Download - Mega Miniatures

side the buildings while you're not using them. You could also
glue foamcore on the inside of each building to further add to
the structural integrity of each one, but then you really rule out
making interiors for them and your construction time and
budget increases.
If you're looking to fill nice large spots in your modern or nearfuture
(or even sci-fi if you like) gaming table then this is a real
bargain. None of the buildings have defined interiors but industrious
Photoshop (or Gimp if you want to go the free route in
acquiring photo editing software) users could put together interiors
to be printed out and glued on the inside of the buildings.
Name: Streets of Mayhem
Designer: Denny Unger
MSRP: $12.00
notches for you to cut out and another sheet of little fasteners
(also to be glued down to foamcore and cut out) that hold one
tile to the one next to it. Yes, it increases the number of cuts
per page and you'll have to make all of the fasteners too, but I
can see it being very worthwhile in keeping the base of everything
that's currently on your game table just a bit more stable.
If you really have money to burn you could import all of the
non-PaperLinX files into Photoshop and create a 4' x 4' (or larger
if you really want to spend some cash) file to be printed out
at Kinko's or another printing venue. I'm scared to even ask
them how much this would cost and figure that I'll stick with
printing and gluing each tile onto foamcore.
You also get three railroad tiles, one that intersects with a street
tile (could be fun for a "beat the train" scenario), a curved one
and a straight rail section. As with the building roof tiles above
each of the street and rail tiles come
in non-grid, 1" grid and 1.5" grid
varieties so whichever scale you
used the first time around you can
do here too.
Four bridge files come in the set.
One is for a pedestrian brige so
models can cross over streets and
railroad tracks in safety or have a
nice place to toss enemies from.
The other three bridge files are for
use with the railroad sections and
one is a ramp to take the train up
onto an elevated platform and the
others are straight and curved elevated
train sections. The ramp ends
up being at a 45-degree upward
angle which looks a bit steep but it
was either that or spread the ramp
over two tiles which seems a bit
long.
We now move up a couple of dollars in price to take a look at a
set that contains too many pdf file to count (well, not really but
there are a whole lot of them and I'm more interested in constructing
and playing than counting them all) that will aid you
in making a base of streets for the buildings that we built in the
first review.
Street types consist of an intersection, a 90-degree curve, two
parking lot tiles, a straight street, a T-intersection and a bombed
out wasteland tile. Each have the same 7" x 7" footprint as the
previous buildings so you can line them up into columns and
rows and build whatever kind of street layout you like.
The set ends with ten "props" files
that range from traffic lights and
street signs to billboards and a subway
entrance. The subway entrance and concrete blocks are
both easy to assemble and versatile. The billboard takes a bit of
construction but is worth it in the end. You get three stock billboard
signs and templates to make your own so you can add
advertising for whatever you like to your tabletop. The street
signs, lamp posts and such will add a lot more life to the table
but they all require lots of cuts and some require you to hollowout
some sections. I would put these props, the ones that require
significantly more work in the category of finishing off
the little details of your city and they will probably come after
you've done the streets, railroads, and other props and even after
you've played on the terrain a few times.
I highly recommend gluing your streets down to foamcore.
One, it will match what you (or I) did with the buildings and the
streets will lay flat instead of having a tendency to curl up a bit
where you cut the edges. There's also another feature of the
Streets package that can only be taken advantage of if you glue
the street tiles down to foamcore. It's something that they call
PaperLinX and it's where each street tile has multiple angled
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The set comes will very comprehensive instructions to aid in
the assembly of all of the stuff you get. There's a lot to print
here (of course, you only print what you want to use) so the
cost of building everything is going to be higher than with the
first set that includes just the buildings, but you get more than
just simple streets here. The elevated railroad tracks add another
level to fight on and there are a lot of props to bring your