New Paper Terrain from Dave Graffam Models
May 12, 2011 by beerogre
If you're on a budget and you need some hot looking terrain to decorate your game table, then how about some of these cool looking paper terrain kits from Dave Graffam Models.
If you haven't seen much of this stuff before, here's just a selection of the kits available for download. these are the ruined buildings, but there are more complete buildings, terrain tiles, sci-fi bunker and much more!
The best thing about it is at the prices charges, they're practically giving them away.
Why not take a look at the terrain sets on offer and tell us what you think?
BoW Andy
These look perfect for making a big town/city. Don’t think they’ll standup well to having 1/2 models on a regular fantasy battle table. However the cost and time of making a 12+ plastic/resin building setup would be big. Plus without lots of customising, using the GW range [which is great] would mean duplicates. The thing I like about this range is there are a lot of options and ready to go building types. It would easy to get a town looking real, with merchant warehousing in one area and then a square with clock tower and taverns, then the posh… Read more »
Thanks go to @tinracer for bringing this to my attention… +5 Karma reward coming your way!
BoW Andy
Nice looking models- they look comparable to worldworks stuff. It’s handy that you always have the option of scaling down before printing to use them for 15mm too.
Been a fan of Daves stuff for a long time. Got most of his early designs, I just use them as pretty storage. Leave one of the flat edges of a roof unglued and you can put stuff inside. Cut a door through along three edges and you can get said objects out again. Mostly medical supplies in my made buildings.
I have been looking at various paper stuff for a while and my worry has always been durability. Will these last a month like?
It depends how you put them together.
If you stick them to foamboard/foamcore they’ll stand up to light wear, but paper terrain is generally not hard wearing.
If you print the stuff out on heavy card (that fits in your printer), it will be pretty flimsy, but you can just reprint damaged bits and it all folds flat for transport.
Paper terrain is the ultimate in cheap (relatively), quick and easy terrain. But it’s not going to last forever.
I like the look of these. Making of terrain is only half the story, the other half is in the painting, which can take as long, if not longer, as I am finding out to my peril. I have the old GW paper buildings, which I intended to stick to ‘block’ buildings made from foamex (expanded PVC). This would make them as durable as resin, realively quick to make with no need to paint, they are also very light making transporting and storing them easy. They wouldn’t really stand up to close inspection but would add an affordable and acheiveable… Read more »
Without the tabs they could make some versatile templates for foamcore. Easier than planning and drawing with ruler and pencil. Just a thought.
Look good but with all the hassle to print and make it up im unsure if its better than just scratch building stuff…it will be lighter mind
This took me 2 hours, which is about 10 times quicker than scratch building.
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Looks like you are gonna have to go to terrainarama to view.
@bishmeister thanks for the photos on terrainarama. The paper ones do save time and standalone do look very … Flat. But once you get 20 of these babies all setup I think you’ll see a town with lots of depth instead.
Those paper terrain pieces look awesome you dave are a legend