Paper Terrain?

[supervike]

Or \'cardstock\' modelling....

Any of you try it out?

There are plenty to choose from.

http://www.worldworksgames.com

http://www.ebblesminiatures.com/shop/index.php

It turns out to be mildly addicting, a smidge frustrating, and kind of fun.

Just curious to know if any of you have tried it out.

Please include links too.

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

Tried it once, found it to be a pain in the arse.

Theirs a Yahoo group for it, it mainly deals with the creation of paper models for 40K themed vehicles.

PM me for a link.

 

[Undave]

I made a cardstock wild west town once... never again.

It used up almost an entire ink cartridge to print out, it was a collossal pain in the arse to put together and it only lasted a few weeks before it got squished or bent. A big waste of time and money.

 

[ScottRadom]

I\'m with the UnDave here. I used to help run and organize a game tourny and one year someone got the bright idea fo getting paper terrain for the DnD Longsword tourny. So we made 16 sets of terrain for the event.

It sucked a ton. Both the end result, and the process. I think after ink costs, paper etc. we maybe spent 1/2 as much as we would if we had made actual terrain, and that stuff might have actually lasted the entire weekend!

It\'s not for me that paper stuff....

 

[supervike]

Oh, you negative nellies!


lollol

It is uber frustrating at times though! The results are pretty amazing.

I wonder if I can defray the costs a bit by using the color printer here at work....hmmmmm

 

[nadine]

I\'ve no comment on paper terrain (they do make it look pretty nifty though!)

As far as color printing goes, don\'t buy new cartridges. It\'s far more cost effective to refill them. At least it is according to DBF lol who looked into it a few years ago.

 

[Undave]

If you can blag using someone else\'s printer then go for it. Just make sure you use the heaviest weight card that thing will take. Glueing paper printouts to thick card may sound like a good idea but trust me it aint.

 

[cybersquig]

it worked for paddington...

 

[freakinacage]

i\'d rather make proper terrain. 3d is better

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Way off topic....sort of, but interesting. I heard that many moons back NASA hired a fellow who was a master at Origami to help them design objects so they would fold up most efficiently.


http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/undergrad/projects/2005/group_05/application1.htm

 

[starchaser1]

i will stick balsa wood and art card lol

 

[supervike]

fixed your linky shawn!



I\'d rather make real terrain too...but for 15 bucks and some paper, I can print out a whole Martian outpost! Seems a nice stop gap measure.

This is really more for the gamer and much less for the modeller (although this is a hobby in it\'s own right)

 

[ScottRadom]

15 bucks plus the cost of paper and ink buys a LOT of terrain supplies at the hardware store.

Sheet insulation is 8$ for a 4ft by 8ft piece (1 inch thick) plus some sand is 2$ for a 55# bag. Get some white glue (4$ ish a litre I think) some cheapo dollar store paint and maybe a gallon of interior drywall sealer for primer and the world is YOUR oyster....

 

[nadine]

It\'s really a tradeoff in time. You can certainly buy a ton of supplies but you\'ve also got to figure out how long it takes to get something built/painted, not to mention figuring out exactly what to build (design time), etc. But I\'m just commenting now because I found this topic interesting so...

I\'d do either paper terrain or go whole hog and buy some of those nice resin pieces as I don\'t have the imagination for designing terrain on my own-never know what the heck to make!

 

[supervike]

Originally posted by ScottRadom
15 bucks plus the cost of paper and ink buys a LOT of terrain supplies at the hardware store.

Sheet insulation is 8$ for a 4ft by 8ft piece (1 inch thick) plus some sand is 2$ for a 55# bag. Get some white glue (4$ ish a litre I think) some cheapo dollar store paint and maybe a gallon of interior drywall sealer for primer and the world is YOUR oyster....

Methinks you are underestimating some of those prices!

But believe me...I\'m not looking to replace real terrain building (I still want to do that too, and have most of the stuff to do it)...


I think paper terrain is a viable AND FUN way of doing it.

(plus I\'m doing it at work....I could never do the real one here!)


PLUS!

15 bucks would buy a nice chunk of epoxy putty. Why doesn\'t everyone just make thier own minis?

 

[ScottRadom]

Those prices is real dawg, and in CDN$ too! I won\'t even mention that I get it cheaper through a buddy at Home Depot.

Sheet insulation is super cheap, so long as you get the pink stuf with the lower insulation value (R-Value?), and san is sold in 25kg bags for 1.99$ here as play sand. It\'s what I use for my bases and it\'s awesome.

We\'re on opposite sides of the border on terrain here. I dislike paper terrain immensely, and found it MORE work to assemble then it would be to make a simple \"real\" version. And you still gots to make hills for reals anyway dawg.

Tree\'s would be where the real saving would be. I buy mostly woodland scenics kits, and they\'re about 2-3$ a tree for the decent ones if I recall.

But since you\'re doing it at work on someone else\'s dime, WOO-HOO! Of course I will spend my work time heckling you at my employers expense just to balance things (?).

 

[uberdark]

there is a guy at my lgs who sells some of it and its great.....a friend of mine also works at a graphic design studio and has a 3d model printer.....now thats fun to make prints of stuff with.

its all made out of thin slices of paper.

 

[supervike]

Originally posted by ScottRadom
We\'re on opposite sides of the border on terrain here.

Well, not really. I absolutely see the advantage (and the fun) of making your own. I even have a few of the woodland scenics kits.

The only difference between us is that I LIKE the paper terrain as well. Oh, and I think Lovecraft is the bomb-diggity.

Other than those little things, I think you are all right in my book. Unless of course, you\'re Canadian or something strange like that.....lol


Terrain (in whatever it\'s form) just doesn\'t get enough play around here!

I demand more terrain!

 

[ScottRadom]

Originally posted by supervike

Originally posted by ScottRadom
We\'re on opposite sides of the border on terrain here.

Well, not really. I absolutely see the advantage (and the fun) of making your own. I even have a few of the woodland scenics kits.

The only difference between us is that I LIKE the paper terrain as well. Oh, and I think Lovecraft is the bomb-diggity.

Other than those little things, I think you are all right in my book. Unless of course, you\'re Canadian or something strange like that.....lol


Terrain (in whatever it\'s form) just doesn\'t get enough play around here!

I demand more terrain!

Still clinging to the merits of Lovecraft eh.... MAN! When I rule the world and the re-education for misguided horror fans schools/camps open up you can bet a special van from the fabled Canada\'s will be down to pay you a visit.

One of my absolute favorite posters to this site is Theomar Pius. His terrain is illegally good. It pains me (Like reading about an unnatural and undescribed Cthullu type Lovecraft demon) that he doesn\'t PLAY on his stuff.

Maybe I\'ll go on a terrain kick in the new year and see if anyone else around here want\'s to join in. My terrain is even LESS spectacular then my mini\'s but I do like scratchbuilding the odd crappy bui8lding on a hill. And I bought every single Forge World warhammer building as well....

 

[Amazon warrior]

Theomar Pius is a terrain GOD! I see he takes commisions, but I\'d have a tough time justifying it to myself when I have no space and am due to move in three months time, plus getting a load of foamcore and construction foam buildings from the States to here could be interesting.

I like the look of the World Works stuff. I\'m tempted to put their claim that it\'s solid as a rock to the test. I have some weighty minis (the Rackham worgs and dragon) that should constitute a fair test. I need a printer, a load of card and a lot of space first! lol

Edit: I used to make card buldings for my trainset way back when- you can buy ready-printed and -cut packs with full instructions from most good train/model shops. I think I always used the wrong kind of glue, but when they were finished they looked very cool. They could be very fiddly, though.