Tuesday, April 09, 2024

a pretty clever alternative to 3d printing

In the Star Fleet Battles facebook group there's a guy named Larry who has been using a laser cutter to make pretty decent looking flat minis. Dig it:

The hexagons are custom bases, presumably the two will be connected by some sort of dowel rod.

Jim Stevenson's Starship Schematics Database ought to be chock full of image files that could be used for this sort of thing.

And of course you could do flat upright D&D figures this way, rotating the view to the front or side rather than top. You'd just need good black and white art.

1 comment:

  1. For SFB I think I'd rather stick to cardboard counters so you can stack them more easily while also keeping the hex size down so the map doesn't get too big. I could see using them with FASA Tac Combat rules (there's far less "crap on the map" there than in SFB) or even better, Zocchi's Battle Manual.

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