This site contains most of my paper models that I have started creating since June 2010.

Here, I must give my thanks to Cowboyleland for his brilliant idea on making 2.5d figures that are easy to build and look good from most angles. His method has been applied to make figures such as the wererat, snakeman, ghoul and praying mantis. My thanks also go to many friends I met in Onemonk (http://onemonk.com/) and forum (http://cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/) for their support and inspiration!

For the time being I can only post the finished products in this blog. In future, I hope that I can include more works in progress and also more essays on how to make these models.

I hope you enjoy this site!

Monday, June 25, 2012

Hero-quest style furniture for your dungeon

I have recently made a couple of hero-quest style furniture.  Originally, I want to sell them.  But then I found that their quality may not be up to the standard of most of the furniture sets available commercially.  So in the end I just decided to share them out for free.

Hope you like them!
 

http://www.4shared.com/zip/R5366G13/furniture_model.html

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47 comments:

  1. Thanks for your design!

    I shared this paper toy at my collection blog: Fantasy RPG Furniture Free Papercrafts

    http://www.papercraftsquare.com/fantasy-rpg-furniture-free-papercrafts-download.html

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  2. this is very helpful for us DMs and players...THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

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  3. I love your work, sir. If it's not too brazen of me, I'd love to make a request. A Monsterous Door something akin to this: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Trap_Door_(Final_Fantasy_IV)

    Or this: http://chrono.wikia.com/wiki/PortalGheist

    Even if you decide you can't do this model, keep up the good work. DMs with empty wallets thank you.

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  4. I can't believe this is free. Thank you.

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  5. You don't have an image of the completed models of Page 5. That would be helpful, so we could know what the intended finished product is.

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  7. docryder, they're simple models on page 5. There is a pyramid, an obelisk, and 2 3 sided crystals or 1 6 sided crystal. I built the obelisk earlier. It's a straight forward assembly.

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  8. I made the podium so the book can be removed. I put sheet magnets under the table and in the book.

    I was able to connect the skull column to the base using all tab and slot construction. A bamboo skewer helped.

    Eddnic, if this is all your art, you are ready to go pro. Just keep notes on the beta build, and then go back and fix the little errors. If you pay more attention to alignment, you can solve a lot. It would be nice if these pieces, especially the fireplace, had bases. They can be as big as the models' bases so they don't add to the size. Also, the pros don't like to repeat a pattern or element. If they do, they alter it so it's hard to tell it's the same.

    Thanks again!

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  9. I'm making cutfiles for some of these pages (over on cardboard-warriors.proboards.com) but I'm not sure how to build the green fireplace on page 7 - how are you cutting the wall to get the 3d effect for the fire?

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    1. The back wall folds up. You'll need to trim a little off the back wall so the top of the fireplace will fold over. Rub a pencil on the inside walls so they're not so bright. Score the back of the fire piece so the green tiles fold forward. Glue the tiles to the sides so they are flush in the front corners. If you're bored, you can turn the PDF into a BMP so you can center the fire.

      The candles for the podium didn't line up for me. There is little room for error on such skinny art. They would be better if one side were just strips of color. I made some candles out of silvery plastic beads and painted tooth picks.

      For the podium, you'll want to allow for tabs on the bottom to attach it to the base. I cut out the tabs from the base and folded them up. If you do this, know that the white space on the base is smaller than the podium.

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  10. Thanks again for all of your comments, in particular Androidlove's valuable advice and Randy Farmer's cut files! I have got some problems with my PC after uploading the models and cannot post reply in my blog for the last few days.

    Regarding page 5, yes I will take some photos for the finished products, but as Androidlove rightly pointed out, they are quite straightforward to build. Just one note: the obelisk is supposed to be stackable during storage.

    Also, my original design for the bookshelves, fireplace and cupboards, etc, is to make them collapseable so that they could store flat and save storage space. To do so, the tab for the top part of the box should not be glued.

    One more design feature: the pendulum on page 2 may swing if it is put on the rack without using glue.

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  11. Thank you so much for these. They are awesome! I hope to use them in my game; if I do, I'll post pics and link back here. Thanks again!

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  13. wow thank you so much. I'll use this in my rpg. I especially like the chest. Thank you again.

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  14. These are astonishingly good. Well done and thank you.

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  15. Very nice stuff. I game often and I download everything that I find, Worldworks and so on. This is good stuff. Nice detail and textures, plus it is a little different from most stuff out there. The same old thing gets old, you know. Good job!

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  16. They are awesome,its good stuff and great job.Hospitality furniture

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  17. Ridiculously useful. Amazing furniture.

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  18. Great article ...Thanks for your great information, the contents are quiet interesting. I will be waiting for your next post. Modular Office Furniture

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  19. Nice Information! I personally really appreciate your article. This is a great website. I will make sure that I stop back again!. Modular Office Furniture pune

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  20. It's asking me to log in to download?...no deal. As someone who has used Anon FTP for years I don't see that as necessary.

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  21. Man, this is SO AWESOME! LOL

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  22. I love the table with the orin symbol. I am a heroquest junkie and it is cool to see something done to kind of update the old stuff. I did find the skulls in the fountain to be quirky to cut and assemble and the saw table was a cluster f... not fun LOL But all in all this is good work. I have done a lot of worldworks stuff and so on, so I feel that I can give this a fair review. This is well done. And free to boot. Great work!

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  23. Thanks you for this write, i m enjoyed thanks you, masko

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  24. Hello from Russia. Please help make the forge from page 3. show the photo on the other side.

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    1. Somehow I have given the model to a friend and I haven't got another photo right now. Will ask my friend to send me another photo later.

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  25. It seems like the file doesn't exist in your 4shared account. I was really looking forward to testing this out...

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    1. The link works fine for me. Maybe you can try again.

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  26. I HAVE ONLY READ A FRACTION OF THE COMMENTS SO I WILL PROBABLY BE REPETING WHAT MOST PEOPLE HAVE SAID... I WANT TO GET INTO BASIC D&D (LIKE HERO QUEST) BUT HAVE BEEN SLIGHTLY PUT OF WHEN THE QUEST PACKS RUN OUT SO I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE MY OWN QUESTS WITH OUT HAVEING TO PAY FOR EXPANSIONS(I`M ON A TIGHT BUDGET)...BASICALLY I WOULD LIKE THE SCENERY TO MAKE THE EXPERIENCE BETTER, PLEAS PLEAS PLEAS WOULD YOU UPLOAD THE NETS OF THIS AMAZING WORK BUT AS I SAY AGAIN MANY PEOPLE HAVE PROBABLY ALREADY SAID THIS... PLEASE UPLOAD NETS BEFORE I LOOSE INTEREST
    THX

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  27. Has anyone made any cutfiles for these amazing pieces yet?

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  28. Just amazing. Thank you so much for keeping these free and available on the net. You have contributed to lots of immersive tabletop sessions!

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  29. Thanks! Really great furniture!

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  30. Thanks alot for the models, they look realy good.

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  31. I cant seem to download it from the 4shared page

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  32. Hi, anyone have a page 5 picture? I can't understand how that model works.
    Tks for the job, it's wonderful!!!

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  33. Seria posible hacer muros para hacerlo todo 3D.
    It would be possible to make walls to make it all 3D.

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  34. thank you, now I can have my own medieval fantasy kingdom

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  35. Someone will can share it on googleDrive? i can't download it broken link...
    alguen puede compartirlo por google drive? no puedo descargarlo link roto

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  36. Wiki I now found this! Like! Thx too mutch

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  37. Can someone share this somewhere else besides 4shared?? It's riddled with internet AIDS apparently.

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  38. 4shared is a sketchy website filled with all sorts of spyware, ransomware and just plain viruses. Consider Dropbox instead.

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  39. It's hard to get free mini furniture, very much appreciated! I will be adding these to my own Hero Quest furniture to use for D&D. :)

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  40. I can't get the 4shared link to work on my chormebook! Anybody able to email me the files? Or post a fresh link?

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