Opinions on this corner piece
I have a quick question if folks don't mind...
For the sci-fi buildings that I'm making, I'm hiding the corners of the roof with a little hazard-striped plate:
It's not super clear in the photo, but here I've used thick card on the left (to make a more 'chunky' looking plate), and on the right I've used thin cereal box card.
The thicker card looks better in the sense that it feels like a more substantial piece of metal, but when it's scored down the middle it leaves more of an unsightly 'fold/tear' than the thinner one.
Now, when making your own, you can of course use whatever type of card you have to hand (and/or colour in the corner with pens or paint)... but for the sake of the video - which do you think would look best?
Comments (7)
I would use the left and wrap the plain card in a paper continuation of the "caution" paint - but even that is splitting hairs. Looks good!
There are times to over exaggerate a piece of terrain to give a correct feel or impression rather than going with something more accurate to scale. And to be honest, they both look ok to me for any gaming table. I think I voted for the thin because the thick stuff just does not provide enough extra to the build to warrant it. Plus the thinner stuff is easier to work with. I also want to shout out Steve and J.R.'s thoughts that it would look much better if some sort of darker pen was used on the edges before gluing them down.
I'm with Steve. I've used colored markers to upgrade a few boardgame pieces to great effect in the past. I colored the bare cardboard exposed edges of my Everdell Evertree to more closely match the artwork on the individual pieces. More recently, I colored the edges of my Barad Dur tower and all the individual cardboard tokens in Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. See here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/296035/edge-painting-board-game-tokens?itemid=12132377#12132377 Oh, and for the video, I voted for the thin card version with less exposed bare cardboard on the score line. Using a black Sharpie to color it in may work. Cheers!
I would probably use off cuttings of the other edge material rather than sourcing a second thickness for such small pieces. So either way is good for me.
It would look better if a colored marker were used on the edge of the card. Either black or a close match to the cover paper.
I also think the thinner cardboard looks better for the video. You could point out in the video that the component looks higher quality with thicker cardboard.
Thin looks better to me