Have I got a treat for all you Hextile lovers! In the next campaign I will take the Hextiles system inland, inward and upwards! The Rocky Set and the Edge Set will do just that!
Here you can see some early Rocky Edge test prints. They obviously still fit within the Hextile framework, but they will help bring a real natural look to your Hextile layouts. I figure they can just as easily be used as quick cavern corridors and rooms!
After playing with them, I came to realize there was a potential to these edges I wasn't fully tapping into. First off, some of them would butt up against their neighboring edge-tile. That had to be addressed first so we could use the same edges in a lot more permutations! When I went back to redesign them, I came to another epiphany!
The edges can be paired up with each other as a single Hextile! I have already test printed 5 such paired edge Hextiles and all printed beautifully. The edges were easily separated from one another. When these are released I will be adding both single and paired files. Honestly I love the paired files! Between the 5 paired Hextiles we have 10 Edges. If we mirror each one that would be 20 more gcodes to sift through on my SDcard lol. Slicing them in pairs is definitely the way to go for me lol.
So accounting for both the redesign elements, we have now a pretty awesome Hextile coming out in the next campaign! The options with just 5 pairs of edges are immense. However I feel like by making them interchangeable on the inside of the Hextile has made them more geometric in appearance. I did my best to hide that geometry with that natural rocky texture. Though I do plan on making more pairs that won't fit together on the inside of a Hextile. This will give me much more leeway to design more natural edges.
Take a look at all 5 pairs of Rocky Edges! I have Black Matte primed them and then dry brushed them up with white to help see them better. This is my first step any time I paint terrain or minis, whether cast or printed! I do this to tone things up and preserve the shadows. The following layers always cover up the grittiness of the dry brushing as well as the print lines.
Checkerout!
Oh... One more thing... These things look great stacked up!
