really the best style-match for my papercraft. I'd spend a buck on a bitmap for fantasy town, wilderness, cave ceilings, etc. in the appropriate art style that I could print.
Someone do the "Fantasy backdrop line" and I'll pay $1us for each!
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Post by bravesirkevin on Mar 19, 2013 18:44:02 GMT -9
But a photo isn't really the best style-match for my papercraft. I'd spend a buck on a bitmap for fantasy town, wilderness, cave ceilings, etc. in the appropriate art style that I could print. Someone do the "Fantasy backdrop line" and I'll pay $1us for each! It would be quite a bit of work... but a lot less work than setting up a papercraft set. I might consider doing it if there was enough interest to guarantee more than just a few dollars per set out of it.
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Post by emergencyoverride on Mar 20, 2013 4:46:53 GMT -9
I made this one right after I took the pics of Adam's new horror set. I used the fronts off of the Mayhem Swift Scenic set from WWG and some street tiles from the Streets of Mayhem tlx set from the same group. They are laser printer labels with the floor tiles mounted on matte board, and the building mounted on chipboard. All of it is held together with green painters tape. Easy to throw together and works well as a back ground scenic. Ignore the top right corner. I didn't realize I had my spotlight shining on it when I snapped the picture. I just wanted a better background than my cutting board and some snow tiles for my pics. I'll be doing a fantasy backdrop today in the same manner using Hinterlands tlx. They have a nice tree wall that I was looking at. ;D
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 20, 2013 9:54:29 GMT -9
I think what you are describing is what they would call low-relief in model railroading. It's pretty easy to do with many of the models. I saw a very nice diorama done with the Illinois Main Street models. Also saw it done with medieval buildings. Pretty much what emergencyoverride did. My link is dead, but Alternate Realms used to have a virtual city on the site showing buildings available on the cd. I think the promo pics were placed in front of a printout of the virtual city. Looked pretty good.
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Post by grit on Mar 20, 2013 11:24:18 GMT -9
Very Nice, I looked up the term Low Relief City and found some examples. I think I might snag this idea too, funny thing is I've started designing city layout already. Tell me what you think, I just want more buildings and less open ground. But all my building this time around will be interactive. So it might be alright. You'll see why I want a Back Drop or I guess the proper term is Low Relief. Oh ya, the gray spots are where buildings are going to be
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 20, 2013 14:50:21 GMT -9
'Back drop' works, too. I was just referring to how another part of the model refers to this. Gives you another option for googling.
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Post by Parduz on Mar 20, 2013 15:02:49 GMT -9
WOW. Very nice! But your curves seems a bit weird..... i mean, the inner, middle and outer arcs should have all the same center... yours seems that have a offset.... Anyway, i like it! -edit- I just noticed that i see the images stretched, so i may be totally wrong.
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