Papercraft: Colonial Outpost

An assembled colonial outpost, waiting for a suitable mission.
Crates and walls in action, serving as cover for a nasty critter.

Over the past few months I’ve been building up a little collection of papercraft models, designing them in Dioramas 3, and building them for my own science fiction games. As it is now large enough to make quite an interesting and useful collection I thought I’d share them here for general use.

Download the pdf papercraft collection Colonial Outpost. Permission is granted to copy, print and assemble these for others to use.

Here I will provide pdf files of the models only. If you are interested in the Campaign Cartographer source files, head over to this thread in the ProFantasy forum. I recommend printing the files to cardstock paper. They are small enough to hold up without additional strengthening. At 100% scale they fit 28-32mm models nicely, but you can simply scale them down if you are playing with smaller (15mm or 6mm) models. I don’t have any assembly instructions, but I hope the photos included in the zip file will make it clear enough. You can see me building the communications tower in time lapse here.

Iron Dragon Rail Station

Chicago Iron Dragon StationFor an upcoming Deadlands: Reloaded game I mapped a fictional railway station, loosely modeled on a historical one built in 1881 (and later replaced by Chicago’s famous Union Station). The map can be used for other quasi-historical games (e.g. any Cthulhu or Pulp-genre game) where a medium-sized railway station is needed.

I first created a Baedeker-style floorplan of the station, using Campaign Cartographer 3 and its “1930s Travel Guide” style from the Annual Vol 5. It is fairly simple and painless to print, so it makes a great reference map. You can download the CC3 version of the map.

Then I went ahead and from the entrance hall section created a detailed battle mat with (Dungeon Designer 3 and Symbol Set 2) for use with miniatures.
Chicago Iron Dragon Rail Station Battle Mat

The battle mat prints on A1 size paper and you can download it here in a variety of formats:

Battlemap – Forest Ruin

Forest Ruin no gridHere is a free battle map for your private use, showing some overgrown ruins in a forest setting. The map is A2 size and was created with Profantasy’s Campaign Cartographer 3 including the Dungeon Designer 3 and Cartographer’s Annual Vol 5 add-ons.

Click on the images to the left and below to get the full-sized png files (150dpi) or download the matching pdfs from these links:
Battle Map “Forest Ruin” with 5′ square grid
Battle Map “Forest Ruin” no grid

Forest Ruin

This map is released for private, non-commercial use. Please contact me, if you’d like to redistribute it.

Dungeonslayers – The Free Lands

For the small-press German role-playing game “Dungeonslayers” I created this version of their setting map “The Free Lands” in CC3. While I did that simply as a fan, the author Christian Kennig approached me whether they could offer the map as a download on the Dungeonslayers website (for free) and also sell it as a printed poster map. We quickly agreed on a deal, and the map can now be purchased via their web-shop.

The Free Lands of Caera
Click on the map to load a larger version.

Download the CC3 version of the map (Campaign Cartographer 3 and Annual Vol 5 needed).

Dark Fantasy Symbols

I finally got around to updating the old Dark Fantasy symbols to CC3 and decided to make them available for free.

Dark Fantasy Symbols - Some Structures

The set contains more than 500 Mountain, Vegetation and Structure symbols, geared towards a slightly “darker” fantasy setting. You can download them from here: Maps and More “Dark Fantasy” Symbol Set.

Simply run the exe file (Windows 7 and Vista users right-click and choose “Run as Admin”) and it will add the symbols to your CC3 installation. See the readme file for instructions how to use them

Enjoy!