Post by gloriousbattle on Jun 17, 2014 15:41:17 GMT -9
What I'd like is to see an idea of mine made into a reality. I'd like someone to draw a full color, paper Roman tortoise, that I could print on sticky label paper, and wrap around five sides of a wooden block, to make a Roman tortoise.
I'd like this to be very well done, and so there are some specifications:
1. It has to be 25mm in scale; of course, it could be shrunk to 15mm, 20mm, or whatever, but it must be perfectly visible and well detailed in 25mm.
2. It has to be a good quality scan. No pixelation.
3. It has to have a lot of detail, with very nicely detailed Roman shields, and such things as the legionaries' sandaled feet visible at the bottom, the backs of the legionaries visible on the rear side (the testudo most likely only had shields around the front, rear and top) one or two faces of legionaries sticking out here and there, and maybe the blade of a gladius or two, etc.
4. There have to be two differently colored versions, red shields and blue shields, so I can fight Roman civil wars.
5. The sides have to blend well into each other at the corners and edges. This means that the shields have to come together exactly at the corners and edges, so that they can be solid black lines. This is important because, of course, when the paper is folded, the ink will crack, revealing the white paper beneath. The easiest way to fix this will be if a black marker can be drawn over the corners and edges, so that the whit disappears. Thus, the shields must meet at this point, so that the line isn't going through shields, faces, etc.
6. I'd like them in a slightly cartoonish style, similar to those of Patrick Crusiau (I can never remember how to spell his name) as I will be using them with his figures.
7. Here's the trick, the testudo has to fit such that it will fold completely over a standard child's building block (1-3/8" by 2-3/4" by 2-3/4"). Exactly how many Roman soldiers (shields) this works out to be doesn't really matter, though I'm assuming about 4 x 4 Romans (they packed into this formation fairly tightly). As long as it looks good, that's all that matters.
If interested, please reply to this thread. Thanks.
I'd like this to be very well done, and so there are some specifications:
1. It has to be 25mm in scale; of course, it could be shrunk to 15mm, 20mm, or whatever, but it must be perfectly visible and well detailed in 25mm.
2. It has to be a good quality scan. No pixelation.
3. It has to have a lot of detail, with very nicely detailed Roman shields, and such things as the legionaries' sandaled feet visible at the bottom, the backs of the legionaries visible on the rear side (the testudo most likely only had shields around the front, rear and top) one or two faces of legionaries sticking out here and there, and maybe the blade of a gladius or two, etc.
4. There have to be two differently colored versions, red shields and blue shields, so I can fight Roman civil wars.
5. The sides have to blend well into each other at the corners and edges. This means that the shields have to come together exactly at the corners and edges, so that they can be solid black lines. This is important because, of course, when the paper is folded, the ink will crack, revealing the white paper beneath. The easiest way to fix this will be if a black marker can be drawn over the corners and edges, so that the whit disappears. Thus, the shields must meet at this point, so that the line isn't going through shields, faces, etc.
6. I'd like them in a slightly cartoonish style, similar to those of Patrick Crusiau (I can never remember how to spell his name) as I will be using them with his figures.
7. Here's the trick, the testudo has to fit such that it will fold completely over a standard child's building block (1-3/8" by 2-3/4" by 2-3/4"). Exactly how many Roman soldiers (shields) this works out to be doesn't really matter, though I'm assuming about 4 x 4 Romans (they packed into this formation fairly tightly). As long as it looks good, that's all that matters.
If interested, please reply to this thread. Thanks.