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Grey Hare Inn 28mm/30mm Paper Model PDF

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We now carry the entire lineup of Dave Graffam Models paper terrain!

As many of you are aware, my gaming group is playing through our Kingmaker Adventure Path. They're just about to attack the Stag Lord, so my mind has started to wrap itself around the kingdom-building aspect of this AP. A big part of it revolves around developing villages, towns, and cities, building by building. So when Dave Graffam Models decided to bring all of his paper terrain to paizo.com, I starting thinking about getting all Martha Stewart with his 3D terrain to make my group's gaming experience come alive! Imagine when they build an inn, and I plop down the Grey Hare Inn model. Watchtower? Check. Heck, there's even an Apothecary Model for your alchemist! If I had the room, I'd dedicate a whole table to the project, putting 3D buildings onto a 30mm grid to portray the entire city as it grows. And at $1.95 per model, it's hard to go wrong! Best of all, you can check out Dave's models for free by downloading the Hovel Model—see how easy it all is!

Dave Graffam Paper Terrain Model PDFs are multi-layered and contain a variety of surface textures and external features that you can customize with the click of your mouse. Each model can be configured in countless ways before printing, so what you're really getting are many models in one! Choose your own combinations of base textures (such as brick, stone or plaster-and-beams) and add or remove external features (such as doors, windows, vegetation and weathering) and print as many versions as you like. With just one model, you'll be well on your way to constructing a complete medieval or fantasy town.

Full instructions are provided, including printing tips and advice for printing at various popular gaming and model railroad scales. These files are 200dpi, which will look great when printed at full size without requiring large file sizes. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or later in order to use them, and the multiple layers may take additional time to render, so be patient while your images load onto the screen.

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I highly recommend these models. They look decent, they're quick to put together, and they're cheap! I'm working on strengthening my builds with foamboard, and I gotta say they hold up pretty well to abuse.

This is coming from someone who is a big-time miniature painter, and holds really high standards for gaming terrain. I'd love to make my own from scratch, but over the course of a month, I've got the start of a nice little village. It'd go faster if I wasn't supplying a skeleton of foamboard.
Dark Archive

I heartily recommend Dave's Models too. I reviewed a few of them, and will write more reviews in the future.

Congrats to Dave and Huzzah! for the Paizo store.
Liberty's Edge

Are you guys painting your models or printing in color? I haven't had the chance to see paper terrain in person, only in pictures, and so many things look better on screen than on the gaming table.
Liberty's Edge

I'm guessing they are printed in color on card stock.
Dark Archive

You can see some of my builds (using Dave Graffam buildings and WorldWorks Games Streets of Himmelveil set) here:

Dave's buildings only

Full blown layout
RPG Superstar 2011 Top 8

Where were these when I painted minis oh so long ago? For 2 bucks, I figure it's worth a shot.

I print in color on 110 lb cardstock (also knows as 199gsm cardstock). I saw paper terrain before, but being a hardcore modeler, I always passed on it. On a whim, I downloaded Dave Graffam's Hovel and Coach House and put them together. Whaddya know, it was FUN.

Now, you're never going to get the cool detail that you get when you scratchbuild. But a quick and decent building for $2 is pretty much unbeatable.

I find that the larger models benefit from the foamboard I use, as they can survive quite a bit of abuse for being made of paper.

The pictures are pretty much accurate to the builds. The one caveat is that paper modeling takes patience. You can't just slap a model together and expect it to look great. The biggest part of getting a finished looks is edging the model with a black or brown marker. This colors in the scores and cuts you make on the paper, so that you don't have a white line running down the edge of your model. You can see this in golem101's pictures. It takes practice and patience. I've gone too fast and had the marker slip across the model. Not a big deal, but frustrating to me.

Using a color printer: I have an old HP, with two ink cartridges (the tri-color and the black). Luckily, I have old cartridges I use to fool the printer into thinking I've installed a new cartridge. If you print a lot, you can run up your ink bill pretty quick. The colors for these models are pretty good, not as intense as WorldWorks Games', but more intense than Fat Dragon Games'.

Heck, download the free models and see if you like 'em. That's how I got started, and now I've picked up pretty much the entire Medieval line.
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