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Post by Vermin King on Oct 9, 2013 4:35:32 GMT -9
Space! The Final Decision-Maker. I think we all have that problem
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Post by Rhannon on Oct 9, 2013 5:53:32 GMT -9
... I think we all have that problem Wife. ... mmm ... my problem is the miniatures' painting. I have some eyes' problems ( views ) and I havem't so great skills with paints and brushes. And I havent so much free time. Now I have a home full of thousands metal and plastic miniatures, in different scales, different genres, by different manufacturers ... but they will remain forever anonymous. colored only in a metallic gray or in only one single color, that of production plastic. Sometimes I still buy pre-painted miniatures. But from years I absolutely prefer good paper minis.
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Post by zargon on Oct 19, 2013 10:18:20 GMT -9
Hello all, been a fan of cardboard toys almost all my life (had my first army of paper soldiers over 40 years ago so here's tellin ;-)I am looking to find/make soldiers from the 1700 to 1760 any ideas folks looking for poses side on marching and charging horse trotting and galloping perhaps casual poses for gun crews and command? Anyway great to be here among all you esteemed cardboardianites. Cheers
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Post by zargon on Oct 19, 2013 10:20:18 GMT -9
Hello all, been a fan of cardboard toys almost all my life (had my first army of paper soldiers over 40 years ago so here's tellin ;-)I am looking to find/make soldiers from the 1700 to 1760 any ideas folks looking for poses side on marching and charging horse trotting and galloping perhaps casual poses for gun crews and command? Anyway great to be here among all you esteemed cardboardianites. Cheers
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Post by Rhannon on Oct 19, 2013 10:49:30 GMT -9
Hello all, been a fan of cardboard toys almost all my life (had my first army of paper soldiers over 40 years ago so here's tellin ;-)I am looking to find/make soldiers from the 1700 to 1760 any ideas folks looking for poses side on marching and charging horse trotting and galloping perhaps casual poses for gun crews and command? Anyway great to be here among all you esteemed cardboardianites. Cheers Hi Zargon, first of all welcome on CWF. From 1770 to 1760 is a big period of time for military historic events. The Great Northern War, the Spanish Succession War, the Austrian Succession War, the Seven Years' War with the French and Indian War ... and many other. All lace wars' period in short. Are you interested in any particular war/period ? Ciao
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Post by zargon on Oct 20, 2013 8:04:33 GMT -9
Hi Rhannon, yes I know it encompasses a large period of time with a few changes to the uniforms and headgear I will want to do all of it eventually. My aim is to do something like "Not by Appointment" (google it) and you will se he has templates that can be coloured in (which can be fun for imagination armies) I would be looking for basic mannequins in a side and 3/4 position in different poses that is charging, marching, firing, loading etc. I would then build the uniform,headgear and other gear onto them. I do plan to do front and rear views for completion. I'm thinking of starting with classic Prussians of the Seven Years War infantry to start with . About six infantry poses plus 2 officer/flag types a drummer and an NCO. The actual troops will be in march attack poses for these first attempts. Cheers Jules
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Post by Rhannon on Oct 20, 2013 11:26:32 GMT -9
OK Jules, after nearly an hour of writing, translation (Italian, English, Russian), upload images to imageshack ... I lost my post. So here is the short answer. a Russian forum Papercraft section, "Steel and Lace", is also about this historical period ... there are many topics ( eg "Great Northern War", "Russian army in the Seven Years' War" ... ), some are very long, even more than 20 pages ... There are many ready paper figures' sets, good figures with front and back art imho, and many links to external references (historical information, pictures, images, shapes, uniforms' tables, templates ... ) perhaps among these posts and these links you may find some of what you are looking for. note: you have to translate these pages into English with google translator but many links do not work from the translated version. They work only on the original page. Some of these authors use, as a reference, black and white pages from Prince August site and other zinnfiguren producers, especially Germans. Usually these figures are reproduced with very dynamic poses. But now I can't find them. I'm sorry. If you're just looking or male mannequins ( human male shapes ) you could use those of Jim ( Onemonk ), here, in this forum. you could use those of Jim, here. Or ... are you looking for blank silhouette vectors? Ciao
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Post by x3d on Oct 21, 2013 2:19:37 GMT -9
Hello Zargon.. Osprey Publishing have always been great for reference material.. but expensive www.ospreypublishing.com/I do have some stuff for napoleonics.. heres a quick example.
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Post by pavaro on Oct 21, 2013 5:30:23 GMT -9
Zargon will you do famous polish regiments ? Here you have a page with figures from the Napoleonic period. Maybe something useful. I keep my fingers crossed. Tell me, at what scale will you do these figurines ?
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Post by zargon on Oct 21, 2013 9:45:08 GMT -9
Hi guys, thanks for all your help and am going through all the ideas and images you sent, you have all been very helpful, again thanks. I saw some figures in poses that I liked on scarecrow's section for Pulp Mars (the British soldiers charging which I would like to use for poses "is this ok to do?" I would render the images down to stick figures to get the basic pose and then start building the poses back up to the figures I want. As I said looking first at Prussians from SYW and using various sources but have "The Lace Wars" books by Fred and Lilian Funken as my main guide + I like their kind of art depiction of the period. I will work fairly large scale but most likely have the figures scaled to 1/35 scale "toy soldier size" finally (they of course can be any size ;-D thanks again and now to the first part will update soon. Cheers
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Post by pavaro on Oct 21, 2013 11:11:45 GMT -9
I will work fairly large scale but most likely have the figures scaled to 1/35 scale "toy soldier size" finally (they of course can be any size ;-D thanks again and now to the first part will update soon. Cheers Great, I welcome you in my scale. Also I do figurines in this scale. Okay similar. I understand that will be your figurines finally on this scale? Will it be only working space, and ultimately will be even smaller?
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Post by zargon on Oct 22, 2013 7:57:44 GMT -9
I think a larger scale that can be made smaller is a good idea and I will go with that. I also think I made a mistake on scale and think its 1/32 that is correct ;-)
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Post by frank on Oct 27, 2013 12:06:47 GMT -9
Hello to everyone. My name is Frank and I have discovered the great joy of working in paper. I hope to enjoy visiting this great forum with so many great artist and modellers for many ears to come. I have too many games and not enough players.
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Post by squirmydad on Oct 27, 2013 12:48:32 GMT -9
Welcome Frank!
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Post by cowboyleland on Oct 27, 2013 13:52:16 GMT -9
Hi Frank! You'll be surprised how popular that donkey is as an avatar!
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Post by squirmydad on Oct 27, 2013 18:26:24 GMT -9
I made the donkey the default avatar for the forum.
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Post by endial on Oct 27, 2013 18:32:03 GMT -9
Hello everyone, I'm Endial and I have to say I discovered this site while looking for some stuff for an upcoming D&D game. I have never had any interest in Papercraft before but in the last week I have spent close to $100 setting myself up for this new and exciting hobby. I already made some Dungeon walls that I got from Fat Dragon Games and am currently researching tips on how to make my cuts better. (Wish I had a machine to do all the cutting for me) I look forward to viewing and sharing many projects in the future. Also as a quick side note, The Imperfect series is what got me to stay
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Post by WackyAnne on Oct 27, 2013 20:46:13 GMT -9
Welcome endial! Your story is similar to mine. I discovered the hobby this spring through Fat Dragon's Dungeons of the Mountain King Kickstarter (a much more reasonable terrain option than concurrent campaign Dwarven Forge, particularly for a Canadian). It was a post of Dryw's Imperfect People in the Fat Dragon forums that led me to the Cardboard Warriors, and unleashed a paper craft... addiction is probably the best way to describe it I'm certain I've spent many times over what I would have on Dwarven Forge and other solid options, but with greater conveniance, variety, flexibility, and artist contact (and infinitely smaller storage requirements) it's far more bang for your buck. Oh, would you look at that. I actually half-introduced myself in the thread that old squirmydad started because of me I better finish the job...
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Post by WackyAnne on Oct 27, 2013 21:20:51 GMT -9
Hello, all! If you have either very recently arrived, or recently returned to the Cardboard Warriors you may need/want an introduction to me. Otherwise, you may need/want a break from me I'm "returning" tabletop gamer, in the sense that I was introduced to the hobby as a kid (btw 8-11yo), and am only getting back into it this past year, almost 30 years later. In the meantime I've been an active computer gamer (RPG, MMORPG, FPS, RTS), sci-fi and fantasy reader, movie & film appreciator, and other unrelated hobbies. I played AD&D as a kid, somehow surviving Ravenloft IIRC (though probably only because my DM was easy on me), and another module I don't recall. I had a great time, great memories, but for some reason didn't run into an opportunity to play it again, until recently. Over the last few years I've had less time and inclination for computer games, less focus for books, and more craving for personal interaction*. That led to a discussion over a boardgame last New Years, where a friend and I discussed a mutual desire to get back into D&D. Originally the plan developed that he'd DM us through D&D 4E, but as I did more research I decided I'd try alternating GMing us through Pathfinder. Things haven't quite gone as planned, our gaming group's barely gotten off the ground, but I've been able to play a few sessions of Pathfinder elsewhere, and GM my son and my husband through some Pathfinder Beginner Box fun. I've got a little adventure planned for our group this week though, fingers crossed I discovered the hobby of gaming papercraft through Fat Dragon's Kickstarter, paper minis & the Cardboard Warriors through Dryw's post in FD's forums, and now I have an extensive collection of paper minis, terrain, and map-tiles/battlemaps. Collecting and assembling it has become a satisfying and creative hobby all its own, and I've even started doodling my own stuff. Inspired by the work here, the Beginner Box and other kid-friendly RPG stuff, and the experiences I share with my two boys, I am beginning to design my own game(s) called Picnic Adventures! for kids. I began blogging about all this (at Dungeon Mama's Beginning Gaming), but that's currently in stasis while I plan & organize things more. * The reason for less time/inclination/focus above? I went back to school to do a double first-class honours degree in Anthropology & Spanish, and followed that up a few years later with a run at a masters in Archaeology (currently on hold). And that's all while being a mother of two wonderful boys (7.5yo and 3.75yo). This year I'm taking a break from school to deal with family matters; it also gives me a chance to muck about a bit more with this hobby.
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Post by pavaro on Oct 27, 2013 22:24:13 GMT -9
We are growing in strength! Muaha
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Post by cowboyleland on Oct 28, 2013 3:47:53 GMT -9
I made the donkey the default avatar for the forum. Now I am especially grateful for the work you put into fixing mine.
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Post by squirmydad on Oct 28, 2013 6:47:32 GMT -9
I made the donkey the default avatar for the forum. Now I am especially grateful for the work you put into fixing mine. Ask and ye shall receive.
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Post by endial on Oct 28, 2013 8:49:49 GMT -9
Funny you should mention that because as I was looking at the Gallery over at Fat Dragon I found one where a lot of Imperfect People were used Here. This caused me to look for the imperfect People. Finding this site was something like a dream come true for me.
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Post by WackyAnne on Oct 28, 2013 15:25:46 GMT -9
Funny you should mention that because as I was looking at the Gallery over at Fat Dragon I found one where a lot of Imperfect People were used Here. This caused me to look for the imperfect People. Finding this site was something like a dream come true for me. Wow, that scene is truly incredible work, @dryw, I don't think I've seen these pictures before. One day, perhaps, we'll get to see that boat yours? After all the other goodies you have planned for the castle, of course. Thanks for the link, endial! I think it was Billiam Babble & Dryw's Inked Adventures/Imperfect Tavern collaboration that drew me over here. I love both their stuff, and it works so well together. So different from Fat Dragon's but it's nice to switch up papercraft flavours to correspond to a different feel of adventure or campaign, so there's place for both in my harddrive, and dozens of other publishers too And welcome to Frank & Zargon! Sorry to have missed you the first time...
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Post by oldschooldm on Oct 29, 2013 10:55:24 GMT -9
Hey gang. I'm going to leak a little bit of my RL identity here (where I'm known as OldSchoolDM, Master of the Cutfiles). I've been into role playing a very long time, and can lay claim to something pretty amazing - if you want to know what that is, please check out the latest episode of my podcast: socialmediaclarity.tumblr.com/post/65379462484/origin-of-avatars-mmos-and-freemium-anCan you guess which of the speakers I am? It's not really a secret, but I don't want people to treat me any different here, so I don't advertise who I am - because it has nothing to do with papercrafting. If you need the answer, I'd suggest visiting my screenname's vanity URL.
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Post by endial on Oct 29, 2013 12:38:40 GMT -9
Not changing my opinion of you at all oldschooldm I find it very interesting. Thank you for sharing
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Post by wisdomknight on Nov 4, 2013 5:59:58 GMT -9
Hello everyone, My name is Joseph. I am an artist myself and have sculpted digital minis which I had 3d printed. I'm very interested also in designing some paper miniatures, and this sure seems like the place to get tips and contribute even. I'd love to put in some requests for One Monk to design as well
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Post by cowboyleland on Nov 4, 2013 20:59:11 GMT -9
Welcome aboard!
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Post by endial on Nov 5, 2013 10:44:41 GMT -9
Welcome to the party Glad to see another new guy
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Post by wisdomknight on Nov 5, 2013 10:58:02 GMT -9
Thanks cowboyleland and endial!
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