Micromunda

[ChiefRudiger]

The girlfriend is out tonight so I had a pizza and eat it off the card while looking at people's inspirational recreations of the boxed game's card terrain.

With a left over card pizza base in front of me I had an idea...

And then another idea...

(If a model is pinned then the cubes might be placed side my side)

Judging by the rough scale on the scans/PDF of the original terrain then the tower is about 9" tall. My version measures around 8cm so is roughly 1" to 1cm. A 4' table should therefore scale down to about 50cm and confortable fit on a coffee table (or in a tupperware for storage).

I've access to a traffic sign writers workshop at work so might see about getting the PDF properly printed onto sticky backed diamond grade retroreflective material and then onto some 1mm plasticard.

Since this Kickstarter was successful maybe we'll see a range of meeple gangers to go with my Euro rewriting of the Necromunda rules.

 

[nooker]

If you do anything more with this, I'd love to see it. It would also amuse me to see this on a full sized board in the middle of a game.

 

[ChiefRudiger]

If you do anything more with this, I'd love to see it. It would also amuse me to see this on a full sized board in the middle of a game.

Here's a concept piece for one of the end walls of the 3 storey building with 2 storey buttresses. The wooden piece hanging off the back will be replaced by a wide floor supported by slot-in "bulkheads" similar to my first post and then another buttressed piece at the back.

I think i'm going to buy some 3mm foam-board or 2mm plasticard to replace the cardboard - its just too time consuming to cut cleanly.

While looking at materials I also thought about using mitred foamboard instead of slot-in walls. If the bulkhead foamboard was 3 time the thickness of the floors then channels could be cut into it front and back to accept horizontal and vetical pieces, just like the original plastic pieces. The bulkheads could either be stacked freely, held together by recessed magnets or simply built in the desired 'heights' like the piece above.

Rather than try to adapt the scanned PDFs to this construction techniqu I was thinking of simply using a range of paint colours, such as blue/grey (similar to the originals) and green or terracota (like the outlander terrain) for the individual foor pieces and maybe grey for the bulkheads. To add detail I might use this textured plastic card:

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/slat ... -1-50.html

Better idea of the pattern:

And even edge the pieces with mini hazard striped hobby electrical tape:

http://www.megahobby.com/116x120warning ... black.aspx

 

[ChiefRudiger]

Progress Update

Have drawn most of the original card pieces in CAD and then printed them onto regular office supply sticky labels using a Inkjet printer. I then stuck the stickers onto 2 A4 plasticard sheets and cut them out.

Pieces cut out and disassembled:

(The truncated triangle tower was the first thing I made out of Plasticard and I just glued it together in a rush)

Assembled:

Mock-up of box cover art:

vs.

The set fits well on a cheap Ikea "Lack" coffee table masked off to 48 x 48cm.

(http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40104270/

Future:

If I used big labels (almost A4 sized: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Avery-Address-L ... bels+dps01) I could probably print scanned artwork onto the pieces then not peel off the label afterwards.

No luck finding Sci-Fi meeples yet.

 

[nooker]

Would epic work? Not that that's real easy to find...

 

[ChiefRudiger]

I've actually got a shoebox full of Epic stuff...

Think it'd be too small, would have to re-scale terrain to nanomunda!

 

[sebwiers]

I've always wanted to go the other way- macromunda! And I don't mean Inquisitor scale, I mean using GI Joe scale dolls as minis, and playing in a junk yard / warehouse / abandoned industrial site. Scale would be 1 foot per inch.

 

[nooker]

I've actually got a shoebox full of Epic stuff...

Think it'd be too small, would have to re-scale terrain to nanomunda!

That would be really cool, but perhaps a bit silly. I did try to make a Epic scale Space Hulk using magnets...

I've always wanted to go the other way- macromunda! And I don't mean Inquisitor scale, I mean using GI Joe scale dolls as minis, and playing in a junk yard / warehouse / abandoned industrial site. Scale would be 1 foot per inch.

Do you mean like this?

Sorry for the hijack, back to your regular micromunda.

 

[Blood Donor]

Lol. Goliaths look extra flamboyant in that scale. Those pics are day-makers.

 

[cardyfreak]

Freddy Mercury with the stubber is my fave. I'd definitely be using soap-on-a-rope if he was mincing about lol!

 

[dabbk]

@ChiefRudiger would you by any chance still have the files for these?

 

[Kitcar]

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