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Title: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: bufferm44 on February 02, 2009, 08:47:19 pm Hi all,
I'm Tobias from Germany. I found this great community yesterday, very nice stuff here... I think there is much to do the next weeks, printing all the expansions and cutting the tiles ;) I'd like to show you my self made tower, hope you like it ;-) (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/ccs_turm1_600.jpg) (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/DSC_1372_640.jpg) (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/DSC_1374_640.jpg) (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/DSC_1363_640.jpg) Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: scotty13 on February 02, 2009, 09:22:08 pm That's awsome. Nice job!
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: Novelty on February 02, 2009, 10:06:44 pm Wow, awesome job. I see some nice german custom tiles there as well!
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: Bixby on February 02, 2009, 11:23:17 pm Very awesome and certainly worthy of Merit. Thanks for sharing. I may have to try some handiwork.
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: edmil on February 03, 2009, 01:48:01 am Great job, certainly keeps everything in order. I noticed some different tiles in play, are they fan made tiles?
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: mjharper on February 03, 2009, 02:10:46 am Very impressive. When can I place an order? 8)
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: Tobias on February 03, 2009, 03:05:49 am Yes, impressive indeed!
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: Joff on February 03, 2009, 04:26:44 am Agree completely; impressive indeed :)
Wonderful stuff! Welcome to Carcassonne Central Tobias. Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: bufferm44 on February 04, 2009, 05:24:54 pm Thanks for all that recognition :)
It was a long and hard work to build that tower. We play it several times a week... Usually we play with 2 basic games, inns, traders, the "normal" cards from mayor and the self made expansion "the lake" which contains 48 tiles you can get here from the german page http://carcassonne-city.de/ (http://carcassonne-city.de/) Here is the direct link: http://carcassonne-city.blogspot.com/2007/04/der-see-von-guido-kmmer-und-carsten.html (http://carcassonne-city.blogspot.com/2007/04/der-see-von-guido-kmmer-und-carsten.html) The delphins are like the heraldics in the city. But because there are less lake tiles than citys we count it different than the autor invented: Lake with only 2 tiles brings 3 points, lake with more than 2 tiles brings 3 points for every tile, delphins count also 3 points (all if finished). We also use the builder in the lake. The other fan made expansion is "the forest", but it looks completely different than yours. I bought it on eb*y but the quality was as worst as could be, so I asked the seller for the original files and promised not to distribute it. He mailed me the the file and I scaned the original cards and copied the forest (have you ever done a selection of a forest in photoshop? :D ) into the new scaned cards. And after that I found this community, now I will rename "my" forest indo rainforest and "your" forest will be "normal forest" :D:D I'm also working on a traveling edition, here you can see 21x21mm wood-tiles (0.83"). I plan to stick velcro tape on the bottom side and build a woodbox with also velcro tape on the ground. So we can play for example in the plane on the small table or on the beach with 200 tiles :) In the upper left corner you can see the meeples which were sticked on small felt-.. things :D So you can interrupt a game and continue it later somewhere else.. (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/reise_ccs.jpg) EDIT Tile press/cutter is continued here: http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=843.0 (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=843.0) Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: hester on February 04, 2009, 05:51:59 pm Very, very, VERY nice!!! :o :D
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: Gantry on February 28, 2009, 11:01:01 pm Wow that box and your version of the travel tiles are amazing! well done!
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: Diminuendo on March 02, 2009, 04:58:32 am That tower looks good.
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: edmil on March 02, 2009, 04:32:12 pm Like the tower and the travel Carcassonne you have certainly done a great job. I have just about completed a travel version myself using magnetic tiles 2.5mmx2.5mm (1"x1"). I used magnetic Photo paper scanned and reduced the size of the tiles then printed about 15 tiles to each 6x4 sheet. Works a treat. Magnetic tile idea was located in bgg forum.
Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: bufferm44 on March 02, 2009, 05:47:17 pm Hi!
I'va also been thinking about magnetic tiles, but I thought that it could be a little bit difficulty geting just one (!) out of the bag and not two or three at one time :D Here is a picture of the first test on a train trip last week. On the right you can see how we scored the points, but a better way is at work... (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/travel_ccs.jpg) And here are some more pictures: (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/stanze.jpg) (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/formen.jpg) More about that later, but you will like it ;) Ok, a small preview.. (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/plaettchen.jpg) I think i have to post a little bit in the "how to create..."-thread later :D Tobi Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: edmil on March 02, 2009, 06:11:51 pm Your tile press/cutter - tell me more tell me more must know ;D.
As for the magnetic tiles they don't stick together. Works a treat. I still like your tile press/cutter ;D Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: Novelty on March 02, 2009, 08:51:32 pm (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/plaettchen.jpg) Wow! Forest tiles made... with a watermark. Did you resize the tiles when you added the watermark? I think the trees looked different to me...Tobi Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: chr15lynn on March 15, 2009, 02:35:57 pm Amazing....fantastic job with the box and the tiles.
I had started on a box as well but I'm not sure mine will come close to this idea. I need to know more about this tile cutter (blanking) press and die you've made. Can you post a bit more about this? pics/process/comparison with regular tiles. How easy/difficult to register when cutting? I'm very interested in this..... Thanks! 8) Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: bufferm44 on March 17, 2009, 08:53:23 pm Hi!
Greetings from the Caribbean Beach :D It's very easy, but I had to pay a little bit for it. After my vacations I will tell a little bit more about the cutter, which i bought on eb*y for EUR 55 incl shipping. The difficult thing is to match the register while glueing front and back page to the A4-cards. Cutting the tiles and matching register is easy but takes time. I will post some more photos in a week.. Sunny Greetings Tobi Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: chr15lynn on March 18, 2009, 12:05:29 am Hey Tobi,
Thanks for the reply....and while on holiday's too! I had a similar idea about making tiles, which is why i'm so interested. I have a press at work but would just need the rule die (cookie cutter part). I can image the difficulty in registering the front and back pieces as well as the time to register the final product for cutting (called blanking). I look forward to seeing more when you return.....have a great holiday! Cheers, Chris Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: CKorfmann on April 03, 2009, 02:21:26 pm It's been said before, but very impressive! I very much like the tower. Especially how nicely everything fits in the drawers.
I noticed in the close up shots of the forest tiles that they had a tree watermark. I didn't see them before. Did someone add them? Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: bufferm44 on April 03, 2009, 03:09:02 pm Did someone add them? Yes - me ;D I produced so many tiles - so I can sort them correctly after a game... I also had to arrange all the tiles new for saving paper and time while sticking and pressing the tiles... (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/bogen.jpg) (http://tobi12321.to.ohost.de/ccs/bogen_vg.jpg) Title: Re: Carcassonne self made tower Post by: CKorfmann on April 03, 2009, 03:15:14 pm Very nice. If I'd read the post, I wouldn't have had to ask that question! :bk
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