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Post by hackbarth on Jan 18, 2016 11:22:50 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Jan 18, 2016 10:46:30 GMT -9
I bought a hundred of 10mmx2mm rare earth magnets from here: Magnets on Deal ExtremeI still have maybe half of them. There's even smaller than that.
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Post by hackbarth on Jan 18, 2016 4:14:30 GMT -9
Wow, that was something I never dreamed doing with paper models. Mainly because I choose papermodels because of my total incompetence in painting metal/plastic miniatures.
The Jotun and the Kirchner makes a very good pair.
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Post by hackbarth on Jan 18, 2016 3:50:45 GMT -9
Take a look as this new, paper based, 3D printer:
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 16, 2015 3:50:21 GMT -9
Some Bajoran, old Federation and Andorian ships: The Midas Array, a research station: A mining ship:
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 16, 2015 3:24:30 GMT -9
I like it, but I'll wait for the back view version.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 10, 2015 3:27:17 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 4, 2015 10:27:17 GMT -9
Thank you. My goal as Chris mentioned is creating a library of elements that can easily be placed onto a model template. I think my issue may be what Chris refers to as 'an opaque background layer'. I can get transparent areas that I move images into so that I can further clean up edges and manipulate the textures, but when I export or save the file, I've got the white background again. When I was doing nose-art, I found a couple images on the internet, that I think were jpg's that are transparent for the surrounding area. That's what I'm wanting to do with my 'library'. I'll have to see more about saving/exporting files with transparent backgrounds JPG doesn't have transparency. You need to export anything that you work with transparency as PNGs. File > Export to Choose PNG or simply rename the file.jpg to file.png Done. The PNG file should open with the transparent background, heck, even the icon of the file should appear as transparent.
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 4, 2015 10:04:00 GMT -9
The Hackbarth Tutorial for transparency: So you have a piece of terrain or other image you want to modify, say, put a door on this D&D 3D folio tavern: But, alas, the door has this horrendous white background around it! Don't fret! Select the white background with the Magic Wand tool! But the Magic Wand isn't sufficient! you need just a little more of selection, so you go to Select > Grow and ask to Grow Selection by one or more pixels! Now you selected ALL the white background a and a little bit of the piece you want to glue. Good, that will make a smooth transition. Now Go to Layer > Transparency > Color to Alpha and select the color of the background to make it transparent! Now you have a texture that you can seamlessly glue over any other:
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Post by hackbarth on Dec 4, 2015 9:53:55 GMT -9
Yes, Gimp will save as a png. But my question is how do I set a background (all the white) as transparent? I would think that this should be super easy. Use the fuzzy select, click on the white surround, then do some magical incantation to set it as transparent, but I don't know what the incantation is. Maybe if I just saved the Gimp file without turning it into a jpg, png or pdf to save it... The Incantation is: Layer > Tranparency > Color to Alpha Select the color to be made transparent Done.
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 27, 2015 9:46:25 GMT -9
I have one, it's nothing to write home about. The drawing of stones is nice, old school, and the pieces are a little on the small side.
When it came out it should've been awesome, today billian bauble has even more amazing old school textures.
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 21, 2015 18:06:24 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 17, 2015 16:20:59 GMT -9
About the magnets for the hardpoints, they are inside: The Cobra has five, the Sidewider, three.
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 17, 2015 8:02:17 GMT -9
THANK YOU!
I printed the Cobra on three pages to scale with the two pages Sidewinder. I see now that that isn't enough. It is twice as big and I got one and a half at most.
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 15, 2015 16:30:19 GMT -9
I resized the Sidewinders, that are a one page model, to two pages, so they look alright to 28mm miniatures. Sharpie for scale. There are magnets on the hardpoints to mount weapons, that I'll build yet, from Mel Ebbles components. P.S. All these light gray ships with red and black stripes make a nice unified look for a fleet.
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 15, 2015 16:02:32 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 14, 2015 17:57:16 GMT -9
Already began building them:
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 14, 2015 13:05:25 GMT -9
Better photo:
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 13, 2015 10:23:57 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 12, 2015 6:48:41 GMT -9
Finished, better foto later.
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Post by hackbarth on Nov 9, 2015 18:07:36 GMT -9
My Deep Space Nine with the player characters ship docked in, the USS Nautilus. Unfinished.
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Post by hackbarth on Oct 25, 2015 18:31:21 GMT -9
You have to understand how image compression algorithms work. Or at least what they are doing. If the image is composed of few colors, have many areas with plain colors, without degrades and complex patterns, like A comic book, or like Okumarts figures, PNGs may be the better extension. If the figure has photo realistic patterns or smooth transitions and degrades, JPGs may be the better choice.
It may happen that someone saved a file that would be better as a PNG in JPG format, then the damage is done, saving in PNG wouldn't get the same compression after that.
Ad there a number of things you can do knowing how to do them. Like limiting the number of colors (less colors compress better in PNG), messing with the borders of the figure (smooth borders should compress better than starly defined ones_in JPG)
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Post by hackbarth on Oct 15, 2015 12:06:50 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Oct 7, 2015 12:23:39 GMT -9
I want these so bad! I have made the Groo character sheet on GURPS, and Arcadius was a pain in the ass for the players characters in my campaign.
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Post by hackbarth on Oct 3, 2015 15:00:32 GMT -9
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Post by hackbarth on Oct 2, 2015 5:06:12 GMT -9
That's a reasonable idea. Get a weekend of the year. Start by declaring a theme at 00:00 of Saturday, and each contestant declares when he starts and has to finish in 24 hours, with the final deadline being 24:00 of Sunday.
P.S. Reread yor post,@paperusher, it was so full of typos that it was hard to understand at first. Also next time DESCRIBE the topic in the topic title, never post in a forum with a general theme like "I have a suggestion", "can someone anwser my question?" "heres something you would like". Titles must be on the format of "Suggestion for a paper miniature contest" ou "24 hours miniature design competition" so that we can know what it is about without opening the thread.
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Post by hackbarth on Oct 1, 2015 3:40:10 GMT -9
For me front and back views are what defines a paper miniature, if it doesn't have them, it's just an illustration.
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Post by hackbarth on Sept 28, 2015 4:27:57 GMT -9
That's brilliant I've been using the specialist weapon reference JPEG but there's no shotguns, smg etc. also took the jet packs from the terra force heavy marines and used those. David.... The game uses generic names for weapons and is really clear that in the future weapons can be made to look like anything from a flintlock to a ray gun. Any of your existing weapons from dark fast swords to the modern weapons in spot of bother and the equipment from retro space will work really well. Oh, and a chainsaw E.g. One of the best weapon types is the katana, you've got lots of those in serene fist already, just need one that I can cut out and stick on a models back. Jet packs, bat wings, sucker/grapnel guns. Your stuff fits in really well with the dredd comic book style. I won't go as far as to ask for law enforcement types . I'm currently assembling the evil villain and his henchmen as a mobster gang I love the idea of then adding parts as the campaign goes. Theres a Chainsaw and Jet Packs on the Elite-marine-vector-parts.pdf, and a katana-like sword in TF-soldier-vector-parts.pdf.
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Post by hackbarth on Sept 26, 2015 17:28:28 GMT -9
I think there was a TIFF of One Monk Terra Force Weapons, recolored by Chris Roe. Someone could find a link? Edit: I have this file called TF-weapon-vector-parts.pdf. But I don't know where I downladed it. Ask squirmydad, maybe he has it.
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Post by hackbarth on Sept 26, 2015 17:25:31 GMT -9
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