It's been a while! I got called away with work, which has meant my ever increasing pile of unpainted miniatures and these building designs had to take a back seat.
I've been working on the designs for both the modular buildings and floor tiles the last few days however and have some ideas to show off.
First up some examples of the floor tiles. There a few designs for drains etc, and some with curbs.
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The ones with a diagonal line through them are actually two half tiles, these can be used to 'widen' a road width, create a corner, add a diagonal road or a roundabout depending how you lay them out. Currently there is only this one pattern, but there will be others with some more interesting brickwork, and plainer ones if people like. These are designed to fit on to...
The modular board, (one section of it, as it would look put together):
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There will be 15cm and 30cm versions of this. The circles on the side are guidelines that are only on the inside, to aid in the placement of magnets to clip the boards together. There is also a 'manual' attachment system. There will also be 'flat' versions of these board sections, in case people just want something to stick their city tiles to rather than a modular board.
I have also done some designs for the modular building and think I have the basic layout cracked. I'm reluctant to show these off yet until I have had a chance to test it properly. It's about as modular as I can make them without losing all structural integrity. Here are some of the wall segment designs though. The odd shape of the segments will make sense when it all comes together:
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Additionally I have been waiting for some new materials to arrive to let me do some testing.
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This shows a standard infantry base, cavalry / large infantry base and infantry + specialist base. The one on the left has its underside made out of metal. This allows it to be stored in a tray with magnetic sheeting, without a thick coating of magnetic sheet being awkwardly stuck to the bottom of the base itself, making it overly thick and causing bases to stick to one another if placed too close.
The original reason I wanted to create these was to try them out alongside appropriately sized rare earth magnets. Stick your 6mm miniatures to the rare earth magnets and then they become removable from the infantry base. Could be used for replaceable commissars, commanders etc, or applied to war engine bases somehow to create wound trackers. Something I'm keen to try is a larger ten man base with removable infantry for games of 'Epic 30k' using the Horus Heresy rules, allowing you to properly track casualties within squads using epic miniatures without using dice or other messy things like that.