Wednesday 14 November 2012

A freebie - Objective markers



Just before Throne of Skulls [G.O.D. you must be sick of me banging on about that weekend, tough!] I decided that I needed some objective markers. Personally I'm happy with the Tyranid models I've got but given the new Mysterious Objective rules and mixed value objectives of 'the Scouring' Eternal War scenario I knew I was going to have to make some of my own.


So below was the first version, however


I also decided to revisit these in yellow and black as the magenta in the orange is making my printouts a bit 'muddy' and also the 'sabotaged' marker doesn't mention the blast template. Once again just print, stick to mounting card, cover in sellotape for instant lamination [though try not to get creases in them like I did :( ] and then cut out.


And I think they probably look a whole lot better in yellow, but you choose, although don't forget you'll need more mysterious objective markers than VP markers [as they're only needed in the Scouring].


 

Of course I then add my Tyranid objectives next to them so they look cooler, large Synapse Node for the 4VP, 3 Node for 3VP, twin node for 2VP and Spore Mines for single VPs.


Meanwhile I shared my wound markers on the dakkadakka forum and actually got this request:

Not bad, but they would be better in black and white.

White backgrounds black numbers. Simple is better.

Now I could have been mightily offended that my not inconsiderable time and, all modesty aside, talents had been summarily dismissed in favour of something anyone could do in Microsoft Word but I was prepared to listen to the critique of one of my 'customers'. So I cranked up the old Illustrator and in 5 minutes I gave my punter exactly what they wanted:


To which I got:

Now that rocks!

So clearly there's a market for simple stripped down markers so I thought I should share them with you also, if that's your bag. @ 100% each square should be 9mm Anyway, I can't say I understand the preference but I'm all about giving the hobby what it wants so if there's anything you think I can do to help out with I'll certainly look to try and do it. Just drop a note in the comments here, or the Freebies page and I'll promise to get around to it [eventually].

Usual step-by-step:
  1. Print
  2. Apply double sided tape to back
  3. Stick to mounting card
  4. Carefully apply sellotape to top if you want them pseudo-laminated
  5. Cut out with craft knife/scalpel
  6. Amaze your friends and enemies with these cards
  7. Tell them to visit 40kaddict.blogspot.com for their own free markers.

5 comments:

  1. DAVE THESE ARE GREAT COUNTERS MATE BUT CAN YOU DO THEM IN WHITE WITH A BLACK BACKGROUND? That really would rock dude!! ;)

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    1. No :P I'm doing some Necron wound counters just for you, they're black and green but most times we play nothing of yours with multi-wounds dies, except vehicles, they seem to pop after one penetrating hit!

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  2. Any chance of getting the PSD's for these? I'd can see some easy and really nice terrain labels/posters converted from them.

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    1. There's really not a lot to them that would require the source files. The font is Deadstyler, which is freely available but some people have taken the marker idea and replaced the font with something more readable. The skulls and other 40k icons are from another free font called Imperial 1

      http://www.fontsner.com/font/Imperial_1-13203.html

      Chevrons are easy enough to do in Illustrator which is what I do most of my work in. I'm more that happy to share the finished articles, but given a little effort one could strip out elements if they absolutely had to.

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    2. Cool. Thank you. That would have been the better question, so thanks for answering it. :)

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