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Post by sotf on Mar 3, 2015 18:54:29 GMT
While not as cheap as straight cardboard, there are some rather easy to make options for tiles. Take a piece of cardboard the size of the tile you want, then you glue pastic canvas/granny grating to it, then you take cardstock, cut it out with a grid of squares that have a solid gap in all directions (Something akin to the plastic canvas look, but at a larger scale) and glue it ontop. Then you can use vertical pieces of cardboard for the walls around the edges with the corrugation up top hidden by hot glue. Give it a black base or priming coat, then drybrush metal. After that, shade the edges and use some dulled and extremely thinned down red for some rusty spots. The end result is something that looks a lot like deck plating. If you make some stairs and pillars, make some with out the cardboard layer, but another piece of cardstock done the same as the top piece (Matched up through the canvas) and you have a decent catwalk option. Thanks for the tip, I will defiantly use it.... Wish that I still had pictures for them, at one point I'd made a TON of them while running an Alien Vs. Predator campaign. I'd used wood for basing them rather than cardboard for it...those lasted until I moved and the box I had them in, along with the pile of minis I'd used with it, ended up soaked while the movers didn't bother to say anything about it when they packed it away. And since I was spending a good chunk of a year away from home, by the time I got back, the entire pile wasn't salvageable... Though for another tip, if you're doing a larger room or floor piece that you don't want to have grating, glue a piece of cardstock over the cardboard and you won't have the lines show through.
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Post by voduchyld on Mar 3, 2015 18:59:55 GMT
sounds pretty cool if your players will go for it. i have tons of ideas about sci fi style adventures but one of my players really dislikes sci-fi. i'm hoping his kid will become a huge fan of the new star wars movies and infect him but i do feel like the best adventures are the ones that are inspired by movies and books and games etc. that you are passionate about yourself. I agree, movies serve as a Huge Inspiration for me... I ran a sci-fi adventure a while ago that was based on two movies, Pandorum and Event Horizon. It's been one of the sessions i enjoyed the most to run in my 10 years of DMing. It was high with suspense and horror, so much that the players would be on their toes for the entirety of the session. The PCs woke up early from their cryo-sleep, in what seemed like an empty spaceship. They had been left alone and the ship seemed in a bad shape. As they explored, they were engaged by some sort of creature. They didn't get to see it properly (yet!) as it barged in, grabbed an NPC and took off with him. The more they found informations on what happened, the more they were scared. An entry in the captain's log stated that the ship had gone through a black hole and that the crew had started to act strangely, right after that. They discovered that after the trip through the black hole, it was not only people's minds that had changed, but their physiognomy too. They started to become more and more beastly, drinking blood, eating flesh and taking a demonic appearance. They also found out that the ship had got out of the black hole and was headed for the earth, with a couple thousand "demons" on board. So they opted for the only solution they could think of, at the moment... not to fight back, but to activate the auto-destruction sequence and wipe out the ship. Obviously, this is where this session ended. Fine with me, it was a one-shot for halloween. Needless to say, it was a... BLAST... hahaha
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Post by sotf on Mar 4, 2015 19:39:26 GMT
Another easy thing to do with scifi theming, rows of hot glue is easy to do as welds for deckplating.
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Post by daveyjones on Jun 22, 2015 4:57:22 GMT
ahh here it is took me a while to find this thread again, but i came across something kinda cool: Aliens vs Predator: The Hunt Beginsit is a boardgame / miniatures skirmish game and as you see it comes with miniatures from the aliens and predator franchises. it will come with these figures in 32mm scale: - 10 Infant Aliens - 5 Stalker Aliens - 3 Predators - 5 Colonial Marines kind of expensive at 75 sterling for 23 unpainted minis, but the detail looks amazing and this would be the only option for rpg sized aliens minis. with a little luck the game will be popular and lower cost expansion packs will be released that make more sense if you are buying just for the minis.
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Post by halloweenville on Jun 22, 2015 14:05:23 GMT
Must Have, Drools!
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Post by daveyjones on Jun 22, 2015 14:18:45 GMT
lol i thought you might like those...
i herd the designer say in an interview that the first print run will be resin figure and after that they want to switch to warhammer type plastic.
not sure what that means except that the plastic ones will come in quite a lot of parts per figure. the resin ones are 3 parts per figure.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Sept 11, 2015 18:26:20 GMT
While this guy's vids are in spanish (and the Translation Subtitle Option is sub-optimal), just mute it and watch carefully. And he does a TON of stuff: I personally would have used the plastic from disposable plates (it's easy to work with if your are careful)for my plates and mini-nails (link below) for the rivits. www.micromark.com/Mini-Nails-3and32-Inch-Long-x-020-Inch-Dia-Pkg-of-100,6561.html?sc=WGB&utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=GoogleBase&gclid=CP38g7vN78cCFVg6gQodDZkPpQ
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Post by sotf on Sept 11, 2015 19:17:06 GMT
One thing that I've noticed recently while working on other things is that if you take a thick cardstock and clear dry tacky glue over whatever you use for a base. Glue the cardstock down as you normally do, then take the tacky glue and use a cup to hold a bit (be careful there because it does dry if you have to much out of the container), then use a dowel or the back of an old brush to apply it over the seams. Run a finger over it as well, you want it somewhat uneven but keep it on and immediately around the join. Paint it up with "heavier" metallics like boltgun metal or similar, then bits of black brown and rusty red for thin streaks. And you get a pretty decent looking welded metal plates that work for flooring. If you have an embossing tool, you can add patterns in before gluing it down for some of the non-slip looks.
For a similar thing, use the cardstock and skip the tacky glue, but hit it with a matt spray then black bomb it before heavy brushing of lighter grays tends to leave a look like cement slabs, though if you use foam core (unfortunately for this, you are going to want the "better" foam core as the dollar store one comes apart to easily here), then you can gouge out bits and pieces for wear and tear or battle damage...
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