Pictors Studio | 15 Sep 2014 5:28 a.m. PST |
This stuff is fantastic and just what I was looking for:
Too bad they are in Australia.
Also it looks like a 4x4 table, which is all I would really need for Infinity will be about $800 USD-1000 Australian.
There are more pictures on their facebook page: link Looks like it is all laser cut wood. I'd imagine the shipping to the states is pretty expensive. Particularly if you want a whole table of it. |
Allen57 | 15 Sep 2014 6:04 a.m. PST |
Great stuff but it needs a bit more variety of architectural styles. Never seen a whole city in the same style. |
Pictors Studio | 15 Sep 2014 6:10 a.m. PST |
But then you've never seen a colony city on another world before either. Besides, it is only a small section of a city, really not more than a block and there are plenty of city blocks that are done in a very similar style. |
McWong73 | 15 Sep 2014 6:18 a.m. PST |
Putting aside price and style, that's a shed load of work to do. If I'm seeing right the ground level is raised to allow sunken features? |
Caesar | 15 Sep 2014 6:37 a.m. PST |
Looks beautiful, despite being covered in hexagons. :-) |
Pictors Studio | 15 Sep 2014 7:28 a.m. PST |
It looks like they have it set up that way. It doesn't look like they have any sunken features in it but it would be a simple matter to make it so that it had them the way they have it set up. It would still be a lot of work to get it all painted and assembled. There is a picture on their website of the plain wood sections. I'm guessing that with an airbrush and a base of grey it really wouldn't take that long to paint the vast majority of the pieces. |
ming31 | 15 Sep 2014 8:10 a.m. PST |
I have some of their vehicles ( amazaing stuff) . The service was very good . And they now have a bulk feature more bought reduces the shipping . Highly recommended |
Deeman | 15 Sep 2014 8:28 a.m. PST |
Hexagons are the new skulls. :) |
PatrickWR | 15 Sep 2014 9:05 a.m. PST |
Crisp, clean futuristic cities are the new grimdark urban ruins. |
Lion in the Stars | 15 Sep 2014 11:13 a.m. PST |
Putting aside price and style, that's a shed load of work to do. Yes, there's a lot buildings to assemble, but I don't think it's any more work than any other table full of laser-cut buildings. If I'm seeing right the ground level is raised to allow sunken features? The "ground" level is raised a couple inches above the tabletop, and that particular layout actually has another section stacked on top of the regular base units visible on the far right side of the first picture. Too bad I'd have to win the lottery to get that table. Well, more to pay the shipping for that table! |
Beowulf | 15 Sep 2014 11:28 a.m. PST |
Amazing stuff. Would fit right in with my Infinity scenery. |
whoa Mohamed | 15 Sep 2014 12:30 p.m. PST |
Not to steal the thread but i would check out Gamecraft they have similar terrain in Lazer cut wood and other mediums in several scales..They are In the US and thier prices are really reasonable…Mikey |
Pictors Studio | 15 Sep 2014 2:11 p.m. PST |
That isn't highjacking the thread at all. It just makes sense that other manufacturers would come up in the discussion. That is how discussions go. I've seen there stuff and it is nice. |
Midgetmanifesto | 15 Sep 2014 3:39 p.m. PST |
Possible thread hijack (and maybe worth it's own thread), but what sort of barriers are there for getting a partner on another continent (or even down to countries) to do your cutting for you to cut down on shipping? One would think (given the high shipping costs) you'd substantially increase your market share by doing so… |
Cacique Caribe | 15 Sep 2014 9:20 p.m. PST |
Allen57: "Great stuff but it needs a bit more variety of architectural styles. Never seen a whole city in the same style." A quadrant could have identical (or complementary) buildings, if all done at the same time, by the same builder, and as part of a unified complex for a specific esthetic goal. Albany NY Plaza:
UCI Campus:
Brazilia:
Shell Oil Woodcreek Campus, Houston: link Shell Oil Westhollow Facility: link Dan |
Lion in the Stars | 15 Sep 2014 11:34 p.m. PST |
Possible thread hijack (and maybe worth it's own thread), but what sort of barriers are there for getting a partner on another continent (or even down to countries) to do your cutting for you to cut down on shipping? One would think (given the high shipping costs) you'd substantially increase your market share by doing so… Major barrier is getting the MDF or light plywood in the same thickness and tolerances as the original designer, or you're going to spend a crapton of time re-doing the tabs and slots to fit. As soon as it takes close to as much time tweaking as it took the original designer to lay out the whole board, you're really better off doing your own work. I've tried to ask the same question on other forums, and haven't had any makers express interest because of the time needed to adjust for local materials. The business model I had in mind was for the two companies to license each other's designs, acknowledging that there are going to have to be some adjustments due to different local materials, so that each company sells it's own stuff at pure profit, and pays the partner company royalties based on number of partner-company models sold. Sadly, I don't have any skill designing buildings, nor a laser cutter, or I'd be pestering various non-US companies about shipping-saver deals. |
chironex | 16 Sep 2014 3:06 a.m. PST |
"Too bad they are in Australia. " Some gamers do live here, so, no, not so bad. What's bad is how the details on the elven dais I bought are drawn on rather than engraved, now that the kits are laser-cut rather than mechanically cut. |
John Treadaway | 16 Sep 2014 4:56 a.m. PST |
That is a thing of great beauty. John T |
chironex | 16 Sep 2014 7:38 p.m. PST |
The single style is probably because companies are economising in the future and cutting down every range until they only have very few products, and refuse to develop any more when it is not needed, because developing new things costs more. Therefore the ability to build a whole city from a single product range would end up in a city that all looks the same. This would also explain the hexes; apparently in the future, the same principle removes the need for any other shaped paving blocks than the big hexes. link Examining the ranges of Infinity terrain reveals multiple sizes, but for some reason it seems to have been uneconomical, in-universe, to have a designer draw a different shape. |
Cacique Caribe | 16 Sep 2014 8:06 p.m. PST |
Here are some other Infinity tables: TMP link Dan |
Weasel | 17 Sep 2014 9:29 a.m. PST |
Those are quite stunning indeed. Would make a good city block for 5150 and such likes. |
Lardie the Great | 17 Sep 2014 1:36 p.m. PST |
There's a lot there I like, but I'd like the tower blocks to have a larger ground footprint, but that is some of the best looking MDF stuff I've seen. |
John Treadaway | 18 Sep 2014 5:13 a.m. PST |
The single style is because – in the future – no one will design anthing: they'll all just download someone else's designs from the web and have their cement 'printer' build them some identkit houses… And they'll "all be made out of ticky tacky and they'll all look just the same" :) So this vision is stunningly accurate, I reckon John T |
Lion in the Stars | 18 Sep 2014 11:25 a.m. PST |
Point to John Treadaway. While I like the layout and the buildings, I wouldn't buy as many of that slick high-rise as are on the table (6 of them on the table, I probably wouldn't do more than 3). I'm not fond of that square/skybridge building at all, so I'd be using a bunch of other buildings to replace those. Probably some MAS, some Warsenal, and some others. And one monster building that's the edge of the Kowloon Walled city for the edge of the slum. |
John Treadaway | 18 Sep 2014 12:43 p.m. PST |
Lion – I probably wouldnt use them either, but purely because this manufacturer's product is pretty complex to build – some of those vehicles have single wheels that have more parts than the average resin kit – of an entire vehicle! They are lovely but – for me – they'd have to be made by someone else: my life is too short. They are like 1000 piece jigsaws: the end results may look splendid but I haven't the patience. But I still think they're very pretty! John T |
chironex | 18 Sep 2014 6:45 p.m. PST |
The work of half an hour for each one. I can't assemble most 1/72 tank kits in that time. And, you can assemble each one before painting, unlike Warmill etc. I wouldn't use them simply because I was disappointed with the detail on their Elven Dais since they haven't managed the level of detail usually seen on lasercut kits, despite what the cover image says. It's all just drawn on. [URL=http://s85.photobucket.com/user/thoughtengine/media/DSCN1338_zps419acd62.jpg.html]
[/URL] This was going to go with my Hydra pulpy figures but the detail issue, along with the painting, dictates that I finish it as a ruin. The experiment with dope went well, however the amount of debris sticking to the various layers made it too messy to declare a success. |