Tommygun is a name I came across via Warseer. His paper-craft terrain output is prodigious and it is great to see how he has honed and continues to hone his skills, both with textures, but the construction side of his free paper-craft offerings. His site features something for everyone from the recent past, modern/contemporary and near-future eras. well worth a look and donation if you find a number of useful items.
His stuff can be found: here.
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Saturday, 10 September 2011
Monday, 6 September 2010
Paper Terrain (papercraft scenery) 4
I have mentioned Tommy Gun's work before, but he now has a handy sub-section of a website collecting his work together (link here).
It is all freely available, and makes great use or recognisable and not-so-recognisable images and textures. There is tons of stuff suitable for contemporary or near-contemporary gaming, as well as sci-fi.
I love looking at pictures of his work and cannot recommend enough to anyone to check it out.
It is all freely available, and makes great use or recognisable and not-so-recognisable images and textures. There is tons of stuff suitable for contemporary or near-contemporary gaming, as well as sci-fi.
I love looking at pictures of his work and cannot recommend enough to anyone to check it out.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Paper Terrain (papercraft scenery) 3
Just a quick update.
Germy, who I linked to in the first of the paper-craft terrain posts, has updated his site very recently. It can be found here: Germy.co.uk. It is nice and easy to navigate, and the 25mm section (most applicable for Pulp City of other modern/near future miniatures games) is neatly laid out under the 'Paper Models' tab. Worth a look and the paper models are free to download for personal use.
Not free but maybe offering an interesting future proposition is Taylor & Smith. They are starting at 15mm and 20mm scales, but when I briefly spoke to them at Salute they made it very clear they are open to suggestions regarding future products.
Germy, who I linked to in the first of the paper-craft terrain posts, has updated his site very recently. It can be found here: Germy.co.uk. It is nice and easy to navigate, and the 25mm section (most applicable for Pulp City of other modern/near future miniatures games) is neatly laid out under the 'Paper Models' tab. Worth a look and the paper models are free to download for personal use.
Not free but maybe offering an interesting future proposition is Taylor & Smith. They are starting at 15mm and 20mm scales, but when I briefly spoke to them at Salute they made it very clear they are open to suggestions regarding future products.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Paper Terrain (papercraft scenery) 2
A couple or more extra links on the subject to add to those from the earlier post.
Miniature Wargaming - this link goes to a list of over 250 links to various papercraft options. Somelinks are dead though, and some I have already sourced in the previous post. That said, I thought that it worth looking closely at the links since there is no particular order to them. Happy hunting.
Spacestation42.com - another collection of links. Probably a lower yield of useful stuff than from Miniature Wargaming's vast array, but that depends on tastes. Again some links are dead, but the site is worth a look if interested.
CG Textures - for those wanting to try their hand at creating their own paper terrain, this link has masses of differnt textures to use for free. Their are also some tutorials about using the textures to create or achieve different effects with various software.
Miniature Wargaming - this link goes to a list of over 250 links to various papercraft options. Somelinks are dead though, and some I have already sourced in the previous post. That said, I thought that it worth looking closely at the links since there is no particular order to them. Happy hunting.
Spacestation42.com - another collection of links. Probably a lower yield of useful stuff than from Miniature Wargaming's vast array, but that depends on tastes. Again some links are dead, but the site is worth a look if interested.
CG Textures - for those wanting to try their hand at creating their own paper terrain, this link has masses of differnt textures to use for free. Their are also some tutorials about using the textures to create or achieve different effects with various software.
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Paper Terrain (papercraft scenery)
While building up both my minis as well as the stuff I need to populate my tabletop, I have happened on some examples of papercraft terrain that is available. Some of this stuff is free and so may be useful to gamers needing to fill out a modern 'urban' battlefield.
Here are some of the main suppliers of useful modern-urban downloadable models that I have found so far, and a couple do some freebies.
Basic Urban Terrain
Fat Dragon Games - under the 'Free Stuff' tab are a few download links. Of particular note amongst these is the January 2008: Gridless streets and rooftops for E-Z Heroes, which includes a straight, t-junction and crossroads with road markings. Fat Dragon also do a pack called E-Z Heroes for $9.99; the description reads:
Microtactix - offer 3 free sample buildings, which can be found by looking through their products on offer via the catalogue links (the buildings are a deli, pizza shop and TV and Radio store); one of these (TV shop) can easily be modified from two-storeys to become 3 or more storeys. In addition, the deli features a small roof access and air conditioning unit which can possibly be used to modify the other two buildings. Thus, with the three free buildings a few small footprint buildings can be created with some variation of height. The catalogue is less clear than Fat Dragon's offer, but there are currently 3 packs of buildings for Twilight Street. Fans of more abstracted building may prefer the Dirt Cheep Cityscape that is available. This is the blurb for one of the Twilight Street sets:
The good news is that with just the free stuff available, a printer and enough materials (paper, and optionally card and/or foam card), it is relatively easy to assemble a small cityscape. If buying a pack, many more options are opned up, and in this the Fat Dragon offer seems better organised and probably better value than Microtactix.
World Works Games - Modern ranges; a selection of sub ranges. There looks to be some very cleverly designed products offering more than just simple boxes. There are also 'kitbashes' devised by product users.
The Virtual Armchair General - Mean Streets range; can be bought ready printed or as PDFs. Very 1920's/1930's era feel to the models. They do some sets of buildings so a good look around the site may be of help.
Canon: craftown - some potentially useful buildings and vehicles here. They may be a little too pristine and clean for some tastes, as well as being very basic, but a nice if small selection of vehicles is on offer for free.
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency: build your own Main Street - some HO scale downloads that could possibly be scaled up in printing to be of suitable scale.
Street Furniture/Small Scenic Pieces
MegaMiniatures - Megaminis offers some pretty inexpensive pdf's via the link, including 5 different vehicles kits, as well as crates, dumpsters and vending machines.
Tommygun - this link leads to Warseer, an independent Games Workshop oriented site. In amongst the various threads is one by Tommygun. This is his blurb:
Have a good look through his stuff, you may be surprised at the sheer quantity of items he has created. It will mean working through a few pages of the thread, but it should be worth it for gamers looking for modern papercraft terrain.
GermsWorld - does some basic 25mm urban building PDFs in a 'shoebox' style (with lift off lids), as well as a street furniture PDF.
Jim's printable Minis - offers a variety of decorative items for interiors (everything from offie supplies to home entertainment, as well as pizza boxes etc), as well as some US road signs.
Toposolitario.com - offers some ISO-style containers (sci-fi influenced), as well as a warning signs pdf.
RavensBlight Toy Shop - a couple of spooky buildings, as well as a car PDF which should be suitable if printed at about 50% size I think.
I have not so far used papercraft terrain, but for various reasons I may soon do so, so in searching for good stuff, and in doing so trying to keep costs as low as possible, the above links are the best of what I found. If anyone has experience with any of these creations, or has links of their own, please comment offering your insights - it may help another gamer who happens by.
Here are some of the main suppliers of useful modern-urban downloadable models that I have found so far, and a couple do some freebies.
Basic Urban Terrain
Fat Dragon Games - under the 'Free Stuff' tab are a few download links. Of particular note amongst these is the January 2008: Gridless streets and rooftops for E-Z Heroes, which includes a straight, t-junction and crossroads with road markings. Fat Dragon also do a pack called E-Z Heroes for $9.99; the description reads:
EZ-HEROES lets you convert any box into a 3D map for your click base hero miniature game. You get full color 300dpi pages of various brick and wall styles, numerous windows and doors, automobiles, business signs, roof access structures, fire barriers, smoke barriers and plenty of 1.5" gridded ground textures like concrete and streets to make your city. Set includes over twenty five pages of models and a full color instruction manual.
Microtactix - offer 3 free sample buildings, which can be found by looking through their products on offer via the catalogue links (the buildings are a deli, pizza shop and TV and Radio store); one of these (TV shop) can easily be modified from two-storeys to become 3 or more storeys. In addition, the deli features a small roof access and air conditioning unit which can possibly be used to modify the other two buildings. Thus, with the three free buildings a few small footprint buildings can be created with some variation of height. The catalogue is less clear than Fat Dragon's offer, but there are currently 3 packs of buildings for Twilight Street. Fans of more abstracted building may prefer the Dirt Cheep Cityscape that is available. This is the blurb for one of the Twilight Street sets:
Twilight Street Heroic Scale has seven big and beautiful new building kits (eight, counting the free preview set) plus billboards, awnings, water tower, street lights, and three full pages of custom signs! Also included is a complete set of customizable street tiles with the standard 1 1/2 inch square grid used in most click-base games! Now your superheroes can work the dark, grim side of the city with Twilight Street Heroic Scale!
The good news is that with just the free stuff available, a printer and enough materials (paper, and optionally card and/or foam card), it is relatively easy to assemble a small cityscape. If buying a pack, many more options are opned up, and in this the Fat Dragon offer seems better organised and probably better value than Microtactix.
World Works Games - Modern ranges; a selection of sub ranges. There looks to be some very cleverly designed products offering more than just simple boxes. There are also 'kitbashes' devised by product users.
The Virtual Armchair General - Mean Streets range; can be bought ready printed or as PDFs. Very 1920's/1930's era feel to the models. They do some sets of buildings so a good look around the site may be of help.
Canon: craftown - some potentially useful buildings and vehicles here. They may be a little too pristine and clean for some tastes, as well as being very basic, but a nice if small selection of vehicles is on offer for free.
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency: build your own Main Street - some HO scale downloads that could possibly be scaled up in printing to be of suitable scale.
Street Furniture/Small Scenic Pieces
MegaMiniatures - Megaminis offers some pretty inexpensive pdf's via the link, including 5 different vehicles kits, as well as crates, dumpsters and vending machines.
Tommygun - this link leads to Warseer, an independent Games Workshop oriented site. In amongst the various threads is one by Tommygun. This is his blurb:
The purpose of this log is to distribute free printable terrain items for use on terrain boards or on models.
Items like boxes, posters and anything you can use as props.
Have a good look through his stuff, you may be surprised at the sheer quantity of items he has created. It will mean working through a few pages of the thread, but it should be worth it for gamers looking for modern papercraft terrain.
GermsWorld - does some basic 25mm urban building PDFs in a 'shoebox' style (with lift off lids), as well as a street furniture PDF.
Jim's printable Minis - offers a variety of decorative items for interiors (everything from offie supplies to home entertainment, as well as pizza boxes etc), as well as some US road signs.
Toposolitario.com - offers some ISO-style containers (sci-fi influenced), as well as a warning signs pdf.
RavensBlight Toy Shop - a couple of spooky buildings, as well as a car PDF which should be suitable if printed at about 50% size I think.
I have not so far used papercraft terrain, but for various reasons I may soon do so, so in searching for good stuff, and in doing so trying to keep costs as low as possible, the above links are the best of what I found. If anyone has experience with any of these creations, or has links of their own, please comment offering your insights - it may help another gamer who happens by.
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