Simple Tool to Help with Base Arcs

[Wirelizard]

This is more of a painting aide than a playing aide, but close enough!

I've created a simple graphic to print out and use when laying out the 180 degree Line of Fire/Line of Sight arcs Infinity needs on figure bases.

PDFs in both Letter and A4 here: http://www.warbard.ca/2015/10/06/an-eas ... ng-widget/

Here's a graphic, although I recommend grabbing the PDFs off my blog as they'll print better.


The rings start at 20mm and go up to 60mm, so should allow easy centring of any of the usual base sizes in Infinity or anything else you play! I threw 60 degree (hex) arcs on there as well, because why not?

[jherazob]

Thanks! This should be more accurate than the horrible kluges i've been using

[Anzacaine]

Great aid! I was looking at your terrain. Is that mount board or foam board? And how thick is it?

[VisOne]

Nice I do them by eye or use the lines on my cutting mat but not any longer.

Now to get all those heathen 'painters' who don't want to ruin their precious man dollie paint jobs to mark their LoS/LoF or pony up and purchase some LoS/LoF markers like the custom meeple ones.

[Wirelizard]

Great aid! I was looking at your terrain. Is that mount board or foam board? And how thick is it?

It's matt board/mount board - the stuff picture framers use, and it's 1/16th thick. Nice stuff to work with, much much more user friendly than foamcore.

Glad folks are enjoying the arc guide. I'll get a photo of it "in action" when I do the arcs on some of my own bases later this week!

[Anzacaine]

Cool. Pretty sure you can only buy it in mm in Ireland but I'm sure it'll be close enough. How do you glue it?

[jherazob]

Cool. Pretty sure you can only buy it in mm in Ireland but I'm sure it'll be close enough. How do you glue it?

This is just a guide to help you paint the firing arches on the bases, not to stick it in them

[Anzacaine]

We were talking about the OP's terrain not his template.

[Mob of Blondes]

Cyano works fine with card, and fast; but it could leave a different texture, so be careful or apply some primer later.

[Wirelizard]

CYA (superglue) works nicely on card and paper but I usually use ordinary white glue; it has actual working time so you can adjust things as the glue sets and given how brittle CYA can be white glue is pretty much as strong once it's set.

Just looked at the pageview and download stats for today on my blog; the A4 version of this arc guide is being downloaded nearly three times more often than the Letter-sized version. I'm well aware it's pretty much only the Yanks and us Canucks who use Letter but it's still interesting to see that reflected in the over all stats, and a good thing it's so easy to produce both in Inkscape!

[Mob of Blondes]

CA brittleness is less of an issue, as it becomes a composite, glue + fibers. The trick for CA is to place first, then apply (use thin or medium viscosity, obviously) to the crack so it flows into it. No adjustments after that, required or possible.

Also, acrylic paint can be used as glue for this. Compared to all the white glues I have around, it has a bonus: it doesn't fail (reactivate? melt?) as white ones do with humidity.

[red harvest]

They gain moisture. White glues are generally not water resistant. Latex acrylic house paint can be used as a glue, too. I have used it to laminate polystyrene sheets. It takes a looooooong time to dry/cure, but it bonds very well. Stuff I did 15 years ago still holds up. For paper to paper, yellow wood glue/aliphatic resin glue, the cheap stuff that sets up quickly. You still have plenty of working time.

This tool looks very similar to the ones I made for marking my bases. Great minds thinking alike, perchance?