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[Impyrium]

Despite my love of BattleTech, I'm embarrassed I've never actually owned any miniatures. I suppose that's more or less because I've never had anyone nearby to play TT to begin with.

That changed rather rapidly when a friend of mine asked if they could try it, probably largely in part because I bring up 'mechs far too often. It's a great conversation starter, really. Anyway, I had a few of the original folding boards but none of the original cardboard minis. That wouldn't do, so I had to whip up some printable ones.

And yes, I know you can find the original ones online but I wanted to see what the MWO ones looked like...



Granted that's a 3D render of them because I wanted to see what they'd look like without printing them, but they work pretty well in reality.



So yeah... I like printing them with bases since it's easier to cut as a single foldable piece, and they're pretty sturdy even just with regular cartridge paper. Just curious I guess as to what people think. Does anyone still use paper/cardboard minis?

I kind of want to make them for the rest of MWO's 'mechs as well, but I doubt I'll use them very much due to aforementioned reason, but if anyone else thought they might use them even just for backups I'd find time to put them together.

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Looks good! The consistent backgrounds look really nice, but I wonder what it would look like if they were scaled to reflect the size of the mechs.

[Kifferson von doober]

They look great dingo, if ya do end up doing more please post em up, i'd use em in a heartbeat!

[Odanan]

Dingo Red, on 10 November 2015 - 11:24 PM, said:

Despite my love of BattleTech, I'm embarrassed I've never actually owned any miniatures. I suppose that's more or less because I've never had anyone nearby to play TT to begin with.

That changed rather rapidly when a friend of mine asked if they could try it, probably largely in part because I bring up 'mechs far too often. It's a great conversation starter, really. Anyway, I had a few of the original folding boards but none of the original cardboard minis. That wouldn't do, so I had to whip up some printable ones.

And yes, I know you can find the original ones online but I wanted to see what the MWO ones looked like...

Granted that's a 3D render of them because I wanted to see what they'd look like without printing them, but they work pretty well in reality.

So yeah... I like printing them with bases since it's easier to cut as a single foldable piece, and they're pretty sturdy even just with regular cartridge paper. Just curious I guess as to what people think. Does anyone still use paper/cardboard minis?

I kind of want to make them for the rest of MWO's 'mechs as well, but I doubt I'll use them very much due to aforementioned reason, but if anyone else thought they might use them even just for backups I'd find time to put them together.

Great job! If you post the other mechs I will certainly use them.

[serpentdaddy13]

Those are pretty sweet.