Didn't like how blocky and always-6x6-all-the-time the original Hinterland roads were so I started working on an alternate set of roads (with TCP formatting) for myself.

Here's the first four tiles I made
- 6x6 curve
- 6x3 straight
- 6x3 T transition
- 6x3 X transition



Will be adding more to the set shortly (mostly curves and 9 x 6 tiles), but felt like sharing the general idea of this with you all.

The re-done roads feature grids in the same style as the original Hinterland products.

(To make these tiles I basically extracted the road segment from the gridless straight road tile, applied it to a 6x3 tile and re gridded it. For the curve I used free form mesh deformation to curve the image then retouched it with some resynthesised textures.)

Pretty nice. I would however, not try an do non-standard tile sizes like 6x9 if you are thinking of submitting as a kitbash.

I've been told that:
1) No TCP kitbashes allowed.
2) Kitbashes need to be no-grid, 1 inch and 1.5 inch.

Because of these two I have no interest in submitting this (or anything I do).

I can still show it off to maybe give people ideas though, no?

I know I always like seeing things people are working on!

Absolutely! Its always cool to see what other folks do.

Totally can show it off. I missed that you were working a TCP bash. I was rather looking forward so some more TLX dirt road options, now I have to do it myself.

Just wondering what are you building the TCP tiles out of?

Printed stickers on mat board?

1.5 mm non-corrugated cardboard and label paper.
It's marginally thinner than original TCPs.

I'm wondering if it's at all possible to somehow share the unfinished product so people can make themselves TLX templates out of my TCP templates...

I would say likely not, as such as 'shared' files have been declared verbotten.
However, I think if you submitted as for TLX kitbash (yeah, with all the required versions), then we could download it sticky paper (or whatever) and slap it onto foamcore, styrene, balsa, or multiple layer cardstock...
Just sayin'.

I'm sorry, but I have no interest in doing this.
Doing 3x more work out of which I don't need 66% isn't something I'm particularly excited about.

Not tring to convince you to do this just saying:

If you pull all the grid stuff off to a different layer in gimp/photoshop. It really saves a ton of time and the three different versions are nowhere near 3x the work. Build the grid less tiles and then just flip on and off the layers for 1 and 1.5 inch grids.
It is more work then doing it once, but you also get the bonus that when you do a new tile you can pull the grid over to the new tile and just lay it on top. With things like hinterlands I find that once I have a basic tiles grid other tiles only need a little bit of tweaking once I copy the grid over to them.

Not positive you will get the same ROI that I do as you aren't doing standard size tiles, but it might be something to consider just for the grid savings between your 1 inch tiles.

The software I use is a bit exotic.
It doesn't really work anything like gimp/photoshop/paintshop.
One of the obvious things that are missing is support for layers.

Added some new tiles to the set.
Also worked on removing that quirk of Hinterland roads where the straight tile basically has a )( shaped road.

Here are the tiles:



And here's an example of a layout that can be built with them:



I think that looks a lot more organic than what could previously be done.
Now I wonder what other tiles I could make for this set...

Those have a nice rambling quality to them, nicely done.
This same idea would work for making dirt tracks for racing.

Decided to add:
- a large road end
- a small road end
- a 3 inch straight

Now my grandson wants me to build this, so he can play with his cars....

Very nice work.

Ouch. I can't imagine going back to editing this stuff without layers. You are a better man then I for doing all this with that limited of a tool.

I did that with a 30 x 40 sheet of foamcore and sticky paper 6x6 Hinterland tiles. My boys love it!

he already has the other road tracks in wwg, he just like me doing things for him.

Highhanded, you may not be interested in doing this for TLX and I can totally understand why. Someone is going to take your idea and translate it to TLX. Very nice work and thank you much for sharing your ideas, very nice work.

Yeah, I knew this wouldn't be a kitbash when I was posting it.
But I thought I'd show people a different way to lay out features on tiles.

Yeah, you gave me something else to lust after. But thanks anyway.