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Post by cabo on Jun 28, 2011 4:25:55 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 28, 2011 6:26:10 GMT -9
I was just going to post on that!!!
<--- Too old and slow, I guess
I don't think I could ever do these justice, but they are gorgeous.
I can't believe the detail
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Post by cabo on Jun 28, 2011 7:45:16 GMT -9
The 3D detail is truly awesome.... and quite intimidating... but I think the 2D figures are "doable" for mere mortals.
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 28, 2011 8:35:56 GMT -9
The mini autos will look good next to my collection of Dave Winfield's KoolWheelz.
Almost hidden at the bottom of the railroad models is a link to a page of very small scale trains. I just can't imagine tackling anything that small.
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Post by Tommygun on Jun 28, 2011 9:38:59 GMT -9
That's a great site.
Thanks for posting that.
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 28, 2011 10:05:04 GMT -9
I wish I knew the scale on the soldiers. I'd like to make a few closer to scale here, but not sure how much to reduce them
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Post by stevelortz on Jun 28, 2011 12:09:53 GMT -9
I wish I knew the scale on the soldiers. I'd like to make a few closer to scale here, but not sure how much to reduce them I printed out a couple of pages from the Syracuse game set. The figures are about 27mm from sole of foot to eye, which makes them a few mm smaller than One Monk's 30mm. They might go well as printed with Gwindol's (sp?) figures The figures are NOT laid out identically on the front side and the back side pages, so they can't just be glued back to back. Some care needs to be taken in lining up the front view and the back view while gluing. The hoplites don't have spears, which is a good thing with paper models. A broom straw or something sturdier can be glued in place instead of a long, skinny flimsy piece of cardstock. The figures can be easily adapted for One Monk style tabbed bases. I don't know if I'll do much with the infantry, etc., but I'm going to build a fleet with the triremes from the Syracuse set! Have fun! Steve |
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Post by stevelortz on Jun 28, 2011 12:19:10 GMT -9
The Agincourt figures are 47mm sole-to-eye, so they'd need to be printed out at about 64%. The heavy medieval cavalry in that set would make a welcome addition to Jim's Arthurian cavalry!
Have fun!
Steve
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Post by stevelortz on Jun 28, 2011 12:24:42 GMT -9
The Calenzano figures are about the same size as the Agincourt figures.
Have fun!
Steve
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 28, 2011 13:09:32 GMT -9
I was actually thinking more in terms of the 3d guys and his other models. You might like his tank and kubelwagon. I think the 'normal' castle is probably 1/35 and the 'mini' castle about 1/87, but not sure. Boats, Cars and Trains have scale listed. Soldiers, Architecture and Planes do not. www.zioprudenzio.it/fokker.html |
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Post by stevelortz on Jun 28, 2011 13:59:34 GMT -9
I do like the Carden Lloyd model, but I'm afraid it's a little bit too fiddly for my aged paper modelling skills.
The 3D figures are 90mm, so they'd need to be printed at about 33%. That would be MUCH too fiddly for my current abilities.
I printed out a page from the large castle model that had a doorway onto a wallwalk. The door was exactly 30 mm. The large castle is probably not too far out of scale... for a scale model... but it seems too small for a playing model like Fat Dragon produces.
I'm glad cabo posted these links!
Have fun!
Steve
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Post by druida on Jun 28, 2011 14:13:58 GMT -9
Very good contribuition!
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Post by Two foot Tom on Jun 30, 2011 3:20:49 GMT -9
really nice looking figs but can these not be printed to A4? I try to print them but it only prints a small section and comes out massive  oh yea and are the rules in english anywhere? perhaps we can tempt this chap to join the forums  |
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 30, 2011 4:14:13 GMT -9
email: prudenziati@libero.it
The rule sets I looked at weren't long. He might be willing to allow someone to translate in exchange for having them posted on his site.
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Post by Two foot Tom on Jun 30, 2011 4:22:13 GMT -9
cool, thanks man
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 30, 2011 5:12:34 GMT -9
Over at the papermodelers forum they are having a contest this summer building his various models. Part of this is that you have to donate to be part of the contest. His donations should have picked up this summer, but still he has not gotten on the forum or participated in reviewing build threads or anything. I'm thinking that he isn't much of a forum person or that he is not comfortable with his English or something.
If I were as good as he is at designing models, and I was featured at a forum, I have enough pride, that I'd want to be in there following what everyone is doing with MY models.
I just find his silence odd. I'm sure there is a reason
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Post by pblade on Jun 30, 2011 9:53:59 GMT -9
Great stuff.
I have no idea why, but when I download the files I get very odd, large sizes for the PDFs. (We're talking in the neighborhood of 4x.)
Anyone else run into this problem?
- Pb
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 30, 2011 10:42:59 GMT -9
same here, but I print them off 'fit to page' and don't have an issue
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Post by pblade on Jun 30, 2011 11:34:28 GMT -9
same here, but I print them off 'fit to page' and don't have an issue That works for me, too. It does make it more difficult to put the figures into actual scale, though. I suppose it'll just take a little more math while playing with the GIMP. - Pb |
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Post by hackbarth on Jun 30, 2011 12:08:38 GMT -9
Excelent figures, the Azincourt set goes nicely along with Jim's Arthurian Knights, and the Siracusan set meshes nicely with Jim's Amazons from MMIP!
Scale will be an issue, but Gimp should correct that nicely, and as a bonus I can put them in one-monk style (front and back in the same page with a good red folding line and with a nice, wide black border)
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 30, 2011 12:18:06 GMT -9
Some day I'll have to figure out how to do that ...
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Post by Reivaj on Jun 30, 2011 15:11:18 GMT -9
I downloaded the 3D soldiers and I building one of the french medieval
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Post by cabo on Jul 1, 2011 5:57:22 GMT -9
I downloaded the 3D soldiers and I building one of the french medieval What thickness of paper did you use? My experience is that standard card stock tends to de-laminate when you have very small tabs to fold. And one more question, How hard did you find the build? |
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Post by Parduz on Jul 1, 2011 6:14:33 GMT -9
My experience is that standard card stock tends to de-laminate when you have very small tabs to fold. It happened to me only when not pre-scoring the fold lines with a ball-point pen. Then i ceased to build anything that may have SMALL PIECES, not only small tabs  |
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 1, 2011 7:09:42 GMT -9
I've been using the backs of some ad slicks that are out of date for most of my projects. The paper is only about a quarter thicker than normal paper, but the ink used on the full-color ads is somewhat water-proof and adds a stiffness to the paper. Thick enough for moderately large builds, but thin enough for small builds. I'm going to miss it when it runs out.
I've done one of the 3d soldiers at this point. The one that he has his pic for the face. It wasn't too fiddly, but I only reduced it by half instead of 2/3. I wanted to have one under my belt before attempting one at 30mm scale. I will probably use regular paper on the 30mm version.
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Post by Reivaj on Jul 1, 2011 18:46:56 GMT -9
I printed it in a 80 grs standard paper but i glue (with glue stick) it in school cardboard (black). I think it should be about 110 grs. I didin´t feel it to hard to build, i feel harder to work with the 80 grs paper only. I was trying to build the helmet only with paper but finally i glue it in cardborard too. In other little models i use only paper for the very little parts, with bigger parts i glue double paper, bigger ones carboard and when i need raised or thicker i buid them with box carboard (like Mc Donald´s happy meal box). i have builded smaller things like Momir Farooq Star Wars starships and some planes that originaly was in a 1/33 scale and i reducted them to 1/72 becuase i live in a very little apartament. Reduced parts in a 55% are really hard to do . I will post photos of my French Soldier when i finish him |
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oh yea and are the rules in english anywhere? perhaps we can tempt this chap to join the forums 
