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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 1, 2015 11:54:23 GMT
Hey everybody ! simple question that needs answering. i had walls for quite some times, but im thru with them. i need to redo most of them into more betterly built walls for my dungeon set. my cavern set is perfect, dmscotty nailed it with his sand in them cigars. but i really dont like the idea of sand weighted cardboard walls.
first because somehow the sand do not keep to it. and second because i want more detail to those walls then sand itself. i tryed the penny version where you just glue pennies under the walls. seems to me pennies have not the weight people think they have. wood could be an option but i dont have any at the moment.
so im searching to seee the other options here. my goal is... right now everyone kinda always move them with their minis, i want my walls to be more resilient to being moved.
so simple question, whats my options here ?
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Post by daveyjones on Jun 1, 2015 12:58:02 GMT
i have an old tin of BBs, for a BB gun. those are lead and i use them to weigh things down sometimes. alternatively you can get tiny balls of lead in the form of fishing lead that u pinch on to the line to balance floats.
also you could use an old inner tire from a bike or something to rubberise the undersides to make them slide less.
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Post by Draklith on Jun 1, 2015 15:56:44 GMT
I use washers to weigh down my pieces, sometimes nickels
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Post by teazia on Jun 2, 2015 3:35:12 GMT
Get more sleep, don't eat after 8 PM, get more regular exercise, oh wait, THAT kind of weight control.
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Post by Meph on Jun 7, 2015 17:23:07 GMT
I made my walls out of 2 pieces of floor laminate glued together. No additional weight needed.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 7, 2015 21:37:15 GMT
wood is definitely the option im going to take at this point. laminate floor... wouldn't that be too high a price ? i think i saw wooden poles for much less.
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Post by lordbryon on Jun 8, 2015 14:08:39 GMT
Laminate floor tile isn't expensive. It's about $1 per square foot tile at the home improvement stores (home depot, Lowes). I'm sure it's cheaper if you buy them by the box but I never need more than 1 or 2. I used it for the floors of my pre-2.5D dungeon tiles. I've also found, on rare occasions, a box of laminate flooring (12 tiles or so) at the Dollar Tree but I didn't care much for the designs available so didn't purchase it. Amazon sells 20 packs of the stuff for $13. 20 square feet would make for a pretty big dungeon. linkAlso with the available colors and textures you could get away with not even painting the stuff.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 8, 2015 22:41:14 GMT
my mothers floor definitely costed much more then 13$ a box. but i guess we dont need the more expensive ones.
thanks for the infos.
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Post by Meph on Jun 9, 2015 23:16:02 GMT
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Post by lordbryon on Jun 10, 2015 18:12:37 GMT
Those look great.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 11, 2015 2:38:54 GMT
well i preffer the foamcore brick pattern on my walls and as such i already redid the cardboard ones. they look awesome eve if not painted yet. so i would glue a wooden base to each of those cardboard walls. the goal is really just to add more weight to them. but i'll see how much it would cost me.
thanks for the idea and the showcase. much interesting.
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Post by Wyloch on Jun 15, 2015 22:07:23 GMT
Pennies provide plenty of weight, but are 3/4" diameter. However, rather than using them as a base, you could instead use them vertically - make a sandwich, with foam board on both sides of the penny. Total width will be 3/16" x 2 + 1/16" = 7/16" = close enough to 1/2". Strip of cardstock on the bottom for flatness.
However, the wall will be 3/4" tall, which might not be acceptable.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 16, 2015 2:23:35 GMT
well... when i built my first dice tower, the small one. i had put about 12 pennies under it... and to be honest i didn't feel any difference with or without them. thats why im not sold on pennies... then again it depends on the pennies me think... i'm talking canadian 1 cents here.
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Post by Wyloch on Jun 16, 2015 10:58:05 GMT
% change in weight for a dice tower is negligible. % change in weight for a 2.5Next wall is substantial.
Yes, could be, I'm talking American pennies.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 16, 2015 19:55:51 GMT
canadian penny = 2.35 g american (pre 1982) = 3.11 g american (post 1982) = 2.5 g
thinking the difference is barely noticeable... the real question is... how much weight does a wall need in order to be hard to knock over ? my 2.5D Next cavern walls (scotty method) is weighting much more then what pennies would add to it. thanks to the sand in it.
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