Terrain Link thread

[Nachtpfiffel]

New added: Impudent Mortal Terrain:
http://impudentmortal.com/product-categ ... m-terrain/


Bendyboards:
http://www.bendyboards.co.uk

[Section9]

Not terrain per se, but some details/warning labels for terrain:

First pic is from: http://wharferj.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/ron-cobbs-alien-semiotic-standards/


and a version of these in hexes, from http://airlock14.deviantart.com/art/Traveller-Semiotics-1-348782910:

[Dozer]

Those are pretty fancy. I'll be using some of the Zero G, Exhaust and VACC suit symbols for my Nomads terrain.

Thanks for the post.

[solkan]

Hirst Arts added some new molds recently, including one called "Steel Bridge Parts" http://www.hirstarts.com/steel/steel.html

These are images from the instructions on how to build a steel bridge, and oddly enough I think the parts speak louder than the images of the completed bridge.



Disclaimer: I'm currently converting a 50# box of plaster into scenery at a rate of 372g/hour.

[Claudius Sol]

That mold set looks mighty fancy, actually...

IIRC, people use plaster for these molds? How durable are those for repeated transportation? I was under the impression that plaster was quite brittle and not hard enough to make up for the brittleness.

[jherazob]

They tend to use dental plaster with these, which is much harder and durable, albeit more expensive. Also i believe there's other options, less durable as you go down in price.

Then again, the stuff you can make with those is amazing. The big disadvantage is that it's more work-intensive, much heavier and can get quite expensive if you go big.

[chromedog]

There are different "grades" of plaster. Regular plaster-of-paris (gypsum) is fairly soft and easy to damage. Dental plaster is harder and lighter, but also has a brittleness to it (I've got a mate who is a dental prosthetist) and personally I use hydrostone (a lot stronger than regular plaster and lighter, too) tinted with an oxide powder (to stop the white showing when it inevitably does chip.

They are quite time intensive to do - both in number of casts needed and assembly time, but if you aren't moving it around, then that's not really an obstacle (I use several pieces of Hirst terrain on my home table.).

I've also learned that mixing a little pva into the slurry helps with the durability.

[Grauenacht]

I have some japanese buildings from Kawai company which fit really good with the infinity models, these are japanese food stalls and other small buildings in japanese style.
http://www.1999.co.jp/search_e.asp?Typ1_c=102&scope=1&urikire=0&andor=0&scope2=0&sortID=0&SFlt_f=0&SFilter=Manufacturer&ItKey=Kawai+Company


When you google "kawai company scenery" you can find them on amazon and ebay.

[Section9]

I have some japanese buildings from Kawai company which fit really good with the infinity models, these are japanese food stalls and other small buildings in japanese style.
http://www.1999.co.jp/search_e.asp?Typ1_c=102&scope=1&urikire=0&andor=0&scope2=0&sortID=0&SFlt_f=0&SFilter=Manufacturer&ItKey=Kawai+Company
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When you google "kawai company scenery" you can find them on amazon and ebay.

Cool!

I will have to add some of those 1/60 scale models to my Japanese scenery collection.

Thanks for the suggestion and link!

[mouzerius]

found this company they sell stamps for clay to make your own bases. but the stamps are big so yo can use them for floors to.

http://happyseppukumodelworks.bigcartel.com/

[Mob of Blondes]

There is a similar product made in the UK, names Basius. The stamps are big (bigger than Happy's?) and you can pick any place from them for each base.

[Section9]

Check out Multiverse Gaming Terrain

They have some really cool skyscrapers, as well as MDF brownstones.

[Nachtpfiffel]

Thanks - I will integrate the newest stuff, when I'm back home.

[Section9]

Paper terrain, but it's a lot like CB's terrain included in Op:Icestorm. You just need to print this stuff yourself!

$15.40, and the set has a 30"x36" mat, 4 buildings, 2 power cores, 4 shipping containers, plus some scatter terrain. Comes in A4 or Letter formats, and the mat file has both piecework and large-format printing options.

[jherazob]

Rehosted as Wargame Vault seems to have anti-hotlinking measures:

And source page to buy it here.
I like it, not bad at all, but not sure about $15 for papercraft you have to print yourself when that's more or less what it costs to get the CB ones already on paper, plus there's plenty of free stuff out there if you wanna go that route.

[Mob of Blondes]

It worked here... maybe issue at your end? "game" triggering a firewall rule?

Yeah, a bit expensive. Maybe if it included many skins for each or so. Maybe they thought CB sells PDFs and not printed. Maybe they think the target market spends more.

[mouzerius]

Rehosted as Wargame Vault seems to have anti-hotlinking measures:

And source page to buy it here.
I like it, not bad at all, but not sure about $15 for papercraft you have to print yourself when that's more or less what it costs to get the CB ones already on paper, plus there's plenty of free stuff out there if you wanna go that route.

probably lookt to much as ice storm becose its no longer there any more.

[Section9]

Shame about that, though I suspect that the pricepoint was proving to be an issue.

back to an earlier post of mine, Multiverse Gaming Terrain also makes some really nice graffiti decals: http://www.multiversegamingterrain.com/ ... -6_12.html

Just the thing for the bad parts of town...

The rest of the terrain I'm seeing looks more like Batman than Infinity, but that's not a bad thing.

[seeharkab]

Are you designing your own stuff to print or are you just printing things you find on Thingiverse for terrain projects?

[Section9]

Blotz.co.uk makes some nice lasercut MDF terrain. http://blotz.co.uk/index.php?main_page= ... Path=23_29

[Nachtpfiffel]

This thead is out of date for a while now. There are a lot unmentioned companies, but I don't have the time for this thread any longer. As Photobucket changed its business model I would have to pay to post pictures - thats the reason the uggly photobucket pictures are appearing in this thread.
Some pictures are linked to the companies homepages, they are not affected.
Its a little bit sad, until today I would always suggest Photobucket to share pictures from your miniatures. But as they don't allow sharing pictures on a third party homepage any longer with a free account I will be looking for a free, good alternative.

[jherazob]

This thead is out of date for a while now. There are a lot unmentioned companies, but I don't have the time for this thread any longer.

That's understandable, we need to find somebody else to take over then, i'd volunteer but i'm in a similar situation.

As Photobucket changed its business model I would have to pay to post pictures - thats the reason the uggly photobucket pictures are appearing in this thread. Some pictures are linked to the companies homepages, they are not affected.
Its a little bit sad, until today I would always suggest Photobucket to share pictures from your miniatures. But as they don't allow sharing pictures on a third party homepage any longer with a free account I will be looking for a free, good alternative.

Yes, Photobukket just commited seppuku, who's going to pay for that after a decade of free service? Historically, free services going paid tend to crash and burn dramatically instead of making their owners rich as people feel betrayed instead of being overwhelmed with a need to give them money.

As i've suggested in other threads, Imgur seems to still be the less bad of the alternatives as far as i've seen, even if they have the strong intention to become a "community" instead of "image hosting service" and therefore they're sucking a tiny bit more at the second one each day. There's also Flickr, which i honestly haven't touched in a long while so no idea how's it working lately. There's some people talking about using Google images, but they are rather fickle about changing things, i don't know if they'd be useful for long term image hosting. And of course, a private web server would also do, but not without complications. Also, Facebook is the least useful. They work right away, but people tend to not realize that image urls expire after some months, making them literally worse than useless for image hosting (just as planned, they have zero intention to be used for that).

[Mob of Blondes]

If only needed for this forum, use attachments?

[H1ghlander]

I used to use postimage.org when required. Haven't had the need for a while, though. Might be worth looking into.

It is (was?) a pretty basic, bare-bones hosting site. No profile creation, so other's couldn't look though all your photos (which I liked).

[Errhile]

Google Photos works for me.
Size (in megabytes) of the pictures in free storage is limited, but if you keep each pic's size within allowed minimum, there's no limit to the amount of them.

[Łysy]

Hey there! I just want to show You some hex shape HDF designs from new company- After Hours Workshop- https://afterhoursworkshop.com

HexanHive Colony.