Homemade counters. (UPDATE G'Vrahn)

[Anthallas]

Cannot afford the minis, hate the original counters

 

[Sulfurdown]

NOOIICE!! That's some beautiful counters!!

 

[eek]

Nice! They'd be especially good for the Shadows... 'tis a nightmare trying to make them out on the original counters.

 

[JayRaider]

Tremendous!

 

[katadder]

very nice counters. wrong sizes really but still very nice.

 

[Dizzy Vree]

because the sizes on the normal conters are fine???

welll done, Anthallas, they are briliant

 

[Da Boss]

lovely work - lets hope Mongoose can match it

 

[Zeru]

Those look great, you should do more :wink:

 

[Banichi]

Dude they are beautiful! I love the background.

 

[Lord David the Denied]

They ought to be numbered and have boresight markings, but otherwise, very fine work indeed...

 

[ShadowDave]

They are amazing! Look forward to seeing any others you might do.

 

[Chernobyl]

Sweeeeet!

 

[Poi]

wrong sizes really but still very nice.

What are the right sizes then?

 

[Anthallas]

Hmm, you are correct, i should add boresight markers. About the size: I was thinking of making them in scale to eachothers. Of course thats little difficult with fighters, but I am going to make a BIG Bin'tak. I have a big gaming table so big ships are not an issue.

I dont want to number them, but I was thinking of putting different markings to different ships so they could be recognized.

 

[Poi]

I don't suppose you have a super hi-res version of these? Something like 300 ppi as a minimum?

 

[Anthallas]

Ahm... I don't know what ppi actually means I do have same pictures as those that I added here, but with 3000x2000 resolution. Is that super hi-res enough?

 

[Poi]

That should be hi-res enough.

ppi means Pixals per inch (also known as dpi, dots per inch)

For a printed product like the fleetbook all the graphics and pictures should be produced at least 300ppi for a really good quality, crisp finish. Most graphics for a PC screen or images re-sized for a PC screen are 72ppi and when printed out look terrible.

Hope that helps.

 

[Anthallas]

Well, i will upload the high res pictures somewhere and you (and anyone else who are interested) can take a look. Tey are about 17Mbs as .tif tough.

 

[katadder]

wrong sizes really but still very nice.

What are the right sizes then?

the ones I use for vassal are:
fighters 100x100 pixels
normal ships 110x200 pixels
warships and above 165x300 pixels

which is not too far off the official mongoose counters in size.

 

[Chernobyl]

I had done some scaling experiments once in Excel. I scanned the EA counters and sized them according to the length listed in ATCA fleet book 1st edition.
I liked what it did for the Poseidon, but the Explorer got silly big. Fighters were so small as to be lost sometimes.

Chern