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Post by hackbarth on Jan 24, 2011 9:40:21 GMT -9
I think the most important thing is DON'T LET IP LAWS GET IN THE WAY!
Copy, Draw over pictures, Make an army from one mini. Field your army against your friends. As long you use them for personal uses that is ok.
Worry with IP if you market these minis. Everyone started copying. Even the big names. And is important to begin somewhere. If you like WH40K, make WH40K minis. Games Workshop lawyers won't get in your house and burn the minis (well, not yet...)
Many designers have lines of minis that are very loose with IPs. Didn't early GW minis where also "heavily inspired" by other works?
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Post by hackbarth on Jan 19, 2011 2:54:04 GMT -9
I use my wife's drawing board (she's a designer) to cut my minis. This photo is a bit old, since them I bought a cutting mat to replace the wooden sheet to protect the board, began to cut minis without the white border, edging them, and got one more daughter. Recortando minis by hackbarth, on Flickr
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Post by hackbarth on Jan 18, 2011 10:03:27 GMT -9
So, the werewolfes are next, right?
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Post by hackbarth on Jan 7, 2011 17:09:48 GMT -9
In Gimp you could do color to alpha three times, one for each color (R,G,B). That would let one the black lines.
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Post by hackbarth on Jan 3, 2011 2:49:22 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 30, 2010 3:48:29 GMT -9
I didn't understand if this release has the 3d airplane or not. You should clarify that, and maybe remake the release image.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 28, 2010 16:00:42 GMT -9
Feliz Natal, atrasado, e um próspero ano novo, do Brasil.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 28, 2010 14:49:46 GMT -9
Then, I also found the application you use to print the file can also have an effect! I use Linux on my PC. The default PDF application is called Evince. I found printing with this, the PDFs come out lighter than when opened and printed with Adobe reader. So for me, the best combination seems to be original HP and Adobe for PDFs and GIMP for other image files. True, but I found evince much better than the Adobe software. Adobe Reader prints so dark that the minis lose almost all detail. Evince and the GIMP print alright. And I thought that only I had this problem!
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 12, 2010 16:46:51 GMT -9
A tip Tommygun: your figure seems 'hanging' in the air. For paper miniatures, try to draw the feet without perspective, parallel to the ground. Look at some of the Jims minis to see what I'm trying to talk about.
Great bot, BTW.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 8, 2010 2:59:16 GMT -9
It's amazing. You took my pedestrian tips at coloring and delivered some minis that I would take some years trying to make. Those are fantastic.
Between your minis, Fat Dragon's Rio Draco and Ghost Girl's minis, you are forcing me to find a group to play a western RPG.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 7, 2010 5:08:51 GMT -9
I need to ask. What about that amazing Werewolf series that you showed us? We need more wolfies!
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 7, 2010 4:57:12 GMT -9
Yes, I hope the pics tell all the story. In any case the process is this:
Open the B&W image. Clone the layer. Select the portion you want coloured in the back layer with the magic wand. Grow selection 1 or 2 pixels. Fill selection with FG colour. Repeat.
The process is the same as colouring an old-style animation cell. You colour by the back of the transparent drawing. This way you don't worry much about bleeding the colour because the lines are in front of the colours and hide the bleeding. Of course the front layer has to be transparent. (if it is white, use Layer>Transparency>Colour to Alpha).
I hope this short explanation with the pics from the linked article are sufficient to solve your questions.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 3, 2010 10:30:31 GMT -9
As I hope any controversy is all behind us now (I see kiladecus original post as a call for more dressed minis, and not for less undressed minis, and I agree. We must have more options for female minis, that are already so rare.), I must ask about the work that revgunn choose not to post here.
I think it should be posted.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 3, 2010 10:14:34 GMT -9
Fill in the GIMP not in Inkscape. Here is a tutorial (in portuguese, sorry) showing how I color B&W figures in GIMP. I only do the tracing in Inkscape. www.roleplayer.com.br/2010/11/colorindo-miniaturas-de-papel/The basics: I clone the layer, then I select the area to be colored in the layer bellow. I grow the selection 1 to 2 pixels to include de border of the area. Then I fill with the desired color/gradient/texture.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 3, 2010 8:08:55 GMT -9
Yes, I "made" the backs.
I used GIMP, put two layers one with front other with back. Mirrored Vertically the backs and corrected proportions, inclination, and in some cases cut and pasted some parts (mostly the feet) to get the backs just right.
Would help if I explained in Portuguese?
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 1, 2010 2:51:37 GMT -9
I use the Down Them All plugin for Firefox (can't live without Firefox and his adblock plugin).
Can someone change the thread title to something more descriptive? "Super Heroes minis" or something? "Found these.." can apply to all the threads in this sub-forum.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 1, 2010 2:47:36 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 29, 2010 6:54:56 GMT -9
The German Disney comics had a section of papercrafts. Some old fans scanned them and published here: www.seite42.de/Many models. Castles (Nottighan, Cinderella's) Old West forts and cities, old cars, and even a Duckburg model, with Characters (with fronts and backs!): www.seite42.de/76_2e.htm
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 26, 2010 9:19:29 GMT -9
Good to see the progress of the project. I see that you used Spacedock Stencil in the military model. It has really added character to the piece.
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 25, 2010 3:21:14 GMT -9
Not very interesting, it is my last name. But for a interesting history, it seems to be derived from the word Halberd, or at least that is what some bogus genealogy website said about this name. My first name is Tiago, and that can also be derived from the latin word 'Didacus', Teacher. So I created the character of "Teacher Halberd", who teaches roleplayers to make paper minis in Brazilian blogs (where I call him Professor Alabarda): www.roleplayer.com.br/tag/miniaturas-de-papel/
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 24, 2010 10:57:34 GMT -9
This project is kind of old (I tried to make it for the Space Hoard). If I had Tommygun's astronauts at that time I wouldn't made those.
The Gloves! I knew there was something amiss here.
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 22, 2010 9:32:13 GMT -9
I needed some astronauts for a Transhuman Space Adventure (Orbital Decay if you want to know). Since I didn't find any in a semi realistic style, I made some moding the Terra Force Auxiliary. Terra Force Space Troops
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 22, 2010 8:18:01 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 22, 2010 3:56:07 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 5, 2010 11:02:36 GMT -9
Ouch! Very bad news for me. I live half a world distant from most paper-crafters, and while buying PDFs is easy and affordable, tangibles are costly and slow to ship here...
I hope he keeps his PDF catalog available, even if he doesn't release new models...
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Post by hackbarth on Sept 15, 2010 4:03:29 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Aug 18, 2010 11:09:14 GMT -9
A friend of mine uses it to cut 220g/m2 sandwiched with glue. I didn't get to try it yet but he says it is better that the straight x-acto exactly because of the round cuts it can make.
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Post by hackbarth on Aug 18, 2010 11:05:06 GMT -9
PM me your email address and I can send you the file. It is 1,1Mb jpg. There's also a hut at 260 Kb and some ancient animals of the ice age at 500 Kb. Nothing fancy, just a wolf, a moose, a boar, a mini-horse and a sabertooth.
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Post by hackbarth on Aug 18, 2010 10:40:20 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Aug 10, 2010 3:06:12 GMT -9
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