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detroitguy
Posted: Sunday, May 8, 2022 3:26:35 PM
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Hello everyone! I am new to this forum, and after browsing about and failing to find a similar thread I thought I would create one myself.

I am getting back into the game, and have found many sellers on ebay only have figures (and no stat cards).

I am mostly interested in the original sets and pieces.

Had anyone here cracked the egg on printing stat cards? Perhaps I could go to my local print store and with the right pdf, etc I could print off bootleg stat cards for minis I purchase on ebay. hoping for something sturdy and close to the originaly

thanks in advance!
kobayashimaru
Posted: Sunday, May 8, 2022 3:42:31 PM
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Welcommen, DetroitGuy.

http://www.bloomilk.com/forums/default.aspx?g=posts&m=229130
ABOVE: SURF-RIDER56's STAT CARD ARCHIVE
has blanks you can make into whatever stat card you'd like.

If you want archives of the sets,
use the wayback machine or |SEARCHENGINEOFPREFERENCE| to find one of the better archives
No distinct Preference as there's many good ones.

Recommend you start with
"The Lost 20" Stat Card List, to print those out
as a 140-240 GSM cardstock.
before we talk about Styrene, and more exotic ways to put statcards together!
think, like Uno Cards which float on water and are waterproof...
imagine an indestructible SW card...

You can print off replacement statcards indeed.
There are scanned indexes of the original set statcards
which are print-readied scalar vector arts.
You can find those at gamers and at tabletop boardgame simulator etc.
they're all watermarked as not original in multiple ways,
so, you can't pass those off as 'original mint condition'
for stuff like Mel's Miniatures newer figs etc.



Indeed, you might have say,
Knight Models Star Wars, or, Imperial Assault etc,
you have custom figures and you want custom statcards

there were folks like SurfRider56, CerusMutor, Neil and Frank,
who made statcard makers.
You need to use a web-archival time machine to go back 12 years for some of those web-based stat card automaters to work properly.
Well, at least for the WotC style stat cards.

For the VSET stuff, the VSETS released how they made the statcards,
like which fonts and custom-character-set etc, to make it.
VSET Statcards from like KezzaMachine etc, or the point-people,
allow you to print those off.

I have also made a "Business Card Automator"
which will allow you to procedurally iteratively generate statcards like ColorByNumbers,
iterate through OEIS/ CONWAY-COXETER numbers,
and to also cost your figures.
I made it to make making NPCs for your SWRPG easier,
and, to change the format of the VSETS, (Particularly TheLost20)
into the Classic SWMinis Statcard format.

It is possible to also batch-test and simulate
in VASSAL, in Tabletop Boardgame Simulator etc,
so you can playtest before you make a custom 'alpha' available for betatesting etc.



I don't recommend going to just your local walmart etc,
they will read you the riot act about things when they see TM etc
so, I recommend using 180-240GSM cardstock,
you can use lighter photo-paper style things.
Lazer-Jet onto a vinyl style "vinyl wrap",
sealed in Armor All UltraEverDry,
is that "old book smell" that Adam Savage talks about in his DaVinci Codexes.

You want 180-240GSM, and 'diamond dithered" for the print offsets and guttering.
The embosser for the face-side is difficult to do so that the obverse doesn't have creases from the embossing,
and, if you put holofoil decoupage on the Face side,
it can be difficult to then laminate

I also make very special
"Carbonite" full metal stat cards, again, embossed,
and now, thanks to Conchliocco,
I am offering "Carbon-Carbon" stat cards
Metal Embossed "metalbook" and CarbonCarbon are special for peoples weddings or,
posthumously for Squelchdog (ave, Squelchy!)
Cassus fett
Posted: Sunday, May 8, 2022 6:03:32 PM
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FlyingArrow
Posted: Sunday, May 8, 2022 7:28:24 PM
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kezzamachine has a PDF with every card (WotC and Vset) broken down by faction.

Edit: Lucky us - he just bumped that thread this week so it was easy to find:

http://www.bloomilk.com/Forums/default.aspx?g=posts&t=31478
detroitguy
Posted: Monday, May 9, 2022 10:51:40 AM
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I appreciate the replies. I am specifically looking for printing. I hadn’t even thought of trade mark issues. just want to recover cards and printing out a nice replacement
Cassus fett
Posted: Monday, May 9, 2022 2:12:10 PM
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detroitguy wrote:
I appreciate the replies. I am specifically looking for printing. I hadn’t even thought of trade mark issues. just want to recover cards and printing out a nice replacement


Yes you want to print original WotC stat cards, not V-SET stuff, not Lost 20, not X,Y,Z. (Not sure why everyone keeps giving you links to things you don't want.).

My Rebel Scum link has scans of all official stat cards (Kezza's PDF's have them too if you scroll down to the bottom). You'll have to save them manually and compile them yourself, don't have great advice for this, it's just trial and error until you get them the size and clearness you want.
As for the literal printing, in the past I've found that cardstock works very well, especially if you laminate them afterwards. I used a thinner grade of cardstock so it's not greeting card thickness, but better than 8.5x11" legal white.
detroitguy
Posted: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 4:17:38 AM
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Cassus fett wrote:
detroitguy wrote:
I appreciate the replies. I am specifically looking for printing. I hadn’t even thought of trade mark issues. just want to recover cards and printing out a nice replacement


Yes you want to print original WotC stat cards, not V-SET stuff, not Lost 20, not X,Y,Z. (Not sure why everyone keeps giving you links to things you don't want.).

My Rebel Scum link has scans of all official stat cards (Kezza's PDF's have them too if you scroll down to the bottom). You'll have to save them manually and compile them yourself, don't have great advice for this, it's just trial and error until you get them the size and clearness you want.
As for the literal printing, in the past I've found that cardstock works very well, especially if you laminate them afterwards. I used a thinner grade of cardstock so it's not greeting card thickness, but better than 8.5x11" legal white.


thank you sir

i used your rebel scum link and those images are perfect 👍🏻
Cassus fett
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Glad I could help.BlooMilk
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