Scratch-built scenery: what've you got going on?

Discussion in 'Scenery' started by KGG, Jun 22, 2023.

  1. bugbait_nz

    bugbait_nz Active Member

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    Thanks!, havent played a game but there is plenty of cover, clear roof is low enough so if you go prone you are out of sight and if you stand you will get cover, + the raise floor means when you are outside you can get in close to maximise cover to slice the pie in theory.
     
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  2. Savnock

    Savnock Nerfherder

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    Absolutely brilliant, mate. Very inspiring, thanks for sharing and hope you get some good games in on these!
     
  3. bugbait_nz

    bugbait_nz Active Member

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    Pizza station has 6 sections base coated, each section is 260mm wide, progress on the landing pad.
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  4. KGG

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    Another simple one: Transparent Holo-ads!
    Its basically just transparent sticker paper, printed backwards, and then pressed on to some transparent acrylic sheet, the thickness of the acrylic and the fact that you look through it to see the image gives it a nice 3D-like depth.
    Step 1: I used Bing Image generator to create some fun adverts, company logos, and other scenes. I usually use the word 'post-cyberpunk' in the prompts as this seems to give the cool futuristic cyberpunk vibe without the grim/dystopia look of regular cyberpunk stuff. Very fitting for Infinity.
    Step 2: I arrange and resize the images and add a border to them in powerpoint and cram them onto an A4 sized slide. (If there's text on them I usually flip the image on powerpoint so it reads backwards - that way its the right way around when you look through the acrylic)
    Step 3: I print the slides onto transparent sticker paper.
    Step 4: I cut the posters out from the sticker paper, and cut a 3mm or 5mm thick piece of transparent acrylic sheet to match.
    Step 5: Carefully remove the backing paper off the sticker and apply the sticker to the acrylic.
    Step 6: DONE! I've attached some of these directly to buildings for decoration, I've also cut frames for some from 3mm foamboard so they can hook onto the roof of buildings and point outwards, and I've made free-standing foamboard scatter terrain with pieces cut to fit the holo-ad in, like bus stops, benches and walls, etc.

    Tip - if you're gluing them flat to a surface, its best to paint the surface white beforehand so the colour really comes through. If they're freestanding, the transparentness does wash out the colour intensity a bit, but that's the trade off for it being see-through.
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  5. Space Ranger

    Space Ranger Well-Known Member

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    Can you share a link to the brand of sticker paper you used?
     
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  6. KGG

    KGG Well-Known Member

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    #26 KGG, Oct 2, 2024
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  8. chromedog

    chromedog Less than significant minion

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    This one does actually specify it's NOT for inkjet printers (4th bullet point in the 'about this product') and inkjet printing is usually iffy at best for most transparency films. Laser printers fuse the coloured toner to the film, bonding it (this requires a modicum of heat resistance to the film, as well). Inkjet printers deposit little drops of cold ink to the film, and because of that, require both a different kind of film (that doesn't need the heat resistance but it HAS to be more frosted, so as to hold the ink better - and it also has to be varnished after the ink dries because the ink just sits on the surface and will be reactivated by humidity/moisture and it runs/smears.). It's the same issues with printing decals at home. Using this film in an inkjet will just mean the result WILL smear. Using an inkjet film in a laser printer CAN kill the printer (the inkjet films aren't heat resistant and can melt onto the printing drum - which means a replacement of that part, which is often almost as much as a new printer).

    I've not used clear sticker paper yet, but I have done transparencies (the old hacker/engineer holos that you used to get in blisters, and the art that CB had online for a while for DIY) and decals on my laser printer at home. Some of the leftovers were also given to other users on this forum (or the predecessors).
     
  9. KGG

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    Ah well spotted! I just went with what the product title said, I'll edit above so no one makes that mistake!
     
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    In that topic, I have saved for a few years this tutorial by Hydra on holo-ads, his variation is printing the thing TWICE, because the process usually loses some of the vividness of the colors, this brings it back

    Edit: A pic of one from the post:
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