Years ago, over at the old Infinity forum and Datasphere, I got inspired by MarkC's cardboard terrain. I decided to learn making such stuff myself, and eventually made a table-worth of it for my local community. I have chronicled it for the benefit of the general community, in the form of the Cardbuilding series: Part 1 - basics & equipment Part 2 - just some walls Part 3 - houses Part 3.5 - how much terrain one needs to fill a table? Part 4 - more houses Part 5 - centerpiece buildings / storage units But after that, I kinda left it. My local community had more terrain than we needed, to be honest. A few years later, I tried to get back to it - wanting to have a set of terrain at home. Let's say it didn't go anywhere. Now, I'm back. Again, intending to make a set of terrain I could use should I ever want to play at home. ...that, and having almost run out of models to paint, I needed a hobby project of some sort. So, here we are with two basic buildings so far: Spoiler: A few more pics As you can see, the "basic buildings" are essentially the same project I used back in the day: 10x20cm footprint, with some minor yet important changes: Walls have been made 7cm tall, rather than 6cm. My collection of figures has grown to include some that end up pretty tall (due to raised swords or skyward-pointed long guns). 6cm of the original project turned out to be kinda low... External decorative / support beams (as well as ladders) were made out of 1mm thick cardboard, rather than the same 3mm I used originally. The walls are less stiff, but also less wide, and lighter. I decided to use flat roofs, rather than terrace roofs of the original series. They are lower that way (an entire floor, with roof included, is 80mm in the current edition, compared to 89mm in the previous variant - while still being 10mm taller inside), and - due to change in Cover rules from the N2 era to the N4 era, do still provide cover against enemies on the ground anyway. Ladders (there's one on each short wall here, so no matter how you stack the buildings, they'll match) have a step every 6mm rather than every 3mm. Let's be honest, making ladders the olda way was PITA :( Of course, I need to make external stairs to allow access to the upper floor - but that's to be made in the future. The idea is to build an Objective Room next, one that will be able to nest those two basic buildings. Then, two more basic buildings (and perhaps another objective room-sized structure, though maybe not necessarily keeping to the Objective Room's rules on access points) to nest those two, too. Then, I'll have a design space for an equivalent of four more "basic buildings" (there were some examples shown in Part 4), if I make a single layer of them - and I intend to nest all of it in a large, centerpiece-style building (acting as a storage unit as well). I might want to go for a 3rd layer inside though, allowing me another 4 "basic building"-equivalents. Plus whatever I devise to hold them :) Plus assorted stairs, walls and scatter terrain. I have learned a lot with the original Cardbuilding though, so I'm not going to fill my table (and time-table...) with finicky little tiny thingies... When do I intend to have it all done? No idea. That's a rear-echelon hobby project, no real schedule to it. i'd prefer painting models. I just ran out of models to paint right at the moment :D
Looking forward to this, but none of the attached pics show, it looks like it needs a login. In general don't link to pics on Google, it rarely ends well.
Heed the words of Jherazob the Wise. Just upload the images to the forum directly. I don't see them either. I do see a lot of IMG IMG though. I suppose that I could use my imagination. Ah, you're scratch-building Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye? Cool. :D
Maybe write new articles for Data Sphere blog? Images (and text) still work years after they were posted.
Maybe. DataSphere blog has been dead for years (the pics are hosted by its own server I have no access to). And I don't yet have enough material to make it an article. @jherazob sadly, Google Photos is the only image hosting service I use. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, for some people. I'll have to ask an expert about what is going on and how to handle it.
As a general advice open the link to the image in a private tab. It removes any login you could already have that allow you to see it but prevent others. If you can't see it, it will provide some clues about why.
Well okay, I got myself an Objective Room, and of course it does hold 2 basic buildings inside just right (it uses a 214x214mm footprint): The roof fits a building as well (I mean, for in-game use :P), though I messed up the ladder placement. But essentially it is just an Objective Room, with 2x 30mm and 2x 50mm access points: Then there's a matching building of the same size: so they can be stacked. Again, I'm afraid, I've messed up door placement, so once I make it some stairs, it is likely to block one of the entrances to the lower level (but since there are going to be 3 other unobstructed, I guess it won't be much of a deal):
