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Post by rattokan on Mar 15, 2017 10:51:03 GMT -9
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Post by rattokan on Mar 9, 2017 9:33:37 GMT -9
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Post by rattokan on Jan 23, 2017 1:29:59 GMT -9
I also got an Ecotank two months ago and I am very satisfied with the result after I had a custom icc profile made for my two favorite cheap cardstock brands
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Post by rattokan on Dec 20, 2016 13:24:05 GMT -9
argh, that on-off game is really annyoing. just bought Hellworks: Requiem at paizo for twice the price two days ago :/
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Post by rattokan on Dec 16, 2016 13:27:30 GMT -9
Thnx a lot for your replies so far!
I do share a lot of the opinions that have come up. I also heard a lot about this trial, error and frustration thing about 3d printers when I talk to coworkers who are into building copters and drones.
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Post by rattokan on Dec 15, 2016 13:24:11 GMT -9
Hi there! I joined the papercraft community 3 years ago and found that it is a very interesting hobby and I improved my RPG experience with a lot of cool stuff Now it seems that a lot of people a jumping on the 3D-Printing train (i.e. Fatdragon) and I have the impression that people (casual gamers in my groups) are thinking of this as being the future. I would just like to hear your opinion on that? Are a lot of you guys thinking about switching in the future? Or doing both? looking forward to the discussion cheers, rattokan
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Post by rattokan on Dec 22, 2015 14:23:46 GMT -9
Thnx for all the information oldschooldm, sounds very cool! So basically you do not need a carrier anymore? I really consider getting one, when I find the cash Do you think putting foamcore in there using the deep blade would work? I mean just cutting through the top paper and maybe one or two mm into the foam? I think for TLX tiles it would be great to have some precutting done for increased precision so that i just have to cut through the foam later using the precut line as a guide... *justdreaming*
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Post by rattokan on Dec 22, 2015 3:18:15 GMT -9
So how is the whole carrier-sheet thing working with the Curio? The first thing I did when I got the Portrait was throwing away the mat that came with it as it was way to sticky and having only one slowed down the workflow a lot. With my homebrew sticky foils I can mount like 10 pages in advance and then let the machine run and do something else. Whenever a page is done (i can hear that from every room in the house i just go there and put in the next sheet. Does the setup time increase a lot with the Curio?
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Post by rattokan on Dec 1, 2015 2:11:42 GMT -9
Really looking forward to your first reports. I am concerned though that loading of a sheet will be much more complicated and using homebrew cutting mats (like mylar foil sprayed with post-it glue) might also not work. On the other hand it can load up to 5mm materials. Probably we could load foamcore and make ultraprecise pre-cuts (i.e. for WWG TLX) on it.
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Post by rattokan on Oct 21, 2015 6:10:12 GMT -9
My older model SD has been a workhorse, but I have been looking closely at the curio. The double-blade feature looks awesome, especially if the second "blade" is an embosser. For my models (printed on matt cardstock) should look awesome with an embossed score line (instead of the dashed-cut.) This would reduce the amount of edging required by at least half. I am a LAZY papercrafter after all... I'm saving up for the Curio. embossing for score lines is the way to go if the artwork allows the cutlines to be switched off. otherwise you still see a stupid line. I use an emboss pen but i usually forget about it. Last night i built the Elemental Shrine from MMP and only realized in the end that the lava would have looked much better with the embosser.
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Post by rattokan on Oct 19, 2015 0:39:47 GMT -9
I can only say that it works perfect for me. I love it! I think a lot of people have it...
btw.: anyone have any experience with the new silhouette curio?
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Post by rattokan on Mar 1, 2015 11:47:13 GMT -9
Some people have been playing around with tlx and magnets. I dont know how efficient that turned out to be. If you follow mproteau on his blog paperdungeon.blogspot.de/ you will see that it is not that easy to come up with an alternative. You'd be always welcome to present anything in that regard
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Post by rattokan on Feb 23, 2015 0:12:55 GMT -9
I played with the Demo but i finally liked Pepakura better because Ultimate Papercraft does not seem to be actively devloped that much.
FYI: I build in Sketchup, unfold in Pepakura and do Textures in PS. So I have no issue with low-res textures in the standard Pepakura version.
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Post by rattokan on Feb 17, 2015 0:26:29 GMT -9
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Post by rattokan on Jan 26, 2015 13:21:36 GMT -9
I definitely do not want to use cardstock or "normal paper" anymore. The images are just not clean and crisp like with photopaper. Espescially stuff like detailed minis or stuff from worldworksgames. I think i am gonna try spraycoating the photopaper with something else like polyurethane varnish.
and... EPSON? never again. This company has lost all credit with me, not letting me SCAN anymore when the ink is empty
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Post by rattokan on Jan 21, 2015 13:55:10 GMT -9
I'm not from Germany, but your 'con' on the second type of paper makes me think you are using a laser printer. Is that correct? nope, inkjet When you scratch over that paper with your fingernail it is like the coating comes of as a chalk-ish dust :/ I tried to spray it with some varnish that the mrs uses for paintings but seems to make the colors look much less vibrant. but it does indeed help a bit. As the third one has an equally clean image, is way more expensive and doesnt have that problem at all, I guess it is the papers fault
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Post by rattokan on Jan 21, 2015 12:32:13 GMT -9
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Post by rattokan on Sept 30, 2014 5:09:42 GMT -9
Very good idea Parduz. I'm having the same experience with Silhouette support and the software. I have installed version 2 and 3 as portable apps so that I can switch back and forth. Like merging in artwork in version 3 (because 2 does it wrong) -> save as legacy -> open in version 2 and correct the cutting area (because 3 does it wrong). I just have no idea where to spread the word. I guess all the scrapbooking ladies around the web that use Silhouette don't care about that because they don't use regmarks and printed artwork.
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Post by rattokan on Sept 2, 2014 10:04:50 GMT -9
Bah, cutting mats Mylar stencil foils + 3M Creative Mount Spray is the 100% perfect solution (for me at least)
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Post by rattokan on Aug 25, 2014 0:57:51 GMT -9
Looks time consuming, but when you're finished you had 117 bases done, is that number correct? yea... if I hadn't screwed up any
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Post by rattokan on Aug 24, 2014 11:46:53 GMT -9
I use it for rpg only. These are for Dungeoncrawl Classics RPG where the players have up to 5 level 0 characters at the beginning. That's why I printed the numbers in different colors on it. Although it is not needed for that system I could just say that the front is where the number is read from.
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Post by rattokan on Aug 24, 2014 11:06:13 GMT -9
I've recently tried to come up with new ideas for papermini basings and would like to present a concept that I quite like. All basings I have done so far had some aspects I didnt like... I find paper-only bases too sloppy, they're not 100% flat and a bit too large for my liking. Foamcore bases have a better thickness but all variations I've seen so far have some shortcomings too: - I dont like to have edges without a texture. Especially foamcore looks ugly. - If you just cut a slit in the foamcore the top cardboard bends inwards which looks ugly - If you cut all the way through, the miniature tends to push the material outwards which makes the base bend on the long run (you can minimize this issue by cutting the base into and gluing it on another material though) Here's what I have come up with: Warning: this method is time consuming and only works with "precision tools" (I use foamwerks cutting system and a silhouette cutting machine) First I designed a template sheet which I printed on standard paper and glued it on foamcore with repositionable spray adhesive (post-it-like). This makes the template removable after cutting Next I started cutting diagonal doubled lines with the foamwerks set to the lowest possible depth. This enables me to peel of just the top cardboard from the foamboard quite a task to cut them all next the sqare bases had to be cut very precisly. It is very important to have a perfect 90 degree cut without any foamcore crumbling then peel off the template paper I created a template for my artwork which would then be cut using the cutting machine These tops then have to be glued very precisely with a glue that works well on the foam (i use tacky glue). Before inserting the mini, the slit has to be precut a little with an xacto knife Thats it... still needs edging though What do you think?
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Post by rattokan on Aug 4, 2014 4:44:29 GMT -9
do you have any idea when "later this year" will be? I am looking for as many beastmen as possible for DCC's "Sailors on the starless sea". I will definately get your new beastmen warband but the wolfman is a musthave
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Post by rattokan on Jul 4, 2014 2:38:59 GMT -9
probably you should just add the registration marks as a layer. that way we could save a lot work when distributing homebrew cutfiles.
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Post by rattokan on Jun 17, 2014 10:38:27 GMT -9
Here comes a first cutout of that nice fellow with proper basing it will to the job perfecly. thnx again cowboyleland!
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Post by rattokan on Jun 14, 2014 3:08:24 GMT -9
How about this? Nice! Thnx Gonna build it tonight and post a pic
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Post by rattokan on May 29, 2014 11:45:14 GMT -9
Does anybody know if a miniature of an owlbear skeleton has allready been made? Probably somethin like this...
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Post by rattokan on May 25, 2014 11:15:11 GMT -9
Please don't get me wrong, I didnt want to attack anyone. I love my Silhouette Portrait and I am greatfull that so many nice people provide cutfiles with their artwork or for somebody else's. I just read this statement in the EULA when I installed Studio 3 the first time and I started googling on that topic. I came to the conclusion that it was of the same sort of rip-off-nonargument as chipped ink cardridges that just want to "protect you cause evil 3rd party-ink would emidiately destroy your printer". So I just wanted to bring up that topic in case that nobody here had heard about it...
Edit: WTH? This forum is automatically changing/removing bad language from my post...
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Post by rattokan on May 23, 2014 12:35:23 GMT -9
I believe this is a clause to prevent people from competing with their online store as a marketplace for studio files. Yep, vendor lock-in... Yep, this is a reply to somebody who asked explicitly. I am pretty sure that the downloads here on the forum or from i.e. Fatdragon are perfectly ok. I am just not sure about, let's say zipping them up together with the pdf and putting them on rpgnow or drivethru (so far i have only seen gsd files with commercial downloads).
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Post by rattokan on May 23, 2014 10:45:17 GMT -9
I am talking about .studio file format and not the older .gsd file format (which does not have such limitations), just to make things clear People can make cut-files of original content and give them away with their for-sale products all they like. I doubt that. I would interpret the statement as: You are not allowed to sell .studio files except through the silhouette shop, but you are allowed to give them away for free. But giving them away for "free" with something else that you take money for, we do consider cheating and therefore we do not allow it. I do doubt that this one would be legally enforcable in any country except the US but thats what they basically say. I also disagree here. It is debatable what owenership means in that case but there are some facts that effectively mean just that: 1) only silhouette studio is able to create .studio files. 2) when you install silhouette studio you accept their EULA which contains these above mentioned restricitions (you can read it in the help menu if you missed it) 3) the EULA prohibits reverse-engineering the file format which means, there are no .studio files that can be created with other means. I am neither a lawyer nor a native english speaker but I am in the software business and I had two years of learning about software licenses (especially open source stuff) the hard way (including us lawyers). The whole thing has allready been discussed here www.card-making-downloads.com/forum/showthread.php?1858-Not-allowed-to-sell-silhouette-studio-files and it seems that a few people got take down notices from silhouette america. What I would do (just my 50cents): Keep selling your artwork on rpgnow or elsewhere and let somebody else post the .studio files at a place like this forum even if you made them yourself. Or stick with old software that creates gsd files.
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