Soliciting Advice...

[chirine ba kal]

You pretty much need to either have a fan or an open window, haven't had any real problems and a lot of the plywood options are what is standardly used with them and with the laser cutters.

Just follow the instructions with the tool...and those are pretty cheap to acquire, even the kits intended for kits are easy enough to use and have a pretty good selection of tips if you want to try anything fancier. Only thing to consider is that a lot of the pyrography options are also things that family might want you to make or you might consider for other things even more than most.

I am not using plywood; this are off-cuts of MDF I had in the shop. A fan or an open window is not an option in Minnesota in the winter, nor is it safe enough given the Missus' health issues.

I am very familiar with the tools; I've had my pair since 1968, and I use them on projects as needed. Very handy, with the right raw materials.

[chirine ba kal]

I seem to remember mentioning this stuff about woodburners/pyrographers in my post above. Yay for reading, I guess?

I thought you had, too.

[cutp]

chirine ba kal-

p.6 of my Strange Aeons thread here on LAF shows an alternative way

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=0c683982fa7752e59f64db0b7fc71572&topic=83188.75

see reply #75, #80 & #84

wood tiles glued to plywood

I also use a solder iron to burn grout lines to form vertical bricks on buildings

[chirine ba kal]

chirine ba kal-

p.6 of my Strange Aeons thread here on LAF shows an alternative way

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=0c683982fa7752e59f64db0b7fc71572&topic=83188.75

see reply #75, #80 & #84

wood tiles glued to plywood

I also use a solder iron to burn grout lines to form vertical bricks on buildings

Great photos! I really like the look of the tile work you've done! I have lots of the thin die-cut wood bits in stock; I buy the bags, and use the larger ones for bases. This would be a good way to use up all the smaller bits that I have...

[pistolpete]

ho about going the other way - get a big sheet of fieldstone printed (with or without grids), paint the off cuts black/gray and use them as walls or impassible areas.

[chirine ba kal]

ho about going the other way - get a big sheet of fieldstone printed (with or without grids), paint the off cuts black/gray and use them as walls or impassible areas.

This is where I think I'm headed. We do have the big color roll printer, and the Missus has gotten a heap of texture samples to try out.

I found a product from a company called www.gamingpapers.com at the local FLGS; they had a nice sand tone with a 1" hex grid printed in blue, which i liked but thought kind of bland, and a 'flagstone' pattern with a 1" square grid. I don't use grids in my games - I am an old 'free Kriegspiel' man - but the deal-breaker was that the 'flagstone' pattern was a series of separated dark grey polygons on a white background. It looked a lot more like some of the 'winter pattern' camouflage schemes then anything else, and was just too stark.

[Eric the Shed]

You could try EVA form...I have scribed onto this and then glued onto mdf

[chirine ba kal]

You could try EVA form...I have scribed onto this and then glued onto mdf

Great photo!!! Thank you!!!

What I'm trying for is a compromise of sorts; I need to be very 'storage space conservative', as I already have one garden shed (10' by 10' square, 5' high) full of game scenery and terrain, all packed din plastic tubs. Any more then this, and The Missus will want to have words with me. I have lots and lots of scrap MDF left over from other projects, and I thought that this might be a good way to use some of it up rather then simply toss it in the bin. I'm not really much of a 'gamer', and more of a model builder, so I'd like to have something that looks nice but is very easy to store.

I think I just need to get some samples done, and put them out for people to look at!

[chirine ba kal]

I am sorry not to have updated this for a while; I have been sidelined with - of all things! - a severe case of gout in my feet. I finally tried gluing patterned paper to the tiles.



I'm thinking that I should color in the edges of the MDF sheets with something to give the tiles a more 'finished' look. I am very happy with the way that the patterns managed to do a good job of hiding the joins between the MDF bits.

[dijit]

Is the paper embossed or just printed? And where did you get it from?

[chirine ba kal]

Is the paper embossed or just printed? And where did you get it from?

It's a plain printed paper; there is a little texture, but not much. I got it in the 'scrapbooking' section of Jo-Ann's Fabrics, in the 'open stock' paper racks. The sheets are 12" x 12", and cost a whopping $0.47 each - there's a special on, I gathered.

[dijit]

You just don't seem to find the same amount of good scrapbooking material over here. It does look pretty neat.

[chirine ba kal]

You just don't seem to find the same amount of good scrapbooking material over here. It does look pretty neat.

Well, I might have something here; two of my daughters live in Zurich, and the youngest actually works for a crafts shop - she gives demonstrations, so it might run in the family - and she found me some packs of paper-thin hardwood sheets in her shop. They are wonderful, just perfect for model rooms and such. If anything like this is available over your way, she should be able to track it down. More on this as I get it...