Rake's Walls configurations?

[oldschooldm]

I'm building the pre-cut edition of Rake's Walls [The color laserprinting is awesome!)...

There are two sizes of buttress, flat topped colum/connectors, 6 and 3 inch walls, Open and closed Large double, standard double, and standard single doors.

I want to assemble it in segments so that I can do things like easily replace the Closed Large (barred, single piece) doors with open or knocked-down openable at play time. Likewise, I can imagine re-using these segments for different things...

How do I use the large buttress? The sample image I have only has the small buttress glued to the wall and to the flat-top column...

So - what configurations have you all found for all these parts? What's the most flexible? Most stable? How did you join segments at the table? I'm thinking of using the bobbybin approach favored by FDG walls of all types...

Photos would be a big help.

[oldschooldm]

Looking at the Low Walls set artwork, I see that the large buttress can be used, rotated 90-degrees for doorways. I think I'll try that.

Any other suggestions?

[oldschooldm]

I didn't wait. Used bobby-pins for maximum flexibility.

I really loved the print-quality and the paper. Here's a quick build I did with some stuff I printed using my R1800 and cardstock as a contrast.






There's a little crookedness in the pinning, but it's late and I didn't bother doing anything to make sure the base was flat to the lexan. In a play-build I would use weak double-sided tape or ez-tack or something.

All in all, the only thing I found I was wishing is that I had more pieces - I only had one 3" to spare. It'd be nice to have enough wall to actually close off a small neighborhood of a town instead of just a house or two.

On to my next build!

[noremorse]

I am happy see some pics popping up of the model's, looks good (Just to mention only the walls are what I produced in the pic).

It looks like you got about 5' of walls, when you include the gates etc. (it is worth mentioning that the set comes with open gates as well) When you say you wanted more pieces, was there enough buttresses and joining columns to cover all the walls? Or are you simply referring to wanting more length?

[oldschooldm]

There were butresses/columns to spare, even counting for those dedicated to the open doors not shown here.

Another sheet or two of 6' and 3' walls... I can always print my own, but the printing won't really match. It's OK though, I'm completely happy with what I got for the money!

BTW, what paper/printer/settings were used?

[noremorse]

BTW, what paper/printer/settings were used?

The paper was 110lb card stock. They were done at a local print shop so I don't know the exact settings, but it was done on a new model Xerox.

[oldschooldm]

The stock is a bit "shiner" than the 110lb I buy at office depot...

[noremorse]

I believe it is digital card stock, I am going to ask next time I go in, as I plan on ordering some in.