cornixt wrote:Of course, it's what some of us did in the times of overpriced Ebay copies and excess Warhammer/random models that I don't use much any more. I would probably have used cardboard standees if I didn't have the miniatures, and now there are a good selection of them on this site.
You say that as if that time has ended. It most certainly has not! I just paid just South of $200 for a copy of the game with ALL of the cardboard components that weren't in baggies (so the cards and the tiles) in ROUGH shape, even if all the plastics were in fine shape (twisted rather than cut from sprues, but in every case I've noticed so far, that resulted in stuff I need to cut away, not anything damaged on the figures…) The inside of the screen will always bear the marks of having been split. The outside looks okay. The box is beaten up. Despite being creased, I think I can restore the doors. And I'm painting some glue on the chipboard edges of the furniture to hopefully prevent it separating, even if it hasn't yet.On the whole, it's coming along well and the box and its contents will always have a story to tell.
Bought it because in addition to the minis needed for KK and RotWL, a significant number of custom quests seem to presume you have furniture from a 2nd box. As the contents of those expansions are just a second box worth of greens and a second and third's undead along with extremely cheap cardstock components you'd be better to MAKE than buy, that's the route I'm going with.
That leaves all the others. Best bet there is waiting until I have space and funds for a resin printer and the same route for the card and chipboard components.
As for cardboard standees, I love the ones for The Quest so much I'd actually like to put plastic decals on styrene, cut the shapes out of that, and then base the results. 2.5D minis, essentially, just made with artwork intended for paper.
cornixt wrote:I moved on from cardboard printouts for the board to having modular room tiles on MDF, with the ultimate idea being to also use them for D&D and other dungeon crawler games, but that has yet to happen years later. If I was to paste stuff onto a board then I would do it room by room so that the joins aren't in the middle of rooms.
I'd really prefer to base on MDF or birch craft ply, but I don't have the saw or laser in my studio apartment for cutting it. I was planning to borrow Black Magic Craft's two videos on cheap dungeon tiles. In one, he takes foam dinner plates and glues them to one side of foamcore. To the other side he went for a wood floor. To keep them from warping, he glued coffee stirrers to the outside. The problem with that design is that you have to subtract the exact thickness of the coffee stirrers from the tile size. If you don't, you can't fit the tiles together to make a HQ board, and … that's a feature you don't wanna give up.
I actually much more preferred his other cheap dungeon tiles made for his little girl. He used a 1.5 inch grid (I get 30mm, I even understand 33mm, but yikes on 38mm!) instead of foam dinner plates, he used craft EVA which took a texture nicely but was otherwise had a look I really appreciated. So my plan then was to run with that.
I think I'm not going to do it that way though. Vinyl floor tiles. Those are cheaper than foamcore and they cut with a utility knife easily. They're thin enough that if you can measure your cuts worth a damn, they'll fit together properly. You COULD just pick out tiles you liked as rooms and grid them as-is … but that's boring! You're boring for suggesting it!
Nah, I'd be just using them for structure, gluing stones to the top, paint, and glue something non-slip to the bottom. Should look pretty sweet when finished.
cornixt wrote:I've printed out a few FDM miniatures on my Ender3, and while they aren't fantastic-looking up close they do look pretty good from a distance when painted. If you want really good looking miniatures then you'd want to use a resin printer or buy something premade that is more recent.
Fat Dragon gets pretty good results out of their minis, but they're designed for FDM printing. You just need the right settings and a smaller nozzle (and to know how and why the smaller nozzle clogs so you can dial it in better not to…)
I _really_ don't have room for a FDM printer. I don't have room for a resin printer here and that's what I'd want to get anyway. For the cost of the expansions minis alone in resin, I could buy the printer to make my own.
It's been so long since I've played now I'm probably going to try to start back at The Trial. Even if I did one a week, that's 34 weeks before I need to figure out the others.
<InSpectreRetro> All hail Zargon!!! Morcar only has 1BP.
My current plan is EVA foam tiles on foam core, but … I'm starting to wonder if I might be wiser to pick up some of those vinyl floor tiles. They're incredibly cheap, very thin, very rigid for their thickness, and a lot tougher than foam core covered in layers of mod podge. The EVA foam top layer is important because you can just carve cracks and the like into that with a ballpoint pen and get good results.
