Data Sphere

Posted: **July 16th, 2014, 5:41 am**

This tutorial details how to create one inch (1”) circular Infinity tokens that are durable, cheap, and best of all look great. I originally wrote these instructions for the Houston Area Infinity Facebook group, but I think others in the world at large might find them helpful as well. Some may have already seen or devised this method themselves. Many others have not, and this tutorial is for them.

Tools You Will Need

A web-enabled device capable of executing a graphics application (such as the computer you are likely using to read this tutorial). I used Chrome as my browser.
A robust graphics application capable of re-sizing, cutting, and pasting an electronic image
(such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP – which is free – but not MS Paint.) These instructions assume the reader can perform rudimentary tasks with a selected graphics application, such as opening files and selecting, copying, and pasting images. This tools is optional if you just want to use the files I've provided.
Access to a color ink jet printer
A sharp hobby knife, grip-backed ruler, and cutting pad, or a pair of sharp scissors
A one inch diameter circle punch, available at craft stores.

Materials You Will Need

Photo quality inkjet printer paper
Enough color ink to print three full sheets of paper (if using your own printer)
One inch diameter epoxy circle stickers used for bottle cap decorations, available at craft stores. You’ll need one for every marker you intend to make.

The first five steps detail how to create a print sheet of token images. I have provided the print sheets that I created at the end of this tutorial, so if you want to skip the process of creating your own print sheet and just use mine, skip to step six and see my pre-made files in the attachments to this tutorial.

Step 1
Open your graphics application and create a new blank canvas 1320 x 1020 pixels. (I used GIMP, and wrote this tutorial from that perspective.) It’s helpful to change the orientation of the canvas to landscape, but this is not necessary. It also helps to make the ruler and grid visible, but again is not necessary to do so.

Step 2
Open a browser (I used Chrome as my browser, and wrote this how-to from that perspective) on your computer or other web-enabled device that can run a graphics program and navigate to the downloads section of the Infinity website.

Step 3
Download (or rather open) one of the token (marker) sheets. They are in both .pdf and .jpg formats. The .jpg formats are much easier to work with and have more vibrant color, but alas not all of the tokens players need are in the .jpg format. :evil:

The orders token sheet is a good place to start.

Step 4
Copy and paste the image into the open GIMP file. Use cut, copy, paste, and move tools to arrange the token images in a grid of six by nine tokens. You will need to download multiple files from the Corvus Belli website and then cut, copy, and paste then token images until you have all the tokens you want in the amounts you want. Of course Infinity requires many tokens, and Corvus Belli keeps creating new ones, so more than one sheet may be necessary. In this case you obviously just create new GIMP files.

Step 5
Save your work in case you need to print more tokens, or if you need to create a similar token sheet in the future and would like a template. To print the file you must export it to an image format. I suggest exporting the image as a .png to keep the file size small and retain the image integrity and color.

Step 6
Now print the image on photo quality paper at 100% of the original image size if using GIMP. This should produce markers of exactly one inch (1”) diameter.

CAUTION: Do not get any moisture on the printed sheet. Even the smallest amount of liquid will smear the image, even hours after the print.

Step 7
Next, carefully cut the sheet into one-marker-wide strips using the hobby knife, gripped-back ruler, and cutting mat, or a sharp pair of scissors. (I feel that the knife and ruler are more precise, and after all the work I put into creating and printing the sheet, I didn’t want to chance the scissors.)

Step 8
Now hold the circle punch upside down and feed the strips through the punch. Center a marker in the punch and HIYAH! PUNCH IT! :ninja:

Step 9
Lastly, peel off an epoxy circle and carefully apply it to a punched out marker, taking care to avoid touching the adhesive side with your fingers. (It was actually pretty easy to align the circle with the marker by holding the edges of the respective circles as pictured below, but if you do happen to misalign the circle you can peel it off and reapply it.)

Your Tokens Are Ready for Play!
Even though you can peel the paper from the epoxy at least once, they do not come off accidentally. These tokens are now safe from liquid splashes (but not immersion), are durable, and easy to tell when they are right side up because of their the convex shape. A special thanks to The Dude (a.k.a. El Duderino, He Who Abides) for the idea to use the epoxy circles.

Posted: **July 16th, 2014, 5:43 am**

I am having trouble uploading the attachments (the pre-made files), and I'm pooped. I'll git' er done in the morning.

Posted: **July 16th, 2014, 1:28 pm**

I would totally "like" this, but I guess I'm not allowed to here.

This should be pinned, it's super helpful for new players.

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Posted: **July 16th, 2014, 1:51 pm**

Very good Idea. I did almost the same except I laminated my tokens instead and then based them on MDF counters. But the idea is still the same

Posted: **July 16th, 2014, 2:28 pm**

Same thing a few in our group have done, with that in mind we went one step further and each use a different backer color (at first by accident) to identify different people's markers. I used green polystyrene and printed on sticker paper to attach them quickly.

Easy traceability!

Posted: **July 16th, 2014, 3:39 pm**

dlfleetw wrote:Same thing a few in our group have done, with that in mind we went one step further and each use a different backer color (at first by accident) to identify different people's markers. I used green polystyrene and printed on sticker paper to attach them quickly.

Easy traceability!

Yeah, I need to do that since a few people in my area have started doing this as well.

Posted: **July 17th, 2014, 6:18 am**

Just want to echo what a great idea these are, I made these awhile back and they are awesome. I actually put the epoxy stickers on both sides so they were easier to pickup.

Great tutorial!

Posted: **July 17th, 2014, 7:22 am**

Waaaaait, you can buy transparent puffy stickers in craft stores? :aaaaa:
It's like childhood all over again! :haw:

Off to go find some in other sizes.

Posted: **July 18th, 2014, 10:08 pm**

Hmmmm. My files are too big to attach. Does anyone more knowledgeable than me have a solution?

Posted: **July 18th, 2014, 10:10 pm**

Use an online Storage Service (like Dropbox) and provide a link?

Posted: **July 18th, 2014, 10:41 pm**

Imgur or Flikr and the like are all reasonable online image hosting sites.

Posted: **July 21st, 2014, 9:19 pm**

Let me know if this works:

Posted: **July 21st, 2014, 9:26 pm**

I can load them up at work, no problem.

Posted: **July 25th, 2014, 4:45 pm**

where do you buy those acrylic thingys?
i tryed it in my country and found non, hell its even hard to find a 1" circle punch.

Posted: **July 25th, 2014, 5:55 pm**

Search Ebay for epoxy circles - it brings up a whole bunch. Most seem to be domed though - don't know if that's the exact same thing or not?

Posted: **July 25th, 2014, 7:10 pm**

Mouzerius: I bought the acrylic circles at a hobby store, as in the old lady crafts and some art supplies type. They're designed for decorative bottle caps. Considering that the entire friggin' world outside of America uses metric (I think) I imagine that you would have a hard time finding a 1" circle punch.

See if you can find a 25mm circle punch; it's only a little smaller. The epoxy circles are also called clear epoxy adhesive circles, bottle cap stickers, and dome stickers. You can find them on craft sites, and even Amazon I think. I once order like 100 of them from Amazon for super cheap. The problem with that was 1) they were soft and flexible, and 2) they shipped from China and took forever to arrive.

Alf O'Mega: Yeah, mine are convex/domed.

Posted: **July 25th, 2014, 8:33 pm**

Just ordered some from amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AFRWIR ... SY200_QL40

These are even cheaper than the ones I ordered.

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Posted: **August 1st, 2014, 9:45 am**

Ok, just got around to downloading the image files and I think you might have wiped out a load of the image quality when you converted to png? The CB order sheet will print at about 300dpi to fit on an A4 sheet, the files you uploaded will only print on A4 at about 105 dpi. I could easily be completely misunderstanding how to use them though...

Either way - no biggie, I'm sure I can knock up some files myself - just thought you'd like to know.

Posted: **September 26th, 2014, 5:54 am**

I'm chipping away at these now. Thanks for the tute and Files. I found it hard to find a 1" hole punch here in Aus. Ordered a good one from ebay.

I've gone and bought a heap of 25 mm MDF circles to mount the token to then apply the epoxy sticker to.

Only thing I have encountered is 1" is a tiny bit bigger then 25mm.
also the order and command sheet in one of these previous posts needed to be scaled up to 106% to be the perfect size. I used the gimp program for this.

Other then that, awesome!

Posted: **September 26th, 2014, 8:10 am**

I must have missed this write-up! :O Thanks for showing us. The end result looks STUNNING!

Posted: **October 18th, 2014, 10:52 am**

These are great.

Also, you can use the epoxy stickers on the Icestorm punch out tokens too.

Posted: **October 18th, 2014, 12:35 pm**

Poseidal wrote:Also, you can use the epoxy stickers on the Icestorm punch out tokens too.

Exactly what i had in mind! I just need to find a local provider for them, in the usual places around here i haven't seen them. Worst case scenario i think i've seen them on ebay to be shipped from China, it'll take a month to arrive but oh well

Posted: **December 17th, 2014, 12:57 pm**

Hi, anyone who can resize new tokens? :-) It would be great :-) Thanks

Posted: **December 17th, 2014, 1:27 pm**

What do you need? Bigger or smaller ones?

Smaller ones should be easily done with your printer. Just set the printing details accordingly:
80% for 20mm Markers
60% for 15mm Markers

Posted: **December 17th, 2014, 5:54 pm**

I used GIMP for laying out the markers I needed, and you can resize the image in the program (my suggested tact). What I did is first cropped the image so you have an individual token, and then trim the edges of the image so they are *just* touching the edges of the marker. This way you can set the scale of the image to 15 mm, for example, and know that that will be the exact diameter of the marker.

Edit: printing on photo-quality paper results in little to no tear out if you're using a punch.

I made of bunch of these for my brother for Christmas, but don't tell him. Thanks Dutch!

Posted: **December 17th, 2014, 9:19 pm**

Recent activity of this thread got me wondering again.. The end result of Dutch original post is so incredible!

Posted: **December 17th, 2014, 11:42 pm**

Hobby Lobby has the epoxy stickers on sale, $1.50 for 24.

http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/1-r ... rs-850453/

Posted: **December 18th, 2014, 5:13 pm**

I need1" diameter like in the first post. Im not GIMP friendly :mrgreen:

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