Ye Olde Inn

by **clmckay** » May 24th, 2015, 1:10 pm

Hi,

I use two places for the custom vinyl maps. My favorite, and least expensive is here:

http://www.halfpricebanners.com/prints/ ... yl-posters

They're good quality, smooth, no scrim. They only come in set sizes though, so if you're printing something with irregular dimensions, like some custom designed HQ boards, it will stretch to those dimensions. In some cases that has worked out well for me. A number of Heroic Maps images are 10" x 20", so I print them on this website at 12" x 24". That makes the squares larger and has not noticeably impacted the graphics quality. You can see some poor photography of one of this company's vinyl prints here:

viewtopic.php?f=37&t=2620#p44706

The other company/vinyl I use is here:

http://www.echodgraphics.com/category1. ... &iid=12042

They will print to specific dimensions, so for those oddly sized boards this is the way to go. The quality is good, some would say higher than the other. Personally, I don't think so. The vinyl is thicker, it has a scrim back and a matte finish on the graphics. You can also customize out the wazoo, but I dunno why anyone would want....grommets, hems, magnets, etc, but they're available. I just use straight cut, seamless vinyl and UV printing. The UV printing probably is irrelevant, but it sounds nice.

Heroic Maps website is here:

http://www.heroicmaps.com/

I know Teldurn here is a fan. I've become more and more a fan as they've made more detailed maps. They've got some great stuff nowadays. Some of their stuff will be in strange sizes though, that will benefit from the second vinyl printer.

Baylor_OgreBane wrote:Thought I would make some conversion parts for the orc minis in a similar classic style (but just different enough, in case) Here is the base head, and will do hatted versions and maybe a few expression. Could get them made through zealot. Whacha all think?

I gave one a helmet and it instatly turned into a Gamorrean from starwars

Looking good, which reminds me, we have some casts of your sorcerer on the desk here, ready if anyone wants one

by **Anderas** » May 29th, 2015, 3:09 pm

I'm still working on 30 Skeletons from Wargames factory. I have never seen so small parts, so fiddly i fear to touch them in the wrong way. I take triple the normal time just to remove the mold lines and the dots where the plastic was inserted just because they are so thin.

by **knightkrawler** » May 29th, 2015, 3:15 pm

I had the amazons from these suckers. Sexy young women. Broke one trying to glue it. Broke another one when I frowned on it.
Same as in real life.

by **Anderas** » May 29th, 2015, 3:27 pm

The failure of having 100% realistic proportions. touch - break. look-break. I am thinking about placing one of them in the biggest model railway of the world next time i am in Hamburg. I think the scale doesn't fit - at least there it is one of the bigger models.

It will at least get some good photos before being stolen by some visitor, so it has a better use than in the hands of my 2-years old daughter.

by **cynthialee** » May 29th, 2015, 5:00 pm

Any tips for moding the HeroQuest Skeletons for a basic skills type person?

So sick of seeing ALL the skeletons the same with that stupid sickle.

by **whitebeard** » May 29th, 2015, 10:30 pm

cynthialee wrote:Any tips for moding the HeroQuest Skeletons for a basic skills type person?

So sick of seeing ALL the skeletons the same with that stupid sickle.

Why mod when you can just pick up a set where everything is unique? I really like the skeleton warriors from GW: http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Vampire-Counts-Skeleton-Warriors Not quite the crazy big scale from HQ, but like any GW addition, they do work. There are enough generic parts that you won't have to use any of the lame vampire counts theme shields, etc. Unfortunately you cannot stick these parts on the HQ skeletons. The spears are too thin to fit in the other model's hands. I was going to use extras to diversify my HQ goblins and fimir.

by **cynthialee** » May 29th, 2015, 10:47 pm

I have about 35-40 HQ Skeletons I think, {and 3 Ral Partha Skeletons that are smaller}. I figure they can be skellies of Elves or Hobbits.
But I figured with so many HQ skeletons I could afford to alter a few.

by **IvenBach** » May 29th, 2015, 11:08 pm

cynthialee wrote:I have about 35-40 HQ Skeletons I think, {and 3 Ral Partha Skeletons that are smaller}. I figure they can be skellies of Elves or Hobbits.
But I figured with so many HQ skeletons I could afford to alter a few.

Sarcasm: You defile them! /Sarcasm
Too many of the same mini does get to be excessive after a certain point. Do a good job and we can forgive you.