While my printer chugs away, creating a new pile o' cardstock I find myself wonderin if anybody else prints up a stack of sheets in anticipation of finding stuff to do with them.

I have not gone completely nuts with this since Dungeon Works (a pile that took me months to go through... and I still find a few now and again that ended up in odd places ) but I still tend to print up a lot of copies of pages that I am likely to use in random projects - the buildings and towers from CWU, the docks and piers from Sea Works, Clip It walls from GR and IW (in fact most of IW in general), bridges from several sets...

It is only recently that I have found myself printing stuff to order for a project. (I ran out of preprinted sewers. And CWU buildings. And wals from IW: C&K. Okay, I ran out of a lot of stuff!)

The Auld Grump, sort of like having a bits box for modeling...

I have a hanging file drawer filled with hundreds - maybe even over a thousand - sheets of laser printed cardstock goodness. CastleWorks Ultimate, Skull Cove, CaveWorks, VillageWorks, Castles & Keeps, Pubs & Inns, Siegeworks, Gothic Realms - I have sheets galore just waiting to be cut, scored, folded, edged and glued, all divided up into various hanging folders.


So, yes.


However, I don't print stuff on my own printer and then let them set ... much. Usually I just print what I need. Of course, I often start projects, put them on the shelf and then come back to them, so I do happen to have a number of sheets of stuff I've printed and haven't finished yet - but nowhere NEAR my stash of laserprinted goodies.




Edit: And that was a good post for my 600th. Happy 600!

Happy 600, Robby!

I've got most of a Maiden printed (no props yet, just the body) and waiting.

I've got a couple of transparency sheets with bits used from them, and a sheet of VW chimneys.

Oh, and a single street section from SoM.

I tend not to print too far ahead. I get pulled in enough different directions as it is!

Hmmm, going over my pile I suddenly realized that I have never used any of the walls or corridors from Gothic Realms. Oodles and oodles of floors and sewers (the sewers finally convinced me to switch to a snap off blade craft knife for straight cuts by the way, the X-Acto blades were getting expensive on the sewer project), a bunch of the crypts and props, but the walls, while printed (20 pages of each, my standard for walls), have never been used. I seem to prefer the walls from IW:C&K, possibly because the GR walls are so, well, Gothic (the skull columns). The detail is much better on GR, but the plain stone from C&K seems to be my standard choice.

I am going to have to create a structure that uses some of these GR walls, perhaps a Chaos temple? I can use some of the Sci Fi Supply vacuum formed walls for the inside.

The Auld Grump

Personally I loved the GR walls, however I've never really had a chance to use them (Other than to build a small crypt). I think the Clipit wall system was a good one as apposed to the Original Dungeon works floating walls.