Hello.
Related to all of this, i have some bad and good news.
The bad is that i finally got to contact someone who knew Aapon after half a year of trying, and he told me that he never achieved his objective of getting his group on EA, so he left the pictures unfinished. Asked him to finish the factions that are almost complete, but it will take time. Real Life Tm is on him stealing it.
The good parts are several:
- He got some advertising from those pictures.
- He gave me the original files and he has more now than what he showed to us here. Still, not everything is complete, but very close, save for Imperial/Chaos Titans and Aircraft, and Eldar in general.
- I got the files, fixed and completed everything, updated stats, and changed everything to english. Changed the size of each token so they would be around the official miniatures. I am working on adding the squares for all the units he has not drawn to help him.
- Printed a full 15k points Tyranid army for me and a new player in the area, so both have enough to choose from no matter what we take, and tested them a bit. The stats are hard to see at less than 1m as the infantry is on 20x20mm squares but most of the time even the infantry can be distinguished from each other from the other side of the table, so it is a good for us using them, but maybe not so good for newbies.
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There is another layer of pieces below that one so it is double of what you see. It is 3 A4 printed pages in total.
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The results?
The cost has been almost 0 to me for that as i found lots of MDF for free and had the tools to cut it all into pieces. They are not miniatures but now i have a full force it would take hundreds of money and hours to get, even by going to 3d printing.
Also I am working on putting those in a .pdf, so all is needed is to print as they come and cut the pieces. The idea is to make the first three pages full of them for whoever wants to choose, or like me take the advantage that the cost is even lower than printing and faster to make, and have a full 10-15k points force (it is around 4-5k points per A4).
I am also using some example lists for each faction i prepared time ago for new EA players, and add them as tokens to the pdf, so all a newbie needs is to print the pages of the list he fancies more, cut the pieces, and has a force ready to play.
Finally I am making a second version of the .pdf with bigger squares so the stats are visible from everywhere at the table, with infantry at 30x30mm.
Ideas and suggestions are welcome.