Buying resin or laser cut mdf terrain is beyond my meager budget. Building it myself (as Norm did) would have been stretching my modeling abilities and somewhat time consuming. So I looked around for a quick, cheap alternative.
Enter Dave Graffam Models and his excellent range of papercraft buildings and terrain. For the almost unbelievable price of 91p I bought his "Snipers Wall" set.
What you get from DGM is a pdf with "layers" allowing you to customize the look of the building templates before you print them out. The standard size is tailored for 28 to 30mm scale but a handy shrink to scale chart is proved. To get "N" scale (or 10mm) required that I print with a 66% reduction I.E. the templates were reduced down to 34% of their original size.
Having printed, cut out, then glued together the model I stuck it down (using doubled sided tape) to a double sized hex template and textured the base. All this took about four hours spread over two days to allow for glue drying.
Here is the finished result:
Oh - that looks nice. The scaling to 'N' scale is a brilliant idea. The colour is a perfect match for your 'winterisation' of your boards.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Norm, I agree. As soon as I saw the washed out grey brick effect layer on the pdf I knew it was going to fit right in. I must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed making this hex terrain, it has been a very rewarding experience.
DeleteMy intention in the coming months is to try and build up an urban environment using printed buildings. But first I'm going to get a few games in so I can rally some of the chaps from my gaming group to the TaM flag.