|
Post by alloydog on Nov 15, 2021 6:00:39 GMT -9
Simple, yes, but no, not "too simple". I like it. It has nice, well defined border lines between the different textures, which mean that it could scale down to 28 mm and still keep its detail. It also would be easy to print a couple of copies and chop one up to add a little bit more 3Dishness.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Nov 4, 2021 23:20:56 GMT -9
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 31, 2021 5:13:42 GMT -9
Now just image the hideously evil coach the pumpkin is turned into, which snarling rats as the horses and cockroaches as the coachmen...
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 31, 2021 4:27:44 GMT -9
Very neat! From my visits to France, beyond the big cities, they are good for practically any time from about 1800 to present day. More that just France as well A sleepy West German village for Soviet tanks to rumble through!
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Apr 28, 2021 8:13:00 GMT -9
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Apr 27, 2021 6:40:28 GMT -9
Wow! It lives! yes, still drawing. Day job has been super busy the last year. Working on some more Trollzine bits and bobs. I know the feeling - I haven't touched any hobby stuff for several months! Haven't even been back here in a while.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Jan 17, 2021 7:49:52 GMT -9
Wow! It lives!
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 19, 2020 19:42:58 GMT -9
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 11, 2020 21:00:33 GMT -9
I use GIMP and usually select the template A4 @ 300dpi. But I leave plenty of border space to allow for printers and Letter size paper.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 11, 2020 20:59:06 GMT -9
Little did we know it, but we were following "Little Wars" rules by H. G. Wells
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 11, 2020 8:48:16 GMT -9
Basically, the pixel is the point of reference. A pixel is a pixel.
DPI is Dots per inch. If you draw a straight, horizontal line 300 pixels long at 300dpi, it will be one inch long (25,4 mm)
Canvas size is the size of the image on the screen, usually in pixels. For example, you could create a new image 3000px wide by 1200px tall.
Now, if you were to print up that image, keeping the print resolution the same as the image's resolution, say 300dpi, then the Print size will be 25,4 cm x 10,1 cm (10" x 4")
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 10, 2020 23:08:46 GMT -9
I last played with "big" plastic soldiers when I was about 10-years old. My mate and I used to dig trenches in my back garden and put the soldiers in the trenches - they had to be in "realistic" positions, like shooting over the edge and so on. We would then stand behind our own trench and throw hard lumps of soil at the other's trench to knock over the soldiers. Naturally, there was losses. For years after, every now and then, my mum used to find a soldier or two when she did the gardening. As far as I remember, the last time she found anything was just before I left the UK - just over twenty years ago. Today, she posted this on Facebook and tagged me: It's an Airfix 1/32 nd scale Commando. ( Link to description) From the photo, it looks to be in pretty good nick for something that has been buried for over 40-years! The barrel of the Thompson has broken off, but that can either be repaired or just left as it is. I've asked her to post it over. If it is as good as it looks, I'm really temped to paint it up.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 9, 2020 23:02:33 GMT -9
I think it's brilliant! I only wish you'd done them a year ago
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 5, 2020 5:22:37 GMT -9
Cool. Actually, this one might be better: postimg.cc/gwCyMVSSShows Stalin, the space-cat in context.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 5, 2020 4:36:11 GMT -9
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 2, 2020 1:05:40 GMT -9
Now with Brazilian Portuguese - contributed by, I believe, a Cardboard Warrior!
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 2, 2020 1:03:20 GMT -9
March up Snowdon, with your woad on Never mind if you get rained or blowed on Never want a button sewed on Go it, Ancient Brits!
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 25, 2020 7:53:50 GMT -9
Maintenant en Français [][][]
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 25, 2020 5:23:57 GMT -9
I used the thin plastic sheets you use for overhead projectors. I printed the window crossbars and frames onto them and then inserted them between the foamcore and printed cardstock I used for my WorldWorks buildings. Laaaaadies and gentlemen! Girls and boys! We haaaaave a winner!
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 24, 2020 16:51:37 GMT -9
I have tried using clear plastic from food packaging and those thin document folders from time to time. But because I use fairly thick card for my building walls, the window "glass" has looked, to my eye, either too far in (fixed on the inside of the building) or too far outwards (fixed on the outside of the building). My next attempt will be to glue the clear plastic actually in the window cut-out itself.
Another alternative is to put a piece of clear sticky-tape over the "glazed" area, then fix the window frame over that. That makes the area where the glass would be shinier than the rest of the walls.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 24, 2020 10:38:31 GMT -9
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 24, 2020 10:32:23 GMT -9
Shortly after knocking up the "preview" house/ruin, I bought the BattleLands 15mm Normandy: 1944 Set A-Buildings set. For the first model, I scaled it up to 1/72 nd scale to match my Flames of War / Battlegroup models: I think it scaled up very well, with no noticeable loss of detail or fuzziness creeping in. Will soon start working on a Normandyesque village.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 23, 2020 20:06:46 GMT -9
Hey guys, what do you do while hobbying? Like for me while I cut my images off the cardstock and glue em together, I leave YouTube running with some info show on. I can't afford to watch it per se, but much of the info can be digested just by listening. Respect, dude! My kids are like that - they can play a game while having YouTube running at the same time. My Mrs can watch two tablets, the TV and have a phone conversation all at once! For me, I can just about handle the radio on while I'm doing something else, like when I'm making a model or working. Anything more and it's brain overload!
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 14, 2020 8:20:21 GMT -9
Sweet...
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 12, 2020 21:21:53 GMT -9
I call shenanigans... I've spent about 15 minutes googling this and can't come up with anything confirming it.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 12, 2020 6:08:57 GMT -9
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 11, 2020 23:29:43 GMT -9
They're really neat, I like them and the idea - most figure sets seem to be aimed role-playing games, where most poses aren't really suitable for massed armies. You end up either having to open up the files and copy/paste the few figures you want, or printing up a lot more sheets of paper than you really needed to.
One thing I would like to see, is more army sets where there figures are bunched together, like in a shield wall or pike block. Each block would have small variations, such as heads and angles of weapons and shields.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 10, 2020 23:42:28 GMT -9
Neat. Added to my "will buy at some point" list...
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 7, 2020 22:00:34 GMT -9
This is how I do it with GIMP: Use the free select tool, with "Feather edge" set to about 2 or 3, to select the figure. Don't "draw" freehand, rather click lots of times. Copy the selction. Set the background to black. Grow the selction by 10 to 15 px (depending on your preference) Delete the selction Paste the figure back onto the black area.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Sept 7, 2020 20:29:15 GMT -9
Wow! I really like them. I have a soft spot for Britons and Romans, since my home town is Camulodunum.
|
|