Stand Up And Be Countered

 As I continue to prep for my upcoming Villain Mission Force RPG / Skirmish campaign, I am working through my presentation methods. 

Miniatures? Check. I will be using rebased and repainted Heroclix, SuperFigs (old and new), Crossover Miniatures, Supers Unlimited (from Kitbash Games), and whatever else I can get my hands on. 

I will also employ a combo of 3D terrain and 2D maps, and again Wizkids will be leaned on heavily with their 20 years worth of awesome modern and sci-fi maps. And now they do them in 2' x 2', which I find ideal for my 3.5' x 3.5' dining room table. 

But what about the other stuff? Especially vehicles. I decided I would go with counters, or figure flats if you will, for vehicles. I began searching around for modern vehicle counters, and some awesome folks on Rpg.net pointed me to the Villains & Vigilantes line of superhero RPG supplements. They often contain amazing vehicle figure flats. Check out the thread here. It has great links to some free sources of counters from V&V as well. 

I ended up buying this amazing supplement: Villains and Vigilantes: Always Outnumbered. It has cool flats which I am about to show off. But how to print / mount them? Last year my wife, Emma, who works in a print shop brought home some off-cuts of high-end foam board with an adhesive back. Well, they sat around for months waiting for this moment! 

An off-cut complete with adhesive back. 

After getting the V&V counters printed on card stock (at 150% of their standard size), I used a ruler and a craft knife to cut the poster board to the same size as each vehicle flat. 

The first batch all complete!

Battle on the back nine? You bet!

Chunky and easy to grab at the table. 

And here is a potential setup using one of the newer 'Clix 2' x 2' maps, a piece of glass, and my new counters / flats (along with some minis): 

Units respond to a Fire-1 at the docks!

So there you have it--my figure flat solution to vehicles at the table. Hope you found it helpful. I will be posting again on this when I get more flats done. They're a ton of fun to make. 

Thanks for reading! 

--Scott

Comments

  1. Looking good! I did mine on cereal box cardboard and Elmer's glue back in the day, but I don't think foam core (much less the adhesive-backed kind) even existed back then, and Kid Me sure didn't have access to it if it did.

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