Man O War Elf Fleet Print, Paint & Play

Hey guys, so we had planned to do our first game this week but due to my friend’s daughter having a temperature we have pushed it back which is kind of convenient as it seems we may be short a few tokens, a few being a lot…….well pretty much all of them…..okay all of them!

Now I have a cheap colour printer at home and there is some great resources on the Man O War FB group to help get you started and photos of the tokens. I had planned to print them out on paper and maybe stick them to card but after printing the first sheet they don’t look that great. I need a better printer.

Sooooo I figured, maybe I could 3d print them. I looked around for some STL files of the tokens but sadly couldn’t find any and I figured well may as well keep going.

I did a search online to see what the best free software was for creating STL files and that could be operated by a ham-fisted idiot (ME). I settled on something called Tinkercad, it is well supported with intro videos and a quick look on YouTube showed plenty of content on there too for when I have a muppet moment.

I quickly got the software downloaded and started on a design. To be honest it is a great bit of kit. It is definitely aimed at those looking to start out into mixing and blending shapes and with its inbuilt templates is actually great for token design. From downloading and doing the lessons to mucking around with shapes it only took me about 40minutes to come up with a basic ‘Blaze’ token. I haven’t gone silly with the details yet as I wanted to see how this worked and if it prints okay. So the token is on the printer now and I will have my answer in around 45 minutes.

I have attached an image below of the basic design on the Tinkercad software and of the printed token which I am very happy with for a first attempt.

Every day is a school day and it seems my hobby keeps growing in new directions. The ability to make my own tokens especially for games that are no longer supported or to replace old tokens as they degrade is a really nice option to have.