Cardboard Heroes

[Starhawk]

Any thought to selling a .pdf with CKC cardboard heroes counters? or maybe even a set of "customizable" counters--B&W with just outlines?

[Steve Long]

We've discussed that several times. As soon as we find an acceptable way to do it and have the time, we will.

[Celt]

The customizable counters you can do easily enough by downloading the outlines available in the Free Stuff section linked at top of the board. Paint'em and scale them in an image editing to your heart's content.

[Al_Beddow]

I don't recommending anyone calling them "Cardboard Hero's" as SJGames has a copyright on that name.

As for the idea, I think it would be great. While I love using Metal Mini's for fantasy games, and would die to have the funds for buying metal minis to cover ALL the genre's I play. For those that play Champions/Super Hero games, they can go out and get the cheap low-level HeroClicks and just re-paint them.

Making it a B&W .pdf would be fantastik. We could then print different copies and color them in with markers for variety. These would take up much less room and they are fun to play with (I currently use the fantasy Cardboard Hero's).

[Thelrin]

Ok, it's time for me to de-lurk. I have used paper mini's pretty extensively in my games. There are a bunch of PDF's from Microtactix that are useful. They have one superhero set and some sci-fi and fantasy sets that you might find useful.

[keithcurtis]

WotC also has a TON of D&D artwork suitable for paper minis at wizards.com.

Keith "funstuff" Curtis

[Celt]

"Character Art Templates?" is a thread for templates upon which you can draw your own costumes.

[Super Squirrel]

I just want to note that we have made use of this fun invention that the smurfs came up with called "Shrinky Dinks" for our heroes. I forgot what the scale is to get the perfect sized hero but you take a Shrinky Dink paper, trace or sketch your character and bake in oven.

I think it cost all of $25 for stands, paper, and everything else we would need for a long while.

[Celt]

Originally posted by Super Squirrel
"Shrinky Dinks"

That, sir Squirrel, is a damn fine idea. I'm going to try it out. They even make ink jet printer versions. Shrinky Dinks!

By the by, any tips on scaling to take into account the expected shrinkage?

[Derek Hiemforth]

Originally posted by Celt
By the by, any tips on scaling to take into account the expected shrinkage?

Their web site says they shrink to approximately one-third of their original size. So I'd assume that if you wanted a 1" square token, you'd start with a 3" square sheet, etc.

[Super Squirrel]

For a character of appropriate dimensions for a hex map, you want it to be 4" tall by 2" wide.

[Osprey]

I was just researching this on the web before I found this thread!

The Printer-ready Shrink sheets cost about double, and the regular sheets won't hold printer ink and could even get dust in it causing damage!

I recommend tracing the characters' art onto a sheet with permanent marker.

I actually tried this about ten years ago.
I traced "Thunder" and her husband, "Lightning" onto shrink plastic.
The art in the original "Enemies" book was 5 inches high, so They wound up waaay off scale, but I used them anyway.

If you are real industrious, you could do like I did and draw their back on the other side of the sheet (so you know which side gets 2xSTUN).

[Blue]

Originally posted by Super Squirrel
I just want to note that we have made use of this fun invention that the smurfs came up with called "Shrinky Dinks" for our heroes. I forgot what the scale is to get the perfect sized hero but you take a Shrinky Dink paper, trace or sketch your character and bake in oven.

I think it cost all of $25 for stands, paper, and everything else we would need for a long while.

You know, that is damn clever. Squirrels are industrious little guys, aren't they?