Dave Graffam Heads To Market With New Printable Terrain
August 2, 2015 by brennon
If you're a fan of Dave Graffam then you'll be pleased to know that he has another printable piece of terrain for you to get stuck into. This time it's a nice Historical/Fantasy piece with the Merchant of Rake's Corner...
It's an awesome building and while we have plenty of other ways to get terrain onto the table nowadays this kind of terrain is cheap and easy to assemble, suiting a range of different scales and gaming worlds. Don't knock paper!
We've done a lot of work with Dave Graffam Models in the past and it's very nice looking stuff. This kind of inexpensive terrain would be good for the likes of clubs who might need to get a bulk lot done for their myriad tables...
What do you think?
"This kind of inexpensive terrain would be good for the likes of clubs who might need to get a bulk lot done..."
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I’ve been a big fan of these pieces and have put a dozen or more together from lowly ruins to the bombed church. Even getting them printed on heavy bond at a print shop is only costing a few bucks. Base them on some foam core, add a few strips of plasticard between the really big pieces, use some square doweling instead of the fiddly columns – they stand up to lots of use and look good on a table.
I have a load on my harddrive and sitting in the to do list and get scaled down to N guage. Hopefully this will be possible
Daves designs are the best on paper out there. Bought the different ruin designs when they were on sale and built myself a Mordheim table in a few evenings. Highly recommend mounting on foamboard to make them heavier and incredibly sturdy for paper terrain.
Cheap? Absolutely. Easy to assemble? Hell no. Dave Graffam does some great work, but I’ve never seen any papercraft terrain that was both worthwhile and easy to put together. Presumably the people who say it’s easy to put together spend their spare time building nuclear reactors out of wristwatch parts. In the dark. With their teeth.
hmmm…a papercraft nuclear reactor?? The cutting out is the tedious part. A ceramic knife is the best solution I’ve found so far and have gotten much faster after doing a few. I’ve given up on columns (use dowel instead) and stairs (carve them out of foam), but his kits make sense after a few (pro tip: a white tab on a wall always goes between a ceiling piece and the floor above – that one still almost catches me if I’m not paying attention).