Download - Mega Miniatures

To start off this issue’s batch of miniature reviews we have a
selection of terrain from World Works Games. Although not
technically “miniatures” in the sense of little plastic or metal
soldiers they are pretty exclusively for use with your figures so
here goes...
We have three sets of card terrain to review from the good folks
at WorldWorks Games and we'll be taking a look at all three
seperately and then finish up with how they all can come together.
All of the files are meant to be printed out on cardstock
and I detailed much of my first encounters with WorldWorks
terrain in a previous issue of Fictional Reality which you can
check out in our archives section. One new item regarding the
construction of these models/terrain that I'd like to pass on is
my recommendation for you to NOT use "Elmer's Craft Bond
Memory Book Glue Pen" to glue the models together. I was a
the store picking up some new razor blades and glue sticks
(which are by far my favorite adhesive for these projects) and
saw this new (well, new to me anyway) glue pen and decided to
give it a try. Almost immediately after gluing something together
it started to warp and I knew that this one was a definite
"no-go for launch". Ok, on to the reviews...
create a cityscape of varrying height levels. You could also add
on to the height of any of the buildings just as easily by printing
out another set of pages.
Each wall facing takes up most of a whole page and, for the
most part, there's not too much white space on any of the pages.
Printing out four pages will get you a full set of building walls
and you have beige brick, stucco brick, a light brown color for
the skyscraper and a grey concrete color for the office building
to choose from. The cuts on the building faces are all quick and
easy to do and they were all ready for assembly in short order.
The two brick buildings do not have doors printed on them but
you get a sheet of doors and signage to print out to put wherever
you like. My only gripe about this set, and it's a very small
one, is that I'd have preferred that all of the signs lined up on a
common right or left side line so one cut could take care off that
side. They are all centered down a common vertical line on the
page which just adds a bit to the cutting time. Like I said, it's a
small gripe.
There are two styles of roof that you can use to top your buildings.
One is fairly clean except for some pipes running along
some of the edges and the other is a mess of some leaves an
trash along with a broom, a chair and some
ventilation grates. Each style of roof also
comes in three varieties. One with no ruler
markings at all, one with a 1" grid lined on
it and one with a 1.5" grid lined on it. If
you're not using a ruler-based movement
system you'll want to print out using the
size grid that matches your movement
scale. For me, it's the un-gridded one all
the way because I'll be using the terrain for
games like Rezolution and Infinity. In fact,
we used it for the Infinity battle report in
this issue of Fictional Reality.
Two of the other pdf files are unrelated to
the construction of these particular buildings.
One is an FAQ on the evil-ness of
pirating their work and the other is a guide
for players using the 1.5" grids to help determine
where your models will move to
when moving from street level to the roof
or interior of a building. Using strict rulerbased
movement I didn't have much need
of the latter file.
Name:
Designer:
MSRP:
Bits of Mayhem: Downtown
Matt Lyon
$7.00 USD
In this set you get eleven pdf files (between one and four pages
per file) that allow you to build at least four different buildings
that each come out with a footprint of 7" x 7" and initial heights
that range from 9" tall for the three 3-story buildings to 18" tall
for the skyscraper. I say "initial" heights because you can easily
cut off one or two floors of any of the 3-story buildings to
Roofing each building is pretty easy but requires that you cut
out four perimited pieces along with the actual roof section that
you plan to use. Once cut out the assembly is very easy and the
roof kind of just slips over the top of the building unless you
want to glue it down. I decided to base each of the buildings on
to pieces of foamcore to match the streets that you'll see below
and to increase the stability of each building. I would recommend
you not glue the roof to the top floor of the buildings because
just a few of these can start to take up plenty of storage
space and if you leave the roof off you can store other bits in-
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