This is truly amazing work all around. The customs and paint are inspiring. I'm curious as to what your ground (table cloth) is made from? I've been working on a custom Mos Eisley inspired board using Hirst molds for a couple of years now. As you noted, it is a long process and is very heavy. I've constructed mine with modular ground pieces but have considered switching to sort of measured based system like you have done so I'd love to hear how you did it. Again great work, this project is definitely one of my all time favorites.

Thanks koby. The game board has taken me more than a year and a half, but i'm not quite sure exactly when i actually started on it.

Regarding the recipes, just let me know which ones you want to know about, and i'll see if i can remember how i made them


Yeah LEGO's a great source for bits and stuff for customs and terrain. Just check out some of the satellite dishes in my Mos Eisley pictures.


Yeah i'm pretty sure i've seen some pictures (work in progress i think?) of yours. Impressive work, and a great source of inspiration for me when i was building, along with other similar projects i found pictures from when scouring the internet for Tatooine terrain.
My first take on Mos Eisley was going to be much like your own, but as i mentioned earlier, i pretty much gave up when i realized how many 1" blocks of Hirst Arts i had to cast

The ground is a Verdant Fields gaming mat from ZUZZY.com, painted in desert colors. It's 4'x6' and made from rubber latex, making it easy to roll up and store when not in use. It's pretty expensive, but well worth the price i think. A total pain in the a** to paint though!


Thank you very much! I'm glad you like it.

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On another note, i just added some custom stat card artwork to the first page, just below Mos Eisley. I suck at making stats, but at least i can make the cards look pretty. They are heavily inspired by some made from an old WotC member, i think his name was Vornargith? surf_rider56 you will probably remember him.

Oops i must have missed this post, sorry about that.

I would have preferred a full body image on all cards, but it's much easier to find suitable pictures if you can crop parts of them out. And again, it's just for kicks
I have the new style templates stored, along with the original design and a few alternative styles, but i wanted to make my own from scratch. But still with a lot of inspiration from vornargith-glee.

The text fonts i used were StarJedi for the name and all the stat and cost numbers, and Arial for everything else. Tried to keep it simple and in an easy-to-read style.



..On another note, i finally managed to get a few minis completed after having taken a break of almost a full year. I just added these to the first page:
Old Republic Tech Specialist (OR)
Kal Skirata (Mandos)
Rohlan Dyre (Mandos)

StarJedi is just a Star Wars logo style font, there are probably many of those around.

And yes, you're spot on with the OR Tech Spec. It was definitely from AT-43, although i don't remember what the fig is called.

Thank you. When i started on them, it was my intention to make modified versions of some main characters and grunts for 3D scenario play. Speed was going to be different from one character to the next to make them more diverse.
But making stats is not as easy as i thought, and i abandoned the project for now. I just left the 'speed' box on there.

Holy Sarlacc! These are incredibly awesome! Plus, you put Corran, Revan, and Atton in your first batch of cards, who are my 3 favorite characters, so nice one there!

New additions:

The Revanchist (OR)
Lord Kaan (Sith)
Lieutenant Page (Rebs) - a repaint of an old custom
Rebel Commando Munitions Expert (Rebs) - same as above, and added a backpack
Storm Commando on Speeder Bike (Imps)
Tycho Celchu (NR)

There hasn't been much feedback on the cards actually. But i think they fall into the 'pretty and collectible' category rather than being practical. I had some trouble fitting all the text onto a few of the cards, although i could maybe have skipped the full text on some of the abilities. But if i had to make some for serious gaming use, i'd probably scrap some of the fancy stuff and make room for more text. Also, looking at them again, i'm wondering if the very colorful design looks too 'messy' compared to the original stat cards which were more simple.

With 'new' designs, are you saying that you're working on your own templates?

As for the Revanchist, the main body is from a Jedi Instructor. Arms are from a Kit Fisto mini, and the legs are from a RotS Jedi Knight. I'm glad you like it, as it's been one of the more time consuming of the bunch. It turned out pretty well i think, despite some green stuff sculpting (which i'm not that good at yet).

Pretty is exactly that; Very Pretty but like you, I'm not sure they're practical. I'm wondering if WOTC had arguments on pretty vs. practical. I like Chris and your cards, they're beautiful pieces of artwork, but while I haven't playtested them as such, they look like they may be hard to read when you're trying to make a game decision.

So, while I ponder new cards (not much on feedback; midterms must be coming up) I've been toying with several ideas on new designs for fun and I've gone the austeur route myself.



Cluttered may be more of "In the Eye of the Beholder." You may say there're not cluttered, yet the creater of the cards think they are ....

Just for the heck of it, I made a comparison of Biggsy's Mara, Smuggler card with a newer look WOTC template of a Mara card I made two years ago ....

Mara, Compared



Parts of Buggy's cards are actually huge (Base stats, Pic) yet other parts are much smaller (SA and FP descriptions.)
Which is better? Heck if I know ... but its fun to compare and I guess it depends on form vs function.

Peace

PS .... Green stuff (I suspected) but would never have guessed the other parts of your Revanchist; darn good piece

PPS - I thought about throwing out my new cards in comparison, but this is Biggsy's thread .... I'll do that some time on my thread another day

The cards aren't cluttered at all, they are by far the best cards I've seen, custom or official. In fact, I went back to the drawing board on my own cards because I loved yours so much. I actually printed up your cards and added them to my deck.

There really isn't a "fashion over function" when it comes cards, as long as you can read them. They have ZERO bearing on gameplay or mechanics. Practicality is irrelevant in my opinion. The only concern I would have, is text size. When you are just using a regular ink jet printer the smaller the font, the blurry things get. But as far as I can see the text is a good size on the cards.

People tend to take things too seriously when it comes to customs. The custom maps crowd was like that a few years ago during the height of the game. Make something that you love, and makes you want to get out the game and play. As someeon who prints up this kind of stuff and sells it to the public, I can say with confidence that I would have you design cards for my own custom set and I would sell them.

I sincerely hope you continue to make the cards, because I will scoop them up.