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Post by Vermin King on Feb 17, 2018 18:18:53 GMT -9
<== Sidetracked again When I took the photos of the Bugatti and Elder Thing in front of the Garrick Inn and Harvard House, I knew I needed another backdrop. And I started to mod the Ravensblight Starc Manor, and then I saw the Allers Familie-Journal archive and ran across the model 'en Villa' Since then I was looking for anything else that would fit better, alternating time with cleaning up the file and getting it enlarged. It's going to be either four or five pages, but looking rather Edwardian, and pretty good, too Here's where I am at so far -- It's not quite enlarged enough, but close enough for a photo prop. The doors are a little shy of 1.5 inches tall
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 17, 2018 20:26:32 GMT -9
I had hoped to have this done and printed tonight. Tried squeezing things on the page like one of those fifty year old Eastern European paper models, but it still has to go to a fifth page, so I am enlarging each part by 10%. So, it will be scale, but it isn't going to be done tonight, much less printed.
Once I enlarged parts, there were additional things that had to be fixed, but I'd like to have a nice villa on the back end of this, so the extra effort is worth it
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Feb 17, 2018 21:43:05 GMT -9
It's a little bit of awesomesauce you have going on there
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 18, 2018 5:33:49 GMT -9
Proboards long-running scripts is driving me up a wall this morning Kept having to recover the page, but seems okay now That extra 10% enlargement bounced it from being a five-pager to being a six-pager When I get back this afternoon, I am going to give it another look-through before printing. I really like how many different structures make this up, so it should build up fairly strong
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 18, 2018 10:04:49 GMT -9
And even before the second look, I knew I wasn't happy with the carriage porch, and after looking at it again, I have some ideas on how to fix it. Being in front, it needs to look good, and it doesn't meet the standards of the rest of the building. Also, it is way too small. The carriage entry is less than 6 feet across, and on Victorian houses that I am familiar with, the narrowest one I have seen had an eight-foot carriage opening. Usually around ten feet. So, I am going to expand that side of the base to twelve feet, which will leave the opening at roughly ten feet. Then from those dimensions, I'll fix parts M & N.
I could still get this printed and started this afternoon, I think
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 18, 2018 12:00:59 GMT -9
I had thought that I'd posted something about how when I work on vintage models, I often have to go back and undo a lot of work because you need a balance between vintage and clean, and sometimes your work goes against the overall aesthetic. I took the original part M, and enlarged it to the same size as the 'final' version posted above. Then I adjusted the lengths of the two ends for the new geometry. Since the 'M' ends were enlarged by 4/3, part 'N', the roof, had to be enlarged the same, but it couldn't be stretched and look right, so I copied the tile pattern and tacked on some extra rows of tiles
Back to cleaning up part 'M'. A little more delicately this time
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Post by Papercraft Warrior on Feb 18, 2018 12:29:17 GMT -9
Which scale will it be in the end? Is it suitable for "cheap paper assembly"?
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 18, 2018 13:07:22 GMT -9
Which scale will it be in the end? Is it suitable for "cheap paper assembly"? Comparing door size, it is roughly 25mm - 28mm. Five pages without the base. I'm going to use the base, especially now that I have gotten the carriage porch re-worked and mproteau (Paper Realms)'s tiles instead of dirt. Here's the new page three and base-
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 18, 2018 18:30:54 GMT -9
The second photo gives a better idea of the color palette. I'd say it looks promising. I wish I'd made the base a bit wider to allow the Bugatti to sit on the cobbles
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 18, 2018 19:17:25 GMT -9
It's looking very promising, I think Now, I need to have some discipline and walk away until tomorrow
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 19, 2018 4:00:04 GMT -9
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Post by Papercraft Warrior on Feb 19, 2018 4:52:28 GMT -9
The fake stairs turned out surprisingly good.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 19, 2018 5:52:58 GMT -9
I am quite pleased with it
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Post by yifferman on Feb 19, 2018 7:22:51 GMT -9
looks interesting to do , i try do one
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 19, 2018 7:34:38 GMT -9
Let me adjust the files before you do. I want to fix the Tower, add the lightning rod, and expand the base. I'm tempted to make a set of steps for the back, too.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Feb 19, 2018 7:50:32 GMT -9
This is probably a stupid question, but this is pre-WWII French?
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 19, 2018 8:28:20 GMT -9
Around here we would call it Queen Anne, though it would fit in with Eastern European, Western European and North American late 1800's to early 1900's
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Feb 19, 2018 9:50:04 GMT -9
Around here we would call it Queen Anne, though it would fit in with Eastern European, Western European and North American late 1800's to early 1900's Excellent. I suppose I will need to build one for the upcoming Eurpoean theater of operations Bolt Action campaign we are doing later this year
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 19, 2018 18:08:41 GMT -9
Let me adjust the files before you do. I want to fix the Tower, add the lightning rod, and expand the base. I'm tempted to make a set of steps for the back, too. Tower and lightning rod were no big thing. I also replaced the cobbles with standard medieval tile textures so that one can match it with the tile set, here-- www.rpgnow.com/product/221283/Tile-Set-2--City-Steets?src=newestThis meant retexturing the fold-over texturing on part M, the carriage porch. I'm somewhat bum-fuddled about the back porch. The vertical artistic steps need fixed. I am currently leaning on losing the porch entirely and replace it with steps. There is room on page 6 to expand the base to the front or back, but not really enough to do anything worthwhile if I divide the gained space between the two. And it desperately needs more room in front of the carriage porch. So, on the back, I have two choices. I can either replace the porch with steps, or redesign the back porch so that steps descend to the side of the porch. Any preferences?
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Post by yifferman on Feb 20, 2018 8:46:58 GMT -9
i thing redesing could be a good idea.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 20, 2018 9:20:53 GMT -9
I started on that. I changed the base to accommodate the new porch and steps. As you are looking at the back of the building, there will be one step going down to a landing, then two steps to the ground, perpendicular to the building. I am also going to have a cellar access door to the left of the porch. The time-consuming portion of this is that I am using the textures of the original building. Luckily there is quite a bit of space on page two, so when I delete the old porch and move things around a bit, there will be plenty of room. I might not have to reduce the size of the original drawing of the building that much.
I'm doing my new work on a new page, so that if it doesn't work right, I won't mess up my previous work.
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Post by yifferman on Feb 20, 2018 9:32:17 GMT -9
I started on that. I changed the base to accommodate the new porch and steps. As you are looking at the back of the building, there will be one step going down to a landing, then two steps to the ground, perpendicular to the building. I am also going to have a cellar access door to the left of the porch. The time-consuming portion of this is that I am using the textures of the original building. Luckily there is quite a bit of space on page two, so when I delete the old porch and move things around a bit, there will be plenty of room. I might not have to reduce the size of the original drawing of the building that much. I'm doing my new work on a new page, so that if it doesn't work right, I won't mess up my previous work. its a good idea.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 21, 2018 7:54:49 GMT -9
Sometimes, I am an idiot.
Made up the revised porch last night and printed off, but forgot to do the cellar access. Ach!
I like to work in png, then convert to pdf for printing, and for the last week, that isn't working for me. I used to be able to Overwrite the png file, then Export to... and change 'png' to pdf, and it would stay '2550 X 3300' pixels. Not any more. I don't know what I did, but quick and easy no longer works.
I worked on the cellar access during a webinar today and printed out the new page. Might get to work on it over lunch, but probably not until tonight
The cellar door is a mod of a barn door from another model by HCM (whoever that is) who also did this one. So it should look right. All other textures were pulled from the original 'en Villa'
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Post by yifferman on Feb 21, 2018 12:18:31 GMT -9
its sound to much work to do. good luck
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 21, 2018 15:07:53 GMT -9
Well, the lightning rod is too tall, but the back porch looks good. I'll adjust the files tonight and post
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 21, 2018 16:35:28 GMT -9
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Post by missileer on Feb 21, 2018 21:40:52 GMT -9
VK, Fantastic reconstruction! The original "architect" would really like your changes. Thanks much for the files. I am going to turn this into a furnished doll house for my next-in-line granddaughter. I only have to figure out how to open it up. I have until December; piece of cake, right? I only have to finish my other two projects first. I think I better have a Tullamore Dew and contemplate it some more!
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 22, 2018 5:27:26 GMT -9
It was a fun little project. The middle section doesn't lend itself to opening up well, unless you cut the rear wall just above the windows and turn it into a door panel. That part D helps make things solid, but it makes it awkward for turning into a doll house. Not insurmountable, though
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Post by cowboyleland on Feb 22, 2018 6:49:10 GMT -9
I think the back porch and basement entrance make the house look more "livable" rather than idealised. They also add some tactical and storytelling possibilities. All that because you wanted a background for your car!
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 22, 2018 6:59:51 GMT -9
LOL
Actually, it was a combination of things, but when I saw it, I knew it would fit
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