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Author Topic: "Papers Please" or how I learnt to stop worrying and embrace a short deadline  (Read 3365 times)

Offline 6milPhil

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So Salute 2017 is approaching, I've got a game booked with my local club the Gamers in Thanet Society and thought I might as well start early in putting the boards together.



More to come...

Offline Eric the Shed

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whats in the bag...?


Offline 6milPhil

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Masking tape x3, and a sanding block - the sanding block cost a quid, the brush 30p.  :o

Offline Major_Gilbear

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"Papers please"... related to a computer game of the same name by any chance?  :)

Offline 6milPhil

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"Papers please"... related to a computer game of the same name by any chance?  :)

No I'm afraid not, but you're not the first person to suggest that, which means there's a growing group of us with impeccable taste in computer games.  ;)

It's inspired by this scene from "The Great Escape"...

Offline 6milPhil

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Rather excitingly I painted the MDF tiles "dirty protest" brown, and then had to squeeze together a temporary table to get an idea of layout. Luckily I already have some buildings painted for this project...


Offline 6milPhil

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Collected all the pieces I have ready-ish for this and took a blurry photo of them...


Started laying out the road and pavement to see how they work, I had the MDF cut to match the size of a road section to make life easier...


Knocked up some matching bases...


Gluing the pieces into place, I don't have much room so the most I can manage is to lay out four tiles at a time...


Roads and paving in place and first lick of paint...




plod plod plod

Offline Michi

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Looks good to me - keep on that good work!

Offline Major_Gilbear

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Looks great so far - and I like the matched bases too, very swish!. :)

Offline AKULA

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Great work Phil

 8)

Offline SABOT

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Very impressive. Am watching this develop with eager anticipation.

Offline Mason

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That looks great already, mate.
 :-*

I know where to come when I need some roads and pavements, thats for sure.
 :D


Offline OSHIROmodels

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Deadlines are a great motivator aren't they  ;D

cheers

James
cheers

James

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Offline 6milPhil

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Thanks.  8)

Nine days to go and I'm waiting for the weather to be sunny so I can apply a wash over all the boards...

The cobblestone roads will be a KS, I'm not happy with the pavements yet, so not sure what will happen with those...


Offline 6milPhil

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Usually when you submit a KS you have to wait three days while they check it, imagine my surprise when the computer just went... "Yeah, okay"

Road section Ks is go... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/718310363/streetscape-28mm-cobblestone-road-sections

 

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