Paper BUAs

[Roland Fricke]

For those who still use BUA's I found an interesting site that has some large paper models of famous landmarks. Pretty big for 15mm but might work for BUAs or background. See here http://www.paperlandmarks.com/

[Paul A. Hannah]

Hi, Roland. Yeah, I've seen that site and dithered on ordering and building their model of Istar Gate and/or Halicarnassus. As you note, their large size is a bit intimidating for use as a BUA. The Istar Gate, as you suggest, could sit immediately off-board, however. And, the Halicarnassus model is actually one of their smaller models so might work on-table as a BUA. Hmmm...

Using their pics as a guide, and then scratch-building them in a slightly smaller scale might be the way to go, however. The Torii Gate, in the water off Miyajima Island, would be fun to build. --Just as Waterway eye candy, nothing more, in that case.

(By the way, Boouhs get a fair amount of use out here in NAGS play, but hopefully this thread won't drift off into the merits and problems with BUAs in DBA.)

[Roland Fricke]

I thought the Taj Mahal might work if you cut off most of the surrounding open space in the model. Might bring it down to 6" square - still quite large but maybe useable.

The Pont du Gard would work as an edge decoration along a board edge. Roman aqueduct a few inches tall - its 21 incjes long.

[Mike Porter]

Check out this site (http://www.romanseas.com/roman_photo_h.html). PDF Roman buildings. I'm going to use it for my "Caesar in Alexandria" scenarios.

[Paul A. Hannah]

Check out this site (http://www.romanseas.com/roman_photo_h.html). PDF Roman buildings. I'm going to use it for my "Caesar in Alexandria" scenarios.Yep, the creator of "Roman Seas", Eric Hotz, of Vancouver, BC, is a regular presenter and game-host at "Enfilade". He's also the other half of the "Larry Leadhead" comic strip, along with DBA-er, Doug Hamm, whose Papal Italians pulled off a third place finish in the Open this year at ENFILADE. --See, it all ties in together in this fair hobby of ours. :-)

[Stephen Webb]

One of my friends made a Roman Coliseum by using MS Paint.

It looks quite good.

[Bob. (and his dog)]

Check out this site (http://www.romanseas.com/roman_photo_h.html). PDF Roman buildings. I'm going to use it for my "Caesar in Alexandria" scenarios.

This is great stuff, but I do not see any models to print?

Also, regarding those paper landmarks, you could photo reduce the sheets to 15mm scale and then make them up.

[Mike Porter]

This is great stuff, but I do not see any models to print?


You gotta buy them. It's about $5.00 for a set. Quite reasonable I think.

[Bob. (and his dog)]

Let me rephrase my comment.
Where are the pdfs of the Roman Buildings?

[Mike Porter]

Let me rephrase my comment.
Where are the pdfs of the Roman Buildings?

Here you go Bob! Link (http://www.romanseas.com/roman_models.html)

[Stephen Webb]

Very impressive...

The ships are very tempting!

[Xavi]

Yep, the creator of "Roman Seas", Eric Hotz, of Vancouver, BC, is a regular presenter and game-host at "Enfilade". He's also the other half of the "Larry Leadhead" comic strip

he also happens to be a reference figure for Ars Magica RPG players, since he did a ****load of the artwork in the early editions of the game. But that is going OT, so I'll shut up :p

Cheers,

Xavi

[Mike Porter]

I found another cool site: Paper Models (http://www.papermodels.at/index.php?l=0)