Nation- (and City-) Specific Victory City Markers

[ossel]

**City: Washington D.C.

Material: Strong & Flexible Plastic, Polished.

Notes: Pretty disappointed with how the polished variety affected this one. Think Detail and Unpolished will be much better.**

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**City: Berlin

Material: Strong & Flexible Plastic, Polished.

Notes: Really like how this one came out, even though it’s a little mushy looking.**

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**City: Moscow

Material: Strong & Flexible Plastic, Polished.

Notes: This one got pretty beat up during polishing.**

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**City: Tokyo

Material: Strong & Flexible Plastic, Polished.

Notes: Really like how this one came out.**

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**City: San Francisco.

Material: Strong & Flexible Plastic, Polished.

Notes: Really like how this one came out, even though it’s a little mushy looking.**

[ossel]

**City: Rome

Material: Metallic Plastic.

Notes: I ordered one piece in this material to see how it would come out, I wasn’t pleased with the level of detail, so I won’t be offering this material for sale.**

[ossel]

**City: Warsaw

Material: Detail Plastic.

Notes: This one was pretty amazing quality; my camera couldn’t even pick up a lot of the detail.**

[John Brown]

Excellent and superb job on these! You put a lot of work on these and it shows.:-D

[ossel]

Here’s another shot of the London marker on the actual board. I personally think it looks great.

Thank you again to all of those who helped me research and provided input for these markers. I hope to finish up the remaining cities so you all can have a complete set.

I hope to make these available for sale very soon!

[ossel]

Forgot the pic.

[John Brown]

@ossel:

Forgot the pic.

That is awesome! I can’t wait for these to grace my new metal map! :-D

Will these come in different colors?

[ossel]

@John:

@ossel:

Forgot the pic.

That is awesome! I can’t wait for these to grace my new metal map! :-D

Will these come in different colors?

Unfortunately, it’s looking like white and clear (for detail plastic) will be the only colors available directly from Shapeways, however these should be fairly simple to paint. I’ll try to throw some paint on one of mine and see how it comes out.

[John Brown]

@ossel:

@John:

@ossel:

Forgot the pic.

That is awesome! I can’t wait for these to grace my new metal map! :-D

Will these come in different colors?

Unfortunately, it’s looking like white and clear (for detail plastic) will be the only colors available directly from Shapeways, however these should be fairly simple to paint. I’ll try to throw some paint on one of mine and see how it comes out.

OK, that would be cool! :-)

[Rand]

WOW! They look so great. Really impressed that you are taking the extra step of ordering them in different types of material to find out which one will work the best for each model. Look forward to buying a set, must have for a Global 40 board.

[CWO Marc]

Thanks for the sample pictures!  Great to see these designs materializing as actual pieces that can be put on an actual game board. I agree with your assessment that, for capturing the fine details of the designs, the unpolished option is far better than the polished option and that the Detail Plastic material is far better than the Strong & Flexible Plastic.  So to me, the best high-detail combination would be unpolished Detail Plastic.  The higher cost of the Detail Plastic material would be well worth it, in my opinion, for players who want the nicest-looking pieces possible.  I’d leave mine unpainted, since I’m not a sculpt painter and since, frankly, I think the clear plastic looks quite attractive in its own right; it certainly gives the cities a distinctive look that is unlike any of the OOB sculpt colours, which highlights nicely their special status.  The single drawback to leaving them unpainted would be that the engraved city names on the base are visible from the top – but I don’t see this as being a serious enough issue that it would incite me to paint mine.  For the forum’s many sculpt-painters, this naturally won’t be a problem at all.

[Yavid]

the other question is how do i order a set?

[ossel]

@Yavid:

the other question is how do i order a set?

They will be available on Shapeways.com. For now, you’ll have to order each city individually.

So…A question for you all. Should I make the cities I’ve already uploaded available for sale now? Or should I wait until all of the minor cities are completed?

Thanks again to all of you for the interest and encouragement!

[CWO Marc]

@ossel:

So…A question for you all. Should I make the cities I’ve already uploaded available for sale now? Or should I wait until all of the minor cities are completed?

Personally I’m planning to wait until the whole set is ready before ordering them, but that doesn’t have to be the only option available.  Having the completed pieces available right away won’t prevent the people who want to order a whole set from waiting to order a whole set – but not having them available will prevent the people who want to order a partial set right away from ordering a partial set right away.  So the option which would satisfy everyone would be to make the completed pieces available now, in my opinion.

[John Brown]

@CWO:

@ossel:

So…A question for you all. Should I make the cities I’ve already uploaded available for sale now? Or should I wait until all of the minor cities are completed?

Personally I’m planning to wait until the whole set is ready before ordering them, but that doesn’t have to be the only option available.  Having the completed pieces available right away won’t prevent the people who want to order a whole set from waiting to order a whole set – but not having them available will prevent the people who want to order a partial set right away from ordering a partial set right away.  So the option which would satisfy everyone would be to make the completed pieces available now, in my opinion.

I have to agree with CWO Marc. You always want to have options in sales. I plan on getting a whole set, but the next person, may not want the whole set, so I would make them available now. I hope that helps. :-)

John

[Yavid]

@John:

@CWO:

@ossel:

So…A question for you all. Should I make the cities I’ve already uploaded available for sale now? Or should I wait until all of the minor cities are completed?

Personally I’m planning to wait until the whole set is ready before ordering them, but that doesn’t have to be the only option available.�  Having the completed pieces available right away won’t prevent the people who want to order a whole set from waiting to order a whole set – but not having them available will prevent the people who want to order a partial set right away from ordering a partial set right away.�  So the option which would satisfy everyone would be to make the completed pieces available now, in my opinion.

I have to agree with CWO Marc. You always want to have options in sales. I plan on getting a whole set, but the next person, may not want the whole set, so I would make them available now. I hope that helps. :-)

John

+1