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Post by radoslawkamil on Jan 29, 2017 8:00:40 GMT -9
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Post by squirmydad on Jan 29, 2017 8:52:31 GMT -9
lightning made some good bases here that don't require glueing the mini in place, they build very quickly too.
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Post by whisper31 on Jan 29, 2017 9:56:12 GMT -9
I just happen to be working on a design I saw somewhere on the internet. I don't remember who created it, but I will show pics of mine when I get it done (working on it as I type).
Update: The base design seems to work, but the modding that I had to do to the TF marine, didn't. I think I will go with the Paperschnitzel ones. As for textures, onemonk and genet models have a bunch of textures for use on the downloads page IIRC.
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Post by lightning on Jan 29, 2017 10:00:21 GMT -9
I like them. If you are prepare to invest the longer build time, you get a very nice base!
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Post by whisper31 on Jan 29, 2017 10:08:12 GMT -9
I like them. If you are prepare to invest the longer build time, you get a very nice base! Looks to be well worth the extra time for building them. I am going to give these a try.
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Post by radoslawkamil on Jan 29, 2017 10:18:00 GMT -9
The lighting base are same like I make in first attemt lol and I dont like how they look so I make a bold new plan to make it. And it and with this I post here. I can hand draw temlate tommorow and scan it. But I think maybe someone make it on computer it will look much better and be easyer to build. I use 0,6mm cardboard for top and bottom octagonal and sides are 5mm with 0.2mm paper so it fit with Terra Soldiers nicely and it sturdy. I like the look of it. I see something similar made with foamcore but I dont have that material so I make paper one.
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Post by whisper31 on Jan 29, 2017 10:25:29 GMT -9
Not sure is the right place for my thread. I was makeing base for my Terra Force Soldiers and came up with idea. I show what I mean i pics. This is hand made from scratch octagonal base looking like small piggybank. The sides are 5mm and base is standard 25mm with 20/0.6 mm slot to insert miniature. And the big question is that: How to make it on computer lol. I have absolutely no skill with computer grafisc or modeling. I ask for help If any one make some base like that before? Cant find any temlate like that. I make one on paper and last resource will be hand driving few of them and copy, but they will look bad and I will still need some testure on it. I make that kind of base because it is very sturdy, can be use many time with all kind 25mm miniatures. In last pisc I show diffrent between standard one monk sircle 30mm base and my octagonal. The miniature Terra Soldier will not fall out in any way and with standard base I need to glue them so they hold. Just for you, radoslawkamil... It is a rough draft for one that you described. Took all of about 10 minutes for me to design for you. Anyone else is welcome to do with it as they please as well.
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Post by radoslawkamil on Jan 29, 2017 10:42:38 GMT -9
whisper31 thanks it is almost right. I make small flaps in 'walls' sides to glue them with no gaps. 10 min lol. I make it with hands in same time but on computer it will take my forever coz I have no idea how to use any designing program. It now just need texture like grass or stone, gray etc. and calculate how many of them can be put on A4 format paper for printing.
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Post by whisper31 on Jan 29, 2017 10:48:13 GMT -9
whisper31 thanks it is almost right. I make small flaps in 'walls' sides to glue them with no gaps. 10 min lol. I make it with hands in same time but on computer it will take my forever coz I have no idea how to use any designing program. It now just need texture like grass or stone, gray etc. and calculate how many of them can be put on A4 format paper for printing. Give me a few minutes and I think I can fix the gap problem. They might be a little small and difficult to work with, but there will be no gaps. For the textures: Click on Downloads at the top, at the next page choose bases, then at that page on the left hand side you will find links to a whole bunch of overlays that can be used to fill in the areas you want to.
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Post by whisper31 on Jan 29, 2017 10:53:42 GMT -9
Okay. Try this one on for size:
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Post by radoslawkamil on Jan 29, 2017 16:20:19 GMT -9
I do my best. www.dropbox.com/s/ns31zs5b4cann26/25mm_Oct3d.pdf?dl=0 I use program inscape, textures are from this program. Have no idea how to put my own textures. Maybe that option is for commercial product. Incscape is free. I will try print this tommorow and test build.
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Post by whisper31 on Jan 29, 2017 21:04:42 GMT -9
I do my best. www.dropbox.com/s/ns31zs5b4cann26/25mm_Oct3d.pdf?dl=0 I use program inscape, textures are from this program. Have no idea how to put my own textures. Maybe that option is for commercial product. Incscape is free. I will try print this tommorow and test build. I find that GIMP is a lot easier to use than Inkscape and it is free as well. You might give that a try. The way I add textures in gimp is to just open the texture/overlay that I want to use and copy it to the clipboard and then just use the fill tool to fill in the areas that I want to add texture to. Hope that helps you.
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Post by radoslawkamil on Jan 30, 2017 2:03:57 GMT -9
Scare of Gimp lol. I see what people do there. I cant even make simple hexagonal base. I will give a try the one I post and if they work I will think something about other texture. In one page A4 I put 16 bases, so they can be use for all kind of game with every 28mm minis, easy for storage. That my goal was.
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Post by radoslawkamil on Jan 30, 2017 5:08:40 GMT -9
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Post by radoslawkamil on Jan 30, 2017 9:25:04 GMT -9
I make MiP Samurai and base I make same way I make octagonal ones, and it hit my: wy oh wy I make hard octagonal base if is so much simple to make square lol.
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Post by greypilgrim on Feb 5, 2017 12:03:27 GMT -9
Thank you, radoslawkamil and whisper31, for the discussion. Those octagonal bases turned out nice and I'll use them at some point. radoslawkamil: I use GIMP in the low level efforts which I work at - basically just kitbashing. My method is that I'll import the desired replacement texture to the base level, then import the form onto an overlay. Then I go through and erase (or 'X'-out) the space between the lines of the original, and *voila!*, I have a new paint. I'm sure you more experienced fellows have other - probably far easier and quicker - methods... but this is where I am at with my current skills. [Further help and tutorials are always welcome - hint, hint! ]
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Post by radoslawkamil on Feb 5, 2017 12:39:28 GMT -9
I am very new on computer design, always think it is to hard to learn. I try 3D design on some programs, finish few tutorial with nice effects but I have absolutely no talent with drawing or painting on whatever artistic talents can be, I just dont have them lol. Useing premodels and tutorials is very long way to make anything. I always use old school hand drawind and scratch build metods but all my ever made projects are long burn in a very literal meaning( I put everything I ever done in fireplace many years ago and give up on makeing models). I recently come back to hobby and start big, then go slow. My first papercraft model I made after many years was cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/CNT-0011922/index.html . When I was kid there was no computers and printers, I buy very hard to make paper models magazines that was avaliable at the time. Never was really good at it, dont have any tutorials or hints. Everything have to be learn on mistakes. Hard times Now I am focus on free and easy papermodels that with not much efford give good effects. 3D bases was my first hand scratchbuild now and thanks to whisper31 they come to life:D
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Post by greypilgrim on Feb 5, 2017 13:51:36 GMT -9
Oh, I hear you - I have a hard time just drawing a line sometimes - LOL.
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Post by Cardstock Dane on Feb 7, 2017 0:06:05 GMT -9
I love it! I just wish I thought of it myself.
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Post by whisper31 on Feb 7, 2017 3:44:15 GMT -9
I love it! I just wish I thought of it myself. I never even considered something like that until radoslawkamil (sp?) said something, and then I had it pictured in my head in no time and got it done on gimp in about 10 minutes and the correction only took a couple of minutes more. I'm not a great creative thinker, but if someone gives me and idea, I can usually make it work.
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Post by radoslawkamil on Feb 7, 2017 5:39:54 GMT -9
I love it! I just wish I thought of it myself. I never even considered something like that until radoslawkamil (sp?) said something, and then I had it pictured in my head in no time and got it done on gimp in about 10 minutes and the correction only took a couple of minutes more. I'm not a great creative thinker, but if someone gives me and idea, I can usually make it work. I will remember that. I use to have a lot of ideas but cant make them come to life. I start learning inkscape and gimp but gimp is to hard for my now.
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Post by Cardstock Dane on Feb 7, 2017 9:59:43 GMT -9
I love it! I just wish I thought of it myself. I never even considered something like that until radoslawkamil (sp?) said something, and then I had it pictured in my head in no time and got it done on gimp in about 10 minutes and the correction only took a couple of minutes more. I'm not a great creative thinker, but if someone gives me and idea, I can usually make it work. Oh, I'm not that creative, either, but I can think in constructions. Makes me want to dust off an old idea of mine: The 3D paper tile. Here's a prototype I made (that's why it still has white edges):
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Post by whisper31 on Feb 7, 2017 11:59:08 GMT -9
World Works Games has something similar to what you have done, but they have the ability to "stick" their tiles together by tabs inserted into the sides of them. I'm not advocating plagarism or anything like that, but if you can find someone who has a set to show you (or purchase one of your own), you can see the similarities that both have.
BTW. Your set looks pretty good as well and it actually might be easier to assemble than WWG's stuff, but it won't hold together as well without some type of connectors.
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Post by radoslawkamil on Feb 7, 2017 11:59:25 GMT -9
Those 3d tiles look like onemonk trays that can be uses in that way.
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Post by Cardstock Dane on Feb 7, 2017 23:49:51 GMT -9
World Works Games has something similar to what you have done, but they have the ability to "stick" their tiles together by tabs inserted into the sides of them. Not sure which set you mean, and their webpage is down, for a change. Do you remember the name of the set? Your set looks pretty good as well and it actually might be easier to assemble than WWG's stuff, but it won't hold together as well without some type of connectors. Thanks, it's still a WIP, and I am pondering some kind of tab system. However, my system works without foam board, so I have to come up with something clever.
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Post by whisper31 on Feb 8, 2017 3:32:48 GMT -9
World Works Games has something similar to what you have done, but they have the ability to "stick" their tiles together by tabs inserted into the sides of them. Not sure which set you mean, and their webpage is down, for a change. Do you remember the name of the set? Your set looks pretty good as well and it actually might be easier to assemble than WWG's stuff, but it won't hold together as well without some type of connectors. Thanks, it's still a WIP, and I am pondering some kind of tab system. However, my system works without foam board, so I have to come up with something clever. Any of the sets that use the TerrainLinx system will have what you need. I don't know if they are selling through OBS or WarGameVault or DriveThruRPG, or elsewhere. They pop back online from time to time and if you happen to catch them open, you have to grab what you can while they are there.
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Post by Cardstock Dane on Feb 8, 2017 4:05:25 GMT -9
Ok, now you got me confused. I'm pretty sure that none of the TLX tiles has walls - but maybe you can tell me I'm wrong?
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Post by oldschooldm on Feb 8, 2017 8:05:59 GMT -9
Ok, now you got me confused. I'm pretty sure that none of the TLX tiles has walls - but maybe you can tell me I'm wrong? WWG TLX is a system of ground tiles (with glued-on adapters), walls (that connect to the tile adapters and the other walls via tongue-and-groove), and roofs. There are also exterior sets that use the same system, but the "walls" are trees and such. I detest the glued in adapters for many reasons - so I've been making various non-post and non-adapter versions, reusing the excellent textures for my own sets. Now everything store perfectly flat and requires MUCH less work to build.
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Post by whisper31 on Feb 8, 2017 9:23:07 GMT -9
Ok, now you got me confused. I'm pretty sure that none of the TLX tiles has walls - but maybe you can tell me I'm wrong? WWG TLX is a system of ground tiles (with glued-on adapters), walls (that connect to the tile adapters and the other walls via tongue-and-groove), and roofs. There are also exterior sets that use the same system, but the "walls" are trees and such. I detest the glued in adapters for many reasons - so I've been making various non-post and non-adapter versions, reusing the excellent textures for my own sets. Now everything store perfectly flat and requires MUCH less work to build. I have to agree with you about the glued on anchors for holding the posts to hold the walls. Royal PITA... But I haven't really found anything else that will let me do the kinds of structures that I want to make without some major kitbashing. I'm still looking though and I think I am going to try something else for my multi-level zombie manor when I finish the TLX Shellendrak Manor. Cardstock Dane: Many apologies for confusing you. I was speaking strictly about the ground tiles and not the walls. My goof.
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Post by Cardstock Dane on Feb 8, 2017 15:48:12 GMT -9
WWG TLX is a system of ground tiles (with glued-on adapters), walls (that connect to the tile adapters and the other walls via tongue-and-groove), and roofs. There are also exterior sets that use the same system, but the "walls" are trees and such. I detest the glued in adapters for many reasons - so I've been making various non-post and non-adapter versions, reusing the excellent textures for my own sets. Now everything store perfectly flat and requires MUCH less work to build. I have to agree with you about the glued on anchors for holding the posts to hold the walls. Royal PITA... But I haven't really found anything else that will let me do the kinds of structures that I want to make without some major kitbashing. I'm still looking though and I think I am going to try something else for my multi-level zombie manor when I finish the TLX Shellendrak Manor. Cardstock Dane: Many apologies for confusing you. I was speaking strictly about the ground tiles and not the walls. My goof. I know what TLX is, guys. I bought most of the WWG sets ages ago. Cardstock Dane: Many apologies for confusing you. I was speaking strictly about the ground tiles and not the walls. My goof. Ok, but then I don't understand what you meant when you said that WWG was already making something like these. Hence my confusion. I've been researching my six off, and I haven't been able to find anyone that makes exactly the same.
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